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[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 11:35am

Beautifully acted and photographed. But I didn't get it.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 4:23pm

Would anyone recommend the book? I loved The Road, but haven't been able to warm to McCarthy's other books. Appreciate, yes, but they can be tedious reading.

I'm really looking forward to seeing this movie. After the relative letdown that was Love in the Time of Cholera, this one seems to be a real Oscar contender.

[wexy]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 4:33pm

sweetsiren, I started reading the book which has mirrored the movie so far. I think it will be a quick read. Will let you know. Haven't read of the others.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 4:48pm

Thanks. Hopefully you enjoy it.

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 11/24/07 at 9:35pm

*SPOILER*

I just saw it and I loved the ending. It was just so abrupt. I think I understand it. I think it's just suppose to show how the world is getting worse, or at least that's what I got out of it. Tommy Lee Jones' character and some other "large" man, have a conversation about how the times are changing and things are getting worse - at least in their eyes. So, I think that's what they were going for: that the bad guy does win.

I found the film to be so haunting and exciting. Just thinking of Bardem's character walking with no expression or anything, it's so compelling.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/16/07 at 10:48am

I think I missed the point of the movie. Thought it was 2 hours of tedium, though I will say that Bardem's performance was one of the most chilling things I've seen in a long time. Oscar caliber, for sure.

[best12bars]

Posted: 12/16/07 at 11:23am

The extended trailer had me bored to tears. Skanky characters in a cliched plot. Nothing whatsoever interesting.

This is going to be one of those, "Well, I guess I have to see it before the Oscars" movies, like The Departed was last year.

And I'm sorry I wasted my time with that one. Maybe I should learn my lesson and just avoid these "trendy-edgy" films that don't interest me, no matter what the "art world" critics say. I have such a disconnect with them lately. Their taste astounds me.

It really looks like recycled crap from the '60s.

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 12/30/07 at 4:08pm

I finally saw it today and LOVED it. I thought Bardem's performance was as chilling as Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lector. Like many others have already posted, I did not understand the ending. Can anyone explain?

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 3:35am

SPOILERS

I'm going to reprint the final lines of the movie:

"Okay. Two of 'em. Both had my father. It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember so well but it was about money and I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and snowin', hard ridin'. Hard country. He rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and that he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. Out there up ahead. And then I woke up. "

Now think about the title of the movie.

That, my friend, is the point of the ending.

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 10:29am

I still hated the movie.

[pushdabutton]

Posted: 12/31/07 at 7:08pm

Loved the movie. Still confused.