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Not sure if anyone has heard about this, but I saw the preview for this new Cohen Bros movie a couple of months ago and it looks sick. This has been getting super amazing reviews across the board and some are saying it is the film of the year. I am for sure checking this out after work sometime this week, really looking forward to this one.
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yes, i am psyched as hell to see this movie. the trailer makes it look incredible. Roger Ebert says its as good or better than "Fargo", which is saying something.
now all they need to do is make McCarthy's "The Road" into a movie...
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Looks pretty twisted can't wait to see it what's up with the nitrious tank the guy is carrying?
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This is a great movie. Twisted and some humour in it.
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this is more than great, this is one of the best movies i've seen in a loooong time. absolutely without words to describe it. it sets the mood from the very first scene and absolutely pulls you in for the rest of the movie. just to watch the people coming out of the theatre after it was over was an incredible thing. you very rarely see a movie do something like that to an audience.
GO SEE THIS.
and don't post any details about the movie...let people go in not knowing!
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ohh and Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, and the Coen brothers all deserve Oscars. seriously.
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good movie but hated the ending.
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saw this last week and javier bardem is fukin amazin in this. one of the best killers ever, he was totally creepy. that scene with him and the coin and the gas station attendant was intense.
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Their were some great scenes in this flick but I agree with chuckc, the ending was awful... a lot of great parts in the movie though and the characters were awesome... lack of a good story line killed it for me, or maybe that was the point? not a bad movie not a great movie... was definately twisted...
cheers
:Cheerz:
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[QUOTE=chuckc;548130]good movie but hated the ending.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the ending was horrible and really ruined the rest of the movie's goodness for me.
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well thats too bad for you guys...i loved it. and the ending was completely faithful to the book, which not alot of directors do anymore. very refreshing.
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Watched this movie once online for free and was so impressed by it went to the theater to watch it again, I rarely go see movies because I'm not a huge fan of dark rooms with strangers staring at a screen unless there's a dj. But anyway, this movie hits you have 2-3 days after watching it, at least it did for me, excellent movie, go see it:!::!::!:
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javier bardem was scary as fcuk in this movie, really creepy.
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Great movie still thinking about it and I saw it during Thanksgiving. Loved the characters and development.
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Just got back from seeing it. Fan friggen tastic. Never has their been a villian the likes of Chigurh.
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Movies usually don't make me "uneasy" while watching them, but damn, some of the scenes were intense. Good flick.
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great film
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everyone has a fucking accent ... its great !!
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:o: Amazing Acting by Javier Bardem !!!
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well produced movie, great acting, and such a subtle message that leaves you thinking that you're tied to the hips to everybody else.
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this won two golden globes last night, including best supporting actor for javier bardem.
i normally don't give a crap who wins at the oscars, but i'm really pulling for this one...
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brilliant film, though being distracted (doing 5 different things while watching this movie including packing away some brews, I totally didn't get the ending). was mr. baddy supposed to have gotten away after the wreck?
the way the flick built up, I nearly expected him to "get what's coming to him".
but the way the movie's been put together and such an incredible acting by everyone involved, this sucker nabs an [B]8.5/10[/B] in my books. Definitely worth the watch (maybe even 2)
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Good film not great but good, nice plot and some great acting i give it a 7/10
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thought the end was a little weak, but the acting and storyline for the rest of the film were spot on. Javier Bardem was a badass in this movie. looking on imdb i see why i don't recognize him, because 95% of everything he's done is spanish movies or tv. really liked his character in this.
8/10 IMO
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just got back from seeing this and was totally amazed one of the best films i've seen. the reaction of the audience afterwards was great, something i've never seen in an english cinema. my favourite comment off someone was, ''i can't wait to buy the soundtrack when it comes out'' ha ha classic
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pretty nice movie, get my attencion all the film, a bit confuse about the ending "like WTF" where is it!....
but well....anton get into my nerves, pretty fuck up guy!...
that can be done with a compress air?..damn...
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great film but what is that ending all about a real shame
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I say again people...the ending is consisten with the book. you wanna get mad about it, blame Cormac McCarthy...
ohh, and they are making the pulitzer prize winning "The Road" into a movie now too. can't f'ing wait for that one....
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yeah i heard they stayed very true to the book, so dont hate the Cohen bros for that.
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read the book in about 10 hours. so fucking good i couldn't put it down except when i pee'd i'm not a speed reader so 10 hours is a personal record for a 300+ page book. absolutely enthralling and the movie does indeed recreate the book with a few minor exceptions. very glad i bought it because this is one of the few books i will definitely read again.
just went to the library today and picked up The Road. only 40 pages in but already hooked on the story.
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the ending is saying that life goes on...DUH.
I don't know how many of you saw the humorous parts in the film but there were plenty of them...and there would have to be from the directors.
watched it twice this weekend and really dug it. Javier was amazing in it, his voice is so deep and hollow that it's freaky. It was wild to see Stephen Root and Woody Harrellson in it too.
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and it won 4 oscars. called it!
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just saw the movie yesterday and I was blown away. Javier Barden is a fantastic actor...the oscars won by the movie were well deserved!!
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im currently in bangkok and i saw this earlier today .... great film but im totally puzzled by ending .... im wondering whether did the thais censored it after josh brolin got offered beer by the girl by the pool and next thing i know tommy lee jones got to the motel and found the aftermath of a huge shoot out which i didnt see and josh brolin kinda disappeared .. so what happened?
am i missing something here?
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^ | nope.
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hmmm ... thats real anti-climatic for an ending :(
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[quote=Corven;573102]im currently in bangkok and i saw this earlier today .... great film but im totally puzzled by ending .... im wondering whether did the thais censored it after josh brolin got offered beer by the girl by the pool and next thing i know tommy lee jones got to the motel and found the aftermath of a huge shoot out which i didnt see and josh brolin kinda disappeared .. so what happened?
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the way the film develops.... you are supposed to understand that after Brolins character converses with the whore at the pool, Sheriff Ed Tom is driving up on the mexicans [who infiltrated the wife's mothers' info] and have runamuck on Brolins hotel room for the satchel of money he's carrying. there is no skip in the story. the movie allows the viewer to figure certain things out for themselves and that scene is one of them.
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great movie a must seen
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No Country for Old Men is as exceptional a mix of two creative talents- the Coen brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen, and author Cormac McCarthy (recent winner of the Pulitzer for The Road, his own masterpiece) as one could imagine, as they converge on a story that in lessor hands would be just a B movie. The story concerns an average Joe out hunting one day in Texas who comes across a bunch of dead bodies, heroin, and a satchel with 2 million in cash. He takes it, but without knowing that a true embodiment of a psychopath (Javier Bardem) is on his trail, and as he evades him it becomes more and more clear the fatalism that lies in store, as a weathered sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones) is also on the trail with perpetulally sad eyes looking on from his stolid demeanor.
More than this, it's also about as good a morality play as one could ask for, because it plays and tools and makes very serious questions about what is moral, or what isn't, or what is so ambiguous that it's all up to the toss of a coin or a chance ride out of town. There are a few interpretations to Bardem's character Anton that could be taken, but one thing is certain- he's less a symbol than a real presence, a "ghost" as Jones's sheriff calls him that can come around at the drop of a pin, usually in the dark, and strike the utmost fear (or confusion if you're a clerk) in the hearts of men and women. You'll never look at a coin toss the same way again. Or an air-gun. Or fixing a bullet wound in a leg. Or a hunt at a motel. Or even the aftermath of a car crash.
But at the same time it's the purest time of cinema, recalling Hitchcock and Leone and Welles's Touch of Evil and the best of noir and westerns. There are so many exceptional shots and lighting, so much depth to the perception of the characters through the mis-en-scene, so much tension, that through this it's all up to the actors to make or break the near-perfection that is the McCarthy source. Bardem embodies Anton like no other could- you can't look at his eyes, often steel-cold and horrifically professional (to what professional who can say), which occasional tear- and it's obviously worthy of an Oscar. And Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones are also fantastic; we see Brolin often in the midst of an action scene, a moment of 'save-your-life' going on, and one can finally see an actor of his caliber completely breaking out in a role that doesn't require him to ever totally "emote". Jones, on the other hand, gives a compassionate turn in a film that's about the struggles of desperate men in a land without law and order. He's gone through so much that it comes out completely in his voice and eyes, sorrowful but holding back, and he reaches a level of connection with the character that makes the Fugitive look like simpleton TV. Kelly McDonald, who plays Lleland's wife, is also excellent when called upon, especially in a crucial scene later in the film.
It's gut-wrenching, bleak, violent, super-tense (I clenched many a knuckle during some scenes), surprisingly funny in a darkly comic manner not seen by the Coens in many years, and artistically fashioned to a beat that is meditative (watch the opening moments with Jones's voice-over), simple, and doomed. It's beautiful and terribly tragic, for McCarthy fans it finally strikes at what is truest to his material- even if you haven't read the book itself the Road will give an indication of the mood and atmosphere at hand- and at the moment I can't think of any other film that would be the best pick of the year- maybe one of the best films I've ever seen
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^^Your on fire NICE couple of posts!
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[quote=Jibgolly;573215]the way the film develops.... you are supposed to understand that after Brolins character converses with the whore at the pool, Sheriff Ed Tom is driving up on the mexicans [who infiltrated the wife's mothers' info] and have runamuck on Brolins hotel room for the satchel of money he's carrying. there is no skip in the story. the movie allows the viewer to figure certain things out for themselves and that scene is one of them.[/quote]
was kinda expecting seeing more in a way ... in terms of brolin having a showdown with bardem or them having a three-way showdown with the mexicans ...