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No Country For Old Men

I know, there has been trailers knocking about for this for yonks, but seeing as its not been posted yet, i thought i'd do it.....looks shit hot!

Trailer 3

Trailer

posted both trailers...couldn't decide which was best...

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Shit.

How disappointing was that. They killed off the story half way through, went off on some fucked up tangent then forgot to finish making the movie.

What a waste of a potentially good movie. Cocks.

I wonder if there's something missing from the DVDSCR. Whilst it's not beyond imagination that the movie could score as highly as it does, it would be something of a surprise for a US audience to accept what I saw and rave about it, let alone to vote it in highly enough for it be where it is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/ (at #14 at time of writing).

Even by Coen standards that was a weird 'climax' to the movie. Watched it in the early hours when quite tired, so that's my excuse made, but I missed the relevance of TLJ's dreams...I'm sure it's deep and meaningful, and I've mostly forgotten what he recounted, but I remember thinking 'Nope, I don't get it.'

I'm not even going to give it a rating in case the DVDSCR missed something, and doubly in case I'm just too slow to understand something that gels it together perfectly and it is in fact a great movie...actually, I wonder if that's what all the Yankistanis are thinking as well and why they've rated it better than all the other fantastic Coen movies (let alone every other movie ever made (bar the 13 above it in IMDB)).

EDIT: and forgot to mention how brilliant Brolin is in it. And Kelly...lush and sweet, just how she should be. TLJ is on form as well. Just Bardem I wasn't too sure about...seemed like the Coen's were making good on a promise and not necessarily casting the best man for the role (as he clearly wasn't, I'm sure a lot of other actors could've brought the menace and psychosis to the role that Bardem failed to supply).

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Originally posted by baha
I wonder if there's something missing from the DVDSCR. Whilst it's not beyond imagination that the movie could score as highly as it does, it would be something of a surprise for a US audience to accept what I saw and rave about it, let alone to vote it in highly enough for it be where it is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/ (at #14 at time of writing).

Even by Coen standards that was a weird 'climax' to the movie. Watched it in the early hours when quite tired, so that's my excuse made, but I missed the relevance of TLJ's dreams...I'm sure it's deep and meaningful, and I've mostly forgotten what he recounted, but I remember thinking 'Nope, I don't get it.'

I'm not even going to give it a rating in case the DVDSCR missed something, and doubly in case I'm just too slow to understand something that gels it together perfectly and it is in fact a great movie...actually, I wonder if that's what all the Yankistanis are thinking as well and why they've rated it better than all the other fantastic Coen movies (let alone every other movie ever made (bar the 13 above it in IMDB)).

EDIT: and forgot to mention how brilliant Brolin is in it. And Kelly...lush and sweet, just how she should be. TLJ is on form as well. Just Bardem I wasn't too sure about...seemed like the Coen's were making good on a promise and not necessarily casting the best man for the role (as he clearly wasn't, I'm sure a lot of other actors could've brought the menace and psychosis to the role that Bardem failed to supply).

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baha, i haven't seen the screener. but if the movie eneded with the sheriff guy's 'speech'/dreams. well it's not missing the ending. that's how it ended in the theatre in the states. so there you go...

anyway seem alot here in vcdq land didin't like the ending.

but really you got the info most people may have wanted. remember the scene(very short and done in flashback type style) showing what happned to llewelyn moss ???

there were visual clues allowing you to come to your own conclusion on what happened to carla jean moss and what was left of the $2 million.

hell at least the bros. tried to do something different with the ending. and i guess i'd rather support that.than getting version 7,000 of the same type of ending...

One of the best of 2007, even with the unconventional ending. Happy endings are everywhere.
To me it ended after he checked his boots. The remainder was just extra.

Are you kidding? Bardem played a brilliant sociopath. His performance is what made it great?

What a let down this film was. It really did feel like it was missing alot of scenes. The acting was great by all the cast just felt let down by the story.

Close behind 3:10 to Yuma for best movie of the year.

The introductory pace of the movie was perfect and the unorthodox lack of music was refreshing. The bad guy was a cunningly ruthless killer and ranks among some of the most vile assholes ever in cinema. There was alot of great dialogue throughout the movie also.

I think the ending was appropriate. I apologize to the naysayers. If you were looking for a cheezy-ass predictable pre-canned ending then this movie was clearly not for you.

I thought the acting and dialogue were top notch, really very good. The story was also entertaining, the ending just sucked cock. I'm all for quirky endings but the ending of this movie just seemed like a combination of laziness and lack of imagination. For me, a great movie has to have a great ending, the Cohen Brothers just seemed to lose their bottle and took the easy way out.

What ending? The monologue at the end was absolute nonsense and for those who say the ending was unconventional...I say the ending was trying to be too arthouse. The brothers should've ended this potentially incredible movie with a satisfying conclusion...this movie had none

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It probably ended the same way it did in the book.


310 to yuma was an hour too long with ultra cheesy dialog

i'm prolly the only person who actually enjoyed the movie, ending and all. these guys are known for producing side-stories that have nothing to do with the movie itself (remember fargo and the long lost asian friend), but that's what makes it so great. i do wish they would have explained more, but maybe that's the whole point - you fill in the gaps. of course, if i wanted to fill in the gaps myself, i wouldn't bother with a movie at all, but i still liked it.

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People actually liked this? I don't know maybe I'm developing ADD but I couldn't last 20 minutes without being bored to tears and I've sat and watched some shit movies before...