No Country for Old Men

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I saw it today while flying home, I didn't get the ending
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It wasn't the right country for an old man.
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txmxer 1/12/2009 6:06pm
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it's a good, but depressing movie.

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flarider 1/12/2009 6:28pm
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Friday wrote:
Sequel.
That's what I was thinking

BTW, Javier Bardem was also good in "Vicky Christina Barcelona"
Saw that on the plane and liked it.
Penelope Cruz as a psycho was totally believable

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JPT 1/12/2009 6:40pm
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Good movie, not enough sex but enough violence.
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noob 1/12/2009 7:02pm
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No sequel- just an open "film school: things that make you go hmmm..." ending.


"The Coens bookend the film with Bell... at his kitchen table, talking to his wife about the dreams of his father he can’t seem to shake. Bell is a good man, but that doesn’t give him a claim on the world. If anything, just the opposite: This is no place for him."

-Daniel Carlson
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Friday wrote:
Sequel.
flarider wrote:
That's what I was thinking BTW, Javier Bardem was also good in "Vicky Christina Barcelona" Saw that on the plane and liked it. Penelope Cruz as...
That's what I was thinking

BTW, Javier Bardem was also good in "Vicky Christina Barcelona"
Saw that on the plane and liked it.
Penelope Cruz as a psycho was totally believable

He's a very good Actor. Leaving him limping away at the end opens doors for a reprisal of that character ,whether Javier does it or not.......I'd prefer seeing him do it.Evil
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WhipMeister 1/12/2009 9:13pm
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It's great. The ending (and the other places where it seems to just jump past really important parts that you would expect it to go into some detail with) is part of the entire message of the film. Watch it a couple of times and see if it doesn't come to you.
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kdx man 1/12/2009 10:24pm
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That is the best way that film could have possibly ended. Makes total sense for the plot. No sequel needed, everything was already said.

Watch it a couple more times dave and you'll get it.
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Motodude 1/12/2009 11:53pm
1/12/2009 11:53pm Edited Date/Time 1/13/2009 12:01am
It came out December 26th 07...it was a perfect social metaphor for the old world economy and how it used to do business (tommy lee jones)....with the coming ruthless correction (Javier Bardem)...and the new world ahead (those two kids he met on the street). Then we had 2008.


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Rim Lock 1/13/2009 12:09am
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Did he kill the woman at the end or not?
Never heard the shot.
They didn't really say.

Possible sequel but would be weird.
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JPT 1/13/2009 12:17am
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Just watched "Burn After Reading", The Coen's love to just stop the movie instead of end it.
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kawboy388 1/13/2009 4:46am
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Rim Lock wrote:
Did he kill the woman at the end or not?
Never heard the shot.
They didn't really say.

Possible sequel but would be weird.
I figured he was checking his boots to see if he stepped in her blood, when he started walking off the porch.
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`ol Ger 1/13/2009 5:02am
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JPT wrote:
Good movie, not enough sex but enough violence.
Pardon me, your hedonism is showing.
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JPT 1/13/2009 5:24am
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JPT wrote:
Good movie, not enough sex but enough violence.
`ol Ger wrote:
Pardon me, your hedonism is showing.
Yeah, it does that at times.Laughing
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prillernut 1/13/2009 9:23am
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yeah - first time I watched it I was seriously left saying "WTF???"
But I've watched it a couple more times, and I think I "get it" now... pretty damn good movie

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BMSOB 1/13/2009 9:24am
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Rim Lock wrote:
Did he kill the woman at the end or not?
Never heard the shot.
They didn't really say.

Possible sequel but would be weird.
Yeah, he killed her. It was a "code of honor" type deal for him. Closed the case.
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J.F.S 1/13/2009 10:11am
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JPT wrote:
Just watched "Burn After Reading", The Coen's love to just stop the movie instead of end it.
Dude, that was the best ending scene in a movie I´ve seen in a long time. They said it all!

"What did we learn from this?"
"Nothing!"

Great movie!!
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Larry 1/13/2009 11:14am
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Carla Jean Moss: You don't have to do this.
Anton Chigurh: [smiles] People always say the same thing.
Carla Jean Moss: What do they say?
Anton Chigurh: They say, "You don't have to do this."


I left the Theater kind of ticked. Thought about the movie for several days and came to the conclusion that if I was still thinking about the movie it must have been pretty good.
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crowe176 1/13/2009 11:38am
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Friday wrote:
Sequel.
flarider wrote:
That's what I was thinking BTW, Javier Bardem was also good in "Vicky Christina Barcelona" Saw that on the plane and liked it. Penelope Cruz as...
That's what I was thinking

BTW, Javier Bardem was also good in "Vicky Christina Barcelona"
Saw that on the plane and liked it.
Penelope Cruz as a psycho was totally believable

I watched the Trailer to Vicky Christina Barcelona and I couldn't get into it. As much as I like Scarlett in everything she's ever been in (and the fact that she's ridiculously smoking hot), watching her in movies with creepy old guys is strange.

Spot on about Cruz though. She sealed the deal in Blow. Whack job just fits her.

I watched Slum Dog Millionaire last night, and I wasn't expecting much, but I'm sold. That was a great movie. Everything a movie should be IMO with a great ending.
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flarider 1/13/2009 11:41am
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Yeah, but you get to see Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz make out.
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crowe176 1/13/2009 11:45am
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flarider wrote:
Yeah, but you get to see Scarlett Johansson and Penelope Cruz make out.
Why that wasn't in the trailer is beyond me.
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JPT 1/13/2009 2:02pm
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JPT wrote:
Just watched "Burn After Reading", The Coen's love to just stop the movie instead of end it.
J.F.S wrote:
Dude, that was the best ending scene in a movie I´ve seen in a long time. They said it all! "What did we learn from this?"...
Dude, that was the best ending scene in a movie I´ve seen in a long time. They said it all!

"What did we learn from this?"
"Nothing!"

Great movie!!
Didn't say I didn't like it, just meant they don't have to have total resolution.
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Ivan 1/13/2009 4:24pm
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There's only one possible point to the ending and that will be explained in the sequel. If there is no sequel then it was a pointless ending that left me feeling ripped off. There are always people who will snicker and say "you need to to think about it more. You'll eventually get it." They don't have a fucking clue, they just get off trying to make others fell less than clever. Otherwise it was a great movie.
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volcati 1/13/2009 9:23pm
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It's based exactly on Cormac McCarthy's book of the same name.

She dies (the book has more conversation between her and the killer)...there's no fucking sequel. If you didn't get it...you didn't get it.

I thought it was pretty damn brilliant.

Go watch The Wrestler...you'll thank me later.

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WhipMeister 1/13/2009 10:47pm
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Time marches on, ruthlessly, relentlessly, eventually claiming everyone and everything as a victim. It cannot be tricked, influenced or beaten. Even when no one is paying attention, time is still one the move...

That's one metaphor. There are a couple of others.
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Dean 1/19/2009 6:37am
1/19/2009 6:37am
every movie doesn't need a tidy little bow tied up on it.

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