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		And the movie award season kicks off: the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures names "No Country for Old Men" as Best Picture and Tim Burton as Best Director for "Sweeney Todd" (cnn.com)		79
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The Viewer		2007-12-06 12:46:15 PM

"Are you going to shoot me?"

"Did you see me?"

--cut--

Criminey, that movie had tone to spare. Haven't seen a movie with that much creeping dread since "Silence of the Lambs". Dark, spooky, brilliant. Editing, Cinematography, Directing, and Sound ALL are award worthy.
See the movie, then read the book.

amoricanCrowe		2007-12-06 01:00:55 PM

Plan on seeing it this weekend as the Coen's are held in high regard in my household.

I have heard that it may not be the BEST movie you'll see all year, but it is the film that will "stick with you" more than any other.

Comments to the accuracy of that review from anyone who has already seen it would be appreciated.

mrjared		2007-12-06 01:03:00 PM

DudeAbides:

Actually, now that I think about it, I remember thinking the books ending was dragged out a little too much...not the case in the movie.

You could say that.

phlegmography		2007-12-06 01:03:07 PM

I don't mind the talking and the cell phones too much -- but I really hate when people take a steaming dump in the middle of the aisle. It's hard to step over that in a dark theater.

/NCFOM was awesome.

carnage4u		2007-12-06 01:04:57 PM

I disliked the ending of NO country for Old men

I dont need happy go lucky ending.
I dont need the everything explained.

I do look for an ending to fit the movie I just watched

I loved the movie up to the last 15 minutes.

I did not like how the changed the style of the film.

It just all sort of fell into nonseense. I know everyone else likes it, but too bad. I didnt.
//
I also hate cellphones being used in the theatre, and people in general that talk and just wont shut up.

mooseyfate		2007-12-06 01:07:45 PM

toobsok: I saw the movie, it wasn't anything special. Great acting great directing, great cinematography, but honestly, I think most people who say it was an amazing movie have been swayed by the reviews. If all the critics shatblasted this movie and said it was horrible, most of you would be saying the same thing.

/for the guy with the hatred of cellphones, chill out, there are bigger fish to fry.
//usually

Okay, can I get a show of hands here. Who all has read atleast one review for the movie and seen the movie and thought it was awesome? Because I honestly can't remember the last time a movie review swayed my opinion of the movie one way or the other. Actually, I can't remember the last time I read a movie review. Probably around the time the first Ninja Turtles movie came out. They said it sucked. I liked it.

/in other words: That's just, like, your opinion, man!

mooseyfate		2007-12-06 01:09:44 PM

carnage4u: I disliked the ending of NO country for Old men

I dont need happy go lucky ending.
I dont need the everything explained.

I do look for an ending to fit the movie I just watched

I loved the movie up to the last 15 minutes.

I did not like how the changed the style of the film.

It just all sort of fell into nonseense. I know everyone else likes it, but too bad. I didnt.
//
I also hate cellphones being used in the theatre, and people in general that talk and just wont shut up.

I'm not sure why, and maybe it's just because I'm a judgemental asshole, but... From reading your post just once...I think I may have figured out why you didn't like the ending and thought it was "nonseense".

/Hint: It rhymes with "Two bar crumb".
//Take that how you will

carnage4u		2007-12-06 01:10:09 PM

The only time I really care about a movie review is if a website like

rottentomatoes.com or yahoo.com has an overall rating that is really really low. Otherwise I care less what a few random people say.

Jon Snow		2007-12-06 01:13:47 PM

MINOR SPOILER

For everybody that liked NCFOM, and especially enjoyed the recounting of the dream at the end, read The Road. It's in the same vein as the telling of the dream, but set against a nuclear holocaust- absolutely brilliant.

Gamer Grrrl		2007-12-06 01:16:50 PM

I stopped paying attention to movie awards shows (especially the Academy Awards) when they snubbed Moulin Rouge but then the next year they gave Best Picture to Chicago. Oh, and they ignored Lord of the Rings until the third movie, and then shockingly, they won everything they were nominated for.

Wombatzu		2007-12-06 01:29:26 PM

Jon Snow: MINOR SPOILER

For everybody that liked NCFOM, and especially enjoyed the recounting of the dream at the end, read The Road. It's in the same vein as the telling of the dream, but set against a nuclear holocaust- absolutely brilliant.

soon to be a film by the guys who did The Proposition (new window)-- a McCarthy-esque film in itself.

Ridley Scott is trying to get Blood Meridian done. anyone who thought NCFOM was pessimistic will have their face melted off by Blood Meridian.

anyone who liked NCFOM might want to check out The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada on dvd. Tommy Lee Jones wanted to do a Cormac McCarthy story for so long that he just sorta had a McCarthy-esque story written for him and produced into a movie.

robsul82		2007-12-06 01:31:39 PM

Rndhed: mooseyfate: I wanted to follow him out to his car and beat him with a tire iron

You should have.

People who didn't like the ending are likely convinced that every flick should have a Hollywood-type conclusion, when sometimes what happens in real life (like the movie was trying to display) is far more interesting than just wrapping up everything with a nice bow.

Great flick, hopes Bardem gets recognized (he should win just for the scene with the gas station attendant alone) and the chick who played Mrs. Moss was excellent too.

It's 2007. It's MORE Hollywood these days to NOT have an ending than it is to actually have an ending.

I really dug No Country for Old Men, Bardem should CERTAINLY get a nomination and be in strong consideration for the win in either category, but 1) I felt the ending that felt right was Bardem walking off, not Bell once again going over how scared he was of Bardem with a 37-hour monologue to his wife and 2) a backlash is already a-brewin'. I'm not sure NCfOM is going to make it all the way with movie critics' versions of Snobby Grad Students making sure to inform everyone that, like in this thread, if you didn't like the ending "you're a farking moron who needs everything tied up in a little bow, tres loooooooooser."

And in other news, something no one is noticing - THE NBR RANKED THE BUCKET LIST! The Rob Reiner-directed...God, just click the link and watch the trailer if you dare.

The Worst Trailer of the Year, EASY (new window)

Jon Snow		2007-12-06 01:35:28 PM

Wombatzu: anyone who thought NCFOM was pessimistic will have their face melted off by Blood Meridian.

That book was somehow more brutal than The Road, which is hard to imagine logically.

mikem004		2007-12-06 01:39:44 PM

DrBenway:
If mikem004 noticed it throughout the movie from a "few rows" back, it was distracting. Tickets are too expensive for crap like that.

Interesting that it's a problem for you when someone gets "so incensed as to post 5 point list," yet going to the trouble of posting a 5-point snarky rebuttal is perfectly cool. Fark on, dude.

That was EXACTLY the problem. Phones these days have such godawful bright screens that it's like a flashlight in the face at the right angle. I'll draw a diagram for LandofChocolate:

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Mind you there were a bunch of other people around, but they were old people who still have rotary phones. I think one brought their phone, but it's not backlit, though the tik-tik-tik-tik-tik does get to you after awhile

"Hello? Mabel?"

deadsanta		2007-12-06 01:55:06 PM

Seymour's Fat Lady		2007-12-06 02:15:36 PM

You know I'm not surprised that there are differing opinions on the movie, because that's always a subjective thing......I'm kind of surprised, though, that there are some of you that actually aren't bothered about the cell phone in the theater thing. Really?! That doesn't piss you off even a little bit that the d-bag in front of you is texting his buddy in the middle of the movie, causing a little glowing screen to irritatingly hover in the periphery of your sight? Or how about the guy a month or so ago sitting right behind me with his girlfriend who didn't even have his phone on vibrate, who took his sweet time answering his loudly ringing phone and the vital conversation that just couldn't wait till after the movie was something along the lines of "yo...yeah....i'm in a movie....yeah...yeah....peace.." You'd be okay with that?

Jetcar		2007-12-06 02:22:15 PM

I have the book (No Country) and I'm going to read it first, before going to the movie....can't wait...getting postive reviews everywhere.

Dissociater		2007-12-06 02:28:34 PM

Maximusclay: No Country For Old Men was a good movie, I just didn't get why everyone thought it was a damn masterpiece...

I'm with you. It was good, parts of it were entertaining, but I also found parts of it frustrating.

Good movie, but not the greatest movie of the year at all, maybe for movie snobs I guess.

drivingsouth		2007-12-06 02:32:48 PM

I was gonna go see No Country, but at the last second I saw a Spanish chick going into Enchanted by herself so I figure, what the heck.....

Wadded Beef		2007-12-06 02:40:00 PM

Pffft...no "Daddy Day Camp?"

Worthless.

gshepnyc		2007-12-06 02:49:22 PM

mikem004: I saw No Country the other day. I thought it was great and it deserves to win something. While there, a girl was on a date with some guy, they were sitting a few rows in front of me. The girl checked her cell phone, like clockwork, every five minutes. Then at the end of the movie she stood up and said for all to hear, "that farking sucked, what was the point?"

1. Why is she checking her phone so much? I'm pretty sure she's not a doctor waiting for the heart transplant to come in
2. Why announce your stupidity for all to hear?
3. Why didn't they go see Fred Claus or Enchanted?
4. Why did her date not tell her to put the farking phone away? Was he the other man?
5. Why can't I go to a movie in peace :'(

I endured Spiderman 3 with a guy in front of me who constantly felt the need to brag that "300" was the only movie he could get into and he was only at this one to please his girlfriend. He was on his phone half the time, usually telling someone he was at a movie that somehow cast aspersions on his masculinity and never failed to add he'd rather be watching "300." Yeah, we get it you dumbass. You don't want anyone to think you are less of a man for seeing THIS comic-book movie rather than THAT comic book movie. I hated him with the intensity of a thousand suns.

I rarely go to the movies anymore just to avoid the self-centered jackholes who don't want to behave properly in public. With few exceptions I wait for DVDs.

robbjohn		2007-12-06 02:57:35 PM

Maximusclay: No Country For Old Men was a good movie, I just didn't get why everyone thought it was a damn masterpiece...
Dissociater: I'm with you. It was good, parts of it were entertaining, but I also found parts of it frustrating.

I also agree. Don't get me wrong, I think it IS a GOOD movie.

apeiron242 So i wrote my own ending in my head, one that is satisfying and coherent with the rest of the movie.

As did I. As everyone is forced to do. Which is why, I think, is one of the main reasons it is a good movie.

mooseyfate		2007-12-06 03:11:15 PM

drivingsouth: I was gonna go see No Country, but at the last second I saw a Spanish chick going into Enchanted by herself so I figure, what the heck.....

/very clever
//I'm just glad my girlfriend is Venezuelan and not Spanish=)

obl		2007-12-06 03:12:58 PM

Meh -- with its cast alone, this flick is sure to take home a bucket load of trophies.

jake3988		2007-12-06 03:29:45 PM

Tim Burton... best director? WTF?

Never mention those 4 words in the same sentence.

Ebenator		2007-12-06 04:26:16 PM

No Country ruled.

VRaptor117		2007-12-07 03:04:34 AM

I can't believe they didn't give Best Director to Michael Bay for Transformers. Easily the best, most entertaining movie of the year.

/trap is set

chachi88		2007-12-07 06:54:08 PM

Whoosh! As I sidestep your trap.

mesorivas		2007-12-07 08:22:47 PM

when i saw capote there were some college aged boys sitting in front and to the left of me. they were not talking or making noise but they texted every five minutes during the film. the light can be very distracting. PLEASE go to a movie to watch a movie.

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