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  • 7 years ago
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    The movie just starts and you're expected to follow along. It slowly unravels the story but doesn't give one mention to Chigurh's motives. None of the characters are properly fleshed out in the time it takes to tell the story, its hard to care when they're all portraying emotional ranges along the lines of fence posts. I understand, from the Wikipedia synoposis, its meant to make the viewer think of consequences and such, but it hardly directly engages on that level. Its captivating at times but not entertaining and yet it won awards all over the place. Someone tell me: how is this slow, quiet, jumbled mess of a story more deserving of awards rather than movies like Deadpool or even The Tourist. Deadpool ACTUALLY engaged the audience (in more ways than one) and was coherent. The Tourist led the viewers on an action-mystery and the payoff was rewarding. No Country just seems more focused on making the viewer try to form their own opinion throughout conflicting themes.
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    • Silent Gamer
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      Silent Gamer
      Editing … Ahh, finally somene who realises this movie is really "meh!". I really disliked it.
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  • Dr Eggnog wrote his opinion about No Country for Old Men
    8 years ago
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    I really like this movie until it gets confusing in the last half hour. I didn't want it to get deconstructive; I was enjoying the basic cowboy vs bad guy story for essentially the first time ever.
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  • 9 years ago
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    Oh my god, the ending of #No Country for Old Men finally makes sense to me!!
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    • Michael Z
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      Michael Z
      Editing … Please explain. Though to be honest, I can't understand most of it thanks to Tommy Lee Jones's heavy Texan drawl (watched this in a cinema in London and when the credits rolled everybody just looked around, going "Huh?", "What did he say?", "Did anyone understand that?").
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    • Gries He
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      Gries He
      Editing … You have to realize that this movie isn't about #Javier Bardem killing a bunch of people, the main protagonist is actually #Tommy Lee Jones and his coming of age story. No Country for Old Men takes place in the early 80s and he as a cop is completely overextended with the violent nature of this new wave of drug related crimes. The last scene where he talks about his father reflects exactly that.
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … „The crime you see now, it’s hard to even take its measure. It’s not that I’m afraid of it. I always knew you had to be willing to die to do this job, but I don’t want to meet something I don’t understand. You can say it’s my job to fight it but I don’t know what it is anymore”
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    • Michael Z
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      Michael Z
      Editing … Yeah, that's true. Also, to me at least, the jist of the movie is basically this idea that, no matter how badly you think things have gotten in comparison to yesterday, it's actually always been like this when you really think about it. That's a thread that runs throughout the film (and the book). But the coming of age story for Tommy Lee Jones's character and how he feels totally out of place is connected to that, hence the title. So yeah, I agree.
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