| "moviePig" wrote: Quote:I'm gonna have to see NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN again. I just don't get what was so great about that movie, other than being stylish. What's the point ? Hardly any dialogue, don't care for characters, random violent world metaphor gets old at 30 minute mark ? All their 80s movies, plus FARGO, and THE BIG LEBOWSKI, and MAN WHO WASN'T THERE, etc... were all better movies Please explain, despite subjective tastes I thought it was a wonderfully made movie ...and assume that's at least partly what Academy voters responded to. But I recall clearly when I watched NO COUNTRY, how, after the ending, the audience, including me, sat there palpably nonplussed. That's an error the Coens made in rendering McCarthy's book (I gather), and an impossible one to forgive, especially in a Best Picture... -- - - - - - - - - YOUR taste at work... http://www.moviepig.com It sounds like you mean nonplussed "by" and 'about" the ending and not about the whole film. I never read the book, but as Jones started talking at the end I said to myself, "It's over." And then it was. I said, "That's it?", but I wasn't at all disappointed. That might sound like a contradiction. My question was more of an "attaboy" for the movie. I thought the ending was great. It fit the chaos, the inexplicable nature of things that are happening these days. |