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Originally Posted by gogoGomi
What do you guys think of No Country for Old Men? I thought it was pretty good.
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I have two big problems with it:
1) Tommy Lee Jones. I fucking LOVE Tommy Lee Jones. If he's in the movie, I'll watch it. I like the Coen brothers, but when I saw the trailer for the film, the only reason I paid attention was because I saw Tommy Lee Jones. I doubt a lot of people have seen Eyes of Laura Mars, but I did, and for no other reason than the fact that he was in it (I like Faye Dunaway, but I won't watch a movie just because she happened to be in it). That said, though, I wouldn't have minded if his character simply hadn't existed. I haven't read the book, so I don't know how faithful the Coen's were to it nor do I know how big the sheriff character was, but in the movie, I just thought his entire existence was superfluous. It kept taking us away from the story, which was Bardem's pursuit of Brolin. I would've liked more between the two of them, more between Brolin and his wife, and less of Tommy Lee Jones. It just annoyed me every time we had to sit and listen to him figure shit out with his retard partner that WE WATCHED HAPPEN ORIGINALLY. I also hated that stupid shit at the end where he's at the restaurant with the other sheriff and then when he goes to Barry Corbin's house. He wasn't significant to the focus of the film (or, at least what I think should've been the focus of the film) and he didn't advance the story. In fact, all he did was stall the story.
2) The shootout at the motel. Now again: I didn't read the book, so I don't know if it was a matter of the Coen's being entirely faithful and therefore not showing the shootout, but I think it was one of the laziest decisions I've ever seen made in a movie. It felt like the Coen's got lazy and just wanted to hurry up and get to the end already so they just put together a quick way to get past Brolin dying so we could make it to the end of the movie. I absolutely hate the fact that they didn't show the shootout and instead one second Brolin's flirting at the pool and the next second Tommy Lee Jones is driving and all of a sudden a bunch of Mexicans peel out in a Jeep shooting at somebody.
Javier Bardem was awesome and is up there with Edward Fox and Tom Cruise as movie killers (bash Cruise all you want, he was brilliant in Collateral) and each and every scene with him was great, but I thought there should've been more between Brolin and Kelly Macdonald and less, if not none, of Tommy Lee Jones, who I love but felt was just getting in the way the entire film.
End of rant.
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Originally Posted by gogoGomi
I have the following movies coming in the mail;
The Kingdom
Blood in, blood out
Munich
the Invasion
Collateral
The Salton Sea
What else, any suggestions?
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The Pope of Greenwich Village and The Killing (early Kubrick). And if you haven't seen the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers, I'd get that to go along with The Invasion.
