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"TLJ's character was weak and kinda painful to watch."

I'm pretty sure that was the point.

12/2/2007 11:33:55 AM

I understand that was the point. I just didn't like it. If all movies could just be like Cliffhanger, I would be happy!

12/2/2007 4:27:23 PM

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"^I think you would like Cliffhanger"

ahahaha

[Edited on December 2, 2007 at 4:50 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2007 4:49:59 PM

^^ So, you're one of those people who doesn't understand why everyone had to die in "The Perfect Storm".

12/2/2007 5:41:42 PM

i managed to see this twice accidentally. both times me and my friend were intending on seeing darjeeling limited. i would've stayed to watch it the first time but I guess killing mexicans isn't something she liked seeing

12/2/2007 5:49:42 PM

^^didn't marky mark live in that movie?

12/2/2007 6:21:22 PM

none of the crew lived in a perfect storm

and not all mexicans died in No Country

12/2/2007 6:42:14 PM

I don't know if I just missed it, but I can't figure out how or why the mother-in-law dies. If I remember it correctly you see Llewelyn dead on the hotel floor, then the sheriff standing over a body at the morgue, where the face is not shown, then the shot of the casket being lowered. Was the body in the morgue Llewelyn or his mother-in-law and what happened to her?

12/2/2007 9:02:35 PM

VV I forgot about that

[Edited on December 2, 2007 at 9:19 PM. Reason : .]

12/2/2007 9:04:47 PM

Cancer if I recall.

12/2/2007 9:05:07 PM

It was definitely her headstone, and she had said earlier that she had cancer. I just found it odd that just after learning Llewelyn had been killed you are shown his mother-in-law being buried with no explanation. It's probably inconsequential and I'm trying to get something out of it that just isn't there.

12/2/2007 9:08:38 PM

Did anyone pick up on the Coen Brothers' homage to their classic, "Raising Arizona"?

12/7/2007 11:44:22 AM

You mean the painfully obvious shooting the crow with the air gun bit?

Yeah, I think everyone got that.

12/7/2007 11:52:00 AM

i thought raising arizona sucked

12/7/2007 11:57:56 AM

^^ That's straight from the book.

12/7/2007 12:00:34 PM

The crow shooting was from the book? That's a cool coincidence.

12/7/2007 12:25:46 PM

(spoilers, select to read)

I enjoyed it, although it's a little tough to put all the pieces to together on the first viewing. The only thing I really don't like is that that creepy fucker didn't die. I don't need a Hollywood ending, but damn I was waiting for him to bite it.

12/10/2007 12:14:36 AM

SPOILERS



see, I like that Chigurh got away, but I didn't like that the Bell let him go and Carla Jean stood up to Chigurh (not choosing in his coin toss, because she knew what was going to happen anyways.)

The ending frustrated me, but I can't think of a better ending for it.

/SPOILERS



I jumped during the entire god damn movie, even when I knew it was coming!

12/10/2007 1:57:26 PM

MOTHER FUCK

12/10/2007 1:59:32 PM

I thought it was a great movie, I want to see it again already. I thought I had a heart attack when Chigurh got T-bwned

12/10/2007 2:19:37 PM

^i knew it was coming. i figured he would bite it though.

12/10/2007 2:30:11 PM

^ how did you know it was coming?

12/10/2007 2:35:29 PM

it's happened in lots of movies before. plus the looking back at the kids bit (ie he was distracted as he hadn't been in the rest of the movie)

12/10/2007 2:37:39 PM

well most of the movie seemed to be exactly what hadn't happened in lots of movies before which is why it caught me off guard

12/10/2007 2:40:07 PM

^^ seriously

as soon as you get those slow close-ups on the traffic lights, you know some shit's going down

12/10/2007 2:42:50 PM

my take on the crash scene...

that not even God can take that motherfucker out

12/10/2007 2:54:38 PM

yea i most def knew it was coming, but it still made me jump...thought he would die and it would be over...glad it ended the way it did

i wasn't listening that hard in the dream monologue, though, so gotta focus next time

12/10/2007 3:07:43 PM

^^ but juxtaposed with the very last scene, it's evident that even he's gonna kick the bucket someday

and this is the only real time that we see him as truly vulnerable enough to need someone else's help (he wanted that kid's shirt)

I mean, in a weird way, that scene reminded me of his mortality (since he does, for most of the movie, seem completely unkillable: even when he does get his leg all shot up, he recovers). I think I saw that mostly because of the parallel with Luellen wanting that kid's jacket when he was desperate and limping around.

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 3:20 PM. Reason : .]

12/10/2007 3:18:22 PM

I understood it to be the exact opposite.

He recovers every time after we see him get hurt.

12/10/2007 4:24:06 PM

regardless

dude's human

dude will die

[Edited on December 10, 2007 at 5:20 PM. Reason : you can't stop what's coming]

12/10/2007 5:19:23 PM

But nobody's gonna be able to kill him.


I just thought that him getting hurt (like any real person would) made his character even more frightening. It just made him seem even more unkillable IMO.

12/10/2007 5:32:30 PM

I'm pretty sure this was talked about at some point in this thread (though not to this degree) but the scene with Chigurh and the car wreck is awesome. As far as I remember it was the one time in the entire movie where he became distracted and he paid for it (even something so mundane as driving a car). It shows you how much devotion he has to have to survive. And that's also why Moss was doomed to fail compared to Chigurh. Moss had way too many distractions to totally focus on finishing the job (taking out Chigurh).

12/10/2007 6:27:36 PM

well he never harmed women or children unless it was called for by his values. maybe?

12/11/2007 4:23:44 AM

^^That car wreck scene basically let me know that Chigurh won't die. He wins basically.

12/11/2007 11:29:44 AM

Siva?

12/11/2007 11:53:21 AM

basically

12/11/2007 12:48:01 PM

I saw the car wreck scene as a reminder to Chigurh of his own mortality. He was visibly shaken for the first time, and when he looked at his arm it seemed to be a look saying, "I can't believe this actually happened to me." Also, while he's sitting on the curb he hands the kid bloody money, which is the same thing that Llewelyn did with the mariachi in Mexico. I'm not sure exactly what to make of the parallel, but I think it has something to do with their respective vulnerabilities at the time.

12/11/2007 1:49:26 PM

i want to see this shit...just saw a commercial for it for the first time....looks really good imo

12/27/2007 9:56:11 AM

do yourself a favor and go see it. I want to go se it again, but I dont think the gf would want to go w/ me again

12/27/2007 10:17:22 AM

Great movie....


Spoiler........



So i also thought that Chigurh had the money, but in the car crash scene he walks away empty handed .(right?) I know he was trying to get away, but his car was very near and it seemed plausible that he would be able to get it.......or maybe he felt like he didnt have the time...

thoughts?

so TLJ returns to the 2nd hotel crime scene and enters the door on the left. I believe that Chigurh is in the room on the right (I remember he was leaning against the door with the shoty, but couldnt recall if there was a wall on his left or right.) so he was not confronted by TLJ, but TLJ notices the air vent was removed blah blah blah....what i dont get, is why Chigurh would take the money and then go into the room next door....why wouldnt he just leave?

I don't beleive Chigurh was behind the door of the hotel room that TLJ entered because the door opened wide.....

I like that whole part, and i like that it makes me try to figure out such silhouette of a scene.

[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 2:24 AM. Reason : f]

12/29/2007 2:24:04 AM

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"what i dont get, is why Chigurh would take the money and then go into the room next door....why wouldnt he just leave? "

Moss got the money out of the first hotel like that.

[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 2:30 AM. Reason : .]

12/29/2007 2:30:13 AM

yeah, Moss was in the room next door to his first room he rented. The rooms were connected by the ducts as i assume they are in the second hotel room.

Ii thought that the grate was taken off in the room TLJ was in, which i did not believe to be the same room Chigurh was in. Moss was found dead in the room on the left, right?



[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 2:41 AM. Reason : d]

[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 2:46 AM. Reason : g]

12/29/2007 2:40:49 AM

i thought chigurh and tlj were in the same room, it was a while ago that I saw it but it seems like there was something with reflections and light through a keyhole?

12/29/2007 2:48:14 AM

I know, i wish i could see that deadbolt again...need a still shot of it....I mean, it would make way more sense if he was in that room, but where did he hide so quickly.

Coulda been the whole ghost theory....i really like that

12/29/2007 2:54:57 AM

There are two rooms, giving TLJ a choice. Enter one room and he lives; enter the other and he confronts Chigurh. Each action carries its own set of baggage.


Chigurh and TLJ were never in the same room.

12/29/2007 10:40:12 AM

that movie fucking sucked - it's my least fav. coen brothers film so far

12/29/2007 11:45:49 AM

hey lets name 5 coen brothers films...i got no country for old men

12/29/2007 11:48:46 AM

raising arizona,
fargo,
ladykillers,
o' brother where art thou,
the man who wasn't there
big lebowski

all kicked ass

[Edited on December 29, 2007 at 11:51 AM. Reason : ere]

12/29/2007 11:50:49 AM

i've heard of most of those only seen one, fargo...been meaning to see that lebowski one

12/29/2007 1:58:08 PM

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" There are two rooms, giving TLJ a choice. Enter one room and he lives; enter the other and he confronts Chigurh. Each action carries its own set of baggage. Chigurh and TLJ were never in the same room."

Alright....so they show a shot of the removed grate in the room that TLJ was in, right? Are you thinkin that Chigurh was in the room next door? If so, why on earth would he grab the money, and then go next door, instead of walking away?

12/29/2007 2:44:48 PM