Finally watched "No Country for Old Men"

[camoguard]

Movie was made out of 24K suck.

I can't agree with you more or at all. I thought the pacing and the acting were great. Even if I got my analogies wrong, it had that "see what happens next" quality of Pulp Fiction or other wordy action movies that I like.

[epepke]

Movie was made out of 24K suck.

I can't agree with you more or at all. I thought the pacing and the acting were great. Even if I got my analogies wrong, it had that "see what happens next" quality of Pulp Fiction or other wordy action movies that I like.

That's fine. You don't have to agree.

Pulp Fiction was fine because it was honest about what it was. No Country for Old Men wasn't.

It's based on a book by Cormack McCarthy, which was basically about the Sheriff character and his accumulating ennui about modern horrors. Some people objected to the last scene in the movie, but that was simply because they had been duped by the Coen Brothers who used all the tricks in the book, including the implausible stuff that we expect from action pictures.

But we only get stuff about the Sheriff in barnyard bromide conversations over tables. Talk. It could have shown us the effect on the Sheriff, but apart from some aging makeup in the last scene, it didn't.

Now, it's possible to make a good action picture, and it's possible to make a good talk picture. NCFOM tried to do both and therefore succeeded in doing neither. It impressed middle-brows who interpreted it as membrana a clef. "Aha, you thought this was an action film, you stupid fuck, but it's really High Literature!"