No Country for Old Men (film review)

Since Confused Matthew may take years to review No Country for Old Men, as he reserved the film as his 'grand finale', I thought I'd take a shot at it myself. I saw No Country for Old Men, directed by the Coen brothers, last Friday, and you know what? This is an outstanding, thrilling film addressing violence in small-town America, and is let down only slightly by an obtuse, faintly dull ending. I love this movie, and heartily recommend it. For that matter, I look forward to finding out why Confused Matthew hates it 'with the passion of a thousand Minority Reports', but I guess that will be for another time.

(Note: aside from my YouTube avatar, I do not own any of the media in this video. No Country for Old Men is owned by Miramax Films and Paramount Vintage.)

Cheers!

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• No
• Country
• for
• Old
• Men
• Coen
• brothers
• Cormac
• McCarthy
• Josh
• Brolin
• Javier
• Bardem
• Tommy
• Lee
• Jones
• Kelly
• Macdonald
• violence
• America

[buc555]

Funny you should mention him not liking 2001 because I happen to for a fact the his reason for not liking this film are "exactly the same" as his reason for not liking 2001.

[QUANTUMJOKER]

@buc555

I kinda figured that. After all, No Country for Old Men does contain a lot of LANDSCAPE shots.

;)

[NeverAloneForever]

@QUANTUMJOKER You knew it. Yet, he hated it because of the obscuritism. You might be shocked that he loves "There Will Be Blood". I love landscapes by btw. Sergio Leone ftw.

[SlugfestWizard]

I do not remember Confused Matthew saying that he hated 2001. He said that it is not a movie and that it is empty of any coherence or content.

[buc555]

He's doing this now!

[Hyman74Roth]

@confusedmatthew Although I liked the movie I could see how you couldn't like it. Thinking about the movie more now there are stuff that Josh Brolin's character does that just doesn't make sense in my opinion.

[Rocketboy1313]

I had the same 4 and three quarters reaction when I saw it originally, then I saw the thing 5 or 6 more times and I realized that I never got tired of watching it, my problems with the ending faded in the back of my mind, and I decided to bump it up to a full 5.

[buc555]

This is a review he needs to "get out there" soon as possible, see my video!

[QUANTUMJOKER]

@confusedmatthew

I can't even fathom why you'd hate it that much, though I look forward to your eventual review, as always.

Hang on... Was it all the LANDSCAPE shots that annoyed you? ;)

I hope you didn't mind me reviewing No Country for Old Men so soon after your announcement video. If it bothered you, I'm sorry.

[confusedmatthew]

@QUANTUMJOKER

I must sadly inform you that I did not hate No Country For Old Men for its ending. I hated the entire film throughout in a "throw my T.V. out the window" sort of way.