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Postby oggiss on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:06 am

That movie wasn't good at all. :/
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Postby ignotus on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:07 am

It's weird and confusing, but it's one of the best films I have seen all year.
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Postby heavycola on Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:07 am

Best film I have seen in years.
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Postby Dancing Mustard on Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:48 am

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
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Re: No Country For Old Men

Postby spurgistan on Mon Mar 03, 2008 11:36 am

oggiss wrote:That movie wasn't good at all. :/


RONG.
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Postby GabonX on Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:18 pm

The movie is always better than the book!!!
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Postby ignotus on Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:19 pm

GabonX wrote:The movie is always better than the book!!!


Not always. Did you read Forrest Gump?
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Postby Snorri1234 on Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:21 pm

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GabonX wrote:The movie is always better than the book!!!


Not always. Did you read Forrest Gump?


Or Die Hard?
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Postby Napoleon Ier on Mon Mar 03, 2008 12:24 pm

Dancing Mustard wrote:
heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
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I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.
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Postby Kid_A on Mon Mar 03, 2008 1:55 pm

i saw it yesterday. enjoyed it but, but i do not think it deserved to be nominated for an academy award
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Postby Napoleon Ier on Mon Mar 03, 2008 2:03 pm

I certainly thought it was miles ahead of the Daniel-Gay Lewis. "There Will Be blood". Pfff. There hardly was any! What the fook was the about? I demand my £5 and 3 hours of my life back.
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Postby heavycola on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:10 pm

Napoleon Ier wrote:
Dancing Mustard wrote:
heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
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I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.


i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.
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Postby nmhunate on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:12 pm

First of all, I called No Country as the best picture as I walked out of the the theater when I saw it.

It is a very fine movie, it was well plotted and acted. it deserved every Oscar that it earned.

it is not they type of movie that you buy a big bag a popcorn and bring a date too... it is the type of movie that tells a good story and tells it well.

And to the poster that made the comment about Daniel "Gay" Lewis... his performance in that movie was amazing. The way that he was able to act the greedy and lonely Oil Man was simply phenomenal. "blood" was not the best picture of the year, however it did deserve to be nominated. DDL did such an amazing job in that movie, that I had to stay in the theater until the curtains fell to compose my self again. The final scene in that movie is one of the greatest scenes in all of cinema.
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Postby Napoleon Ier on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:25 pm

heavycola wrote:
Napoleon Ier wrote:
Dancing Mustard wrote:
heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
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I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.


i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.


You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?
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Postby InkL0sed on Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:52 pm

Napoleon Ier wrote:
heavycola wrote:
Napoleon Ier wrote:
Dancing Mustard wrote:
heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
Mega-Word


I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.


i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.


You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?


I'm fairly certain I've seen every Coen Brothers movie, and they're all excellent. They've been completely unappreciated until recently.

See all their movies. Now.
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Postby ignotus on Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:03 pm

InkL0sed wrote:
See all their movies. Now.

will do! :o
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Postby unriggable on Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:16 pm

Great movie, IMHO. Nothing like it out there.
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Postby reminisco on Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:27 pm

yeah, Coens' films are the best in the business.

i've met Randall Tex Cobb in real life. you'll see him in Raising Arizona. he was in an Ernest movie too, i think. the one where he goes to jail. Cobb was a boxer from philadelphia. still lives here. cool guy. he and i played chess in the park a few times.

Hudsucker Proxy is prolly one of the best comedies ever made. and Barton Fink was written when they were having writer's block working on Miller's Crossing.

see all of it.

skip Ladykillers. see the original with Alec Guinness. that was brilliant.
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Postby d.gishman on Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:16 pm

nmhunate wrote:First of all, I called No Country as the best picture as I walked out of the the theater when I saw it.


same... the ending was absolutely brilliant. those who wanted a typical hollywood ending were sorely disappointed.
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Postby btownmeggy on Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:47 am

It was pretty good. Better than I expected.

Daniel Day Lewis was very sexy in it. And in general.
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Postby heavycola on Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:25 am

Napoleon Ier wrote:
heavycola wrote:
Napoleon Ier wrote:
Dancing Mustard wrote:
heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
Mega-Word


I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.


i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.


You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?


Miller's Crossing is one of my favourite coen bros movies. I remember reading one of the bros saying the idea all stemmed from a single image - a grey fedora blowing around in a wood. Irish gangstres: Gabriel Byrne, Albert FINNEY, the femme fatale, some of the snappiest dialogue they ever wrote.
I never watched the Ladykillers. It came just after Intolerable Cruelty, which was good fun but way beneath them. And i heard Ladykillers was even worse - and as someone pointed out, a pointless remake. It has Tom McBland Hanks in it for a start...
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Postby Napoleon Ier on Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:23 pm

heavycola wrote:
Napoleon Ier wrote:
heavycola wrote:
Napoleon Ier wrote:
Dancing Mustard wrote:
heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.
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I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.


i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.


You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?


Miller's Crossing is one of my favourite coen bros movies. I remember reading one of the bros saying the idea all stemmed from a single image - a grey fedora blowing around in a wood. Irish gangstres: Gabriel Byrne, Albert FINNEY, the femme fatale, some of the snappiest dialogue they ever wrote.
I never watched the Ladykillers. It came just after Intolerable Cruelty, which was good fun but way beneath them. And i heard Ladykillers was even worse - and as someone pointed out, a pointless remake. It has Tom McBland Hanks in it for a start...


It really wasn't classic Coen, no. Still, it had some nice dialogue and a Southern Gothic thing going on. As you put it, a bit of fun but way beneath them.
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