[Ctoads] Latest 50 posts for topic: NO COUNTRY FOR THIS OLD MAN !

Feeling weird can be pretty...

Backbiter — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:52:17 GMT
Feeling weird can be pretty fun in the right setting.

I am with you all the way o...

smidgen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:32:52 GMT
I am with you all the way on this one. Yawn, sigh. Backbiter, I would say there is a 50/50 among the audience. Those who loved it and those who hated it. The more praise it got, the more I hated it. It wasn't a movie that provoked happiness, thought, wonder, inspiration, love, hatred or sadness. I just left the theater feeling...weird, and I don't like that.

Tommy Lee Jones is good at ...

smidgen — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:28:15 GMT
Tommy Lee Jones is good at what he does...which is an actor who plays the same character 100% of time. So when you pay him a compliment, let's be honest and specific about it. Tommy Lee was GREAT as Tommy Lee doing what Tommy Lee does.

You're definitely in the mi...

Backbiter — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:35:23 GMT
You're definitely in the minority here. I don't think it was a 'celebration' of anything. Not everything is black and white like Death Wish (which I thought was great). Bardem's character had a complex moral code, which did have room for the idea of fate (something most sociopaths don't have). I think that character is reminiscent of Brando in Apacolypse Now. The Cohen Bros movies definitely aren't for everyone.

So. The movie celebrates t...

Barns — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:06:16 GMT
So. The movie celebrates the unfailing morality of a murderous psychopath?
Is this Ethan and Joel Coen, and Scott Rudin's celebration of virtue?
Appears to Barns to be a celebration of depravity.
Frankly, Barns is loathe to accept PHONY, PRETENTIOUS DRIVEL of any kind, particularly that which caters to P.C. driven entertainment.
"ODD" or "REVOLUTIONARY" simply for the sake of creating such is "NOTHING."

It was a bent morality tale...

Backbiter — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:58:27 GMT
It was a bent morality tale. Barden's character stuck to his moral code (twisted as it is) to the very end.

I don't think that Barns an...

rachee — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:11:08 GMT
I don't think that Barns and us saw the same movie. It was brilliant in many ways. It was Very intense and the characters are very intriguing. I think the cinematography was also excellent. Barden's hair cut was excellent symbolism.

The only old man in this mo...

GMc — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:19:38 GMT
The only old man in this movie was the Tommy Lee Jones character. He is an amazing actor. I did not understand what his role was in the movie. But then I did not understand the movie altogether. Barden was still better in this movie than Daniel Day-Lewis overacting in every movie he is in.

If Barns is as good looking...

mu4715 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:57:23 GMT
If Barns is as good looking as Barden, he can get away with the haircut, any haircut.

Simple. Barns' taste in mo...

mu4715 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:56:15 GMT
Simple. Barns' taste in movies is pathetic.