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What does it say about film in this day & age when a picture like "No Country For Old Men" wins best picture? Nothing more than a gorefest with a plot that's been done 1,000 times before. So now all you have to do is show a slew of brutal killings and stick Tommy Lee Jones in the film to win the Oscar? Absolutely ridiculous.....not even in the top 3 of the Cohen Bros. best films. Hollywood really has lost its mind.
To say that "all you have to do is show a slew of brutal killings" to win the Oscar implies that the movie was shallow. It also equates the movie with the likes of "Saw" or "The Grindhouse." The violence was there for a reason. There was a point to all of it. I suggest reading the book because it makes it a lot more clear.
I don't mean to sound rude here, but it's just not true that it won because there was a lot of violence and Tommy Lee Jones.
"Am I the only one sick of seeing over the top violence & gore being teated like it's some kind of masterful innovation?"
NO. I hate violent movies, won't see them, don't think that is a good time. Uggh.
I think it's safe to say that "No Country" is a few levels above the typical slasher movie.
None of the violence felt gratuitous to me--some of the most edge-of-the-seat sequences were suspenseful rather than bloody.
As Dieter said, there was a lot more to this film than the action scenes.
Don't get me wrong....some of my favorite movies are very violent. "Braveheart", "Pulp Fiction", the "Godfather" trilogy.....
"No Country" just had some true ridiculousness to it. The guy finds this huge amount of cash out in the middle of nowhere and then goes back to the scene of the massacre afterward??? Are you kidding me? I wanted him to die THEN just for being so stupid!
And what was with these guys lugging around huge guns in the middle of town with no one else batting an eye? Chigurh at one point is walking through a freekin' hotel with this bazooka that has a silencer attached to it! HA!
And crossing the border into Mexico with a bullet ridden, bloodstained body certainly wouldn't get my attention. UNBELIEVEABLE - LITERALLY!
Don't get me wrong....some of my favorite movies are very violent. "Braveheart", "Pulp Fiction", the "Godfather" trilogy.....
"No Country" just had some true ridiculousness to it. The guy finds this huge amount of cash out in the middle of nowhere and then goes back to the scene of the massacre afterward??? Are you kidding me? I wanted him to die THEN just for being so stupid!
And what was with these guys lugging around huge guns in the middle of town with no one else batting an eye? Chigurh at one point is walking through a freekin' hotel with this bazooka that has a silencer attached to it! HA!
And crossing the border into Mexico with a bullet ridden, bloodstained body certainly wouldn't get my attention. UNBELIEVEABLE - LITERALLY!
I think Chigurh was a metaphor for violence and death. He's unstoppable and is coming for you (Well, not YOU. I mean the ROYAL you, you know, the editorial).
I think Chigurh was a metaphor for violence and death. He's unstoppable and is coming for you.
Exactly.
IMHO most Coen movies often require some suspension of disbelief.
So, for that matter, does Braveheart, which had many inaccuracies.
Does that make me love it any less? Certainly not.
Exactly.
IMHO most Coen movies often require some suspension of disbelief.
So, for that matter, does Braveheart, which had many inaccuracies.
Does that make me love it any less? Certainly not.
You know, I still have not seen all of that movie. I only saw up to where his friend throws a giant rock at his head.
It seems like the Chigurgh character is remeniscent of the lone biker of the apocalypse (Leonard Smalls), from Raising Arizona.
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