2007 - No Country for Old Men: #36
What is it with this movie? Men seem to love it.
Guilty-I loved it. I’m a Cormac McCarthy fan. I loved the book first.
I also liked The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, so maybe I enjoy tough men being chased through the Southwest and Mexico...and Tommy Lee Jones movies.
Saw it, didn’t like it all that much — too dark and violent for my taste, and the ending was especially disappointing. Best I can describe it is an old western mixed with a chase movie, with a lot of plot twists. Plenty of gunplay and explosions. Not to spoil it, but the main antagonist, in addition to his role as villain, functions as a punishing angel, paying back the other characters for their various sins. Call me old fashioned or simple but I prefer movies with clearly defined “good guys” and “bad guys”, with the good guys winning in the end.
That’s the only one I’ve seen. It was pretty good. Most of these movies can be streamed in a year to two. I don’t donate to Homowood if I can avoid it.
No Country for Old Men had a gunfight in a Texas town without ONE other person getting involved. That pneumatic gadget had NO recoil, rigggghhhht. Half the time it should have taken his own hand off. Lots of stupid people and scenes in that movie.
But the ending, where the killer pays off kids to let him go, was a sad remark on society.
I thought it was awful and stupid.