No Country for Old Men (2007) Movie Thread

[Crabtree]

It's brilliantly shot, the cast is top drawer, the baddie in it came from nowhere to instantly storm into the "top 10 of all time film baddies". Also, unlike a lot of people seem to be these days, I'm not against an unresolved or downbeat ending to a film. Some of the greatest films of all time have had an ambiguous or gloomy ending. Some, like First Blood, would have been better with the original final scene they shot that the studio bottled out of.

One of my favourite films but....and it's a big but, No Country felt unfinished for me, not unresolved, unfinished. Like 1 or 2 scenes had been left in the back of a taxi and forgotten about.

I wouldn't have minded but I was right into it

 

[Gemma]

One of my favourite films but....and it's a big but, No Country felt unfinished for me, not unresolved, unfinished. Like 1 or 2 scenes had been left in the back of a taxi and forgotten about.

Same here, I was really disappointed how it ended.

 

[Deleted member 63]

Javier Bardem was not someone I would have pictured in the "unstoppable killer/monster" role but he handled it SO well. Agree with others that the ended was weak but the rest of it was terrific.

 

[8-Ball]

Me too. It looks great and the pacing's perfect. From the beginning you instantly know how severe Javier Bardem's character is.

I didn't like the ending though, it needed some kind of closure instead of just stopping like a TV drama cliffhanger.

 

[Max Taxable]

The novel the movie is based on wraps the story up in a very tidy way. Ed Tom Bell gets killed by Sugar when he returns to the motel where Llewellyn was killed. Sugar returns the money to his employer which was never identified in the movie. The movie leaves Ed Tom alive and the viewer wondering when/if another shoe is going to drop, right to the end. Nobody walks out of this film unhurt, whether it be mental or physical. Kind of like life itself.

 

[Legion]

Brilliant film with a great cast. Brolin and Macdonald really believable, Tommy Lee Jones immense and Barden's portray of the ambiguity of evil is as good as it gets. Amazing film by amazing filmmakers