No Country for Old Men Ending?

[Hostile]

Cormac McCarthy is an amazing writer. He never writes a feel good story but his writing is unreal. They filmed the Friendo scene exactly as he wrote it. That's how great a writer he is.

You want to freak out at a book with no good feelings, read Blood Meridian. Judge Holden will be as amazing a villain for you as Anton Chigurh.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I love your sig, Bob. It's awesome!

(Okay. So, I'm a little late here, and this isn't even the right thread. But it's the thought that counts. Right?)

you da man!

Cormac McCarthy is an amazing writer. He never writes a feel good story but his writing is unreal. They filmed the Friendo scene exactly as he wrote it. That's how great a writer he is.

You want to freak out at a book with no good feelings, read Blood Meridian. Judge Holden will be as amazing a villain for you as Anton Chigurh.

idk, I can't get into fiction books

 

[Hostile]

idk, I can't get into fiction books

I've never understood stuff like this. Why close your mind to anything? Especially quality literature. I just don't get it.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I've never understood stuff like this. Why close your mind to anything? Especially quality literature. I just don't get it.

who said anything about closing their mind to fiction books? I just was never able to read them unless they were assigned to me, quality or not, they just don't have the same feel to something that actually happened

 

[theogt]

who said anything about closing their mind to fiction books? I just was never able to read them unless they were assigned to me, quality or not, they just don't have the same feel to something that actually happened

I'm actually with you on this one. I can't read fiction either. Well, I can't read much of anything anymore, given time commitments and the amount of reading I do for work, but when I do I much prefer non-fiction -- mostly biographies of historical figures like founding fathers.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I'm actually with you on this one. I can't read fiction either. Well, I can't read much of anything anymore, given time commitments and the amount of reading I do for work, but when I do I much prefer non-fiction -- mostly biographies of historical figures like founding fathers.

if you ever get the chance, read "1776" by David Macullough

 

[theogt]

if you ever get the chance, read "1776" by David Macullough

I have "John Adams" but haven't read it. Eventually I'll get to 1776 as well.

Currently working on Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton." Ha, I've been working on it for a while.

 

[Kevinicus]

Always felt this was an overrated movie. Not bad, just highly overrated. It was interesting until the last 15 minutes or so.

 

[theogt]

Always felt this was an overrated movie. Not bad, just highly overrated. It was interesting until the last 15 minutes or so.

Seems like everyone that has a problem with it only has a problem with Moss's demise and the movie's ending.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Seems like everyone that has a problem with it only has a problem with Moss's demise and the movie's ending.

that, and waiting for something to happen, and that happening is dude getting shot in the face, after that you realize you've been sitting there for an hour watching crap

 

[Chief]

I read both, but I tend to labor through novels. I fly through non-fiction, especially biographies.

 

[theogt]

that, and waiting for something to happen, and that happening is dude getting shot in the face, after that you realize you've been sitting there for an hour watching crap

What was "crap" about it? It seems you were just disappointed you didn't get the emotional payoff of the confrontation, which I totally understand.

 

[Kevinicus]

Seems like everyone that has a problem with it only has a problem with Moss's demise and the movie's ending.

I don't have a problem with his demise, just how it was done. The whole movie is following his character and then they just cut away and he's dead. It was like the storyteller saying, oh he's not there anymore, he wasn't important, moving on. Just seemed like it defeated the purpose of the previous hour and a half.

 

[theogt]

I don't have a problem with his demise, just how it was done. The whole movie is following his character and then they just cut away and he's dead. It was like the storyteller saying, oh he's not there anymore, he wasn't important, moving on. Just seemed like it defeated the purpose of the previous hour and a half.

That's what I meant by his "demise," or rather the lack thereof. I understand that feeling. It was unsettling and can take you out of the movie. But I think their point was to make you feel that utter despair of being helpless and pissed off at something. That's what Bell was feeling, and the movie (despite his lack of screen time) was in the end about him and his message, not Moss.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

What was "crap" about it? It seems you were just disappointed you didn't get the emotional payoff of the confrontation, which I totally understand.

bland acting
Josh Brolin is terrible
Woody Harrelson?
Javier was not much better, idk why everyone is so ga-ga over that coin-flip scene in the gas station, and that was the best part of the whole movie

 

[theogt]

bland acting
Josh Brolin is terrible
Woody Harrelson?
Javier was not much better, idk why everyone is so ga-ga over that coin-flip scene in the gas station, and that was the best part of the whole movie

Wow, the acting was incredible in that movie.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Wow, the acting was incredible in that movie.

are you ****ing serious? it was a bunch of reading lines

 

[theogt]

are you ****ing serious? it was a bunch of reading lines

I think you're pretty much in the extreme minority here. The dialogue and music were kept to an absolute minimum because the acting was so great. I'm not a huge fan of Tommy Lee Jones, but even he knocked it out of the park in this one.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I think you're pretty much in the extreme minority here.

completely irrelevent

The dialogue and music were kept to an absolute minimum because the acting was so great. I'm not a huge fan of Tommy Lee Jones, but even he knocked it out of the park in this one.

so great acting means less dialogue

are you freakin' kidding me?

 

[theogt]

completely irrelevent

so great acting means less dialogue

are you freakin' kidding me?

If you can tell a story vividly and draw your audience in with little dialogue -- yes, that's considered good acting. Is this news to you?