No Country For Old Men

soleachip SG

Wondering if anybody caught this adaptation from a McCarthy novel? Didn't even realize it was screened.

And Javier Bardem is the splitting image of Denny Duquette from Grey's Anatomy. Surprised

Trailer: No Country for Old Men

Directors: Coen Brothers (Fargo)

Cast: Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin

Synopsis: Based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize winner Cormac McCarthy. The time is our own, when rustlers have given way to drug- runners and small towns have become free-fire zones. The story begins when Llewelyn Moss (BROLIN) finds a pickup truck surrounded by a sentry of dead men. A load of heroin and two million dollars in cash are still in the back. When Moss takes the money, he sets off a chain reaction of catastrophic violence that not even the law - in the person of aging, disillusioned Sheriff Bell (JONES) - can contain. As Moss tries to evade his pursuers - in particular a mysterious mastermind who flips coins for human lives (BARDEM) - the film simultaneously strips down the American crime drama and broadens its concerns to encompass themes as ancient as the Bible and as bloodily contemporary as this mornings headlines.

1minutefilmreview SG

Here's our review,

Adapted from a novel by Cormac MaCarthy, this Coen brothers' movie is about the evil that men do. Like an unstoppable plague, this evil is represented in all its sick f**king glory by Javier Bardem's character. There has never been a more frightening villain in cinema, even with that hideously funny hair. At times the suspense created by the Coens is so thick it is almost unbearable and this adds to the film's brilliance as well.

Regards,

1minutefilmreview.

RedizAlertz SG

Either i dun understand or totally lost interest...Tis movie broke my record of fallin aslp in the theater for the 1st time.

soleachip SG

Either i dun understand or totally lost interest...Tis movie broke my record of fallin aslp in the theater for the 1st time.

I'm guessing it's the former. Which part of the show did you start losing interest?

Paradise Lost SG

Saw this movie recently and it was simply awesome. And yeah, the suspense created by the Coen Brothers really kept me riveted to my seat, especially the gun battle at the hotel room.

maurizio13 SG

Is it anything like Fargo?

Fargo was nice.

soleachip SG

Saw this movie recently and it was simply awesome. And yeah, the suspense created by the Coen Brothers really kept me riveted to my seat, especially the gun battle at the hotel room.

No country for old men, no country for any soul.

A man would have to put his soul at hazard. He'd have to say, "Ok, I'll be part of this world."

It had me the minute Bardem strangled his first kill at the station. The kick didn’t come from violence. It was how they manipulate tension with precision.

Bloomberg SG

Is it anything like Fargo?

Fargo was nice.

Im not too sure as I have not saw Fargo before. Hows the storyline like?

Paradise Lost SG

Yeah, especially the part whereby they showed the furious boot marks made on the floor after the struggle.

soleachip SG

Fargo was a sensible story. Story about a down and out man (WIlliam Macy) who hired 2 guys to kidnap his rich wife for ransom in winter. Things went wrong, and he lost grip on his sanity, killed his wife in the famous woodchipper scene.

But no country for old men was brilliant.

soleachip SG

Yeah, especially the part whereby they showed the furious boot marks made on the floor after the struggle.

"Would you please hold still sir?"

Then he takes the second one down with an oxygen tank and hose. Innovative crime.