No Country for Old Men/There Will Be Blood

[RockyTop572]

Out of curiosity what did yall think of No Country for Old Men. I saw it three times in theaters and absolutely loved it. However I know a good number of people that absolutely hated it and I also read the message boards on IMDB and everyone on there either loved or hated it. As some of you probably know it won the Academy Award for best picture so I thought I'd see what you guys thought?

Basically same goes for There Will Be Blood. I loved it and half of my friends hated it.

Also which did you like better?

[VOLatile]

I loved it, but the ending took about 3 weeks to comprehend...

There Will Be Blood was amazing, also.

[JAllen18]

Originally Posted by RockyTop572

Out of curiosity what did yall think of No Country for Old Men. I saw it three times in theaters and absolutely loved it. However I know a good number of people that absolutely hated it and I also read the message boards on IMDB and everyone on there either loved or hated it. As some of you probably know it won the Academy Award for best picture so I thought I'd see what you guys thought?

Basically same goes for There Will Be Blood. I loved it and half of my friends hated it.

Also which did you like better?

I loved No Country for Old Men. The scenes with Chigurh were some of the best acting Ive seen.

There will be blood was a great movie too. Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors out there.

I liked No country for old men better because of the characters and the cat and mouse game between leliwyen and chigurh.

[RockyTop572]

Originally Posted by JAllen18

I loved No Country for Old Men. The scenes with Chigurh were some of the best acting Ive seen.

There will be blood was a great movie too. Daniel Day Lewis is one of the best actors out there.

I liked No country for old men better because of the characters and the cat and mouse game between leliwyen and chigurh.

I'm glad to see that there are some educated film viewers. I think that both films are brilliantly written, acted, and directed. Of the two I would have to say that Daniel Day Lewis's performance was the best out of all of them, but the others were great as well. I honestly think his performance was the best I have ever seen in any movie.

I think I liked NCFOM better too because of the story and characters...but then again that's just the Coen brother's playing on stereotypes. Having the "badass" characters named Llewelyn and Chigurh (Sugar) I thought was hilarious.

And kind of related to the "cat and mouse game", the scene at the second hotel where there is the shootout look at the floor when Llewelyn re-enters the lobby there is the cat there by the desk with its milk spilled...a reference to "don't cry over spilled milk". I love how they slip little stuff like that into their movies.

[emainvol]

As far as I am concerned, Bardem's performance was one of the greatest all time, supporting actor or not. Daniel Day-Lewis deserved his Oscar, and he killed in Blood, but Bardem's performance may never be topped.

[ut 4 me]

I have not seen either and have been wanting to. I am so far behind on movies, although I did see Semi-pro today

[RockyTop572]

Semi-pro was so so so so so terrible...and I love Will Farrell. He is so naturally funny but when they have him that scripted he loses his touch. If they would let him just improv his lines or something he'd be great.

You really should catch up on some quality movies...

[ut 4 me]

Originally Posted by RockyTop572

Semi-pro was so so so so so terrible...and I love Will Farrell. He is so naturally funny but when they have him that scripted he loses his touch. If they would let him just improv his lines or something he'd be great.

You really should catch up on some quality movies...

You remember that 30 rebound game I had?

Yea...

Yea, well I don't remember it.


But seriously, I thought it was extremely disappointing. It had a few good lines, but that was it. Sooner or later I will rent those other too though

[VOLatile]

Who was it that played the preacher kid in Blood? I thought that his performance made the movie, for me. I laughed at the overacting but that's what a preacher of that sort did back then. They had to sell it.

My girlfriend is in love with Chigurh's voice...

[The Dude]

He was the brother from Little Miss Sunsine. The only problem with his part in There Will Be Blood was at the end, when it was supposed to be several years later, he was supposed to be in his mid-thirties, but still looked 14.

[RockyTop572]

I Drink Your Milkshake!

[kptvol]

I think you should probably read No Country For Old Men if you liked the movie. There's some stuff at then end of the book that was left out of the movie. It gives a little more insight into the makeup of Moss and Ed Tom.

[VOLatile]

Originally Posted by kptvol

I think you should probably read No Country For Old Men if you liked the movie. There's some stuff at then end of the book that was left out of the movie. It gives a little more insight into the makeup of Moss and Ed Tom.

I wish I had time to read it, my girlfriend did. I've just got a bunch of books on my list to read and no time to do it.

[RockyTop572]

Originally Posted by kptvol

I think you should probably read No Country For Old Men if you liked the movie. There's some stuff at then end of the book that was left out of the movie. It gives a little more insight into the makeup of Moss and Ed Tom.

I might. I just bought The Road by McCarthy and Into the Wild so after I read those I might sometime this summer.

How much was left out though without giving anything away? From everything I read about the movie it was pretty much verbatim from the book as far as the ending goes especially...

[kptvol]

A couple of the action sequences are a tad different, but nothing that changes the plot. At the end, the conversation Ed Tom has with that old guy is supposed to be several conversations with several different people. You just learn a little more about the characters. But no, there's not anything that affects the plot.