Film: No Country for Old Men (Coen Brothers)

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[LoathedVermin72]

I would be happy for you

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Now I get why you guys like him: you’re as dumb as he is

px > lv

[LoathedVermin72]

Now I get why you guys like him: you’re as dumb as he is

px > lv

*tickles you*

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Now I get why you guys like him: you’re as dumb as he is

px > lv

*tickles you*

omg

[E.H. Ruddock]

LV, have you read The Road?

[LoathedVermin72]

No, I’ve never made it through any of his books

[Orpheus]

This is a very dumb take, LV.

[LoathedVermin72]

I’m such a Llewellyn

[Monkey_Driven]

There's a kid at my son's daycare named Cormac after the author.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i heart josh brolin

[LoathedVermin72]

i heart josh brolin

So do I.

For the record, that scene is not the entirety of my objections to this movie.

[Simple Torture]

I feel like I'll never be able to recapture the feeling I had when I first saw this movie. It's on cable so much that I frequently flip by it and end up watching 45-minute chunks of the middle, and it just doesn't feel the same.

[VinylGuy]

yeah i agree with that ST.

Josh Brolin is so fucking good.

I read this novel and The Road. Both are good.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i heart josh brolin

So do I.

For the record, that scene is not the entirety of my objections to this movie.

ugh

[bune]

Well i guess i can understand why you might dislike it, on account of it lacks subtlety. But again, Llewelyn acknowledges it with "sumthin' dumber n' dirt, but i'm fixin' to do it anyway." It's a fine device to move the plot forward, because it also adds a ton of character development with just a few lines.

I love Llewellyn Moss, one of my favorite literary characters of all time. His simple life with his loving wife in their trailer, hunting antelope, nowhere to go and nowhere to be. He has everything right in the palm of his hands when he stumbles onto that shootout, and through his empathy -- not his greed, as 99% of all other writers would have done -- he sets himself up for failure, and he even had an inkling it would happen.

I know I won't change your mind, but the discussion has helped me better define why I like that part so much.

One of the few books that I've re-read as an adult. Well, the second time was an audiobook and it was still great. Easier to track conversations too but I wonder how much of that was that I'd seen the movie so it was just easier to picture the actors.

[E.H. Ruddock]

No, I’ve never made it through any of his books

The Road is such an amazing book

[epilogue]

No, I’ve never made it through any of his books

The Road is such an amazing book

[Orpheus]

And as good as the Road is, it's nothing compared to his other books IMO. The Border Trilogy and Blood Meridian are my personal favorites.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Yes, blood meridian and child of God are favorites for me.