Why no thread aboot this?

anyways-saw it on the Big Screen. Totally awesome.
great sound and attention to the right details (eg so many but the look-back thru rear-vision to flash and impact

hilarious sinister conversation ala bobby dupres between Chirgur and any other unfortunate (loved the vulnerability conveyed by the actor -yes really, choking on his cashews!!
Im very intrigued about the backstory of Chirgur-shoulda been nominated for best actorl

the wife was the youngster from trainspotting?

really impressed-will buy the DVD for sure

SPOILER ALERT AT GROTYYSPAWN'S POST

It's not out in UK yet- but am looking forward to it. This one and the new one by Paul Thomas Anderson: There will be blood.

Fantastic! Saw it twice over the holidays.

Yes, you definitely need to see it on a big screen. Lotsa audible disappointment in the theatre at the film's ending

I see Riddley Scott is filming Cormac's "other" violent story, Blood Meridian!

Yes great film - the ending took me by surprise, made me think about how hard-wired my brain is with movies where the good guys have to win in the end. That bad guy was super bad wasn't he? The coin flipping scenes were insidiously evil, great work.

Don't think a lot of people will warm to it though - lots of disappointed comments I overheard in the cinema - one guy goes 'I completely lost interest after the main character died'. I reckon many people will feel this way too.

Fuck em if they can't take a joke"

glad some more comments trickling in about this-its stayed with me since I saw it-I will see it again on the big screen before it ends here and getting the DVD is a no-brainer

very interested in seeing more of Javier Badem's work

It's a great film of a great book. Highly recommended.

I'm sure it's him in Almodovar's Live Flesh...worth checking out if you haven't already.

Thanks- i came across one of his 'the sea within' at the dvd store. A right to death story. looks too uplifting ( from the description on the jacket) to be Chirgur-like..

read the book last year but not seen the film yet. id like to cos i like the coen brothers. i was pretty suprised to see they made a film of it.

I cried like a baby when I watched that film..it did me right in!

out on DVD march 11 accordion to amazon

Brilliant film, and very rich. The ending was perfect, I thought, because the film was not about really about the violence. It's about fate and inevitability, and how we can survive in a world where we might feel we have no control. In the end, all we have is hope. It would have been inappropriate to end the film with a shootout. Notice how as the plot goes along we forget about the money, even the protagonist is forgotten about. All we're left with is the archetypes.

Call it, friendo.

I don't think this movie is all it's hyped up to be.

It does have much going for it at the start but quickly unravels. to be honest the last half hour was almost insulting to the audience's intelligence and time.

If people weren't into the whole coen brothers thing and just watched the movie cold then the reviews wouldn't be so great.

the violence was awful and there was no real suspense at all. i didn't particularly cared what happened about halfway through.

in fact if truth be told it was just like the first terminator movie, except that didn't have so much smugness.

:lol:

Chilling stuff dawg

Ive recommended this all to all I see-they all come back gobsmacked

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a fair enough assessment

the theme was hackneyed as was the way in which it was presented

you are quite right to point out that it was the stuff of many mainstream films none of which receive the same praise

the violence and the gernal cinematography made the film seem akin to a playstation game (maybe this was intentional, i don't know

i went to see alphaville just after it

infinitely better and reminds just how lacking in genuine self consciousness a lot of american cinema is (all it seems to manage is irony and pastiche and 'knowingness', substituting these for real critique

i know the film was based on mccarthy's novel and did replicate the kind of ethical/metaphysical themes that are in it

but it did so slavishly when i would have preferred something more imaginative (and certainly would have liked them to locate evil/violence within the social systems which, in my opinion generate it, rather than give us yet another well worn version of the manicheanism which is increasingly used to mask real social evil and its causes

and i agree that it was largely unexciting d i, too, couldn't have cared less what happened in the end (only one thing could and i think we all knew that anyway: there is never any suspense when you are rehashing some old junk metaphysics

and i didn't find it in the least bit funny either

depressing really

playstation version here we come

would recommend that people read the yeats poem which the title comes from: that has real class

All of you who think this movie is worth a watch, do you recommend the big screen or can I just wait for the vid release...
What do ya rekon :confused:

Big Screen-the cinematography and sound engineering are equal stars in this

Video? dont they have DVD yet in NZ? If youve got a home theater set up it'll do

Thanx Cha (of course I ment dvd, thats showin my age :lol: )
I'll try to catch it on da big screen then :)

Four oscars, impressive indeed Cha Cha Cha.

Caught this excellent film on its Oscar curcuit. Up there with anything. I will buy this dvd. Having lived in the area portrayed- or quite similar all told, in south Texas, I felt taken back and dragged through it. I must get the book.

Waiting on the book from the library
so far Ive bur../borrowed: Cat Power x2 (free and greatest); Lead Belly (bourgeois blues).

Anyway, cant wait forthe DVD Release

Reading some McCarthy the books are kinda wrote for the cinema (and not surprised at all to see him at the Oscars) for sure
jaysus-Blood Merridian will be something

Hmmm

saw it on Friday, in a bit of a stress-induced altered state. I thought is was very good, but plan to see it again to work out why. However, agree that it is not so different to other films of that genre - but it's the differences in quality that are so pleasureable. The economy of the CBs.

Do think tho' that those thinking the above may have mis-read the film to some extent - if there is a 'main character', surely it's the sheriff?

It's good, but incredibly close to the film, even down to the dialogue. There are a couple of extra scenes in the book though.

Eh, what's this movie about?

I think I would have to move or go to church quickly (and more than once a week) if this mad sod used his Humane Method of putting humans down :P Like the stainglass window "Dawg"

Yeah, good question. What is it about?

Its about a drug deal gone bad, and the hunt for the money that went missing from that deal.

So the story itself is somewhat pedestrian. However, the acting and the characters are superior to most hollywood drivel - thanks mostly to Javier Bardem's portrayal. Tommy Lee Jones and Josh Brolin are also good, and the wee scottish girl playing a Texan hick/redneck was quite a revelation - she's a good actor.

But it did leave me a bit empty in the end. Light entertainment. -_-

Well, I think that's the surface description-the plot

whats it about? dunno, but reflecting on McCarthy's work and this one in particular Im left with the impression its about our attitude to violence, just from how disingenuous the sherrif;'s character is about the 'good ol days' as i stated above IMHO

And it is Coen Brothers film which is usually a good indicator B)

yes-they are always good to return to , like other masters such as herzog, i rarely keep DVDs but BL, Blood Simple and Fargo get re-runs esp BL-theres always a laugh no matter how often youve seen it IMO

Yes, this was the most intriguing thing I was left to think about at the end.
I think the sheriff is "society" & he is the vehicle to convey our alarm and ambivalence at the decay.

Superbly made, but like the Chinese meal rich in MSG, left me thirsty at the end...