No Country for Old Men

[Eton Rifles]

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you could only tell because the cars looked like they were from the early 80's.

[ehh]

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Not many people realize that it actually did take place in 1980.

I thought someone who read the book said it took place in the late 70's, but heck what's the difference between '78, '79 or '80? Walmart has this on sale on Blu Ray for $19, I'm gonna pick it up - I love this damn flick.

[AlexBrady]

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you could only tell because the cars looked like they were from the early 80's.

True.

I thought someone who read the book said it took place in the late 70's, but heck what's the difference between '78, '79 or '80? Walmart has this on sale on Blu Ray for $19, I'm gonna pick it up - I love this damn flick.

Maybe it did take place in the 70s in the book. I never read it. Yeah, I watched No Country again last night. Never gets old.

[JayBee74]

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I thought someone who read the book said it took place in the late 70's, but heck what's the difference between '78, '79 or '80? Walmart has this on sale on Blu Ray for $19, I'm gonna pick it up - I love this damn flick.

Saw it at the theater twice. Got to get it on Blu Ray.

[stewaat]

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It was 1980 because there was something about 1958 and then they said something about 22 years have passed...I caught that when watching it.

Oh I think the quarter was from 1958 and he said the coin traveled 22 years to this moment. That was in the awesome gas station scene.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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It was 1980 because there was something about 1958 and then they said something about 22 years have passed...I caught that when watching it.

Oh I think the quarter was from 1958 and he said the coin traveled 22 years to this moment. That was in the awesome gas station scene.

Exactly. If it wasn't for that scene, I would have thought the movie had taken place in the 70s.

[AlexBrady]

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This movie really made west Texas interesting.

[55]

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I watched this movie a couple of weeks ago when it came out on DVD and I was pretty much blown away by it. I'm pretty certain it's the best movie I've seen in the past year and maybe even the past couple of years.

I have a take on it that I haven't seen anywhere else yet. I could be way off base here but interprebility is what is appealing about movies like this one.

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A bit of foreshadowing in one of the beginning sequences when Llewelyn comes across the dog's blood trail and sees him through his binoculars as he's going out to pasture to die.

Quite simply, I think Anton is the Grim Reaper....the bringer of death. He doesn't make the decision on who dies, he just delivers it to them. Even if it is something as simple as a coin flip....it's not him making the decision, it's the coin.

Even Carson Wells (Woody Harrelson) said that you can't reason with him and he has a set of principles that transcend things that we covet. He was even amazed that Llewelyn had seen Anton and was still alive.

I loved Anton's comment that "they always say the same thing....you don't have to do this". Even Carson said it when he just got through telling Llewelyn that you can't reason with him.

Needless to say, the movie (at least to me) was all about Ed Tom "going out to pasture".

When he sat down on the bed in the motel room at the end of the movie and Anton was hiding behind the door I took it as death being right around the corner from him. Ed realized this and it was reinforced by his dream that his father was preparing for him to join him in the after-life.

Nevertheless, the movie is about the events that precede Ed Tom "going out to pasture" to die just as the dog did in the beginning of the movie.

That's just one man's take but in my opinion it was a great, great movie.

Well, after my tenth viewing of this film since its release, I would have to say that you sum it up just about as good as anyone else I have seen give their thoughts on it.

So many little subtle nuances just grab me in this film. For instance, when Ed Tom shows up at Moss' trailer in search of Chigurh and sits down to have a glass of milk realizing that he just missed him and stares into a vacant television screen the exact same way Chigurh did just moments earlier is absolutely priceless.

Without going on and on all day long (which I could easily do with this particular film) I will flat out say that No Country For Old Men is quite simply the best film of the last ten years. If you happen to be one of the folks who didn't "get it" then I feel sorry for you.

[ryan36]

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The BOOK is freakin awesome too read it like 2 years ago...maybe 3. Loved it

[55]

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The BOOK is freakin awesome too read it like 2 years ago...maybe 3. Loved it

I completely agree. I picked it up after seeing the film for the second time and it explained a lot. I had already interpreted things a certain way, but the book gave me some perspective on my own conclusions.

[bigtxambition]

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This film was easily my choice for the best film of that year. The main character of course sort of reminds me of a mixture of Batman's Two-Face and Silence of the Lamb's bad guy Hannibal Lector. Extremely well acted by the entire cast, this film is easily one of all time favorites. IF you haven't seen this masterpiece at least rent it you won't regret it.

[bucksfan07]

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What's amazing about this movie is I've seen it about 5-6 times, and I still love it. It's awesome on bluray and I just love the way this movie was filmed in that there is no music, which adds to the intensity in some of the scenes.

[marshallfever]

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Awesome movie without a doubt.

[Laettner32]

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Awesome movie without a doubt.

Sorry, but my wife and I both left disappointed after watching this. Maybe we had to much expectations, but regardless..we could care less about watching it again.

[55]

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Sorry, but my wife and I both left disappointed after watching this. Maybe we had to much expectations, but regardless..we could care less about watching it again.

Perhaps you didn't walk into the theater with an open enough mind and/or misinterpreted the true meaning of the film. In a kind of Hitchcockian way, the Coen's used the satchel full of money as a "MacGuffin" so to speak. You should really watch it again and use some critical thinking to see if you can "get it" the next time around. I'm not calling you unintelligent by any means (some of the smartest people I know didn't "get" this film either) but you just simply didn't view this film for what it was. Here's one hint, this film was NOT about a guy randomly finding a satchel full of money in the middle of the Rio Grande Valley and his subsequent journey trying to elude the bounty hunter hired to return it to it's rightful owners. No sir, there is a hell of a lot more to it than that.