Directed by:

Joel and Ethan Coen

Cast:

Tommy Lee Jones
Josh Brolin
Woody Harrelson
Javier Bardem

Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande.

Hmm, just watched this and f*** me drunk it was awesome. If you're after a tense movie with a heap of violence thrown in then this is for you. Javier Bardem who plays the hitman in this is f***ing amazing. I can't remember the last time I saw some mother f***er so cold and ruthless as this guy and every time he was on screen I was just frozen in my seat because you knew bad things were about to happen.

This probably wont be everyone's cup of tea because of certain things that happen but it's definately worth checking out. Also really loved the soundtrack too, had a great atmosphere about it.

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is that a silencer on a shotgun?

im about to watch this moofie, RIGHT NOW!

caught sexy beast the other nite on tele, that was pretty awesome as well

ben kingsley was so totally horrible in it, man i hated him!

is that a silencer on a shotgun?

LOL, that's what I was thinking too. But once you see it in action it really doesn't matter. He does some serious damage with that gun.

i agree totally kick ass film, but i don't like the ending. it just sort of falls flat.

DVD or Channel BT?

Loved the movie, hated the ending, left me with so many questions ><

As soon as I saw

Directed by:

Joel and Ethan Coen

I was sold

Loved the movie, hated the ending, left me with so many questions ><

f***ing aye

based on a book, so no doubt there was more subtext going on that the moofie couldnt quite capture


coen bros do make excellent moofies though

ahh i didnt no they made The Big Lebowski, that movie was awesome, actually ima get it right now :)

The Hudsucker Proxy was also another fantastic Coen Brothers movie, definitely worth checking out. I saw No Country for Old Men though the other night and really enjoyed it, Javier Bardem was probably one of the most original badass killers I've seen in a long time, totally nailed the role so no doubt Tarantino will be ripping off the character at some point. I found Tommy Lee Jone's character completely pointless in the movie, barely had anything to do with any of the main characters in the movie and I thought the lack of closure at the end was a bit of a let down given how intense parts of the film are but overall it was good.

what is with that guys hair

yeah watched this on the weekend, it's f***ing awesome.

That gun is mental

P.S. Hermi - chan BT ;)

what is with that guys hair

For a guy that wears pastel polos you sure make a lot of fashion criticisms.

great movie, so so ending.

his hair is meant to be ridiculous. he's a psycho hitman.. it's funnier that way

wow, I hated this movie

certainly do dan, it's my job

I thought the movie was really very good. Stupid ending i didn't really understand, but up to that last 10 minutes it was pure awesome.

WTF is that shotgun thing? It was cool but I didn't understand how it worked.

Great story, great characters, with just enough violence.

Next up is Charlie Wilson's War by Aaron Sorkin which is looking awesome just a few minutes in.


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charlie wilson's war is f***ing awesome!

I agree. charlie wilson's war was f***ing awesome.

we now know just how badly the americans dropping the ball there came back to hurt them.

great fun film considering the subject.. so many cool quotes too, most memorable for me was: you can teach them to type but you can't teach them to grow tits.


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man, people are complaining about the end of i am legend

it has nothing on the s*** ending of this movie

other than that though, f***ing rad movie

I Am Legend had a stupid happy Hollywood ending that was completely different to the book. The movie would have been so much better if they didn't add in the woman and the kid. Obviously the film makers think we're dumb-s*** morons and can't handle an ending where the hero guy dies.

No Country For Old Men had an awesome finish. One that actually made you think instead of being spoon-fed the rubbish endings most people need so they can have some type of closure without thinking too hard.

can you see the f***in bone poking out of his arm

don't yell at me. i'm not your wife!!

No Country For Old Men had an awesome finish. One that actually made you think instead of being spoon-fed the rubbish endings most people need so they can have some type of closure without thinking too hard.

This is the truth and it saddens me that so many of you QGL bogans are unable to see it.


edit: spoiler city in this post




Tommy Lee's was the main plot of the film, not moss and psychopath. He is the first thing we hear and the last and if you look into it, the ending is not nearly as dissatisfying IMO. If you had listened closely to all of his dialog and the things that happen to him during the film. It is linked to the existential s*** that the psycho uses to justify his actions (ie pre-determenence - that is what the dream with his father is about, setting up before he gets there etc) The whole point of his arc is to do with his realization, through the evil of Chigurh (which is what you see for most of the movie). The opener about sherifs that didnt carry guns sets up the idea that he is from that time and the kind of evil that occurs in the movie he cannot deal with. (Although it sounds like at the end via the story the wheelchair guy tells about Indians, that evil has always been that bad) Hence the quitting. I dont know how to reconcile the idea that evil is either constant and he has just gotten old (which would tie in well with the movie title) or that the kind of evil that exists today is just worse. Either way, Chigurh was a f***ing evil motherf***er and the fact that in the end, he got away, is just as much about showing that usually evil wins and the good guy usually loses as just being part of the character being 'the bad guy'. Although I think that the woman refusing to choose and then that whole fate thing sort of turning on the guy that thought he was invincible because of it (by ramming a car into him) was a tiny nod to the audience to soften the blow of him getting away with it all, since I figure everyone that complains was waiting for some kind of stupid showdown where tommy gets him :P

I dunno wtf soundtrack you are talking about btw, rev. I dont remember a single song in the whole film beyond the mariachi guys and the end credits...

Anyway, besides looking into movies too much, it was just a gripping watch. Plus it was awesome being the only people in the cinema to laugh at certain scenes - people have no sense of humor. I also found the response when the titles rolled hilarious because people were just so dissatisfied. More than to boo or the usual s***, so much that they didn't know what to do and just sat there in silence or let out quiet groans.

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Double postin' to say that god damn the trailer for 'there will be blood' looked f***ing good too. Looking up about it revealed that advanced screenings have proven it to be, according to a bunch of critics, one of the best movies of the decade :O

Unfortunately the audio for the dialogue seemed really quiet for me so I think I missed the point of this film as a result of not being able to hear half of it. Anyone else have that problem?

no.

Double postin' to say that god damn the trailer for 'there will be blood' looked f***ing good too. Looking up about it revealed that advanced screenings have proven it to be, according to a bunch of critics, one of the best movies of the decade :O

Made by the guy who did Boogie Nights and Magnolia too.

just watched this, great movie, very tense :)

Just watched this (finally). Have to say it was pretty good, great acting, great characters, and a story that really doesn't go the places you're expecting it to, but at the end of it all I'm not sure I can actually say I enjoyed it. It wasn't the ending, I didn't have a problem with the ending, sure it wasn't the typical ending you're expecting but it didn't leave me confused and wondering what had happened

I think overall the movie was just so intense, and the hitman guy was just so unapologetically, psychopathically evil, and it ended up on such a down note with Tommy Lee Jones retiring cos the world is so f***ed up and then having nothing left to do with his life, that at the end I just felt bummed out by the whole thing.

Great movie sure, and you gotta respect it for what it does, but I don't think I could ever watch it again.

Spoilers.

ive watched this movie. It was a good film but the ending was horrible. The main character and his wife are killed. The good cop retires and tells us about his random dream. And the bad guy gets in a random car crash and breaks his arm.

Awesome ending! NOT!

Watched it last night, for people saying the ending was bad I'm sorry you can't see that is wasn't.

Very tense, I loved the first conversation he had with the guy at the servo. "Call it."

That mental case was skizto, especially with that air cylinder... he loved that thing.

Weird ending... more like no ending, but enjoyable throughout so it doesn't really matter.

f*** me, its so frustrating that people associate a downer ending which doesnt tick the boxes they expect from a film (total closure, happy - good guys win etc) with it being a 'bad' ending (or having no ending at all). Its like you are babies that didnt get what they want, so now its s***. It saddens me that big business is only interested in chasing the majority and so we end up with 90% of film being neutered and computer games which dont spell it out for you being virtually non-existant.

Makes me sad :(

cry about it

I AM f***ING CRYING c***
BIG f***OFF ACID TEARS OF HATE
f***ING BURNS MY MAN CHEEKS

you're cute when you cry pete
or when you drive your rangie naked

I had read the book before I went to see it, and hence I did not get any surprises from the movie. This disappointed me because I was really looking forward to it, but didn't entirely feel anything after seeing it. I am going to go see it again though, soak it up and hopefully change my mind.

If you liked this film you should check out "The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada". The first thing to pop into my head watching that film over a year ago was how much it reminded me of "No Country for Old Men" (the book). I don't think it is a coincidence that Tommy Lee Jones directed and starred in that film as well.

I just watched it. I thought it was great, until the last half hour or so. Don't get me wrong, I can see what you liked about the ending. I understand all the messages that this film was trying to get across, it still disapointed me.

That being said, I did think the way the story was told is quite an interesting and impressive thing. It's like the whole movie is a tangent, only in place to prove a point.

No one should go into this movie without the desire (or ability) to think deeply about what you've witnessed. Overall it was one of the better films of 2007, imo.

P.S - The Mexican Singers gave me lulz.

last edited by Kamma at 05:27:27 09/Jan/08

Awesome movie, can't believe people are complaining about the end, the movie is about tommy lee's character so it makes perfect sense.

Hmmm, what a weird movie.

I didn't get it... at all.

Maybe you should stick to movies like Jumper then.

I wholeheartedly agree with qmass and Rev. I too sat there for a minute after the ending in silence while the credits were rolling. However I think everyone around me was thinking "wtf" but I just had his last monologue going through my head and thinking how good the ending was. The movie is called "No Country For Old Men" afterall and with Tommy Lee Jones' opening narrative and the end bit it's not hard to realise the film is about him.

It is sad when people can't at least try and think for themselves to work out what something is saying.

I would like to see it again but from recollection the two coin toss scenes were probably the best in my opinion. I don't know if anyone else has seen Bardem in stuff like The Dancer Upstairs and Collateral of course but he is always solid.

I've not seen those but I have seen Bardem in "The Sea Inside". Top flick.

great movie, bulls*** ending aside the action was great.

i think tommy lee knew more than he led on, he explained to the wife in the diner about cows getting shot with air pressure guns but never put two and two together, or he was hinting to her to get her to figure it out, or he was on the payroll and didn't want to catch the bad guy at all.

Look the bottom line is that this movie kicks arse for the 80% of the movie. Sure the ending is vague etc and it's left up to your own interpretation, you may have to THINK!!! believe it or not.

the ending killed it

Tommy was allowed to give a personal interpretation:


don't f*** your s*** up for people that don't matter.


As much as Australians look to American media for marketing, we're still better and smarter for our European roots.


Americans buy a PC and wish it was as good as an XBox 360 for gaming. Europeans buys an XBox, and wish they had a PS2 to go with their PC Gaming Box.

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I'll admit that I didn't get the ending either, when the credits started rolling I was thinking "ooookkayyyy". So I just googled/read other people's thoughts and then it made sense. Basically it wasn't a movie with a resolution, it was a movie saying sometimes you just have to realise situations when you're in over your head and give up/let it go .. what JohnnyDeformed said was exactly right.

Americans buy a PC and wish it was as good as an XBox 360 for gaming. Europeans buys an XBox, and wish they had a PS2 to go with their PC Gaming Box.

This makes perfect sense.

qmass is gay

i tend to prefer movies with closure i mean why am i wasting watching 2 hours on watching it, i dont care if the bad guy kills the good guy or the other way around but end the movie please ...