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Jwodie 
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 10:01 pm to Zamoro10)
No Country is a tale of the randomness and inequity of certain evil. The characters are merely tools to ultimately portray that unconquerable evil. TWBB instead is purely a character study showing the rise, fall and eventual implosion of the fictional Daniel Plainview. Both great movies but not really comparable in terms of genre IMO.
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Lester Earl 
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 10:26 pm to Jwodie)
TWBB is boring and slow. Hard to watch for me at least
NCFOM is in my top 5
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Backinthe615
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 10:36 pm to RollTide1987)
If both were on right now and I had to choose to rewatch one it would be Blood.
Both fantastic, and that's not to kiss DDL's a$$-they're just both great movies. Country has virtually no music and sparse dialogoue but the foley is remarkable (check the sound of boots & gravel). Blood has the stark, weird Johnny Greenwood score that just wins, and might be what is swaying me.
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AUtigerNOLA 
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 10:55 pm to RollTide1987)
No Country for me. Just a compelling intense movie. Went to see it by myself in theaters and remember there was no music in it. It was awesome.
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DanglingFury 
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 10:56 pm to RollTide1987)
It's funny how linked these movies are. No Country's the much more rewathchable, Blood, while beautiful is self indulgent and slowly paced. I was down with No Country winning the Oscar. Chigurgh is one of my favorite performances ever, walked out saying "he was amazing."
Eta: ftr...as much as I see greatness in each movie, they're the new classics....I hated both endings.
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 10:58 pm to DanglingFury)
I also thought it was time for the cohens to win the Oscar for best picture. But regardless it was the best movie that year.
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DanglingFury
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 11:00 pm to AUtigerNOLA)
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remember there was no music in it. It was awesome.
I remember saying that the first time I saw it too, just noticed at some point, and went "hunh, practically no soundtrack to this movie."
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 11:00 pm to RollTide1987)
quote:
There Will Be No Country For Old Men
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 11:03 pm to RollTide1987)
Twbb
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DanglingFury
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 11:06 pm to Flair Chops)
The parody trailer "There will be Bud" is hilarious. Just wanna throw that out there.
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/16/12 at 11:53 pm to RunningHeel)
Great scene.
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/17/12 at 12:36 am to RollTide1987)
Who else spent NCFOM second guessing Lewelyn and figuring out who to get away with it? 
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Paul Allen
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 8:38 am to Jim Rockford)
Sheriff Ed Tom Bell was the best actor in the movie.
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 8:56 am to RunningHeel)
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Anywhere, not in your pocket. Where it'll get mixed in with the others and become just a coin...which it is.
This line makes that scene imo
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dallastiger55
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:13 am to rondo)
A little did you know....
Both films were shot in Marfa, TX in summer of 2006. I heard Cohen say that in one of the scenes where Josh Brolin is looking off in the distance you can see a light gray smoke. That was from the set of TWBB.
Crazy yo
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 9:26 am to RollTide1987)
Here we go again.
Why are these two always compared besides being up for best picture?
The board has argued this ad nauseum. I think the conclusions always are better acting goes to TWBB, but better movie goes to NCfOM.
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LordoftheManor
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 10:17 am to RollTide1987)
I preferred There Will Be Blood.
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 11:09 am to RollTide1987)
weird comparison
No Country is one of the masterpieces of my lifetime, IMO
TWBB is not, but the DDL performance is one of the most disturbing I have ever seen. He is mindblowingly great.
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 1:35 pm to RollTide1987)
TWBB = aids infested shite fest
NCFOM = awesome
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Pilot Tiger 
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| re: There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men (Posted on 11/18/12 at 1:38 pm to BradPitt)
you should admit your shishuashun. der wood be more dignaty
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