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No Country For Old Men. Germans and Spoilers.....
Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:44 pm
Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:44 pm
I sat and watched it. Probably 80% with cutting back to the NCGame.
I totally enjoyed the movie up until its SPOILERS.......................................................................................... Cut to black ending. I was disappointed. The bad guy totally wins in the end (Kind of like Seven) but you are left with the back screen. And nothing is actually shown?
It HAS to have been beaten to death here for years, but how loved or reviled was the ending of this movie on here?
I am glad I watched it. It is still a great story with great performances, but the ambiguous ending was a letdown for me. Maybe it was the Chigurgh character walking off into the sunset coupled with the cutaway ending?
I totally enjoyed the movie up until its SPOILERS.......................................................................................... Cut to black ending. I was disappointed. The bad guy totally wins in the end (Kind of like Seven) but you are left with the back screen. And nothing is actually shown?
It HAS to have been beaten to death here for years, but how loved or reviled was the ending of this movie on here?
I am glad I watched it. It is still a great story with great performances, but the ambiguous ending was a letdown for me. Maybe it was the Chigurgh character walking off into the sunset coupled with the cutaway ending?
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Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:52 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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The bad guy totally wins in the end
That's the thing, though. Is he really the "bad guy" in the sense that we normally approach movies? He's less a typical villain and more a force of nature. He doesn't win, per se, he just persists.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:53 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I don't like this movie.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:53 pm to LSU alum wannabe
***Spoilers***
I read the book and watched the movie. The movie ending is taken from the book almost verbatim. I took it to mean that there was nothing more to say. The point had been made. Evil is relentless. It moves from one generation to the next (both dreams the sheriff had were about his father, also a lawman), and each generation is powerless to stop it. The sheriff feels he has squandered what his father, and his father's generation, bequeathed to him (the brief dream where he loses the money his father gave him). This shows his sense of failure. In the end he is going to where the previous generations await (represented by the dream about his father on horseback going ahead into the darkness). I.e. death. Fade to black.
I read the book and watched the movie. The movie ending is taken from the book almost verbatim. I took it to mean that there was nothing more to say. The point had been made. Evil is relentless. It moves from one generation to the next (both dreams the sheriff had were about his father, also a lawman), and each generation is powerless to stop it. The sheriff feels he has squandered what his father, and his father's generation, bequeathed to him (the brief dream where he loses the money his father gave him). This shows his sense of failure. In the end he is going to where the previous generations await (represented by the dream about his father on horseback going ahead into the darkness). I.e. death. Fade to black.
This post was edited on 1/10/18 at 5:26 pm
Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:57 pm to tylerdurden24
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He's less a typical villain and more a force of nature. He doesn't win, per se, he just persists.
True but he is still a psychotic killer. I just wanted to see him make a mistake and get got. But I understand how the Brolin character was not really a hero.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 6:58 pm to LSU alum wannabe
The ending is the entire point of the movie. It helps if you don't think about Chigurh as the "bad guy." Think of him as a relentless force of evil. Also, Tommy Lee Jones' character is the protagonist, not Llewellyn. The story is about the old man not having enough anymore to continue his fight against that relentless force of evil in the world. How that fight eventually beats all, even into old age.
This post was edited on 1/9/18 at 7:00 pm
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:00 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Who ended up with the money?
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:02 pm to LSU alum wannabe
There are more layers to the film
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:02 pm to Peazey
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The ending is the entire point of the movie. It helps if you don't think about Chigurh as the "bad guy." Think of him as a relentless force of evil. Also, Tommy Lee Jones' character is the protagonist, not Llewellyn.
I guess. You're right, the point of the movie was not for Tommy Lee Jones to kick in a door and kill Chigurh.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:12 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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the point of the movie was not for Tommy Lee Jones to kick in a door and kill Chigurh.
Exactly...that's predictable and has been done over and over.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:14 pm to LSU alum wannabe
I think it can't help but at some level feel unsatisfying because most people want that traditional arc, but it's also because of the thing that makes it untraditional that makes it a special story and movie. It has great performances and scenes that gripped me, but it is the story that you think about that makes it not just another action movie.
This post was edited on 1/9/18 at 7:15 pm
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:16 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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I sat and watched it. Probably 80% with cutting back to the NCGame.
Major pet peeve of mine
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:30 pm to LSU alum wannabe
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The ending is the entire point of the movie. It helps if you don't think about Chigurh as the "bad guy." Think of him as a relentless force of evil. Also, Tommy Lee Jones' character is the protagonist, not Llewellyn.
It's why I live the film so much. The coens totally captured the "force of nature" and relentless evil aspect Chigurh was meant to be. Few, if any, stories have ever done it better.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:46 pm to LSU alum wannabe
if you didn't like the ending, you didnt get the movie
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:52 pm to LSU alum wannabe
Almost everyone who doesn’t like this movie or the ending of the movie thinks Llewellyn is the protagonist. The whole movie is about the sheriff. The ending is perfect.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 7:59 pm to LSU alum wannabe
The ending is perfect and you should probably never listen to the advice of anybody who didn't like it.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 8:09 pm to Aubie Spr96
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I don't like this movie.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 8:09 pm to jackwoods4
The key to the film is the scene with his uncle. If you understand it you understand everything.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 8:10 pm to jackwoods4
This movie sticks to the source material better than any one I've ever seen.
It's fantastic.
It's fantastic.
Posted on 1/9/18 at 8:29 pm to TideSaint
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It's fantastic.
It really is one of the best movies I've seen, imo. I'd read the book, but it feels pointless since the adaption is supposedly so spot on.
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