No Country For Old Men.

[whatho]

I saw No Country For Old Men. Personally, I would've liked to have been spoiled for two things before seeing this: there's a vomit scene, and none of the cats get hurt.

Anyway. It's just ... no. Not my sort of film. I'm a bit baffled really. Seemed to be a lot of deeply unlikeable men trying to kill one another in various bits of Texas. And Mexico. Mostly you knew that whenever the man with the terrible haircut entered the scene, everyone else would shortly be corpses. Ad infinitum. And just, you know. Get rid of the money. Wasn't worth it in the end, was it. I liked the sheriff chap. I saw nothing much in the way of character development from anyone aside from him. I liked most of the cinematography, the acting, the very brave wife who refused to call on the toss of the coin, the kids who wanted to do nice things for people without actually getting anything in return and the enigmatic final scene that quite rightly failed to offer much in the way of closure (and makes perfect sense if you accept the sheriff, not either of the other two, as the main protagonist). But for a film with quite a lot of genuine suspense, I was fairly bored by the end.

I want to see a film with some nice people in next.

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[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I want to see a film with some nice people in next.

I could suggest Juno? That has Jason Bateman in, he's generally quite nice. There might be some vomit scenes though. My judgement might not be to be trusted though, as I quite liked No Country For Old Men.

I had to try to pick you an icon with no psychopaths in then, and for a minute it was VERY DIFFICULT. We can assume the woman here is using the raygun to defend someone, I think.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Tut. Are ALL your role-models psychopaths, Girl? Films out at present mostly do seem to be people going after other people with razor blades and cattle-prods. Also I need to find a more reliable, er, vomit-tracker, because the thing I was using totally failed me for No Country For Old Men. There we are. I liked the women. I wish it'd been a film about old women.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I like characters who are rather nice. Some of them then go on to go a bit psycho. It's not a great trend. Sawyer's not quite a psychopath. He probably wouldn't have killed that guy if Jack's dad hadn't convinced him he should. I don't know what happens in Season 3, of course.

If there was a film out called No Country For Old Women, I would totally be going to see that next. Oh. It would have been great with Antoinette Chigur and Lizabeth (Llewella?) Moss.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Sawyer's a bit killy, I suppose, but kind of fun with it. He has a sense of humour. And Rousseau is wonderful, though undeniably fairly keen on shooting people. Chighir, you know, just wasn't a laugh a minute. That was my problem mostly. Also I wanted someone to know how to pronounce Llewelyn.

I do think it would've been so much better if all the characters were women. I hope that's the sequel.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

I hope that's the sequel.

I think you might have to talk to Cormac McCarthy about writing another book. You should, though.