no country for old men
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I think I saw Mimi.
Haven't seen the movie yet, but I want to. Loved the book. It's the second of his I've read, the first was The Road, which made me glad I live in the middle of the biggest nuclear bomb bullseye in the world. I don't know how I've missed the Cormac McCarthy boat for so long.
Read the book, saw the movie.
Both are really good. The film version follows the book pretty closely.
However, I think a lot of people going into the movie without reading the book or knowing much about it may be disappointed.
It's great though. I will probably see it again.
Both are really good. The film version follows the book pretty closely.
However, I think a lot of people going into the movie without reading the book or knowing much about it may be disappointed.
It's great though. I will probably see it again.
The Road ****ing sucked
sucked bad
sucked bad
I'm genuinely curious, what didn't you like about it?
good movie overall, but very dark. there's this sense of cold, calculated death (something really inhuman) that's used as a premise for tommy lee jones' character's "awakening" or coming of (old) age. also, it's a very observational movie in the sense that there's very little dialoge; the coen bros do such a kick arse job of capturing that western frontier cowboy mentality where nothing is said if it isn't necessary or useful. this makes the whole movie pretty bleak, though. anyways, good, grisly, well done...it really is the perfect character for both tommy lee jones and javier icantrememberhisname.
it'll never beat the big lebowski for me though
it'll never beat the big lebowski for me though
that trailer reminds me of home
ah the big lebowski all time favs right there... actually i havent seen it lately ill have to check it out tonight or tomarrow
great ****ing movie
i saw it the last weekend. I thought it was great. excellent characters (I never read the book nor had any idea of the story) I really liked it, aside from it feeling long at the end.
Havn't seen it or read the book yet, but I read The Road the other day, it would have been much better if it were editted down to about 50 pages. It got so I was hoping they died just so I didn't have to read about them gathering wood for the millionth time, got very tedious.
I loved it. I might take my dad to see it when I'm home for the holidays. Its worth seeing again.
I loved the book but I don't think the average person would like it. Not enough car chases, zombies or explosions. God forbid anyone is forced to think.
i'm taking my dad also to see no country for old men this weekend.great minds think alike.
you're assuming I have a great mind. In reality, its filled mostly with short songs, and poop/fart jokes.
You curmudgeonly old bahstid.
Holy Sheeite! I just saw NCFOM today, and it was amazing.
I am going as Anton for Halloween next year. I am going to take an air hose and and a brass blower from the shop, and I hope I can rent an air tank too. Won't that freak people out when I shoot air at them!
I am going as Anton for Halloween next year. I am going to take an air hose and and a brass blower from the shop, and I hope I can rent an air tank too. Won't that freak people out when I shoot air at them!
About 3/4 of the way through reading the book. Is it bad that I am rooting for Anton?
Finally got around to reading the book, wasn't really too keen on it. I guess I'm not into McCormac's writing style, seems like a modern day Steinbeck. I'll still give the movie a shot, books and movies made about books hardly ever the same.
There may be a good full length version of the movie on the interweb somewhere, so is it worth watching?
McCarthy is hard to read, pretty dense stuff and pretty slow moving. Still, the Border Trilogy is an amazing collection and I'm excited to start reading The Road pretty soon. NCFOM is high on the list to read, then see the movie.