A House Divided
The other night Kristin and I watched “No Country For Old Men”. I had seen it before and kept telling Kristin that she needed to see it with me again. I think she ignored me at first, but then when it won all sorts of awards at the Oscars she mentioned to me, “Huh, that must be a pretty good movie.” Nevermind the recommendation of your husband. I see how it is.
So anyway, we watched it the other night, and then yesterday she tells me:
“You know, I don’t think I liked that movie.”
“You mean you officially didn’t like it? Or you are just indifferent to it?”
“I mean that I didn’t like it didn’t like it.”
“How could you not like it? Did you get it?”
“I got it, and didn’t like it”
So now we have talked about it a few times since and I feel like it’s my duty to convince her that she really did like it, she just doesn’t know it, because most likely that’s it. She didn’t like all the death and killing and blood and junk. I can see that, but that’s when I tell her, “See, that’s why it’s no country for old men. Get it?” She responds, “I get it, I just don’t like it”. Dang it. I think I will remind her how many awards it won. Maybe that will work.
Did you see it? What’d you think?
The wif and I saw it and overall, we liked it. It was quite brutal but the Coens are masters of their craft and, as a whole, the movie was fantastic. The character of Chigurh was maybe the scariest villain I’ve seen in a movie.
I liked it and have seen it numerous times. A great movie. My wife has yet to see it though.
I thought the acting, the story, and filming everything created a great environment that sucked me into the story.
I also learned that any man walking at me with an air tank, is not a safe man to talk to at all.
I have not seen it. I sort of have been putting it off because I told myself I wouldn’t like it.
I think I will try it out this weekend.
I’ll report back on Sunday.
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I haven’t seen it yet, but I think I want to see it because it was filmed in my favorite part of the world. My son was shocked by the ending, but the more he thought about it, the more he liked it.
I’m just not big on killing and blood.
The same exact thing happened to me and my boyfriend. He saw it a while before I did and kept telling me how amazing it was and that I HAD to see it. So when we finally went to see it and the credits started to run, he looked at me and was very eager to hear what I thought. I felt bad because overall it was a good movie…but not as amazing as he made it out to be. That could have been all the pressure of it being great that lead up to it but either way, I just wasn’t satisfied. Don’t worry, you’re wife is normal
OK. . . I am going to have to go with Kristin on this. SORRY!
It was successful in sticking in my mind, though. I have been thinking about it since we watched it. And, yes. . . I got it. Just didn’t care!!
**NOTE: I am about to make a comment that may give something away to anyone who has not seen it yet**
I watched it with my best friends and 2 guy friends… we all thought it was dumb… sorry Brody… and to top it off, how can they do all that build up for the main character and all of a sudden he’s just dead?
What if he isn’t the “main character”? I don’t think he is. That’s what makes it awesome.
Brody, you’re partially right. At that point in the movie, he stopped being one of the main characters. Anytime movie directors have the cajones to off someone perceived as a main character like that, I gotta give ‘em props. In today’s cookie cutter entertainment environment, that’s not an easy decision to get approved by the studios.
I saw it first then my wife and I watched it together the next night. I thought it was great and deserving of every award that it got. I think my wife’s exact word though was “ehhh”. She thought it was okay. She didn’t like how it just ended. That had a lot to do with it for her. But, she likes those mob/cops and robbers/shoot’em up type movies. However the movie Shoot’em Up with Clive Owen left much to be desired. That’s two hours of our lives we’ll never get back.
I think that when people don’t know the style of Cormac McCarthy, they are generally shocked by the lack of “happy ending” and they end up not liking his books and the movies.
It’s generally best that people know that Cormac McCarthy doesn’t write “happy endings” before going into movies based off his books.
Your wife might like All the Pretty Horses though. It’s the least gloomy of Cormac McCarthy’s works.
I’m scared to see it. I don’t do well with lots of violence and all that, and I’ve heard bits and pieces about it that are enough to make me think I’ll hate it a lot.
I’ll probably get around to it eventually.
I think your being so surprised that she “didn’t like it” cracks me up. But that’s just me…
greatest movie of the year, next to ‘there will be blood.’
I’ve seen three of the five movies that were up for Best Picture. This is not one of them. But I’m looking forward to it now. I’ve seen Atonement, Michael Clayton, and Juno (just last night
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In my defense…
I don’t like watching people get killed over and over again, and I couldn’t really get past that, so…. I fell asleep through part of it.
I probably never got the point of the movie for those reasons.
That said, I still don’t think I’d really want to watch it again, even to see if I’d like it.
Maybe I’m just trying to annoy Brody, or maybe I really didn’t like it, don’t know.
Thought it was the best movie that came out last year. I also thought “The Road” by Cormac Mccarthy (author of No Country) was the best book of 2006- it’s a bit gentler, and so beautiful. I’d recommend the book to Kristin.