Post by Blunashun on Nov 20, 2023 23:48:02 GMT
Academy Award winning No Country For Old Men brought to you by the Coen Brothers was on the other night, so I finally got around to watching it.
Now I’m normally a pretty big fan of the Coen’s and their sometimes dark and sarcastic humor, but this film was just dark.
The acting by Tommy Lee Jones, Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem was top notch, as expected.
But the story itself and especially the ending just didn’t do it for me.
Brolin plays a small Texas town loser who stumbles upon a drug deal gone bad while hunting. There are multiple casualties, including a dog.
He finds a briefcase full of $100 bundles amounting to over $3 mil and decides to keep it.
Bardem is a “fixer” sent in to get the money back and most of the rest of the movie involves his pursuit of Brolin, with sheriff Jones in pursuit of solving the crime.
If you blink, you’ll miss Woody Harrelson’s brief appearance as a hit man hired to take out Bardem, Brolin and anyone else that gets in his way of recovering the money.
There was very little, if any of the usual Coen humor and I found this one to be just another in the long line of Oscar winners that left me scratching my head.
Of course it didn’t help that our “new & improved” Fioptics, which now runs via TIVO & our high speed Wi-Fi decided to take a dump around halfway in.
After @ 15 minutes, it finally re-engaged and I was able to pick it back up right where it left off.
But this is one that I’d pass on if given the chance to get those couple of hours back.
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GO DODGERS!!!
Yeah. It's like Monster's Ball. So depressing you feel like swallowing a gun halfway through. The twisted hitman who flipped a coin to see if you lived or died. Killing Brolin's wife out of principle. If only he hadn't taken water back to that dying Mexican.