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No Country for Old Men

Josh

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Just saw an advance screening of this. I thought it was fantastic. Incredibly tense, and great characters, and realistic but at the same time unpredictable. Awesome writing and dialogue as can be expected from the Coens. I don't want to give away too much, but if you're a Coen Bros fan, this is an absolute must see.
 
Maybe I missed the point or went in with the wrong mindset, but either way I was not impressed with this film at all. I really did not find it intense or captivating at any point. I'm not a fan of "plot twists" or "action", but this film seemed to be completely lacking creativity. Even though it took a completely new approach to achieve action/suspense (without any action sequences, or musical score)
it still felt overused and predictable.

However there were few things I appreciated about it.
1) It didn't spoon-feed me everything. It let me piece together the blanks without any unnecessary expositional dialog.
2) The cinematography was quite good.
3) Javier Bardem gave a great performance, and I enjoyed the traditional Coen-style
side-characters.

But overall, kinda dissapointed.
 
I bought this blind and have to say I was very impressed with this movie. The deliberate, slow pace and prolonged scenic shots may put some off, but not me. You could feel the tenseness just as much as the on screen characters.
 
The only problem is you watch an action star in a really good meaty role then boom, the next movie they do is a soppy love story and it's like man grow some balls. I know it's that they don't wanna be pigeon holed in one particular genre but WTF?
 

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