No Country for Old Men

**A face** · 06/07/2008, 10:59 PM

No Country for Old Men

Who got the money in the end? PM the answer as opposed to spoiling the end for people.

**geysir** · 06/07/2008, 11:48 PM

SPOILER: The last man standing - Anton

**A face** · 07/07/2008, 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by geysir

SPOILER: The last man standing - Anton

But he didn't have the bag when walking away with his arm in a sling, i thought it might have been SPOILER: Ed Tom Bell because he was in the apartment after Llewelyn was killed. Its the closing scene thats throwing me.

Great film though, really good

**Wangball** · 07/07/2008, 7:52 AM

Read the book and find out.....

**Ash** · 07/07/2008, 8:53 AM

What are peoples overall opinions of the film?
TBH I couldn't wait for it to end ... painful

**pete** · 07/07/2008, 10:05 AM

Originally Posted by Ash

What are peoples overall opinions of the film?
TBH I couldn't wait for it to end ... painful

I must admit I was getting a bit tired at the end but up until then I thought it was captivating. I had high expectations going to see it & maybe I was just in the mood but one of the best films seen in long time.

**jebus** · 07/07/2008, 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by Ash

What are peoples overall opinions of the film?
TBH I couldn't wait for it to end ... painful

I thought it was great film, that and There Will Be Blood were by far and away the best two movies of the year

**shakermaker1982** · 07/07/2008, 10:48 AM

I switched off right at the end when Jones character starts waffling on........I thought they were giving me a break after everything that had gone on before and the credits came up!!! The hotel scenes were extremely tense.

Very good film but not as good as Fargo.

**deecay** · 07/07/2008, 1:36 PM

Originally Posted by Wangball

Read the book and find out.....

Hahaha POTM

**geysir** · 07/07/2008, 2:04 PM

If anybody doesn't want to be spoiled then do not read any more,
it isn't possible to have a thread looking like a Stasi File

I haven't read the book so I can't say for sure. The clues are there in the film. You have to give priority to the clues.
Anton is the only one who knew where the bag was kept, apart from Moss.
Remember, the sheriff came in after the vent had been unscrewed.
Then we have the last scene with Anton and a $100 note.

**Soper** · 07/07/2008, 5:20 PM

It's a bit like Fargo, with regards the money

**jebus** · 08/07/2008, 9:18 AM

Originally Posted by Ruben Sosa

Watched Fargo the weekend funnily enough. I seen first around 5 years ago and hated it. But watched it Saturday and really enjoyed it. I think I'm building up a Coen Brother's appriciation as I get older..

Check out the Big Lebowski next if you haven't already, and if you have then move on to the Hudsucker Proxy

**gustavo** · 08/07/2008, 9:28 AM

Don't forget to get Barton Fink too if you want to see a superb John Goodman performance

**HarpoJoyce** · 08/07/2008, 11:24 AM

For concealing crime,

Miller's Crossing,
The Man Who Wasn't There
Blood Simple (one of their earliest, so plenty of original imagery aswell.)

One of the best stories about Gabriel Byrne I've heard was when he was rehearsing his character for Miller's Crossing, he struggled with an American accent (maybe Boston, Irish American) so he mentioned to the Dir./Prod. well as his own voice is very similar to the way that his character speaks maybe he should just use his own voice. Their reply was something like, yea,yea okay Gabriel use your own voice.

**paul_oshea** · 08/07/2008, 1:06 PM

crap film, a lot of very unrealistic stuff happens in it like most cohen films.

To edit-a-phrase, the unrealistic realistic is ok(in parts NCOM was like this), but when the unrealistic unrealistic starts to occur it just becomes stupid, like that film with james mcavoy, we all see what great powers and speed they had so why didn't the father just shoot the bullet when james mcavoy shot at him and then just pull him up?!:!

**Billsthoughts** · 08/07/2008, 1:16 PM

I thought it was fairly poor as well. I can see how the anton character would appeal to a certain demographic (adolescent male) but the film as a whole just left me cold. I thought "There Will be Blood" and the "Assasination of Jesse James" were far superior films last year.

**Soper** · 08/07/2008, 8:04 PM

'The Man....' is actually a great film

**pete** · 08/07/2008, 8:24 PM

The only bad Coen film I have seen was Intolerable Cruelty. Not sure what they were trying to do there.

If I had to choose would pick Oh Brother as the best given its originality & broad appeal.

**superfrank** · 08/07/2008, 9:41 PM

Who got the money seemed pretty obvious to me by the end.

I'm a big fan of the Coen Brothers. I love Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother and No Country, although the last one doesn't seem to fit into the black humour commonly associated with their flicks.

**geysir** · 08/07/2008, 10:27 PM

I didn't get into the Hudsucker or Ladykillers or Barton Fink or Lebowski.
Interesting but didn't get me going, probably will watch them again.
Millers Crossing is perfect cinema.
Blood Simple is near enough to perfect, has one of those moments early on when the hitman/private dick is walking across the floorboards in his leather shoes ready to bump off the couple.
After those 2, I'd bunch Fargo ~ NCFOM and ~ Arizona together.