There, I said it. It’s rare that I discuss anything as trivial as movies or entertainment but this movie deserves special recognition. Not because of how overwhelmingly good it was but instead what an absolute let down it ended up being. EVERYONE hyped this movie, even my best friend Daryl. So I was damned excited to see it. I liken this movie to interrupted sex. A complete let down. And before all the superior intellects start attacking with “you just didn’t get it” let me be straight with you: I got it. Once I started studying Euclidean geometry and reading Tolstoy I think I garnered the intellect to grasp good guys, bad guy, bad guy gets away. My problem with it was that it was BORING and not entertaining. I wasn’t even tired and I almost fell asleep.
I hated the time I spent watching this film so much that I Googled “No Country for Old Men sucks” this AM and found a thread on Rube Chat where a disagreement between contributors summed up the way I felt about it perfectly.
Old Country is a film that only the pretentious like…..because it allows them to tell those that dare to disagree, that they just don’t get it, or that they lack the intellect to wrap their minds around this movies supposed greatness. Answer me this…..what was the driving force of this film? The plot was thin, and there was really no point to all of the madness. DIE HARD is a simple formula done to perfection. There is a plot, a conflict, and a resolution. Much like the film that got robbed at the Oscars…..”Juno”.
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This is one of the most rediculous assertions I have ever heard on rube chat. There is so much to learn from this movie and for somone to just write it off like you are is so disappointing. The moral of this movie is so poignant that I am sad for people like you that just miss it, for some reason. It is unfortunate.
Oh no sir, a lot of us did not miss the “poignant moral” of this movie. Like I said before, I got it and I still thought the movie was boring as hell. Smokin’ Aces gets a better entertainment grade as far as I’m concerned. If you’re someone who was touched by this movie through a revelation that evil things happen and your powerless to stop them, you simply don’t get out of your own little comfort zone enough and face reality. Hell, just watch the news, or Die Hard.
Amen dude. This movie was a serious waste of time. I thought the ending might make up for it, but it was just as pointless as the rest of it.