"No country for old men" what is THAT all aout????

[Wayne]

Llewellyn Moss is a flawed doppleganger for Antwan Sugar. Consider this, when Moss is fleeing the hotel and gets shot in the left leg by Sugar, he in turn shoots Sugar in the left leg. The money is a mcguffin--it isn't important. The two men's opposition to one another is. Moss spends the movie TRYING to disappear, Sugar becomes "visible" whenever he pleases. Both are capable at improvisation (Moss with his hiding the money in the vent trick and Sugar blowing up the car so he could raid the pharmacy). Lastly, the characters names had no similarity, but I wonder if the actors were cast because they have the same initials, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin.

I really doubt that! If they wern't available would they have had to go with Leonardo De Caprio and Les Dennis?

Imagine Les Dennis as Sugar? Instead of making someone bet their life in a coin toss he'd ask them what 100 people he asked on the street said when asked to name their most essential item they packed in their suitcase when going on holiday.

Get it wrong and he'd go 'Our Survey says.........' and then shoot them in the head.

Would have made for a terrible film

I don't necessarily believe it, but Javier Bardem is an unknown in the US and Josh Brolin isn't exactly burning up the silver screen. It's possible.

[RP33]

Llewellyn Moss is a flawed doppleganger for Antwan Sugar. Consider this, when Moss is fleeing the hotel and gets shot in the left leg by Sugar, he in turn shoots Sugar in the left leg. The money is a mcguffin--it isn't important. The two men's opposition to one another is. Moss spends the movie TRYING to disappear, Sugar becomes "visible" whenever he pleases. Both are capable at improvisation (Moss with his hiding the money in the vent trick and Sugar blowing up the car so he could raid the pharmacy). Lastly, the characters names had no similarity, but I wonder if the actors were cast because they have the same initials, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin.

I really doubt that! If they wern't available would they have had to go with Leonardo De Caprio and Les Dennis?

Imagine Les Dennis as Sugar? Instead of making someone bet their life in a coin toss he'd ask them what 100 people he asked on the street said when asked to name their most essential item they packed in their suitcase when going on holiday.

Get it wrong and he'd go 'Our Survey says.........' and then shoot them in the head.

Would have made for a terrible film

I don't necessarily believe it, but Javier Bardem is an unknown in the US and Josh Brolin isn't exactly burning up the silver screen. It's possible.

haha, i'd say the chance that they were casted due to their INITIALS is about .000000000000000000000000001% of a chance..

That's why you have people who are PAID to cast actors..

I think the budget was prob around 20 mil for this movie, so obviously you can't have HUGE stars in it.. that would be why brad pitt and ed norton weren't the two main characters..

Casting an actor is tricky.. considering javier bardem won an award and considering the acting in this film was impeccable, i can't complain that they didn't have two stars acting as these characters.. i personally like josh brolin anyway..

also, on a personal note, i feel that when i don't know the actors i can pay more attention to the storyline.. so i generally enjoy the lower budget movies... not saying that NCFOM is low budget at all.. just speaking generally.

[Kev]

Llewellyn Moss is a flawed doppleganger for Antwan Sugar. Consider this, when Moss is fleeing the hotel and gets shot in the left leg by Sugar, he in turn shoots Sugar in the left leg. The money is a mcguffin--it isn't important. The two men's opposition to one another is. Moss spends the movie TRYING to disappear, Sugar becomes "visible" whenever he pleases. Both are capable at improvisation (Moss with his hiding the money in the vent trick and Sugar blowing up the car so he could raid the pharmacy). Lastly, the characters names had no similarity, but I wonder if the actors were cast because they have the same initials, Javier Bardem & Josh Brolin.

I really doubt that! If they wern't available would they have had to go with Leonardo De Caprio and Les Dennis?

Imagine Les Dennis as Sugar? Instead of making someone bet their life in a coin toss he'd ask them what 100 people he asked on the street said when asked to name their most essential item they packed in their suitcase when going on holiday.

Get it wrong and he'd go 'Our Survey says.........' and then shoot them in the head.

Would have made for a terrible film

I don't necessarily believe it, but Javier Bardem is an unknown in the US and Josh Brolin isn't exactly burning up the silver screen. It's possible.

Bardem especially was a very respected actor though having had a previous Oscar nod. Plus Tommy Lee Jones was in it as well. Bardem, Brolin and Jones is a very decent cast imo even before they got all the acclaim at this years Oscars.

[Cortez The Killer]

Whatched the film and was expecting somthing a bit special after all the fuss that was made over it.


It was slow moving,hard to follow,a pot that was thiner than Homer Simpsons hair line.
To top it all off the ending was the worse I can ever remember from afilm.

I know I might not be the brightest out there so can sombody tell me what the fuck this film is all about.

I saw it and liked it a lot. I have read some of Cormac Macarthy's novels and they all focus on the the primeval aspects of human culture, like violence conquers all and like in the movie, there are no endings, only cycles. But there is balance between "bad" and "good" but good can only contain bad, never defeat it because bad keeps on coming with an endless supply of ammunition.

I recommended it to a friend and he did not like it. I have to say I wasn't crazy about the ending either. I would have liked some of the loose ends tied. But that was not the point of the movie to have some kind of "this is how it is" message because the movie is much like life and things never turn out nicely wrapped at the end.

[porkypara]

Well the firemen of station 08 of the south wales fire service did not have a clue what was happening.


I guess we are a bit to stupid for a film like that.

We are going to watch Rambo on nights next week as I think thats more our level.LOL

lol Rambo is a great film and to be honest if I was watching No Country with a group of other fireman all the time keeping an earout for any emergency calls I doubt I'd have got into as much either.

By the way do fireman still slide down a pole into their fire engine like Batman nowadays or have our politically correct, health and safety conscious beaurocrats at Westminster now insisted you take the stairs?

Let me guess if you slide down a poll you need to be wearing a safety harness or some shit?

Some of the older stations still have poles that get used.

Our new station that is getting built at the moment does not have a pole drop instead they are putting in a lift.


Worlds gone mad.