No Country for Old Men
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 Whats the big deal? No Country for Old Men is by far the worst Coen brothers film. I was very let down by there graffic detalied opening.Only to leave you guessing what happens at the end. I was not familar that David Lynch would direct the last 30min of the movie. It does not deserve the praise that older Coen movies do. For the record I am a fan of the Coen brothers and David Lynch.  Not Oscars material. There seems to be new genre of films these days. I would categorize it as "emotionless". Not only in movies but also in TV series and sitcoms. This movie is a perfect example of it. I don't know if the directors were looking for a different, cult-movie aura, approach to acting. But in some cases it just makes the film dull. "No Country" is a dry, emotionless, and soundtrackless film that drove me into boredom halfway through the movie. All you have to do is mix a drug deal gone bad, a psycho killer with a strange arsenal, and a handful of pointless dialogues that lead to nowhere. That's my perception of the movie. Nothing that comes close to deserving a Best Picture nomination.  The only movie that matters since "The Departed" This is the only movie that has meant anything since the Departed was released. It is Americans making good movies again. IF you are a man, this movie will remind you of what it means to be a man and fight something indestructible. I can live with the ending. People blame the Cohens for not doing the typical hollywood thing at the end. Too bad. Perfecting the Emptyness Any positive comment from me for this hot balloon of an overrated Oscar candidate is for the directors and the cast. They do their best to turn a pretentious story of empty violence into a watchable movie. Not even the Coen brothers can find one iota of humour in the story, of course. Reason is, there is none. There is also nothing else. There is some suspense in the first half, until one has figured out the lay of the land. Then it becomes the normal McCarthyesque meaninglessness. There are only two ways to make violence without meaning interesting: either you do a Pulp Fiction, or a normal straightforward suspense story, say of a Robert Crais novel like Hostage. Pretending that this can be a a deep existential situation by having good old TLJ show us a version of his suffering face will achieve nothing. The big irritation with McCarthy is, that he is so overrated, as if his productions had any literary value. Wake up, people! There is nothing there! If the Academy Award Jury needed a good violent movie among the candidates, they should have nominated Eastern Promises instead. | |||||||||||||
