Review: No Country For Old Men

Watched this last night, after reading the book a couple of months ago. Really enjoyed it, Javier Bardem was excellent as Anton Chigurh, exactly as I'd seen him when reading it.

I liked it.

Great film.
Bardem's character is probably one of the most facinating killers you'll see. Harrelson is halfway to the truth when he says "I would say he is a man without a sense of humour". He's a man with barely a sense of anything, other than a very detatched honour code and a coin to defer to when the situation is ambiguous. At a stretch you could say he's not a bad man, he's simply a man of his word.

Hang on Pands, you said the 'major offscreen event' is described in the book... not if it's the same thing I'm thinking about. Happens in different circumstances but still the same shock effect. To the best of my recollection anyway, I'm still traumatized from The Road. *Sob*

Looking forward to There Will Be Blood (I like Bill the Butcher, but sometimes the way he chews his words and furrows his brow makes me think he should have 'ACTING ACTING ACTING' tattooed on his forehead) but I'm looking forward to seeing this again once it's out.

The best lines are all in the book, as I suspected, including all of Woody Harrelson's.

"I looked at the building from the outside and counted the floors. The lift says there ain't no 13th floor. You're missing a floor."
"... We'll look into it."

I enjoyed it a lot though did find my mind wandering on occasion everytime the girl from Trainspotting showed up as his wife.
Fav bit of Coen dialogue? "Where you get the gun?" "...the gettin' place"
The usual Coen excellence but the one I'm nursing a boner for is "There Will Be Blood" - simply because Paul Thomas Anderson is a fucking master of cinema and I've loved every film he's made so far.

Tommy Lee Jones is awesome and always has been, for me anyway -- I shall look forward to seeing this.

Did I really just use the word "awesome"? Damn.

I've never been the biggest Tommy Lee Jones fan either. Got the impression he was a cantankerous old fart, apparently he's got a reputation for being an asshole to press, and he's been in some real shite in the last few years.

But after this, I instantly want to see more of him. His face really does most of his acting for him: the bags under his eyes have bags under them. Just reading the book now and his character plays a bigger part, my favourite bits are his monologues on how society's gone to hell.

Loved this. One thing to note is that most of it has been lifted from the book wholesale apart from some minor chages. The major offscreen event is described in the book and it's redemptive for the character involved, whereas in this you don't get a sense of it being so.

Tommy Lee was awesome in this. I was worried it was going to be the Fugitive again, but the absolute despair he projects was note perfect. Javier Bardem? Brrr. One Badass Motherfucker.