No Country For Old Men ending...

Spoilers...

Has anyone seen this? I just got done watching it. The story seemed to really fizzle at the end. Tommy Lee Jones got a bit repetitive and turned into a drag, then right as you realize this is happening the movie ends. I guess you could say it ends at the least interesting part in the movie which leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. I can understand it's a film technique, but it still has to be done well to be credible.

 

Well this movie was actually adapted from a book and thats how the book ended. So the Coen's decided to stick with the same ending as the book. I still think it's their best movie to date (the others are still all time classics for me).

As for Tommy Lee Jones character, the reason it sorta turns into a drag is he is facing a point in his career where he feels he's bout done all he can and that he just can't handle that type of work anymore.

 

I thought Tommy Lee Jone's retirement was part of the tension. In the beginning he talks about pushing all of his chips in when he goes after men like this. I thought they were playing up the, "Will he make it through this last case?" angle.

Once he retires the story ends, as if we were being shown the whole murder/robby as a vehicle for exploring his character. Maybe that's what I wasn't expecting. I assumed the story about about the killers when in reality it was about him. One his life as a police office ends then so does the story.

 

*MOVIE SPOILERS*


Personally, I didn't like it all that much (Which is weird, since I tend to like movies unless they are outright horrible). I liked the killer dude, since he had some substance to him, although I did not like that they never really revealed what happened after the car wreck. The country guy getting killed near the end off camera was sort of a shitty way to end it, and not being sure if the wife died or not was sort of iffy. The story itself was confusing and not well explained, and the sheriff seemed more like a pointless character that did nothing. Its weird, since I tend to like stories that don't explain everything and leave it up to the audience, but this one was just all over the place.

Granted, me and my mother have a saying: "If the critics loved it, we will hate it. If they hated it, we will like it".

 

Yeah, the killer was done well. You believed that when it was him and someone else alone in a room that there was no way for them to escape, and that the victim's death was only a matter of time. Seems that a couple of the characters understood that as well.

 

Actually just finished watching this ~hour ago; and while I will say it was an unconventional story i'd have to rate it somewhere around an 8/10. It's nice to have a movie thats not so predictable, but still believable at the same time; you know those movies that you watch and about half an hour till the end you know exactly what the turnout is going to be, just not precisely how its going to get there? Well those types of movies are nice and all, but sometimes you want something to mix it up like this.

 

It rocked... you guys that don't care for it should get your head checked out. And as for the "boring" ending, what did you want? The main characters holding hands riding off in the sunset? You can see 99% of any other Hollywood movie for that.

EDIT:

Ummm... what do you mean not knowing?

 

I actually didn't know he died the first time I posted. I watched the movie a second time and saw the funeral scene, plus the wife mentioning, "You have the money now." I use two monitors on my PC so while the movie is playing in one I'm surfing around on the other, and I must have looked away for that 20 seconds or so.

And to think, a simple mistake started this entire thread...heh.

 

The funeral was her mother, not Llewlyn, or however you spell his name. Cohen Brothers' movies aren't ones you should be surfing while watching. They are slow, but full of detail... friend-o.

 

Was it? I was downstairs packing boxes while I watched it the second time...heh. I'll have to check it out again. I thought there was a lady standing next to her.

So what did happen to Llewlyn? And did the "Ultimate Badass" get the money simply by walking to the area near the border and finding it?

 

I suggest you rewatch the movie... not packing, or surfing. All of those questions are answered, although not outright. You have to watch.

The Ultimate Badass, is Chigur, by the way.

 

excellent movie.. i didnt think it left any loose ends as far as the story is concerned either??

even tho it feels like it ends abruptley, if you think about it there is nothing more to show in the movie, the story is over plain and simple.

ed: also if you cant even be bothered to watch a movie properly why do you whine about the story online :S

 

i gotta see this one...

 

Yes, you do.

 

I was either too high or too busy making out, but I sure as hell didn't find any coherence in the movie. I mean what was the story about anyway?

 

Old Men. It's been called by critics such as Roger Eberrt, the theatrical version of Lemon Party.

 

Since you are huge fan of lemon parties...

:033: Well I advise you to watch EL TOPO, provided you can find the movie in the first place since it was banned from everywhere. Although high, I quite enjoyed that movie, and I think you will agree that it's more complex and sick (maybe too sick for some) than the movie in discussion ;-)

I ll give it (No Country for Old Men) another viewing as soon as I find some time, but in the mean-time, all of you, go find El Topo.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Topo

 

No Country doesn't really aim for being sick or twisted. It's more of a cat & mouse game focused around 3 characters, with an emphasis on fate and luck... hence, Chigur with the coin toss.

 

starting this one...

now.

 

I saw this one yesterday and I really enjoyed it, although the off-camera death of Llewelyn kind of dissapointed me. As you've already said I think the film's axis is the sheriff and the end of his career, with Llewelyn and Chigur's story as a way to understand the sheriff's reasons to quit.