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[biscuiteater]

The worst movie of 2007.
Hi. I just watched No Country For Old Men, and then promptly took a shard of glass to my retinas. So if I make a spelling mistake, you'll have to bear with me. I can't see. Spoilers for the rest of the entry.

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[biscuiteater]

Did you see it?

[biscuiteater]

I thought you recommended "Waiting" which I didn't watch.

[agloriousday]

You didn't need to see any of those things. The main character died in the hands of the Mexicans as he was cheating on his wife with the pool slut. The money was never to be found because now no one knows where it is, not even the cold-blooded killer, who was still looking for it. The wife was killed because the killer wiped his foot off as he exited the house (he didn't give two shits about her life, duh), and nothing gets resolved in the movie (hello, real life) and leaves you feeling...

...like talking to someone else about it! WEEKS after you've seen it. It was amazing, admit it. What other movie can you say would make stupid people hate being stupid? I want that in a movie, I LOVE that in this movie.

[biscuiteater]

A movie of this promise and all the accolades it's getting, I'm gonna need a lot more plot other than oh, this psychotic guy wants back the money he lost. And this other guy has it and needs to get away. Seriously, that's all the movie was about. For 2 hours

[agloriousday]

The point is that no one can run away from fate. No one in that movie could predict what was going to happen to them, although they all tried. That's the unresolved ending that I loved. I felt like I didn't need any more of a point, it was very satisfying. But I can see why you didn't like it... I guess the same reason why I did! :o)

Hey, wanna see a movie with the worst ending of all time? Go see The Ninth Gate. I'm not shitting you, there is no movie that will make you want to unwatch itself more, and it's not even considered to be "bad." I think all people should have the experience of seeing it, to survive and tell about it. DO IT.

[uberdionysus]

I don't know that I agree that's it's about fate.

I mean, both Llewelyn and The Killer have an insane appetite to persevere and survive, but Llewelyn fails (along with Woody). That said, they always had a chance of survival, and Llewelyn's biggest fuck up (going back to give the dying Mexican water) was exactly what makes Llewelyn a moral man and not an amoral killer.

But Llewelyn wasn't fated to die, anymore than The Killer was fated to get hit by a car. It was a combination of dumb luck/fate, perseverance and skill. The Killer kept on going, even after fate fucked him with a car swipe. Llewelyn did not.

The sheriff, however, didn't keep on going. He just gave up. He wasn't fated to give up, but he did. He was ineffectual against the larger horrors, but his keeping on was a value in and of itself, even if he was always two steps behind.

[kokanh]

I actually felt the same way. I thought the movie was great until 20-30 minutes before the ending. Then it turned to absolute shit.

The confrontation that we're waiting for the whole movie NEVER HAPPENS, and the protagonist isn't killed by our ANTAGONIST, which we're rooting against the whole movie, but rather, a group of enemies that were introduced briefly in the beginning of the movie and then forgotten about. To add insult to injury, it happens off screen, and is basically disregarded.

Then, Javier Bardem gets into a car accident, and he leaves the movie, never to be heard from again.

Then the movie ends with Tommy Lee Jones musing about his father, and then WHAM. ENDING. I kept waiting for the movie to keep going after an "April Fools! We gotcha!" sort of deal.

My friend, who loves the movie, tried to explain the ending to me. "No, you don't understand, Javier Bardem's character was death personified." So WHY'D HE GET KILLED BY THE MEXICANS?

"No," I said to my friend, "you don't understand. The ending was shitty. It wasn't

[agloriousday]

he wasn't death personified. He was one of the many characters that couldn't escape death... or other chance shit happening to them.

Death my ass!

[biscuiteater]

I am glad someone else feels the same way I do, I was beginning to think I was alone.

[singleentendre]

You say a film billed as a "nihilistic thriller" had a pointless outcome? The mind wobbles!

I loved the movie and wanted more of it, and not because it was "unresolved."

[biscuiteater]

I didn't know the movie was tagged as such. Nihilism in my dictionary equals bullshit.

A pointless outcome to me, means the entire thing was pointless.

[ambienceman]

Tell this to jeriko...