Movie Reviewin’ Time
Posted by TFG on November 25th, 2007
I went to see No Country for Old Men today. I recommend it very highly. The Coens have taken what is probably Cormac McCarthy’s most filmable book and made it into a damn fine movie. They are very true to the book, to what I consider the spirit of the book, and for that I thank them. It’s dark and bloody, and the Coens play it that way, start to finish. There is one Coenish scene that made me laugh out loud, but it was done just right, and it took nothing away from the tone.
As for the actors, I don’t think you could find a better Ed Tom than Tommy Lee Jones. He’s a 20th-century Woodrow Call, and I know that character influenced how he played Ed Tom here. The other two main dudes, Llewellyn Moss and Anton Chigurh are well done, as well. Chigurh is just about note-perfect, in fact. I never pictured him with a Prince Valiant haircut, but it fits into the 1980 time-frame just perfectly. He’s definitely the spooky deadly SOB that McCarthy wrote him as.
Five Shiners for a Texas-based and Texas-filmed movie…Scott Bob says check it out.
November 25th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
I knew it, dammit. And my wife has to be out of town till Tuesday, which means I can’t go till at least Wednesday night. Damn.
Yeah, I know I could go without her, but, not really, and she wants to see it too, so…
November 26th, 2007 at 12:01 am
One of the best I’ve seen
November 26th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0477348/trivia
IMDB says, “The Coen Brothers used a 1890’s era photo of a brothel patron as a model for Anton Chigurh’s hair style. Looking at its weirdness after getting the hair cut, Javier Bardem said ‘Oh no, now I won’t get laid for the next two months’.”
November 26th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Go & don’t tell her, JD. You won’t mind seeing it twice, I bet.
That’s hilarious about Chigurh’s haircut.