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No Country For Old Men
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yawnzzz May 21 2008, 07:01 PM Post #16
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i loved the ending.  i'm starting to hate movies that spoon-feed you down the garden path.

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I hate spoon fed endings as well, but I hated that ending. When you have a high octane movie, you don't end on a fade out message unless you at least have an interesting twist. Yeah... I got the message, but there was about a million better ways of saying that exact same point without just having a boring monologue.

And just when you thought that The Departed might spoon feed you the ending...BAM.

The departed definitely had a great ending. If No Country for Old Men had an ending like that, it would've probably jumped into my top 5 all-time movies, but it just didn't. The ending was alright, but it paled in comparison to the rest of the movie.
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i loved the ending.  i'm starting to hate movies that spoon-feed you down the garden path.

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I hate spoon fed endings as well, but I hated that ending. When you have a high octane movie, you don't end on a fade out message unless you at least have an interesting twist. Yeah... I got the message, but there was about a million better ways of saying that exact same point without just having a boring monologue.

How in the world could you possibly classify this movie as "high octane?" Makes me think you couldn't of possibly got the message if you thought you watched a high octane film.
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yawnzzz May 21 2008, 09:31 PM Post #18
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i loved the ending.  i'm starting to hate movies that spoon-feed you down the garden path.

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I hate spoon fed endings as well, but I hated that ending. When you have a high octane movie, you don't end on a fade out message unless you at least have an interesting twist. Yeah... I got the message, but there was about a million better ways of saying that exact same point without just having a boring monologue.

How in the world could you possibly classify this movie as "high octane?" Makes me think you couldn't of possibly got the message if you thought you watched a high octane film.

Got the 'message'. :rofl: This wasn't that deep of a movie man....
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i loved the ending.  i'm starting to hate movies that spoon-feed you down the garden path.

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I hate spoon fed endings as well, but I hated that ending. When you have a high octane movie, you don't end on a fade out message unless you at least have an interesting twist. Yeah... I got the message, but there was about a million better ways of saying that exact same point without just having a boring monologue.

How in the world could you possibly classify this movie as "high octane?" Makes me think you couldn't of possibly got the message if you thought you watched a high octane film.

Got the 'message'. :rofl: This wasn't that deep of a movie man....

I'm not saying it's a really "deep" movie, man. I just don't see how it could be described as high octane. Don't they normally reserve that description for fast paced, action packed movies?
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...screenwriter Robert Towne once said 'An Audience Will Forgive Anything In The Beginning But Nothing In The End"...

...i generally agree and stand by this statement but No Country For Old Men is an exception to the rule...perhaps it's an exception because if you truly watched the movie and took it in, as frankwhite said, then there would be nothing to 'forgive'...
"The possibilities of basketball as seen here were a revelation to me. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana."
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The "no ending" rule to me has to be played very cautiously....Cloverfield didn't do it, IMO. No Country did. In Barton Fink, I thought they also pulled it off.

Over the top action movies -- like Cloverfield, although I was underwhelmed by the action -- simply can't get by without an ending (especially at just over 70 minutes). Movies that tell a story...like No Country or Barton Fink can, because they are looking to tell a story of a situation. Situations don't come in nice, neat, packaged endings all the time. [/QUOTE]
...well said...

...although i feel that cloverfield was indeed telling a 'situation'...a far-fetched, fictional one but still a situation...and that ending was in no way 'wrapped in a nice, neat package'...according to your reasons i still don't understand why you didn't like cloverfield...

...i try not to give reasons for why i don't like certain movies instead just stick with the best reason, which is "it just didn't do it for me"...maybe cloverfield "just didn't do it for you"...that i can understand and agree with... :cheers:
"The possibilities of basketball as seen here were a revelation to me. Basketball may have been invented in Massachusetts, but it was made for Indiana."
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i loved the ending.  i'm starting to hate movies that spoon-feed you down the garden path.

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I hate spoon fed endings as well, but I hated that ending. When you have a high octane movie, you don't end on a fade out message unless you at least have an interesting twist. Yeah... I got the message, but there was about a million better ways of saying that exact same point without just having a boring monologue.

How in the world could you possibly classify this movie as "high octane?" Makes me think you couldn't of possibly got the message if you thought you watched a high octane film.

Got the 'message'. :rofl: This wasn't that deep of a movie man....

I'm not saying it's a really "deep" movie, man. I just don't see how it could be described as high octane. Don't they normally reserve that description for fast paced, action packed movies?

It's high octane for me, since I don't remember the last action movie seen. Personally, it just wasn't that deep, and the ending was lacking. There was just so many better ways to show what they meant other than just having a monologue. It was a good movie compared to most that get public attention, but it's not in my top 50 best movies. Same with Eastern Promises, which also received great reviews this year. It was good compared to most popular movies, but it won't be in my top 50 movies either.
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...screenwriter Robert Towne once said 'An Audience Will Forgive Anything In The Beginning But Nothing In The End"...

...i generally agree and stand by this statement but No Country For Old Men is an exception to the rule...perhaps it's an exception because if you truly watched the movie and took it in, as frankwhite said, then there would be nothing to 'forgive'...

It's actually why I loved the first two thirds of Fight Club and why I wanted to throw my drink at the screen when they did the whole "Brad Pitt is really Ed Norton's split personality."

Plus, I was ticked that they took a great idea in the beginning (about a person who gets addicted to self help groups) and now has made the idea useless because "it was already done in fight club."
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