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| Montgomery |
Posted - 03/07/2008 : 04:08:32
Don't get me wrong. I loved No Country For Old Men. But, having seen all 5 movies up for Best Picture in the Oscars this year, I have to say I give the nod to "There Will Be Blood".
I just thought it was a better story. And, although, I thought Javier Bardem was brilliant. I thought Daniel Day-Lewis was just amazing (as usual). I was riveted all the way through that movie.
No Country had some inconsistencies to the story. Like, the fact that Josh Brolin's character was so smart. And yet, his death was just a footnote in the movie. We didn't even see it happen.
And the Tommy Lee Jones character? I guess I didn't get the point to having him play that role. He usually is someone much more heroic.
I loved a lot of that movie. And I loved that it ended unexpectedly. I don't need a happy ending.
Blood was just more cohesive for me. And therefore, I thought a better movie start to finish. And beautifully shot, too.
What do you guys think? I'm splitting hairs, mind you. No Country was a great movie.
Sorry for possibly not spelling some names correctly here.
EM :) |
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| randall |
Posted - 04/20/2008 : 02:02:40
I saw them both for the first time on the big screen last fall. Now I've seen THERE WILL BE BLOOD on DVD [Ms. Randall hadn't been able to attend the FSLC screening, so we rolled it last week for her]. I remember NO COUNTRY specifically and have read the source novel [haven't read Sinclair's "Oil!", which in any case was only a loose source; NO COUNTRY is plucked from its source almost line by line]. I'll have to see the Coen movie again to be certain, I guess, but my own critical faculty pronounces P.T.'s work superior.
BLOOD is better.
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| Demisemicenturian |
Posted - 04/19/2008 : 20:20:15
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
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did not involve unusual plot features or dialogue
Name one movie similar.
Miss Haversham loses touch with normality in a highly similar way (self-indulgence, tyrrany, bitterness), so any version of Great Expectations would probably do. So it was original, oh, in the century before last. |
| Montgomery |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 18:38:13
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Originally posted by damalc
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Originally posted by Montgomery
Do you usually go see action films for entertainment?
wtf is that supposed to mean? looking at the ratings, you and i like a lot of the same films.
Sorry. I didn't really look to see what you like watching. It's just an odd comment, I think, that you found the movie boring. I really enjoyed it and at no time during the film did I think, "Man, this is boring." Or even, "This is running a little long." And, I have thought that before in lesser movies.
So, I just wondered if you like a little more action in your movies. Which, if you did, I could see where you wouldn't be into watching someone drill for oil.
EM :) |
| damalc |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 14:55:11
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Originally posted by Montgomery
Do you usually go see action films for entertainment?
wtf is that supposed to mean? looking at the ratings, you and i like a lot of the same films. |
| Montgomery |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 14:38:02
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Originally posted by damalc
i enjoyed "NCFOM" much more.
i thought "TWBB" was pretty boring except for the last couple of scenes and Day-Lewis' performance. it was like a show on History Channel.
there's a thread matching old actors with new ones with a blank by Day-Lewis' name. i submit that he's the new Al Pacino.
Wow! Did we see the same movie? I loved every minute. Boring????
Do you usually go see action films for entertainment?
I read through that thread. While it's kind of a fun game, no two people are the same. In a lot of the instances, I felt it was an insult to one or the other actors in the match ups.
And, I certainly wouldn't pair DDL with Pacino.
EM :) |
| damalc |
Posted - 03/31/2008 : 03:46:53
i enjoyed "NCFOM" much more.
i thought "TWBB" was pretty boring except for the last couple of scenes and Day-Lewis' performance. it was like a show on History Channel.
there's a thread matching old actors with new ones with a blank by Day-Lewis' name. i submit that he's the new Al Pacino. |
| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 18:43:55
I keep meaning to post this:
Sailing to Byzantium
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees -
Those dying generations - at their song,
The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
Caught in that sensual music all neglect
Monuments of unageing intellect.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence;
And therefore I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.
O sages standing in God's holy fire
As in the gold mosaic of a wall,
Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre,
And be the singing-masters of my soul.
Consume my heart away; sick with desire
And fastened to a dying animal
It knows not what it is; and gather me
Into the artifice of eternity.
Once out of nature I shall never take
My bodily form from any natural thing,
But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make
Of hammered gold and gold enamelling
To keep a drowsy Emperor awake;
Or set upon a golden bough to sing
To lords and ladies of Byzantium
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
William Butler Yeats
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| Montgomery |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 14:05:50
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Originally posted by Cheese_Ed
Finally saw No County this weekend, and for me it's no contest, I loved it.
TWBB was just a'ight for me, dog.
Man, Randy. You're a tough judge. TWBB was an excellent movie. Just a'ight? I CAN'T believe you would say that, dog.
EM :)
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| Cheese_Ed |
Posted - 03/24/2008 : 11:36:50
Finally saw No County this weekend, and for me it's no contest, I loved it.
TWBB was just a'ight for me, dog. |
| Beanmimo |
Posted - 03/18/2008 : 14:06:27
This is a tough contest.
But for all round quality filmmaking No Country for Old Men pips There Will Be Blood at the post.
I think that some of the other actors in There Will Be Blood were overshadowed by Daniels performance.
I'll never look at bowling the same way again!! |
| Montgomery |
Posted - 03/10/2008 : 20:07:05
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Originally posted by BiggerBoat
There's no doubting that DDL's performance was magnificent, and worthy of an oscar, but I can't say that I 'enjoyed' the film. In fact, the first thing i said when I came out was, "I hope I don't have to see that again within the next ten years". To me it was like going to see the killing fields in Cambodia - hugely powerful but disturbing and upsetting. And not something you'd like to do again on a return trip to Cambodia.
No country, on the other hand, I could watch over and over again. So:
There Will be Blood = The Killing Fields
No Country = A beach in Goa
I enjoyed Blood. I understand what you mean about not wanting to see it again -- because I have had that feeling before as well-- Amistad, The Accused. But, I didn't have that feeling with this movie. I really liked it. I didn't have any scenes where I thought, "Eh gads. Don't want to see that again." I would gladly watch it again. And the same goes for No Country. I want to see that again.
But still-- Blood was just a little, itty, bitty bit better for me.
EM :) |
| BiggerBoat |
Posted - 03/10/2008 : 17:53:42
There's no doubting that DDL's performance was magnificent, and worthy of an oscar, but I can't say that I 'enjoyed' the film. In fact, the first thing i said when I came out was, "I hope I don't have to see that again within the next ten years". To me it was like going to see the killing fields in Cambodia - hugely powerful but disturbing and upsetting. And not something you'd like to do again on a return trip to Cambodia.
No country, on the other hand, I could watch over and over again. So:
There Will be Blood = The Killing Fields
No Country = A beach in Goa |
| Ali |
Posted - 03/10/2008 : 06:59:20
No Country For Old Men, easily. There Will Be Blood is not even in the same league.
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| randall |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 18:54:45
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Originally posted by MisterBadIdea
There Will Be Blood by a mile. And No Country for Old Men is one of the best movies ever made.
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did not involve unusual plot features or dialogue
Name one movie similar.
GIANT? [Just kidding!!!!] |
| MisterBadIdea |
Posted - 03/09/2008 : 02:35:54
There Will Be Blood by a mile. And No Country for Old Men is one of the best movies ever made.
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did not involve unusual plot features or dialogue
Name one movie similar.
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