Pleblet here, why is this movie considered so great and "perfect"? I've seen it twice, I don't understand what the big deal is
Pleblet here, why is this movie considered so great and "perfect"? I've seen it twice...
How old are you?
It tells a bleak but compelling story in an exceptional way. Everything in terms of craft is elite. It's just a very, very good film.
Its a good movie, leave it at that. Now go play with your new switch or something.
orange man bad
Because it was just a good ass movie. Quit trying to look for a "deeper" meaning in everything just because it's critically acclaimed, retard. Some movies are just straight up good, and this was one of them.
I've seen the movie four times and it gets better each time I rewatch it.
There's a huge difference between watching a movie when your 16 compared to watching the same movie when your 26. It's hard to understand but your brain changes as you age, and the stuff that gets you hype as 16 is much different than when your older. I recently went back and re-watched some of my favorites from when I was 10-20 years old and my opinion on many of those movies has changed.
Boring stuff is now unexpected and fresh, exciting action movies are now predictable and corny. I believe this perception changes after we've been through enough lived experiences(and experiences lived second-hand by watching tons of movies).
There's only so much underdog stories, or stories using the same story bell curve(orientation > problem > escalation > climax > resolution > coda) that we can see before we develop an understanding of the archetype and then desire stories that break free from it. This of course does not encapsulate everyone, lots of double digit IQ'ers out there who don't mind watching the same Marvel movie with a different title at 30 years of age out there. You might just be one of these if I didn't guess your age group correctly which I believe is a late teen.
>watching the same Marvel movie with a different title at 30 years of age out there
Based
you sound like a brainlet who just thinks its good because it was critically acclaimed, if it doesnt have deeper meaning than its a waste of time
absolute sheep
That's not what I was saying at all, though. The implication is that OP seems like the kind of person who was looking for a deeper meaning to the movie simply because it received critical acclaim.
as he should, there should be a reason people like it, it should have meaning
What your saying is it is good because it has critical acclaim. Which is base brainlet retardism at its fullest
>What your saying is it is good because it has critical acclaim
Show me where I said that. I'll wait.
Are you a woman or homosexual perchance?
>Quit trying to look for a "deeper" meaning in everything just because it's critically acclaimed, retard. Some movies are just straight up good, and this was one of them.
Why even bother, you are clearly to stupid to even read your own posts you white imbred fag
read the book.
>Quit trying to look for a "deeper" meaning in everything just because it's critically acclaimed, retard.
This statement right here is accusing the OP of looking for a deeper meaning in the movie just because he heard it was a good movie.
>Some movies are just straight up good, and this was one of them.
This statement here is saying that it was just a good movie.
Nowhere did I say that it was good because it was critically acclaimed. Work on your reading comprehension.
If you ever wanted to be a assassin it perfectly simulates the feel and stress that comes with the job.
>he thinks im going to read any of this
lol loser.
Cringe and pathetic
It's pretty straightforward but accurately captures that sense of growing old and losing your understanding of the world.
I remember people memed this movie hard when it first came out about how Chigurh was this inhuman Terminator-type character and would wipe the floor with anyone and anything that came in his path because hey its a movie, right?
I was actually pleasantly surprised to see how vulnerable he was. He was hardly a Terminator, but that lingering 'humanity' he has makes him more perplexing and haunting as a character.
On a weird level, he knows that he has incredibly dark instincts hence why he autistically sticks to his code of honor, but his code of honor compels him to do some really evil shit like murdering Moss' wife when he had absolutely no practical reason for doing so.
Also deeply ironic that he gets in a car crash and busts his arm while appreciating how nice and peaceful that neighborhood was.
Not everyone likes the same thing user.
Don't force yourself to like something you don't like,
He kind of owned you though. He basically gets to fuck your mom now
this
it was fantastic the first time I watched it, second time it felt a little slow as I knew everything that was going to happen
Read the goddamn book. Llewelyn has an affair and he dies defending her. Chigurh makes Llewelyn's wife understand in the last scene and explicitly kills her. The Mexicans are actually important.
it’s real duuuuuude
It's just a very nicely shot, acted and intense movie. Which automatically makes it better than 99,9% of most other films
Notice how no one itt can answer OP's question though. And I agree with him. This movie says nothing profound beyond the title. I like the Coens, I can even appreciate Hail Caesar which has a message under all its overwrought production design, but the Coens' are too detached to ever adequately, sincerely comment upon non-bicoastal heartland America, older white gentiles, regular people and their routines.
Fargo sucks but at least Fargo is a parody of white gentiles in a small town. Raising Arizona is a cartoon about white trash that is even endearing. Their best movie is their first, Blood Simple, which is actually No Country for Old Men done successfully because they weren't total victims to their neuroticism and feeling of "other"ness. You see this with Spielberg too, in Duel, Jaws and Empire of the Sun. Not to ever compare these directors beyond this aspect.
It's weirder still because NCFOM was shot in Marfa TX at the same time as TWBB and yet TWBB is everything NCFOM wanted to be, it's a dust bowl neo Western, it's offbeat and downhome, it portrays evil and expanse. You could retitle TWBB to No Country for Old Men and it'd fit.
And honestly I think NCFOM would be better off titled There Will Be Blood. Because this movie is about a gimmick, Anton. That's all 90% of the audience including the Academy voters remember about it. A salad bowl haircut killer with a strange weapon who is like a Mexican Voorhees. And that it was Tommy Lee Jones' last Boomer hurrah, his Gran Torino and The Mule as one movie.
NCFOM is two Jewish neurotiks sincerely attempting to make Rio Bravo and The Searchers. NCFOM is too nebulous. Their True Grit remake was too sappy. Blood Simple was blood simply brilliant but had no gimmicky imagery.
>Also deeply ironic that he gets in a car crash and busts his arm while appreciating how nice and peaceful that neighborhood was.
t. high school Eng teacher who's equally useless wife is Hispanic
This is what the film excels at and makes it a masterpiece in my opinion.
go away yidoid
I'm convinced
Nice post, feel similar, only movie i liked when i was a kid and i still like is the Raimi spider man, cant watch the news stat wars or evento avatar because you basically knows how it plays out.
>movie is about anton
Oy vey.
>Fargo sucks but at least Fargo is a parody of white gentiles in a small town
Lost me here
Everytime I see this poster I think of Llewelyn as CIA
based
I would agree with you in everything except for True Grit. That was a genuine attempt at the Western genre and enough time has passed since the dominance of the Westerns that even if an entirely WASP crew tried to do a remake, the tone would undoubtedly be very different.
In a way, two jews are allowed to emulate the old style of film making whereas if a goy tried to do so, he'd get shut down.
Water please
I agree 100%. You put it in words better than I could ever.
I used to unironically think the poster was a Yea Forums shoop, since as you mentioned, the guy looks and is dressed exactly like CIA, and the Tagline is word for word the same one as Drive
why did moss go back
Remorse, guilt, obligation, etc. All the things that old men feel and which subsequently make them unable to compete with people like Chigur.
You're just a pretentious pleb trying to sound smart by finding "le ultra deep philosophy themes and etc" on everything. Art can be good just because it's good, it doesn't need to be all a great metaphor for the meaning of life or anything.
This tbqh senpai
dude war has changed lmao
how I know?
ask the coen brothers