I'm not sure I liked it. I know I didn't hate it, or even dislike it. It played out much like a novel (considering it was based on one, that makes sense) and the ending is very novel like. There's no judgments or certainties of what happens, which means you're supposed to enjoy the film for what it was.

I think I did enjoy it for what it was. The characters, their interactions, and what their motivations are. I think I could've waited until it was on DVD, and saw I am Legend, or Golden Compass, as this movie's lack of a sound track (which is probably my favorite part of the movie) made the theater annoying and noisy feeling.

What'd you all think?

It was one of hte best movies I'd ever seen until the last frickin 15 minutes.

Let's kill off the main character and have Tommy Lee Jones sit at a table and say "I had a dream about my father on horseback and I passed him and he went off to start a fire. I think we should pull a sopranos."

Easily one of the best movies I've seen, especially the last 15 minutes. I've seen it twice already and would definitely go again.

Could've been because the point of the movie was what Jones was saying throughout the movie, and not the actions of the characters around the money.

Oh, and I loved the film. One of the best depictions of a sociopath I've seen on film.

Agreed. And his voice is absolutely amazing.

No country for a filthy hobbit.

I'll have to agree too. He was a really good character.

Words cannot begin to describe how good I thought this movie was. I loved the fact it didn't have music (save for the ending credits.) It was very realistic and the characters believable without any absurdity. ...just wow.


(Also...I was surprised to see my town's Carl's Jr. In the background at the hotel scene. Especially as that's the way I drive to get to the infamous "ghetto" Walmart of Albuquerque. >_>)

^ Yes.

[Edit: I also loved how Anton killed the gas station attendant anyway - after already winning the coin toss. This is shown in a later scene where Anton uses a dime to unscrew the vent and one of the pieces of change he has is a bloody quarter. Moss's wife brings up something to this effect at the end of the film, it isn't the coin that decides, its Anton. I love the Coen brothers films (save The Ladykillers.) Every shot has a point (see Blood Simple.)]

What'd you guys like so much about this movie? Again, I didn't dislike it, it's just that it didn't blow me away like it did everyone else. Did I just not get it?

Well I'm a stickler for dialogue-driven movies.

What I really like is that there were no "stupid" or "smart" characters in the film - they were just people thrown into a set of circumstances.

No Country had you going in expecting a showdown between Anton and Moss - didn't happen. Didn't happen between Anton and Sheriff Bell either. If there had been the entire movie would have lost its point. I felt the film was just a very good portrait spanning the entire spectrum of human nature - from its goods (Sheriff Bell) to its middles (Moss), its overconfidence (Wells), and its evils (Anton.) There is nothing particularly unique about any of the characters actions (as told in the story about the guy that died in 1908), they just were there in that particular moment.