No Country For Old Men

"Call it"

I love this movie, Javier Bardem and especially this scene:

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Great scene in a movie with several great scenes. As a whole though, it was sloppily edited by the Coen Bros., and I thought it could have been so much better then it was. I love them as film-makers, but the edit process is often their one weak point with many of their movies, with really rough cuts from scene to scene.

It's funny, their most seamless film, "Millers Crossing"..........is the one they didn't have a hand in the editing process.

 

Havent seen it in a long time, but Javier Bardem is incredible in this movie.

 

Top film

 

One of the best movies ever made

Absolutely love it, start to finish

 

Great movie.:bears:

 

give me an example.

 

Agreed. And I totally didn't see anything wrong with the editing, not that that necessarily means it wasn't lacking.

 

Watch the movie. The constant rough cuts from scene to scene. Hell, the last 1/2 an hour of "No Country".

I had absolutely no problem with the very end, as a lot of other people did...................but the completely ambiguous way they wrote Josh Brolin out of the movie, with no REAL explanation of the events leading up to it, was pretty half-assed.

Check the cuts in "Fargo", the way they destroyed the re-cut of "Blood Simple".

Don't get me wrong, they are absolutely one of my favorite film-makers. I just wish they would cut their movies a bit cleaner.............more seamless.

 

Shot him with the cattle-bolt-stunner.
I dont think he was creative at all with killing people - he just did it, quickly, withut fuss or thought.

 

He's a great actor, I've enjoyed most all of his recent films.

 

yeah, I actually kind of like the editing... I think it makes it all the more stark and sort of unnerving

 

Brolin, Jones and Bardem were all aces as the leads

The support, Harrelson and the Scottish actress who played Llwellyn's wife, were also terrific

 

Great movie. Although couple things I didn't like. For one I didn't like how they didn't even show the main lead die and two the ending was just kinda abrupt. I think it would have been better with bad guy and tommy lee jones showdown with the bad guy coming out on top.

 

You know what? Now that I think about it there was some funky editing going on. The way the scene with Anton and Carson Wells (Woody) was cut made me think something was left on the show room floor and since then I've been wanting to see a directors cut, but maybe like you said it was just edited badly.

 

Don't hold your breath. They've gone on record saying they hate "Directors Cuts". They don't really shoot lots of extra footage like other directors, just what they think they will need for the 90-120 minute storyline. They say the movie they put out is already the directors cut.

When they were asked to put out a theatrical 20 year-anniversary "Directors Cut" of "Blood Simple", they completely butchered it. No real added footage, just a lot of pointless cuts to an already economical movie.

 

I believe it was intentional

 

Yes, agreed.

 

It was, and I understand why they did it.

As somebody who absolutely loves that movie and paid to see the "re-cut" in the theatre, I hated it though.

Wish they just did a re-release of the original.

Sadly, now when they show it on TV, 90% of the time it's the "Directors Cut" version...............which I despise.

There's actually 3 different versions out there:

#1. Original release and early cable release version with "The Four Tops" as the general theme song throughout the movie. (My favorite)

#2. A later version that is essentially the same movie with "The J. Geils Band" replacing "The Four Tops" on the soundtrack. Sounds minor, but was a major annoyance to me, as someone who loved this flick and had it basically memorized from beginning to end. (I'd guess it was a licensing issue)

#3. 20th Anniversary Directors Cut. "J. Geils Band" and about 10-15 minutes of cuts that didn't need to be made.

 

Good post, Noble

But I meant NCFOM

 

Ah, what the fuck. Use quotes next time. :crying:

 

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