Author Topic: No Country for Old Men spoilers (Read 2790 times)

crockett · « **on:** February 08, 2008, 02:40:51 AM »

So any of you watch this movie, if so what did you think of the ending? As I watched it I'm thinking instant classic and a cool little story line it had going on. Then the last 5 mins it all just kinda fell apart.

I don't mind a movie making you think a little but this one just left me hanging a bit too much. Just seemed like thr 3 main guys were all following down a path that would eventually meet. Then in the end it just sputters out with no real closure.

Any thoughts?

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #1 on:** February 08, 2008, 06:01:40 AM »

I felt the ending made the movie feel very realistic. So it seemed it was more of a true story being told rather than a Hollywood movie.

You also need to understand some things about movies. The Coen brothers focus more on themes than they do plots. One of the main themes of this movie was Chance. Chigurh killed many of his victims by chance. Moss died by chance (his mother-in-law telling the mexicans where she was going).

So the main themes of the movie were Chance, and that Texas has always been a wild and lawless place. As the Sheriff grew older, it only seemed like things were going downhill due to his age, but things were really staying the same.

soda72 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:34:55 AM »

I saw this movie when it first came out. It took a path that made it difficult to predict what was going to happen, which made it interesting to watch. So many movies have been made that follow a certain formula that you can guess what's going to happen. However I didn't like the ending. Maybe it was realistic how they did the ending or maybe i'm just use to movies having a well defined ending. But the way they did the ending left me hanging.

WMLute · « **Reply #3 on:** February 08, 2008, 09:48:49 AM »

I liked the ending.

It made it feel more "real" as opposed to a "movie".

trax1 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 08, 2008, 12:48:44 PM »

I saw this movie awhile ago and thought it was amazing, it's unlike any other movie you'll ever see, I mean how many movies kill one of the main characters off screen. I loved the end, especially when he kills Moss's wife (I made a promise to your husband) great scene.

crockett · « **Reply #5 on:** February 08, 2008, 01:57:43 PM »

Yea I will agree it was a very good movie.. I understand the things happened by chance. I just was left with the feeling of wanting more or needing more to complete the story. Not a good type of wanting more, more like they left the story untold in a bad way.

I thought the movie was awesome up until the last few mins.. Kinda like over filling a balloon and expecting it to pop, but only to have the air fizzle out at the end..

I'm not a action junkie or anything and I hate blow em up type movies, but just seemed like they whole story line was leading to a confrontation that never happened.

trax1 · « **Reply #6 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:08:30 PM »

See I liked it for that reason, it left you wanting more, it's unlike any other movie I've seen, and in this movie it's the bad guy, not the good guy who comes out on top.

crockett · « **Reply #7 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:28:50 PM »

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Originally posted by trax1
See I liked it for that reason, it left you wanting more, it's unlike any other movie I've seen, and in this movie it's the bad guy, not the good guy who comes out on top.

Well I don't mind left wanting more if I felt the story had a assumed conclusion.

I'll use another good movie for example.. Way of the Gun was a awesome movie went unnoticed by most. Wasn't ever a big Hollywood hit but was an awesome movie.

***Spoiler****

Throughout the movie you followed various people each with their own story all leading to the same point. In fact I kept thinking of Way of the Gun as I watched No Country very similar movies.

At the end as the storyline led you to believe, there was a meeting of all these characters you had been following. The storyline that you were led down was fulfilled, yet even at the end things were left open and not 100% answered.

It's why Way of the Gun is one of a favorite movies, it just put everything together just right, but leaves you hanging a bit at the end. The movie leaves you not really knowing what becomes of the characters you had been following. However there was a sense of completion at the end.

With old country, I felt you are being built up throughout the entire movie for the meeting of these various characters then it just never happens. Yet the movie then takes a 180 degree turn to something else.

It just seems to me, that Old Country could have given a sense of completion but still left you hanging. Rather than just pissing in the wind at the end.

trax1 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:36:20 PM »

I see what your saying about how you think that at some point Moss & Chigurh are gonna meet up and have it out, that would be my only complaint with the movie, but you have to admit it's definitely an original movie, and I like seeing something new then the same old predictable story line.

soda72 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:41:34 PM »

Wait until the DvD comes out, i bet they have 3 alternate endings...

crockett · « **Reply #10 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:41:59 PM »

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Originally posted by trax1
I see what your saying about how you think that at some point Moss & Chigurh are gonna meet up and have it out, that would be my only complaint with the movie, but you have to admit it's definitely an original movie, and I like seeing something new then the same old predictable story line.

Overall I liked the movie and it was a good one.. I just felt a little let down at the end is all.

crockett · « **Reply #11 on:** February 08, 2008, 02:42:40 PM »

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Originally posted by soda72
Wait until the DvD comes out, i bet they have 3 alternate endings...

lol likely true..

Regulator · « **Reply #12 on:** February 08, 2008, 07:51:00 PM »

The ending left me feeling "huh?"

Didn't seem to wrap up like we the movie going public have become accustomed to. This probably isn't a bad thing, but still left me feeling like they just gave up on an ending.

Up till the ending, I enjoyed the movie in it's off-the-beaten-path way.

AquaShrimp · « **Reply #13 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:01:49 PM »

Wipe the confused looks off your faces. Heres how the standard Hollywood ending would have went.

Moss tracks down Chigurh, and they get into a big fight. Chigurh fires at Moss from shadowy areas with his silenced shotgun as Moss runs down hallways and alleys to get closer. Suddenly, a woman's voice shouts out to Moss. "Help me Llewelyn!" It's Moss's wife! In his strange voice, Chigurh calmly says "Give me the money and yourself, and I'll let your wife go." Llewelyn does, and just as Chigurh raises up the cattle captive-bolt gun to zap Llewelyn's brains out, a door behind Chigurh opens, and we see the silhouette of an aging cowboy sheriff. "This is your last rodeo parrrrrrrrrdner" *Pow pow pow pow pow pow* The Sheriff fast-hands his pistolas and fills Chigurh full of lead. Chigurh falls to the floor, a close-up on his face as a stream of blood trickles out of his mouth, his eyes wide open. Llewelyn runs to his wife and they kiss. He then hands the suitcase of money to the Sheriff and they shake hands. We then see Moss and his wife walking off into the sunset with a hundred thousand dollars stuffed down his shirt.

Which ending would you prefer?

trax1 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 08, 2008, 08:39:08 PM »

I think it did have an ending, Chigurh gets away with everything, he doesn't get the money but he gets away, Moss is dead and so is his wife.

Author Topic: No Country for Old Men **spoilers** (Read 2790 times)

Author Topic: No Country for Old Men spoilers (Read 2790 times)