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Offline crazyivan

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Re: "No Country for Old Men"
« Reply #30 on: September 27, 2008, 10:01:47 PM »
Quote from: Fulmar on September 20, 2008, 11:06:02 AM
I'm beginning to think that most of the people that thought the ending of this movie 'fizzled' would also through their popcorn at the screen if their romantic comedy movie didn't end happily ever after...

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 Booo,Throws BUCKET of popcorn at Fulmar. :P What was up with that CO2 canister? Those things are heavy. He carry that thing everywhere?  Oh yeah " Call it Frendo".
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Re: "No Country for Old Men"
« Reply #31 on: September 28, 2008, 10:06:15 AM »
fulmar....say what you will but the bad guy was headed for a bad end..  He was out of control   the ending never came.. we wanted to see what happened to the guy.  It would have even been better if we could have seen him be arrested at the car wreck.. or blunder into a home and be shot.

He could not keep up the pace he had and get away with it.

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Re: "No Country for Old Men"
« Reply #32 on: September 28, 2008, 10:13:31 AM »
Quote from: AKIron on September 20, 2008, 10:43:18 AM
I didn't like 3:10 to Yuma. Seemed too contrived to me. Some hard core killer is going to give up his gang and possibly his own life for what? Respect? Not saying that isn't likely, they just did nothing to show why the change of heart.

He gave up his gang and lifestyle because he saw someone who was dedicated to principals and values- even willing to die for them- so he made him the hero, made sure he'd get credit for capturing him and wiping out his gang, but at the end of the movie he called for his horse, so he wasn't planning on staying in that cage....
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Re: "No Country for Old Men"
« Reply #33 on: September 28, 2008, 10:20:53 AM »
Yep.. 3 10 to Yuma made sense but it made more sense in the original version.. the guy knew he could get out of any prison he wanted.   As carrel says.. he weighed his men against his enemy and his men came up short.

Perfectly understandable.

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Re: "No Country for Old Men"
« Reply #34 on: September 28, 2008, 12:06:53 PM »
3:10 to Yuma was utterly ridiculous. A sociopathic killer who knocks off members of his guard party one at a time, then suddenly has a transformation and wants to get to his prison train, even though his own gang is shooting at him and his guard.
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Re: "No Country for Old Men"
« Reply #35 on: September 28, 2008, 12:55:00 PM »
Quote from: lazs2 on September 28, 2008, 10:06:15 AM

He could not keep up the pace he had and get away with it.


Did they ever catch Jack-the-Ripper?  He had a pretty good run.
 
Very often bad people can do what they want as long as they want and get away with it.  It happens every day.

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« Reply #36 on: September 28, 2008, 02:27:56 PM »
Quote from: Yeager on September 19, 2008, 10:50:34 PM
The only downside to it is that it encapsulates and glorifies violence in an odd sort of art film way.  Not to say that I don't enjoy violence in film but man, theres
enough violence in our everyday way of life as is. 
Just say no to censorship.
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