I watched Old Country for No Men and was disappointed by the ending. What now?

[IRC]

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Nostromo?

[Magus]

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BOBA FETT?

[John Mora]

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Nostromo?

THE MOVIE ALIEN?????

[highwind]

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No, no it's still cheating the audience.

[MoogleMan]

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My dad saw the movie the other day. He went up to go to the bathroom during the pool scene, because he figured it was a lull in the story. He missed the entire death sequence that followed... so he was very confused for the rest of the movie. His reaction to the ending, "That's the end?! What happened to the guy???"

The moral of No Country for Old Men: Don't go to the bathroom; life will just pass you right on by.

[John Mora]

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Your dad is foolish for doing that!

[BeeZee]

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I really like that Highwind has an awesome explanation about why this movie is worth looking deeply at while his response to everyone who said the same thing in the FFXII threads last year was to be like, "LOL U HAVE 2 B SMART TO UNDERSTAND FFXII" and then post dumpsters and shiz.

[highwind]

Re: I watched Old Country for No Men and was disappointed by the ending. What now?

I really like that Highwind has an awesome explanation about why this movie is worth looking deeply at while his response to everyone who said the same thing in the FFXII threads last year was to be like, "LOL U HAVE 2 B SMART TO UNDERSTAND FFXII" and then post dumpsters and shiz.

Oh, word.

That's because Final Fantasy XII is boring.

I can see how you'd make that inference.

[DK]

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No Country For Old Men is a two hour investment.

FFXII is a 40 hour+ one, it's a bit of a difference to bring yourself to get through the movie over a game that admittingly doesn't have the most exciting beginning.

And lol video games aren't art you silly 8)

[IRC]

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Final Fantasy 8 Sucks!!!

[DK]

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NO YOU'RE JUST NOT SMART ENOUGH FOR IT.

Now, let's save those babes from the evil us's.

[Libby]

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I just got done reading the book, and they followed it fairly closely for the movie, but someone needs to give this guy a grammar lesson. He uses no..I mean not even ONE quotation mark in the entire book. And he doesn't know what commas are and loves to write run-on sentences. I don't know if this is a story telling tool or if he's just being an egomaniac of an author. *sigh*

It was a wonderful story, although I am disappointed they cut out certain aspects of the book. But I also understand that you have to do that for movies. The book kinda solidifies my original opinion about the themes of the story, and he does it very well. Talking a bit more about it with my father and my boyfriend, I originally thought that the point was that crime and such were getting more and more disgusting and perverse over the years, and that the previous generation couldn't get it.

I think now (watching it about twice and a half, and reading the book) I feel it's not about crime getting worse. It's always been bad, I think it's just that as younger people, we can handle more. It's all new to us. As we get older, something changes in us. We crave more simple things, more familiar things, just as a part of human nature. When faced with a serial killer as a young person, our minds are alert and sharper, and we can handle the inevitable devastation that it can cause. But as we get older, things tend to slow a bit, and we just aren't ready to comprehend things as easily as when we were younger.

But that's just my two cents. :P Sorry if it was tl;dr.

[Magus]

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No, that sounds like a sound interpretation.

And the author's style (not bad grammar or egomania!) was translated exceptionally well to film.

[Goufunaki]

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Saw the movie.

Loved it.

It's hard to make sense of some things when you don't pay attention to everything, but the title of the film certainly makes more sense to me now.