Merged: The Movies Thread

You didn't like There Will Be Blood? That sucks, that was next on my list of movies to see.

I didnt say I didnt like it,just wasnt as good as I thought it was going to be,didnt like the ending,just like no country,I didnt like the ending

I'll call your bluff. While it looks funny, and it's a Judd Apatow movie, 2 things bother me. We've yet to see Jason Segel carry a movie as the male lead (he's funny on How I Met Your Mother, but NPH carries that show), and I can't stand Mila Kunis.


No I swear best movie ever!!11!!1!1!, Aight maybe not but we got a sneak preview at USC and the movie was so funny. I could not sop laughing, the characters that the movie has are awsome. GO SEE IT NOW!!!!

REDBOX Rocks! You need to learn how to use it best and that is on-line.

I go on-line check local Red Boxes for their inventory select what I want and reserve it. I usually do this Friday morning and get whatever new movies are out. So come Friday night after work I stop by pick up my hard to find New Release for a buck. Then drive by Blockbuster and wave to all the folks who have gone there to find out that the movie they wanted is sold out and they are now renting Out of Africa for five bucks.

yeah, I rent from machines now. There's one in safeway that charges a buck fifty/night. I usually keep a movie for only one day and pass by there every day, so its very convenient, cheap, and it always has the movie i want.

I watched Juno last night and really liked it, actually.

I just got done watching No Country For Old Men. I can only wonder what could've been. I sat there the entire movie, and I thought, man this movie is so good, but I have this feeling that the ending is going to be not what I expected, like the bad guy wins or something. And I was completely shocked at the end, I figured either what's his face (serial killer crazy insane dude dressed in black) is gonna die, or Tommy Lee Jones is gonna die, because one of them is probably gonna kill the other, and since I was expecting the unexpected I figured crazy insane dude was just gonna kill everyone and take the money. But I really wasn't expecting that ending lol. I've probably revealed enough to anyone who hasn't seen the movie, but damn, that ending really disappointed me. I feel like it didn't offer closure, which for me is essential to securing the movie as one of my all time favorites.

You're not alone... in fact most people were put off by the ending. But it's technically a near flawless film... it's going to be used over and over in film classes to dissect elements like cinematography, pacing and writing.

* Spoilers *

The movie works because it accomplishes the vision of the original book. NCFOM is a thematic movie, moreso than character-driven. The Coens have a knack for straying from traditional film structure- you didn't really have a "good guy protagonist" to root for, per se... there was Brolin's character, who played an average Joe- the audience wants him to get away with the money, but he still pulls off an unethical action (stealing money that's not his). Bardem's psycho character is definitely not the guy to root for, but he displays his own abstract sense of morality. And Tommy Lee Jones was the dude that verbalizes McCarthy's (the original book's author) overarching message- the world is becoming evil and good can no longer stop it... only fate can hope to stumble it...

Leaving out the death scenese for major characters is intentional to the overall theme. You're left wondering "wtf" during certain aftermath shots (and the ending) b/c the storytelling is so un-Hollywood. The movie's not wrapped up in a bowtie at the end and that surely pissed a bunch of people off.

/film geekness

I can definitely dig what you're saying. For the reasons you listed it is a good movie. I just wish it offered closure at the end, but I can see why they ended it like that. Overall though it was a good movie.

NCFOM was nice untill it ended horribly

That's the 10% I was referring to earlier about No Country.

I watched Juno last night and really liked it, actually.

I saw it in the theater, I enjoyed it. Would I sit down and watch it again? Probably not, but it was good.

I saw 3:10 to Yuma this weekend, solid flick. I thought the ending was a little ridiculous with how they managed to get through the town with everyone and their mothers taking shots at them but still a good movie overall. Russell Crowe is a badass.