No Country For Old Men

[Jet_Jaguar]

Anyone else looking forward to the Coen Bros. movie of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country For Old Men? From the trailers and the brief clips I've seen online, it looks really good:

http://nocountryforoldmen.com/

I actually have a copy of the novel that I haven't gotten around to reading yet (I'd like to read it sometime soon, but I also feel like I would like to see the movie without knowing what happens). Some Cormac McCarthy fans don't like No Country For Old Men very much, but if the movie's good, maybe the novel will seem better. Of course, some people have a theory that it's best to make movies out of novels that aren't great, which may have some truth to it.

[Maka]

Anyone else looking forward to the Coen Bros. movie of Cormac McCarthy's novel No Country For Old Men?

Hello Jet_Jaguar,

Yes, I always look forward to the Coen Bros. movies. Ever since I saw Miller's Crossing, I've loved their films.

I'm also looking forward to David Cronenberg's "Eastern Promises." I finally saw "A History of Violence" and I "enjoyed" it.

But as I have two young children, I only see G or a rare PG film in theaters now days. I'll probably wait until it's video store. Let us know what you think of it.

Peace, maka

[Andy]

Aren't they the ones who did "O Brother Where Art Thou?" If so, I look forward to seeing this one.

[Jet_Jaguar]

I'm also interested in Eastern Promises. I liked A History of Violence quite a bit too. Anything by David Cronenberg is usually good.

Interestingly enough, I once had a literature class with a professor who teaches a graduate class on "Violence and Death in American Literature and Cinema" that includes the movie and graphic novel of A History of Violence. I've never read the graphic novel; I probably should sometime.

[Jet_Jaguar]

I saw this last night. Very good film. It's not much like Usagi Yojimbo, but I would still recommend that everyone who hasn't seen it yet drop whatever they're doing and go see it. It may be a little too violent for some people, but I would say that the violence is never gratuitous. Overall, it's a very effective adaptation of Cormac McCarthy and probably one of the top two or three best films by the Coen brothers.

[Jet_Jaguar]

I realized something kind of interesting yesterday: Even though he's not an explicitly supernatural character, Anton Chigurh (the antagonist played by Javier Bardem) is just a little bit like Jei (except for the fact that Jei doesn't let people call a coin toss to have a 50-50 chance of surviving).