I’ve been in love with Coen brothers movies ever since I saw Blood Simple way way back when.
I can watch Barton Fink,The Big Lebowski and Miller’s Crossing over and over again. I love them when they are humourous because they employ intelligent humor(not that falling down BS that makes up what passes for humor in mainstream movies these days.Ahem:Good Luck Chuck,Daddy Day Care?) But I adore them when they are dramatic,slow,violent and Southern.Texas plays a part in Blood Simple almost as important as the characters and plot and again In No Country For Old Men we are treated to the bleak greatness of a wide open Texas landscape.
No Country For Old Men began almost exactly the same way as Blood Simple but instead of
M. Emmet Walsh narrating we hear the voice of Tommy Lee Jones.
When I watched this movie I was struck by how long it has been since I was utterly transfixed by the goings on on the screen.
I was prepared to see a good movie, The Coen brothers usually deliver at least that. But this was something else. The lowest points were Llewellen’s mother in law because that character actress is just too memorable from Speed as the selfish lady who tries to get off the bus and ends up as roadkill. i like Woody Harrelson. I don’t know what was off about his performance but it wasn’t doing it for me.Though both had such minor parts that it did little to reduce my enjoyment.
My boyfriend and I are very sad cases as we can’t get to the theater to watch a movie before it comes out on DVD.
Is it just me or are movies getting into the rental store a lot faster?
Anyways you have to see this film. I’m talking to the one or two other folks in this world who haven’t seen it since it won the Oscar,ha.