No Country For Old Men

[Me!]

but I imagine you guys will probably hit one up closer to home.

Hartford is pretty much the same distance in opposite directions from us and Mandler. I would imagine we\'d go to a theater near Hartford.

:that:  Hartford would be the place to meet up.  I tried to see where it was playing (it\'s only in "select theaters") but since it doesn\'t come out till friday they don\'t list anything yet, atleast on fandango.

I enjoyed IC, yeah not their best but as per most Coen movies great characters, come on you had to love Billy Bobs character.

and Cedric the entertainer: "I\'m gonna nail yo ass"

[jocelyn]

Hartford would be the place to meet up.

Anice. Give me a time and place and I\'l be there. I already took the day off in expectation of some sort of pre-game or dinner.

I fucking love having the power to make my own schedule.

[Me!]

FUCK!!! DOUBLE FUCK!  I was really excited to see this movie.......








BUT.................. it is not showing in Hartford or New Haven.  I couldn\'t think of anywhere else in the psuedo area that it would be showing.  Only thing I found was in NYC, and I think White Plains.  It might just be for a few weeks till they see how it\'s doing, but I\'m kinda pissed.  I really wanted to see this in the theater, I guess it\'s just wait and see now.

Hartford would be the place to meet up. I tried to see where it was playing (it\'s only in "select theaters") but since it doesn\'t come out till friday they don\'t list anything yet, atleast on fandango.

[Me!]

I keep reading really good reviews and seeing ads for this, it looks soo good.  Color me annoyed.

[jocelyn]

bleh.

[Me!]

Misguided souls will tell you that No Country for Old Men is out for blood, focused on vengeance and unconcerned with the larger world outside a standard-issue suspense plot. Those people, of course, are deaf, dumb and blind to anything that isn\'t spelled out between commercials on dying TV networks. Joel and Ethan Coen\'s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy\'s 2005 novel is an indisputably great movie, at this point the year\'s very best. Set in 1980 in West Texas, where the chase is on for stolen drug money, the film — a new career peak for the Coen brothers, who share writing and directing credits — is a literate meditation (scary words for the Transformers crowd) on America\'s bloodlust for the easy fix. It\'s also as entertaining as hell, which tends to rile up elitists. What do the criminal acts of losers in a flyover state have to do with the life of the mind? .

OK, then. How does No Country for Old Men stack up against the best work of these artfully merry pranksters? Near the top, I\'d say. There are echoes of Fargo when a deputy declares, "It\'s a mess, ain\'t it, Sheriff?" and the sheriff answers, "If it ain\'t, it\'ll do till the mess gets here." And admirers of Blood Simple, Miller\'s Crossing, Barton Fink and even The Big Lebowski will find tasty bits of bright and bleak to noodle on. But this landmark of a movie is fresh territory for the Coens, accused, often unfairly, of glib facility and lack of passionate purpose. Screw that. Not since Robert Altman merged with the short stories of Raymond Carver in Short Cuts have filmmakers and author fused with such devastating impact as the Coens and McCarthy. Good and evil are tackled with a rigorous fix on the complexity involved. Recent movies about Iraq have pushed hard to show the growing dehumanization infecting our world. No Country doesn\'t have to preach or wave a flag — it carries in its bones the virus of what we\'ve become. The Coens squeeze us without mercy in a vise of tension and suspense, but only to force us to look into an abyss of our own making.

http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/movie/14706943/review/17163450/no_country_for_old_men

ok I went to the official site for the flick and it opens nationally on Nov. 21.

So anyone still interested maybe we can hit it up before the Fairfield show.  (although I think this is the day after Thanksgiving)  Or the day after the Fairfield show.

and anyone who the trailer didn\'t do much for, go the the site and check out the redband trailer (red screen at start not green)

http://www.nocountryforoldmen-themovie.com

Joc, the doctor from JFC is in this.  He\'s Tommy Lee Jones\' Deputy

For Deadwood fans he\'s the guy that played Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott.

[jocelyn]

I\'m probably going to have to watch it by myself up here in the Shire. (Which means I will probably wait until it\'s on DVD.)Nobody over the age of 18 seems to go to movies around here, unless it\'s Chunky\'s because you sit in old car seats and are served (yellow) beer while you watch the movie.

[Me!]

I wish we could get beer in theaters here.

[jocelyn]

This place is kind of a restaurant/theatre/pub. I believe they call it a "cinema pub." Unfortunately they have run-of-the-mill food, a piss poor beer selection, and very few movies to choose from. If someone could do this ("cinema pub") right, however... boy would that be a cash cow.

[Todd]

I wish we could get beer in theaters here.

You can...from a backpack!

[Rickey Roux]

Beers make too much noise in the theatre.  My suggestion is a bottle of liquor.  Crack the seal before you get in.  Rum is a good choice.  And just buy Cola at the refreshment stand.

[skalnbyc]

I wish we could get beer in theaters here.

We have a "speakeasy theater" down the street.  You can buy pitchers of beer, bottles of wine etc.

[Me!]

Finally!!

Going to see this on sat.  Can\'t wait, so pumped.  Will return with my thoughts.

[Me!]

ok so this movie is GREAT!  I wouldn\'t say it\'s their best.  But still a great movie.  A little slow paced but it makes up for it with the edge of your seat feeling throughout.  It\'s missing the Coen comedic touch, but it\'s appropriate cause it would be really out of place.  It\'s also very loyal to the book.  I would def recommend.

[Whathefunk]

i didn\'t read what anyone else said in this thread.... SEE THIS MOVIE