No Country For Old Men
by IWasFrozenToday on Jan 07, 2010 11:47:47
A good movie that's gotten a
bad rap due to stubborn fans using poor defenses of the film when it's criticized.
They often say people just "don't get it" if they don't like it and anyone who doesn't should go watch
Transformers 2 (or whatever other film which is at the time popular for lacking plot and overusing CGI, etc).
Personally, however, I still find it to be a very good movie, it's just unfortunate that it's gotten such a bad rep due to stubborn defenders who
can't deal with other opinions
Example:
Some guy: No Country For Old Men sucked!
Stubborn NCFOM fan: You just didn't get it, go watch
Transformers 2!
Some guy:
You're stupid for liking it!
Stubborn NCFOM fan: No, you are!
Sensible person: Wouldn't it be easier to simply accept some people didn't like the movie, instead of giving its fanbase a bad name?
Stubborn NCFOM fan: Go watch
Transformers!
Creepy old men
by weirdworld on Nov 20, 2010 00:42:09
Usually defined as old (and/or significantly older), overweight and unattractive. They are usually in their mid-thirties to
forties and older. They could have one of these traits or all three. The name is applied to these individuals who creep and stare at young adolescent
boys and girls as well as high school and college aged females and males. In a female's point of view, we are
freaked out by these guys and find it scary that someone as old as our fathers and/or grandfathers are sexually attracted to us. Other than that, we make fun of them for thinking they have a chance with us young-ins.
Example:
Normal 17 year old girl walks by a group of
creepy old men and they creepily stare at her and have
lusting eyes. 17 year old girl is
creeped out by this and runs away.
No Country for Old Men
by ChoWares on May 05, 2009 22:23:10
A movie (and book) about a Texas
bumpkin who stumbles across $2 million, heroin and a slew of dead drug dealers in the desert. Rather than doing the civil deed of contacting authorities, the bumpkin steals the money and is subsequently chased by a silly-lookin' fella with a
bad haircut. Although (we're told) the bad haircut dude kills anyone who inconveniences him, the case rule exception is morbidly obese beauty queens at trailer parks. As all of this is going on, a small town
codger sheriff chats with people and occasionally investigates the case, but otherwise has little to do with the bumpkin and the bad haircut dude.
By the end, the audience has just witnessed the same allegories, cliches and plot holes of cinema in the past 60 years (although
the film's apologists claim we just "didn't get it", and that the movie has a profound, cryptic meaning - which is often their own interpretation.) While "
No Country" did gain a significant amount of critical/award acclaim, reception was actually much more polarized, evident by the defensive/
flamebait nature of the film's defenders.
Example:
NCFOM Fanboy: I think anyone who doesn't like this film should just watch a Hollywood-produced movie with
gratuitous violence, explosions, car crashes and limited character development, such as Die Hard 4 or Transformers!
COMMON SENSE MOVIEGOER: But wasn't "No Country For Old Men" also a Hollywood-produced movie with gratuitous violence, explosions, car crashes and limited character development?
NCFOM Fanboy: U just didn't understand it! Who are UR favorite directorz? I bet I know.
COMMON SENSE MOVIEGOER: Well, I liked the Coen brothers' films before they made the "No Country" BS. I'm also a fan of movies by
Scorsese,
Kubrick, Huston, Jarmusch, Lumet, Eastwood,
Welles...
NCFOM Fanboy: HA HA HA, I knew it! Didn't the Stanley Kubrick guy direct the first and second TRANSFORMERS moviez? HA HA HA, U suck, case closed!
No Country for Old Men
by Chad Jones on Jul 08, 2022 03:14:33
The greatest and best movie of all time. Of all time.
A metaphor for how
generation X and Y have degraded society and culture resulting in a time and a place
unfit for old men.
no country for old men
by Providence 401 on Aug 29, 2008 04:08:57
Example:
"Dude, what did you think about the ending of 'No Country For
Old Men?'"
"
I was bored. That movie needed more
explosions, like in 'Transformers.'"
No Country for Old Men
by dgrey395 on Apr 14, 2008 14:40:26
The Coen brothers stroking their egos. "No Country for Old Men" is not realy a movie per say (depending on who you ask) what rather a thesis on the state of the world and the rising evil that will consume us all, circa 1980. The first hour and a half follows the exploits of one Lewelyn Moss, played by
Josh Brolin, as he finds a bunch of
dead Mexican drug dealers and an ass load of cash and tries to find a way to escape with said cash. But, what's this, Mary Lou Renton is chashing him, but this time, she's a big Spanish assassin who kills people with a cattle gun named
Anton Chigurh. Does
Chigurh kill Moss, do they even meet? Fuck no, not really anyway! Moss is killed by Mexican drug dealers, and suddenly, out of the fucking blue, Tommy Lee Jones is the focus of this befuddling mess. People who really love this movie will say that it is visionary and bleak and realistic and all that crap. It's an uneven mess that doesn't live up to Coen brothers standards.