no country for old men

saw No Country for Old Men. absolutely wonderful stuff. Terrific acting (Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin). great hair style, superb casting. quick question, does anyone know what Ed Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) was refering to at the end of the film? 

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Michelley-Shell
I really have no idea about the Tommy Lee Jones line, however I'd definitely like to rent it now :-) It's on the list- thanks!
madtypist
I loved the movie, too. I saw it when it first came out though but I'm not sure what the last line you were referring to is except that he was talking about one of his predecessors....
Mark
He was talking about a dream he'd had, that foreshadowed his own death. He's a beaten man at the end of the movie, and he knows it.
Piper
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I liked it so much better the next day thinking about it. The more I thought about it and talked about it the better it was.
MEK

Thanks All.

MEK
yes, Javier Bardem won a bafta ... love him
Aubrey

"I liked it so much better the next day thinking about it. The more I thought about it and talked about it the better it was."

That must surely be the sign of a great movie. It almost makes me want to see it! But I've also heard about the violence; and I can get terribly squeamish.

MEK
you see the aftermath of the violence, you see the odd bullet or two (and some blood), but it's great hitchcockian stuff. the film style is suggestive and full of suspense. perhaps, you'll be surprised... if you see it, please let me know your thoughts
Yeehaw Murghi
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This is a fantastic flick. It is completely atypical of what Hollywood tends to create (although the teasers were extremely typical Hollywood crap, always showing the big kerbam at the pharmacy). I really like this movie -- and I find it quite hard to say that, about recent movies. I expect nothing less than greatness from the Cohen brothers, mind you... Best performance I've ever seen of Tommy Lee Jones. That stuff was moving. Touching. I mean, genuinely touching.

Is the movie violent? Yeah; people die in it. Life is violent. This is a depiction of people whose lives are afflicted by violence. But this movie isn't gratuitously violent. Nor does it sugar coat it. Violence is ugly. I think this movie might make someone understand this. It doesn't celebrate violence.
MEK

i would agree, its fantastic casting (Brolin, Jones and especially Bardem)

there's a fantastic piece in the new yorker by david denby (The critics section: killing joke, Feb 25, 2008) ... its a reflective piece on the works of the coen brothers including "no country" walts and all ....a few comments "... the Coens have hardened there syle to a point far beyond "Fargo" . This movie never lets up... Llewelyn and is two million dollars .... pursued by the strangely armed Anton Chigurh. The movie is essentialy a hide-and- see, set in brownish, stained motel rooms and other shabby Amercian redoubts, but shot with a formal precision and an economy that make one think of masters like Hitchcock or Bresson." But there are gaps one cannot deny, "... "No Country" is the Coens' most accomplished achievements in craft, with many stunning sequences, but there are absences...if you consider how little the sheriff bestirs himself, his philosophical resignation, however beautifully spoken by Tommy Lee Jones, feels self-pity, even fake..."

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