NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN review

[thehefner]

So, after months of anxious worrying about my displeasure with the book, I finally went to see NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.

See this icon? Yes, that'll do.

But another way: oh thank fucking God, I am so relieved. Because I knew that if the movie went exactly the way the book did, the only people who'd have my back would be asshats like Stephen fucking Hunter. And I do not want to be on Stephen fucking Hunter's side, thank you very much.

"Nobody goes to the movies for the irony. They go for the satisfaction." Oh, fuck you, Hunter.

But there's no point in discussing the NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN until more of you have seen it, and you all should see it. Now. Yesterday. It's good.

Anyone who wants to discuss it with me, or are interested in why I think the movie is vastly superior to the book while still being thoroughly faithful, feel free to e-mail me.

They made it work. For me, I mean, it worked for everybody else already, but they especially made it work for me. With a magical thing called editing.

Comments

[chickenhat.livejournal.com]

1. Hunter shouldn't be allowed in movie theatres, or near a typewriter or keyboard. (grrr... we hates him so fucking much)

2. Knowing that he didn't like it, I now know what I'll be doing with my day off tomorrow...

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I look forward to your thoughts.

Not that it matters, but have you seen BLOOD SIMPLE? It's very reminiscent of that one, which is still my very favorite Coen brothers' movie, and I still think it's their best.

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

1. Stephen Hunter has as much impact on my life as, say, Paulie Shore. Maybe less, as SON-IN-LAW featured Carla Gugino. We like her.
2. I am glad, genuinely relieved, to hear that you're OK with this movie. If not, I'd have had some serious work to do...and finding Thai whores, much less a crate to pack them in, on a Sunday night? You're my boy, Hef, but there's only so much even the Suburb Fabulous One can do.
3. Editing is what separates the truly great from the Sarah Jessica Parker movies, in my opinion.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

1.) Ah, so you're familiar with our local reviewing asshat and sometime novelist?

2.) Why, have you seen it? Or read the book? And not DISCUSSED IT WITH ME?

3.) Except L.A. STORY, that's a good'un. (Seriously, that last Carla Jean scene pissed me off so fucking much in the book, but with cutting the entire thing in half, they saved the whole fucking story, in my opinion. My mother agrees, for what it's worth.)

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

1. Isn't he the one who thinks he's Tom Clancy?
I don't think Clancy's a genius, either, and yeah, I know, you dated his wife or something...a Hefner has to do what only a Hefner CAN do.
It is your density, and no man can deny that!
2. I've read of your anxieties. I will read the book, and I will see the movie (perhaps not in that order, but you get the picture), and we will discuss such things.
3. It was not a SJP movie, though; it was an erudite piece of Steve Martin's mind, to all appearances, and I will never find fault with that.
Well, not yet, anyway!
Neither SJP or Jennifer Aniston should be allowed near movies I'm supposed to watch; with the exception of OFFICE SPACE, she, too, hath killed many a buzz.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

1.) I'm still planning on going to the wedding in February in an attempt to woo sister Clancy. It simply has to be done. Also, when else will I have a chance to drink $500 bottles of wine? I ask you.

2.) Do so. My mother and I are the only ones who were frustrated with the book, but we are of the exact same opinions, as well as of the movie versions. Glad I'm not totally alone on this one.

3.) Word word word on SJP and Aniston. I never got the feverish attraction to the latter that many of my male friends had. Never understood it. But yes, OFFICE SPACE is awesome (and Stephen Root has a nice little cameo in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, to tie it all back together).

[civilbloodshed.livejournal.com]

Seriously, send me an email, because while I was having my mind throughly blown by awesome, whatever brain scrapings I had left were completely devoted to, "I wonder what Heff'll think of this..." You can reach me through my LJ email.

[little-dinosaur.livejournal.com]

Your icon is mesmerizing.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

God, isn't it, though? I got it from sigma7 on scans_daily. It's seamless, fluid, and crystal clear. And it perfectly sums up my reaction at the film to boot. I was less "blown away" and more "YES, I APPROVE."

Also, I know you haven't seen GANGS OF NEW YORK, but I must say again, as I will say several times in the near future, that based on NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, it seriously fucking looks like Bill the Butcher has been reincarnated in the form of this oil baron (if he didn't outright fake his death and move on). The trailer is slightly incomprehensible, but Daniel Day Lewis fucking chilling. Can anyone, ANYone make the line "I can't keep doing this on my own. Not with these... people." as multi-layered and downright goosebumpy as DDL did?

My point is, you should see GONY just for his character, and then report back, please.

[whimmydiddle.livejournal.com]

Stephen Hunter needs to get a career writing monologues for celebrity roasts, because all he ever wants to do when he's supposedly writing a movie review is impress the reader with how cleverly he can trash the people involved in the film... or, sometimes even, he'll take a pot shot at somebody he hates even thought they have nothing to do with the film supposedly being reviewed. I mean, you've got to hate Elijah Wood pretty intensely to decide that the openning of your review of, I believe it was the second Spiderman film, goes something like, "One of the great things about Spiderman is that Tobey McGuire is not Elijah Wood." Hunh? Could we come any more directly out of left field? I don't think so. Go grind your axes somewhere else, Hunter, and leave movie reviews to them what knows how.