NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) MOVIE REACTION!! - First Time Watching!
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This movie was insane. And the ending blindsided us!
Anton Chigurh is one of the most interesting villains we've ever seen. What do you think?
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FARGO react to that Coen Bros. movie 100%
The writer is Cormac McCarthy (hence the literary depth) and the Coens honored his work. Plus, they are the Coens.
“If the rule you followed led you to this, if what use was the rule?”
The ending of the movie is often misunderstood. Anton is a dead man. He has murdered both sides of the drug exchange and stolen the money and now needs medical care. Not the first aide he gave himself earlier but a serious hospital stay. The film (and the book) are meditation on free will (Moss) and predetermination (Anton). The Cohen’s changed the ending so that Anton doesn’t get away with it. “The coin don’t have no say.” If he just let Carla Jean go Anton gets away with it. But because he lives by his rule of predetermination he is destined to be at that intersection when some random guy runs a red light. In the film he’s a dead man walking, we just don’t see it. We know this because the film gets less and less violent after the confrontation at the motel. Only one death is shown that being the management of the American side of the cartel. Carson, the chicken man, the beer lady, the Mexican cartel members, the mother, Carla Jean, and after the credits role Anton all die without us seeing it happen. The only good man, Tommy Lee Jones character, gets out alive but still feels like a failure.
@@user-fw3qe5ue7z sorry bud...but thats only your opinion. Its a pleasant fiction though...
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Believe what you want. But the filmmakers made choices to differ from McCarthy. In the end she does call it and dies. Anton gets away with it. The car crash doesn’t happen. That’s not my opinion, but their interpretation of the story. Anton has made enemies of both murderous cartels. He needs real medical attention or he’ll die of infection. It took
Carson 3 hours to find Moss in the hospital. It’s all there in the movie.
When you boys are 60 years old and the world you know now no longer exists.....You'll Get It. 😃
Amen. Some days I don't even recognize the world anymore.
I was 28 when this movie came out. I'm 44 now and the world I grew up feels like a dream compared to the world as it is now.
“You can’t stop what’s comin’, and it ain’t all waiting for you. That’s vanity.”
That’s the overarching message of this story. That’s what makes Llewellyn’s off-screen death at the hands of the cartel one of the best things about this movie. It just illustrates that fate doesn’t care who you are, your death is just as meaningless as the next person’s. Life doesn’t always tie your story up in a nice bow.
Absolutely 💯
The only film I can genuinely call a masterpiece in accomplishing what it set out to do: don’t underestimate the audience. The film has no score, not a lot of sound design and the dialogue is very quick witted and sharp. We’re led to believe Llewelyn is the lead when it’s actually Tom Bell because the film is told from his perspective. He’s the literal old man and he realizes that after Llewelyn’s death. Chigurh is not actually behind the door, but Tom Bell’s fear and anxiety he describes at the beginning manifests as Chugurh to us the audience hiding behind and the Coen Brothers trust the audience is smart enough to know all of this with minimal dialogue. You guys should also react to True Grit (2010), The Tragedy of MacBeth (2021), Fargo (1996) and The Ladykillers (2004), The Big Lebowski (1998), Raising Arizona (1987) and Intolerable Cruelty (2003), all great films from the Coens.
You're missing my favorite, O Brother Where Art Thou, which is worth watching just for the soundtrack and the magnificent Roger Deakins cinematography, and that's not to mention the most creative adaptation of The Odyssey ever filmed.
@@flarrfan I do like O Brother but it’s not a favorite of mine
I would consider There Will be Blood, Whiplash, Arrival and Inglorious Basterds as masterpieces as well.
@@tannerlink566 hard agree with u. It still amazes me neither Paul Dano or Amy Adams earned Oscar nods for There Will Be Blood and Arrival respectively.
True Grit bangs so hard. Killer performances from Steinfield and Bridges.
The ending is a masterpiece. The themes in this movie are incredible. The more you've seen it, the better it gets
Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture.
BUT BUT NO PEW PEW SHOOTOUT THO!?!
Notice that the 3 main characters never act face to face in a scene. Even the shootout at night was at distance. The lack of music to carry scenes is a show of how great the script is.
Its not the taking of the money that got him killed, it was going back to give the driver water. No good deed goes unpunished.
He basically says at the end that the world doesn't make sense anymore. There used to be a code, or reason....and it's not a place for old men who lived in that world. Everything is random. Which is why there's no climax. It's just another day in a senseless world.
Anton can be seen as the Angel of Death; death is remorseless, random and inevitable
The book explains why Anton was arrested at the start of the film - if memory serves, someone insulted him in a bar, so he broke the guy's neck, then allowed himself to be arrested to see if he could escape. Which he did.
Here's the meaning of the sheriff's two dreams about his father as I see it. In the first one where he loses the money is a metaphor for his failures as a cop & his inability to change destiny. The second dream is about hope for the future as he realizes his father will be with him in spirit. But then he says, "and then I woke up." which may mean that the idea of hope is only an illusion & the world is really as doomed as he feels.
It's about his retirement. And death. To a man who defines himself through work, retirement IS death.
That is where his father has "gone before". Into death. He's waiting for him in the afterlife.
28:19 he wasn't checking if anyone was hiding....he was getting familiar with the layout of the room..
first time through the door, what he could see in the dark (as well as exactly where the light switch was coming through by the door). then 2nd time through the door fast, what it'd look like busting in while flicking the light on quickly. then he went to see what he could see in the tv reflection. then the reflection in the bathroom miroor from that room. and then feeling the thickness of the walls with his hands
...before he went to bust in the Mexicans' hotel room.
(all hotel rooms, at least on the same floor, for the most part, are all set up the same way usually - some furniture MAY be situated differently, but the layout: light switches, heaters/air conditioners, bathrooms...ALL the same, no doubt)
The ending monologue is about a couple things. First, it's about how Tommy Lee Jones's character is accepting that his career is over, and how he's also resigned for the eventual end of his life - because his father's spirit is out there "waiting for him" in the afterlife, whenever he gets there. But it's also about how he's holding on to a sense of hope in the midst of the world's awfulness - because his father was carrying a torch with him, and was planning to making a fire out there in the darkness and cold.
Updated response The crow scene is Anton testing “fate”. He feels like he’s the deliverer of fates decisions. Also why he uses a coin, he’s letting fate decide his next action. Him shooting at the crow (which is just sitting there and clearly an easy target) validates that he doesn’t make the decision, fate does.
I believe the ending of the film is also telling us that maybe Anton is right that fate exists. At the end with everything we know (anton being evil, being the villain, and now almost getting taken out by a car crash and walking away from it)… fate is reminding him and letting us know that Fate is in charge and don’t test it. There is no happy ending bc fates decisions are random. You just never know what’ll happen… (ex: the ending with the villain geting away )
Randomness is a major theme of this movie; ending with the random way in which Anton is injured - a bad driver was able to do to Anton what cartel killers and a very resourceful Moss were not. Even then, Anton walks away as the movie ends
Even the instrument of death himself is subject to the whims of nature.
This movie was made by the Coen Brothers. They also made Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona and many other great movies.
Definitely not the 4 brightest guys in the world. The guy who said "I'd be dead in this universe" ... he aint lying.
Anton rents a room to see build of rooms wall thickness and lighting.
The guy in blue just wanna watch it all on screen... come on, man, a movie is not entirely about that. This movie compells you to make the brain work. You gotta do it. It's a complete masterpiece, from beginning to end.
He didn't have a "slip up" with the girl. They were shot in to very different areas. The mistake he made was he didn't know the cartel was after him and his mother in law talks to much
He might have slipped up as well. The 2 aren't mutually exclusive.
In the book he was found interacting with a teenaged girl (17 IIRC) but because Llewelyn is dead he can't explain what they were talking about or if he was cheating on his wife. I think the conversation with the pool lady and fade to black was meant to replicate that. It's up to the audience. In the book it's extra sad because Carla has to deal with that information as well.
@@PillarOfWamuu It's implied in the book he was faithful. The Sheriff makes a point of verifying that.
@@r.plante2916 I think most people that knew him till believe he cheated. Or something to that effect. It's been a while.
The
Cormac McCarthy novel, of the same name as well worth the read. This screenplay is one of the best adaptations you’ll see.
1:10:15: Very disturbing that you guys can confirm the only Josh Brolin reference you have is to Marvel movies.
It's pretty typical; at least it will get them interested in other cinematic works.
*doesnt insta-kill the deer*
"It's not gonna be 3 stars."
underrated joke 😂😂
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The Sheriff won the toss, thats when he realized it was, "No Country for old men!"
Anton and Carson were special forces in Vietnam, that's the reason they were so highly trained.
Moss, as well.
does that then take away the theory that anton isn’t real and is a metaphor for death?
@@kiamckenz He kind of a "Grim Reaper", but not free of death himself, as shown end of the movie in the car crash.
Javier won the best actor for this movie and when he gave his acceptance speech he thanked the Cohen bros for making him wear the craziest wig ever.
That thing he uses is a bolt gun I think, it fires a metal piston back and forth with air used to kill cows and pigs. Had to look it up the first time I watched this movie.
Correct
Also from my understanding and what I read from others, the whole Anton being in room is Tommy Lee Jones fear of what’s to come, he’s THINKING Anton is in there when he really isn’t, he’s been gone. Tommy Lee jones character is almost purposely falling behind because he’s afraid of what’s to come, what new crazy person is around the corner. Throughout the film he’s bringing up stories of these new kids, people finding new ways to act crazy and kill and how disturbing and frightening these new things are. He’s afraid to confront it (as well as afraid he has no control on this kind of evil) and it’s cost him his job and the lives of others (Josh broLin’s character and his wife)
The Mexican cartel caught up with Llewelyn at the motel in El Paso because Carla Jean's mother spilled the beans about where they were going to the guy who was helping her with her bags. Llewelyn didn't drop his guard because of the pool lady. He had no chance against so many guys with automatic weapons.
The randomness of fate is a constant theme of the movie. Llewelyn tried to control things, but fails. So does Carson Wells. Sheriff Bell sees that things are outside his control, which is what leads him to retire. Even Anton, who seems himself as an instrument of fate, is not above random chance.
In the book the cartel was tapping the sheriff's phone, and when Carla Jean told him her whereabouts, they sent a single killer in a Barracuda to kill Llewelyn.
One of the best movies ever made written/acting/directed.
Reality of life. Great film. No Hollywood formula happy ending. Nothing hidden. Choices and random events. Real life stuff.
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That tank has a rod in it that the air shoots forward, they use it to put down animals like candle or sheep.
I saw this in the theater and didn’t know I was going to love it more than I did
I,m 70 years old and the world i knew don't exist anymore. I live in Sweden and the country has changed dramatacally in a short period of time. Now we have a crimescene i think most of us didn't thought was possible just a decade ago, you know with young people running around shooting and killing each other and sometimes bystanders. Bombs are exploding on a regular basis, hurting and killing people randomely. Our politicians had been warned for this situation to come for a long time but they have refused to listen. Anyway you can't stop what's comin' but they had a good chance, now it is to late. Maybe these thoughts are jus Vanity, well it is what it is.
According to the book, Llewelyn Moss was a sniper in Vietnam.
I recommend watching a couple videos that explain someone the meaning in some scenes and how what you see is more symbolic than literal and Wendigoon on yt has a great video on chigur’s character
Got actors from Dune, Men In Black, Fear The Walking Dead and Hunger Games all in the same movie.
This movie is based on a novel with the same name by Cormac McCarthy. He also wrote The Road which is made into a movie. The Road might be the most depressing book/movie ever made and it is amazing.
He also wrote Blood Meridian which is considered to be one of the greatest American novels of all time and is considered to be completely unfilmable. It might be the most violent novel ever made. The audiobook is AMAZING.
The Coen brothers have made some great movies. Check out Fargo by them
O' Brother, Where Art Thou as well.
@@deadassdgaf100 Fargo is my personal favourite by them. But there are so many worth watching. Barton fink...The big lebowski...burn after Reading...Raising Arizona. Some classics not seen by many
@@michaelhandy4968 I rank Fargo higher than No Country because, like their best films, it was original with the Coens. No Country is artfully filmed (Roger Deakins great as usual) and it's a pretty faithful adaptation of a novel, with the typical Coen touches. But O Brother is my favorite, for the creativity of the concept, filming the Odyssey transported to the Depression era South with a great Americana soundtrack and that Deakins cinematography. Then there's the highly underrated Hudsucker Proxy among their classic earlier works, Raising Arizona, Fargo and Lebowski.
@@flarrfan Fargo is in my top 10 movies of all time. It came out when I was in school and I loved it ever since. It's a classic
"It's directed by two brothers?" Welllll sounds like these guys have a lot of movies to see haha.
In case you don't know, the Assassin is the same guy who plays Freeman Stilgar in Dune movie. Also a Villain from James Bond Skyfall
I always thought 'No Country for Old Men' title suggested that most people died young in the wild west.
Tommy Lee Jones played Harvey Two-Face in "Batman Forever", a psychopathic villain who used a coin toss to decide whether or not to kill people. Weird huh?
My first reaction of yours, and it’s a good one. This movie is one of very few perfect adaptations of the novel. Ordinarily I’m content to let the two mediums exist exclusively on their own without one burdening the other. But this one is rare perfection.
In the book Anton had just left the motel room & was sitting in his car in the parking lot when the sherrif arrived.
Anton Chigurh stalks around like Jason or Michael Meyers.
In the early 90s I did a series of assembly programs all over the Northeast with "animals nobody loves". I stayed in different hotels each night and rarely spent more than 55.00. Most were 32-38 bucks, and I found a few for 20 dollars even.
interesting to think.. Moss might have been able to take out Chigur.. it would have been an epic battle at any rate. but he never got a chance because he was zerg rushed by the cartel. I like how the movie just steals that away from the audience. it's fitting to the story. not only is there no justice and evil wins, but the "hero's journey" story is also subverted. it leaves the audience feeling deflated and introspective. the real protagonist of the story is the sheriff, and we get to share with him the impact of all the violence and meaninglessness of it all.
Good catch by Cojo pointing out Anton checking his boots after his visit to Carla. I'd like to think that he does not kill her, that she somehow appealed to him by refusing to choose head or tails and telling him it's all HIM and not the coin.
But, in the book he kills her, so ... :/
It’s based on a bestselling novel el by Cormac McCarthy and the film won multiple Academy Awards. It’s also directed by multiple Award -winning directors the Coen Brothers (Joel and Ethan) responsible for movies like Fargo.
seeing the four of you together feels like I'm watching a movie reaction from the conjuring universe 😅
in westerns this isn't supposed to be how they end..but this is real life, there's no battle royale or mexican standoff, the bad guy shoots good guy in the back, tough sheriff feels too outmatched/scared to open the door and face what's on the other side and retires, bad guy gets away with the loot, he tries to make sense of a dream that might have meaning..maybe there is meaning, but then again they're usually just BS
He thought he'd become good enough as Sheriff to keep his town safe but the world just became too big and too fast and too disrespectful and violent for him to ever stay ahead of it.
This Film Is A Rorschach Test. Everyone Sees What They Want To See
I saw this in theaters twice when I was 19. It was such a unique experience in the theater without any score or music. And the movie was amazing obviously. The second time I saw it was when I went with a friend who hadn’t seen it and I was down to go with him because this was before the days of UA-cam movie reactions
"You can't stop what's coming."
To see what came, watch THE COUNSELOR, also written by McCarthy. It's an update on the Texas border drug scene. Very grim.
Liked the video for Igli and Corey
One of the greatest films ever.
Funny how Brolin plays the young Tommy Lee Jones in MIB3 :D
Regarding the ending. I had the same reaction. But upon reflection. I get it. No Country For Old Men. This new world doesn't make sense. The criminals are not just after money, they are insane. There is not just crime but EVIl. It doesn't make sense. It is non sequiter. That is what the guy was talking about in the beginning of the movie. And he was talking about the end of the road at the end of the movie, the dream. It doesn't really make sense. And that is the point. He was trying to figure it out too. And that is what the movie leaves you with. A feeling of incompletion. Dischordance. Modern times are nuts. They don't make sense. The Sheriff couldn't take the measure of it, and felt uncomfortable with it. Just like we feel when the movie ends when it does, with no resolution. There is no beginning, middle and ending. It is just random. Databyter
Josh Brolin was the teenager in the Goonies and the younger Tommy Lee Jones in Men in Black sequels..such a good duo
Freaking hilarious that you guys became so enthralled by Javier Bardem’s riveting performance (which he won a best supporting actor academy award for) that you changed your minds about him and the hair cut 😂😂😂
That lady in the office had zero time for Chigura’s shit
The dog was doing the "doggie paddle", ........there is a reason we have that term.
and yes, that is a slaughter house dispatch air gun. My father was a truck driver in the 70s and took me to one......................eating beef now is difficult for me. I would rather eat an old, hunted buck in the last years of his life.
Another Coen brothers Masterpiece.
I'm surprised you cut out Tommy Lee Jones last lines.
Talking about his dreams about his father and knowing what's coming next.
A lot of this movie was from the perspective of the Sherriff (the old man) who knows death is near after retirement.
The sadness in that last bit of film hits me hard every time I see it.
Many layers to this film and I think it's the Coen Brother's best.
Wendigoon does a fantastic job at breaking down the book and the movie.
The direction, the script and the cast are absolutely outstanding.
But Javier Bardem's acting as hitman Anton Chigurh is out of this world. It's sensational.
The film was nominated for eight Oscars in 2008, four of which it won: Best Picture, Best Director (Coen brothers), Best Supporting Actor (Javier Bardem) and Best Adapted Screenplay. It was also nominated in the categories Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Sound and Best Sound Editing.
McCarthy meant to subvert western tropes. The maverick is killed, the sheriff is always a step behind and gives up, and the villain triumphs.
This is my second favorite film after Casablanca. Both were Best Picture winners.
A series about Coen brothers films reactions would be awsome!!!
The casing. He picked up the casing because who leaves their litter on the ground? Heh. Hunter's and other nature lovers didn't leave their crap behind.
One of the great masterpieces of cinema.
17:29 is why I watch reactions. Great stuff! :)
For no good reason at all ive never seen this acclaimed film. But seeing as you boys took the time to, maybe I'll finally knock it off my list.
Theres a great video essay on yt - "what makes Anton Chigure so terrifying" - you'll love it
Two common themes in Coen movies. The control money has on our lives and the randomness of life and death. Most people feel the same way, not liking the ending and that LLewlyn's off screen death. When you rewatch it you appreciate that the Coens didn't want to make a standard action movie. Point of the movie we don't get to choose our ending in real life.
Most people didn't like it? I think most are just surprised.
The Coens were a perfect match for Cormac McCarthy. He once said that all the great stories are about life and death.
This movie is amazing 👍🏻 Congrats on the amazing channel, my favorite.
at 28:21 the point of him opening his room door on & on i think it was him training for the moment when he would enter Llewellyn's room, to memorise visually the distance from certain points across the room, different spots for hiding, like inspecting the battlefield before a battle so as to act quickly if needed. I bet he sensed there might at least someone expecting him when he would enter trough that 138 room's door - either Llewellyn, either the cartel people so he needed to be prepared.
Watch everything the Coen brothers were involved in. Geniuses. Imagine the balls it would take to pitch a movie with no score
React to the FEAR STREET trilogy, an interesting and brutal Netflix saga, even a new film is already in development, it's worth checking out.
Llewelyn picked up his brass because he was poaching and didn't want to leave any evidence behind.
The ending is a reality check lol.
If you want to see the mother-in-law pay, watch the opening of Six Feet Under, "Rapture" clip.
19:24 - "Is that something they kill cows with?" You are the first person to guess what this was.
Abigail
Ready or not
Scouts guide is surviving the zombie apocalypse
The Final Girls
“This climax is gonna be lit”
Yeahhhhh, about that….😬
great reaction. I believe the time frame was early 80s when the story took place.
great reaction fellas
30:00 - Those guys were Mexican cartel guys. They must have been able to track him to the same room and got there first. When they didn't find him, they simply waited. Fortunately they were the ones shot first.
Yeah, the American buyers (the Matacumbe Petroleum Company) also gave the cartel a tracker, which further pissed Anton off. "You use the one appropriate instrument" was his philosophy.
32:29 - Most older buildings skipped the 13th floor due to superstitions. This is why older building so not have a #13 on the elevator, so intead, they mark it as #14.
Those people on the 14th floor know what floor they're really on
@@woahblackbetty7691 Mitch Hedburg. 😊
There's that, but I also took it was a security measure by the Matacumbe Petroleum Company. The office had a special coded elevator.
Javier Bardem won an Oscar for his brilliant performance.
Y’all are the best!
In the book Carla Jean called it but called it wrong.
I think you misunderstood the ending. The ending is supposed to make you uneasy. It's not wrapped up nicely. It's supposed to leave you feeling off.
12:46 Hints the type of swimming called "doggy paddle"
I like to think Carla (Llewelyn wife). Was the only person who shook Anton. Which is why he got in that car wreck. Not cause he wasn't at fault. But more of a symbolic event. IMO anyways.
No. He got into the car wreck because even the instrument of death himself is subject to the randomness of nature.
Great reaction guys ❤️ Good movie 😊
That year Cate Blanchett did many roles, Bob Dylan. She even played the dog that attacks him.
Josh Brolin plays Tommy Lee Jones in men in black 3
Definitely check out some of the other Cohen brothers movies like Fargo, Millers Crossing, Raising Arizona