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No Country for Coen Brothers
by mstrschld
Thank you to Troy Patterson and all the other talking head pundit goons for sending me off to one of the most unpleasant cinematic endings I have ever experienced as an American moviegoer. Yes, I'm referring to my nasty little No Country for Old Dudes experience the other night. What a depressing load of dry country depression! Hey, lovers of this film, life is much better than this. Oh, and hey also, cultists of the psychopathic, ooo, scary guy here, monster movie, Omen V: B-a-d M-o-v-i-e. No soul. Triumph of evil. Also, haven't you heard: Hitler lost. Love loses battles right and left but we all sense, deep down, that again and again, it does win the war. My advice: avoid this movie at all costs and two: have faith. It's OK to show evil if you show the VALUE in losing to it. It's OK to show evil if you leave us with hope. Otherwise you are just drumming up fear and adding to the panic. Coen Brothers and their apologists: go home and re-think your lives.
Re: No Country for Coen Brothers
by maroci
Uh, whatever.
Re: No Country for Coen Brothers
by psbuchanan
In truth, No Country is an evil movie. It is a movie where the really bad triumph over the ordinary bad, ambivalent, good and right, and innocent. I can think of no moral, lesson, message, or redeeming values in this movie. It was gripping and taut. It had a potential hero. It was cinematically superior, and it was all for naught. No Country is the type of movie that is truly liked only by "hip" movie critics and in two very distinct locations: At the corner of Hollywood & Vine and along Broadway in New York City. The rest of America should go screaming into the night after watching this one. It inspires nightmares, and its two hours in length justifies the cries of all conservative causes, which argue that large parts of the Hollywood establishment live by a different set of values than the rest of us.

Yet, all this is not the worst part: How could a team of people that has made great movies in the past, like "Fargo" for example, create a film so devoid worthwhile qualities? All normal Americans can do is scratch there heads and hope for better next time from the supremely talented Coen brothers.
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