The whole point of the movie is to be a certain anti-western. The hero dies offscreen unceremoniously, the sheriff gives up and never catches the villain, the most sympathetic character in the movie gets murdered and the most evil one walks off into the sunset. The reason for this is because it's pointing out how old people in each era always look at the past through rose colored glasses. The truth is the world has never been kind and just nor has it been evil. It's all just kind of chaos and it's largely out of our hands.
Interesting take. And unlike the anti-hero protagonists of the spaghetti westerns, post-spaghetti westerns, and other anti-Hero protagonists, we do not and cannot form a connection with him. There’s no redeeming qualities that hook us, that invite empathy and identification. I think you’re not quite right about the “whole point”. The “anti-western” structure is structure. It’s a mirrored structure of the western like you’re saying, but the structure is supporting the themes, not the theme of the movie. The themes are so deep that comment or reply won’t do them justice. And to be honest, I’m still wresting with theme. I thought I understood the themes, but this reaction got me thinking about them again. Just the same, I bet you (johnrussell) wouldn’t have any problem summarizing them more explicitly than you already have. Or don’t. I’m not telling you what to do. 😊
Awesome take on this movie! Thanks! I’ve always loved it but never quite knew why - and I can never reconcile the Raising Arizona direct quotes and Easter eggs in this one… anyway, …
More generally, I looked it as more contrasting the chance and tragedies of real life versus people thinking they're the heroes of their own lives. Lewellyn cares about others enough to bring water to a dying man but he assumes he can kill an evil man but ends up dying. Good people can die of unforeseen circumstances like the mom with cancer or running across a car in need of help on the road and being killed by a psychopath instead.
@@Scary__fun Good point. I'm an atheist, but I don't hate religion the way the a lot of atheists do. Still, I get really annoyed when things work out for people and they take it as evidence that God was looking out for them for their righteousness. It's so anecdotal. When you look at pain and pleasure on the scale of which all of humanity has experienced it and who it all has been meted out to there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.
This is set in 1980. There would be no reason for him to think there was a tracker in the money. This is before the tech revolution. Nobody thought like that back then.
As someone who was born in 77, a lot of younger people don't realize the sense of privacy and even community that existed before cameras sprung up everywhere. Now it feels like we're always monitored yet somehow socially isolated.
2007 is one of the most impressive years of American cinema over the past 20 years. This film, Andrew Dominik's 'The Assassination of Jesse James,' and of course Paul Thomas Anderson's masterwork 'There Will Be Blood' are three of the finest pieces of cinema you're bound to watch ❤
i listen to music 10x less than i used to. silence is hard to come by in today's world. also ppls lives and stories are so interesting in the real and emotional. music adds fakeness.
One of my favorite quotes in the movie... “All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
An amazing film. From the casting and dialogue, to every frame of camerawork and lighting. It's as though it was painted and not photographed. That the story is so real and doesn't have a "Hollywood ending" just makes it all the better.
The source material, of course, came from the brilliant writer, Cormac McCarthy. That's why the dialogue has that poetic element to it. RIP Mr. McCarthy.
The device used in the movie by the assassin is technically not a gun. It's called a captive bolt stunner, under pressure it ejects a metal rod which then retracts. It's used to kill cattle.
Honestly, this is one of the most insightful reactions to this movie that I've ever seen. I LOVE "No Country" and you two picked up on things that I had to watch several times to understand. Kudos to both of you!
Javier Bardem killed it in this movie (literally). He is such a good actor. Also, at the very least we all now know to check for a tracker device if we ever find a random bag of money.
glad u gals finally got to see this one!!! its in my top best films ever !! and not because this film is based on my home town lol !! just the small details of the movie i love ...like the motel scene is so well done !!! u girls have the best reaction to this film !!!
Another perfect react that I can't thumbs up (see my Rocky comment). I've seen most reacts to Old Men, and yours is the the only one that almost got it.. You are AWSOME reactors, and your editor is the best.
The Coen Brothers who did this film make cool movies. A lot of dark humor. In fact while they were filming this they were working on the script for their next movie which is one of my favorites. Burn After Reading. You two need to watch it.
Such a beautifully crafted film where every scene and action - no matter how small and mundane - somehow becomes riveting to watch. I want to say so much more, but I will stick to two random things that made me smile: First, the early dog talk was exactly what my mind was thinking when I initially watched this movie, haha. And second... Jyn with the hair up is better than Jyn with the hair down. Just the personal aesthetic preference of another soul living on a different part of this planet. :) Always great reactions from you guys. I hope you keep going.
32:05 if you just watch someone buddy into an office and kill the person you were speaking with in cold blood and then they ask you if you see them??? The inky answer is NO! wtf?😂😂😂 How the hell you don't know that? Remember that, it just might save your life one day.
If you liked, the " American" remake of "Oldboy" with josh Brolin, watch the original Korean trilogy, " simpalhy for Mr. Vengeance", "Oldboy", and "lady vengeance"
If there's a "winner" in this movie it's probably Sheriff Bell, who was wise enough to retire when he realized the world had moved on beyond his ability to contend with it. Anton doesn't really win because Anton isn't about winning or losing. His principles are beyond that kind of idea. He's more of a universal force, a personification of Death who carries out the whims of fate. People cross his path, by chance, meet his gaze, by chance, and die, by chance. The most he can do, if he has any sympathy for them, is to give them an extra chance in the coin flip, which is one of the principles he follows. He gets the money, but like Carson says, the money's not important to him. He never even uses any money in the movie except when he gives some to the kid at the end for his shirt. Winning doesn't come into it, he just performs his function.
I'd agree with Anton being an agent death and chance... until the very end where chance also impacts him, literally, with the car crash. So, he thinks he is an agent of death but as Llewellyn's wife says, it isn't the coin (signifying chance) that is bringing death, it's him that's deciding to do it. That's what makes the story so great, it makes you think about deep questions of life and death.
Ha ha! Javier Bardem joked about it in an interview, complaining that he could not get close to getting laid the entire filming. It was taken from a 70's Playboy fashion section by the way, lol.
Moss died because the old momma ratted the meeting place out to the Mexicans. But Moss told his wife not to bring her, saying she'd be alright. But she wanted to bring her mom along anyway. That was the one variable that messed them up.
I remember seeing this. It became one of my favorite movies. Later, I read the novel it was based on, too. The story, though fictitious, is based on the US-Mexico drug trade that reached a high peak in 1980 (and still continues today). It resulted in lots of organized crime (around the US border states: Texas (depicted in the film), and also New Mexico, Arizona, and California (where I live now today)). Today, since the 80s, those 4 states remain the highest in level of drugtrafficking and organized crime.
I'm a vegetarian but when I was young I worked in a meat factory. Every time people watch this I'm shocked that no one knows what a bolt gun is and does.
@@MitchClement-il6iq Yes, but do you slaughter your own animals using a bolt gun? The vast majority of people eat meat, of course. But most won't know what that device is.
Crazy when you said "empty vessel" cuz that's exactly the term they used to describe another serial killer, in the movie The Third Murder. Both that killer and Anton are antisocial
The story is from the perspective of the Sheriff. He is the narrator. It's how he feels time, for his kind, has passed him by. All that he thought was logical, and fair about life, isn't..He is overwhelmed by senseless violence, and feel's powerless in the face of it all..That's why the ending is perfect...Some stories shouldn't end tied up with a pretty bow wrapped around it. We all know that's not how actual life happens, most times.
Chigurh makes the point that the universe is random, like a coin toss. But when his own precious personal ass gets crushed in a car accident (sometimes you're not the one flipping the coin), he insists on giving the kid money for his shirt, because he's buying his silence. Even though the kid offers it to him for nothing, for free. The little bit at the end about the dream of his father 'carrying the fire' refers to the idea of civilization going forward in community and family. Good movie.
I also love that Antoine Shugar or however you spelt it won. I find it a fascinating movie with great acting. I agree that him taking the money and THEN going back was dumb. but I love the realness and brutality but also the body language and conversations soooooo much
and also idk how common or well known trackers and such are at the time. so its impressive to me that he figured that out or was curious enough to look
@@MitchClement-il6iq I totally forgot about that.... Like the movie is so seemless, so stressful, so captivating and well made that I forgot again that there is no music. 1000000/10 movie
I think you guys have reacted to "The Goonies" but if you haven't you should. Anyway the lead actor running from the physico is Josh Brolin who played the older brother in the Goonies. His father is James Brolin, an old time actor. 🥰🤣❤️🤫🥴
LOVE this movie. Probably the Coen's best movie. Anton was ruthless, but he did stick to his rules. The lesson I took out of this movie: You stumble upon a scene where there's lots of money, drugs and dead people...call the cops. And I don't know why but I always tear up at the end listening to Tommy Lee Jones telling his wife about his dream about his father. God, I love this movie.
This movie is uncomfortably realistic. It seemed strange to me too as you put it early except I kept thinking about Fargo and really it is only strange for not being cinematic. Like where is the score? And realistically we are led to this rising action and into thinking we are going to get a big movie showdown between our protagonist and antagonist and...no because in real life when screw a crime syndicate, cartel in this case and are on a killers radar you just die. From the moment he took that cash. That is cold and so uncomfortable. Unique though for a film to be that blunt and unassuming.
“And then I woke up…” If you enjoyed Carson, you should check out True Detective. The same actor (Woody Harrelson) is partnered with Matthew McConaughey to try to solve a series of brutal murders in Louisiana
Your reaction are awesome, girls. Incredible how much you pick up along the way. This movie is a masterpiece and perfectly depicts the randomness of life, beyond good and evil. Shit happens, that's all.
19:13 Out of superstition they use to number floors 11, 12, 14, 15, etc on buildings. Purposefully mislabeling the 13th floor. Of course, there still is a 13th floor. It's just that nobody has to put "13" on any address to the building.
Yeah, that's not it. One of the floors is a drug operation, so it is unmarked and locked out of the elevator, Carson figured this out and was letting him know that he knew.
It's a Coen brothers movie. They're like saints to cinema lovers. Not everything they've made is great, but there's a big bunch if you want more. Also comedies.
19:10 - Many buildings will not include a 13th floor (out of superstition and tradition). So if you count the floors from the outside, there may be 18, but the elevator will go to 19. Thus the weird dialogue.
Obra maestra, sin necesidad de tener música de fondo, la tensión es magistral, y Javier Bardem interpreta a uno de los mejores villanos de la historia del cine.
Makes you think, doesn't it? And some of it there's just no making sense of. That's why the sheriff is bone weary of it all. He's seen enough. He's too old to see anymore. He's done. Thanks for sharing this one.
You're right, it was stupid of Llewelyn to go back to the scene of the shoot out. But if he hadn't he and his wife would have been dead within a couple of hours because he didn't know the money was being tracked. Of course, with Anton Chigurh chasing him he only prolonged the inevitable.
When Woody Harrellson was asking about the "missing floor" in the bldg, he was just being sarcastic. The majority of high rise buildings don't number the 13th floor because 13 is a superstition of being an Unlucky Number. Great reaction by you Two Cuties! 🥴🤔🥰❤️🤣
The missing floor is because one of the floors in the building is being used for the drug business. It was Carson's way of letting the other guy know that he knows what's going on there. The book has a bit more detail on it.
Over the years this has become my favorite movie. Some small details. There is no soundtrack\music. Not during the opening, not during the movie and not during the credits. It gives the movie an intimacy without us being manipulated by a soundtrack. Another thing, the opening shots there are long, lingering shots of barren landscapes - very similar to the opening shots of Stanly Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. I compared them once, think they are both 7-8 shots and roughly the same length. This is a horror movie, but not because of the guy with the bad haircut. The only real conversations are the three with the main character, the sheriff (the old man). The sheriff with the other sheriff "once we stop saying ma'am or sir, the rest follows", the sheriff with his friend "what you got ain't anything new", and his two dreams at the end. The first dream was about "losing some money" a single short sentence that dismisses the entire movie you just watched. The second about his father going ahead, making things better. Then he woke up. It's the realization there is no 'progress'. Things will never get better because of human nature.
In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, there's a scene with analogous tension to the dog pursuit of Llewelyn. Comanche are the doing the pursuing in that story. (No Country for Old Men is a Cormac McCarthy novel.)
The weapon is called "captive bolt pistol" (or gun), there is no projectile, it works like a gas powered piston. It is used at slaugherhouses to stun (or kill) the cattle for slaughter. It ejects a piston at very high speed, but the "projectile" doesn't leave the gun.
Anton is the personification of Fate. He's generous with the coin toss, giving people the opportunity to change it. Moss represents Chance, it was by this he found the money etc. Sheriff Bell represents Order, but when Chance meets Fate, he feels "overmatched," he has no choice but to bow out, hence No Country For Old Men. Ps. Heads on the coin toss is always right cuz the point is if you use your HEAD, you won't end up on the TAIL end of the barrel.
Most people don't get it, the story is about *"The Sheriff"* that's why the movie starts and ends with him. The title says it all *No Country for Old Men* its set around 1980, when the Drug Wars started, the Mexican Cartels and their American counterparts were in turf wars so to speak. Killings skyrocketed on those small Texas Border towns. That why it end with him *retiring* it was no place (country) for old lawmen, who most never had to shoot their guns. That is why Tommy Lee Jones is the main character.
The whole point of the movie is to be a certain anti-western. The hero dies offscreen unceremoniously, the sheriff gives up and never catches the villain, the most sympathetic character in the movie gets murdered and the most evil one walks off into the sunset. The reason for this is because it's pointing out how old people in each era always look at the past through rose colored glasses. The truth is the world has never been kind and just nor has it been evil. It's all just kind of chaos and it's largely out of our hands.
Well said.
Interesting take. And unlike the anti-hero protagonists of the spaghetti westerns, post-spaghetti westerns, and other anti-Hero protagonists, we do not and cannot form a connection with him. There’s no redeeming qualities that hook us, that invite empathy and identification.
I think you’re not quite right about the “whole point”. The “anti-western” structure is structure. It’s a mirrored structure of the western like you’re saying, but the structure is supporting the themes, not the theme of the movie.
The themes are so deep that comment or reply won’t do them justice. And to be honest, I’m still wresting with theme. I thought I understood the themes, but this reaction got me thinking about them again.
Just the same, I bet you (johnrussell) wouldn’t have any problem summarizing them more explicitly than you already have. Or don’t. I’m not telling you what to do. 😊
Awesome take on this movie! Thanks! I’ve always loved it but never quite knew why - and I can never reconcile the Raising Arizona direct quotes and Easter eggs in this one… anyway, …
More generally, I looked it as more contrasting the chance and tragedies of real life versus people thinking they're the heroes of their own lives. Lewellyn cares about others enough to bring water to a dying man but he assumes he can kill an evil man but ends up dying. Good people can die of unforeseen circumstances like the mom with cancer or running across a car in need of help on the road and being killed by a psychopath instead.
@@Scary__fun Good point. I'm an atheist, but I don't hate religion the way the a lot of atheists do. Still, I get really annoyed when things work out for people and they take it as evidence that God was looking out for them for their righteousness. It's so anecdotal. When you look at pain and pleasure on the scale of which all of humanity has experienced it and who it all has been meted out to there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason.
This is set in 1980. There would be no reason for him to think there was a tracker in the money. This is before the tech revolution. Nobody thought like that back then.
As someone who was born in 77, a lot of younger people don't realize the sense of privacy and even community that existed before cameras sprung up everywhere. Now it feels like we're always monitored yet somehow socially isolated.
Love this movie. My favorite line is when Ellis says to Ed Tom that "it all ain't waiting on you. Thats vanity".
Awesome reaction young ladies!!!
2:56 "he said hold still just like what the guy said." -Ryl
good catch. i missed that myself.
2007 is one of the most impressive years of American cinema over the past 20 years. This film, Andrew Dominik's 'The Assassination of Jesse James,' and of course Paul Thomas Anderson's masterwork 'There Will Be Blood' are three of the finest pieces of cinema you're bound to watch ❤
AofJJ is fantastic.
@@YoureMrLebowski Absolutely! The telling of the story and cinematography is captivating, even if westerns aren't your thing.
Both phenomenal. The Jesse James movie may be my favorite western of all time. I think a lot of people have never even seen it.
the movie of the decade is the wrestler
Michael Clayton also came out in 2007. Excellent movie. I'm not sure I'd put it equal with No Country or There Will Be Blood, but it's awfully close.
I love how this movie doesn't have any music and it doesn't matter, great movie
Once you realize that you sit back and say "Ohhhhhhh..."
i listen to music 10x less than i used to.
silence is hard to come by in today's world.
also ppls lives and stories are so interesting in the real and emotional.
music adds fakeness.
One of my favorite quotes in the movie... “All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”
Barry Corbin, that's a good one, with the cats and the week old coffee, also.. " you can't stop what's comin'. It ain't all waitin' on you."
@@Sheisthedevilyouknowwho-ft9we “That’s vanity.”
An amazing film. From the casting and dialogue, to every frame of camerawork and lighting. It's as though it was painted and not photographed. That the story is so real and doesn't have a "Hollywood ending" just makes it all the better.
There Will Be Blood is my favorite of these two thematic siblings, but this film is just another example of the Joel and Ethan Coen's brilliance.
The source material, of course, came from the brilliant writer, Cormac McCarthy. That's why the dialogue has that poetic element to it. RIP Mr. McCarthy.
You girls are my favorite. Authentic and funny. Ive been watching you for a while, just wanted to stop to say keep up the good work.
The device used in the movie by the assassin is technically not a gun. It's called a captive bolt stunner, under pressure it ejects a metal rod which then retracts. It's used to kill cattle.
AKA it kills farm animals fast!
It's just called a bolt gun in Australia I own one
Anton sees people as cattle. And he's the butcher.
Yes, Tommy Lee Jones' character explains it in the movie...
You ladies are very smart. You figured things out a lot quicker than most people do. Well done!
Honestly, this is one of the most insightful reactions to this movie that I've ever seen. I LOVE "No Country" and you two picked up on things that I had to watch several times to understand. Kudos to both of you!
He was not a cop or a bounty hunter (the character) he was an oppurtunist! But his opportunity expired.
I really like the way y'all bounce ideas back and forth til you come up with solid theories and explanations.
the gas weapon is called a captive bolt stunner its what they use too kill Cattle on farms. such a unique weapon for a killer in the movie
Javier Bardem killed it in this movie (literally). He is such a good actor. Also, at the very least we all now know to check for a tracker device if we ever find a random bag of money.
The actress who plays Carla Jean is actually Irish. She nails the West Texas accent.
She's Scottish
@@alififali My bad. Thanks for the correction.
She was also very good in Trainspotting.
She's scotish but she played an irish in Boardwalk Empire.
glad u gals finally got to see this one!!! its in my top best films ever !! and not because this film is based on my home town lol !! just the small details of the movie i love ...like the motel scene is so well done !!! u girls have the best reaction to this film !!!
Another perfect react that I can't thumbs up (see my Rocky comment). I've seen most reacts to Old Men, and yours is the the only one that almost got it.. You are AWSOME reactors, and your editor is the best.
The Coen Brothers who did this film make cool movies. A lot of dark humor. In fact while they were filming this they were working on the script for their next movie which is one of my favorites. Burn After Reading. You two need to watch it.
My favorite living directors for sure. Most of their movies are brilliant.
Such a beautifully crafted film where every scene and action - no matter how small and mundane - somehow becomes riveting to watch. I want to say so much more, but I will stick to two random things that made me smile: First, the early dog talk was exactly what my mind was thinking when I initially watched this movie, haha. And second... Jyn with the hair up is better than Jyn with the hair down. Just the personal aesthetic preference of another soul living on a different part of this planet. :) Always great reactions from you guys. I hope you keep going.
32:05 if you just watch someone buddy into an office and kill the person you were speaking with in cold blood and then they ask you if you see them??? The inky answer is NO! wtf?😂😂😂 How the hell you don't know that? Remember that, it just might save your life one day.
This movie is a masterpiece fun fact- none of the 3 mains are ever in the same shot together.
The satchel is the same one from Fargo …. ❤ from NM USA
If you liked, the " American" remake of "Oldboy" with josh Brolin, watch the original Korean trilogy, " simpalhy for Mr. Vengeance", "Oldboy", and "lady vengeance"
He brought back the water. It proves the saying, "No good deed goes unpunished." This is the devil's system.
If there's a "winner" in this movie it's probably Sheriff Bell, who was wise enough to retire when he realized the world had moved on beyond his ability to contend with it. Anton doesn't really win because Anton isn't about winning or losing. His principles are beyond that kind of idea. He's more of a universal force, a personification of Death who carries out the whims of fate. People cross his path, by chance, meet his gaze, by chance, and die, by chance. The most he can do, if he has any sympathy for them, is to give them an extra chance in the coin flip, which is one of the principles he follows. He gets the money, but like Carson says, the money's not important to him. He never even uses any money in the movie except when he gives some to the kid at the end for his shirt. Winning doesn't come into it, he just performs his function.
I'd agree with Anton being an agent death and chance... until the very end where chance also impacts him, literally, with the car crash. So, he thinks he is an agent of death but as Llewellyn's wife says, it isn't the coin (signifying chance) that is bringing death, it's him that's deciding to do it. That's what makes the story so great, it makes you think about deep questions of life and death.
8:53 "and this freaking hair." -Jyn
FINALLY!!  I didn't think you would ever mention his hair. that's the craziest thing about him.
Ha ha! Javier Bardem joked about it in an interview, complaining that he could not get close to getting laid the entire filming. It was taken from a 70's Playboy fashion section by the way, lol.
Javier Bardem is terrifying in this. Great film.
19:22 buildings with more than 15 floors ...on the elevator it never shows the an option for 13th floor .
You ladies are some of the sharpest and most fun reactors. Plus, you actually watch the movies and pick good spots to comment.
I love tgat this movie calls vanity to anyone who things back in the days things were better and today is worse. It is vanity to think like that.
12:18 "there's something about milk." -Ryl 🥛😈
their next reaction is Inglourious Basterds.
freaky 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Moss died because the old momma ratted the meeting place out to the Mexicans. But Moss told his wife not to bring her, saying she'd be alright. But she wanted to bring her mom along anyway. That was the one variable that messed them up.
I remember seeing this. It became one of my favorite movies. Later, I read the novel it was based on, too.
The story, though fictitious, is based on the US-Mexico drug trade that reached a high peak in 1980 (and still continues today). It resulted in lots of organized crime (around the US border states: Texas (depicted in the film), and also New Mexico, Arizona, and California (where I live now today)). Today, since the 80s, those 4 states remain the highest in level of drugtrafficking and organized crime.
Crazy good film selection on this channel.....top quality..just having my milk and watching😊
Anton was setting in his car when the sherrif was in the motel room. It's in the book.
I'm a vegetarian but when I was young I worked in a meat factory. Every time people watch this I'm shocked that no one knows what a bolt gun is and does.
I moved to dense urban after my rural upbringing and still forget that most people wouldn't know about this tool.
Most people never slaughter an animal nor harvest a vegetable.
I knew exactly what it was, I eat meat :)
@@MitchClement-il6iq Yes, but do you slaughter your own animals using a bolt gun? The vast majority of people eat meat, of course. But most won't know what that device is.
ive lived in East TN all my 37 years & I've heard & experienced many a "country" nuance, but i had ZERO idea seeing this either 🤷🏻♀️ wild.
32:01 "no. no. the answer is no." -Ryl 😆
25:48 the simultaneous turning of the heads... 🤌🏽
Good review ladies🙂👍
Crazy when you said "empty vessel" cuz that's exactly the term they used to describe another serial killer, in the movie The Third Murder. Both that killer and Anton are antisocial
The story is from the perspective of the Sheriff. He is the narrator. It's how he feels time, for his kind, has passed him by. All that he thought was logical, and fair about life, isn't..He is overwhelmed by senseless violence, and feel's powerless in the face of it all..That's why the ending is perfect...Some stories shouldn't end tied up with a pretty bow wrapped around it. We all know that's not how actual life happens, most times.
Jyn like, "This whole movie...why?!?!?" 😂. Cause shit is real in the field, my sweets...I hear ya though.
Another movie based on a great Cormac McCarthy novel is "The Road" with Viggo Mortensen.
Well worth a watch, girls. 🙂👍
Virtual hug! 🤗🤗
Chigurh makes the point that the universe is random, like a coin toss. But when his own precious personal ass gets crushed in a car accident (sometimes you're not the one flipping the coin), he insists on giving the kid money for his shirt, because he's buying his silence. Even though the kid offers it to him for nothing, for free. The little bit at the end about the dream of his father 'carrying the fire' refers to the idea of civilization going forward in community and family. Good movie.
27:57 "he knows!" -Ryl 😄
About the realities and unpredictable nature of life. The uncertainty. Choices mixed with random events. Very simply put. Great reaction ladies.
Always glad to see you guys have a new video up. You ever seen RUDY ?
And he took those guns because they are sweet guns lol.
I also love that Antoine Shugar or however you spelt it won. I find it a fascinating movie with great acting. I agree that him taking the money and THEN going back was dumb. but I love the realness and brutality but also the body language and conversations soooooo much
1:32 "he's not a normal type of guy." -Jyn
he is not. 🤪
There is no closure to this movie.
I love it....'they chose that life'....(in reference to feeling empathy to the dead dog and not dead humans)
This is my favorite killer movie EVER! The fear, the coldness, and every other feeling I feel watch this killer is just. Chefs kiss
and also idk how common or well known trackers and such are at the time. so its impressive to me that he figured that out or was curious enough to look
Also no movie soundtrack!
@@MitchClement-il6iq I totally forgot about that.... Like the movie is so seemless, so stressful, so captivating and well made that I forgot again that there is no music. 1000000/10 movie
Surprisingly the movie follows the book pretty closely
Carson was the retired Army Colonel that the other sheriff was talking about.
2:33 "Aaah!" -Jyn
i think that's the loudest i've ever heard Jyn scream. 😮😆
The old man at the end is Lewelyn's uncle.
No, he's Sheriff Ed Tom Bell's uncle.
I think you guys have reacted to "The Goonies" but if you haven't you should. Anyway the lead actor running from the physico is Josh Brolin who played the older brother in the Goonies. His father is James Brolin, an old time actor. 🥰🤣❤️🤫🥴
7:10 "[gasp] 😮 there's another vehicle." -Ryl
LOVE this movie.
Probably the Coen's best movie.
Anton was ruthless, but he did stick to his rules.
The lesson I took out of this movie:
You stumble upon a scene where there's lots of money, drugs and dead people...call the cops.
And I don't know why but I always tear up at the end listening to Tommy Lee Jones telling his wife about his dream about his father.
God, I love this movie.
Fargo is a great movie made by the same guys
This movie is uncomfortably realistic. It seemed strange to me too as you put it early except I kept thinking about Fargo and really it is only strange for not being cinematic. Like where is the score? And realistically we are led to this rising action and into thinking we are going to get a big movie showdown between our protagonist and antagonist and...no because in real life when screw a crime syndicate, cartel in this case and are on a killers radar you just die. From the moment he took that cash. That is cold and so uncomfortable. Unique though for a film to be that blunt and unassuming.
27:33 "ohhhhh, the psychopath is behind you!" -Jyn 😮
“And then I woke up…”
If you enjoyed Carson, you should check out True Detective. The same actor (Woody Harrelson) is partnered with Matthew McConaughey to try to solve a series of brutal murders in Louisiana
One of the best movies ever. Also this is set in. 1980 so there wasnt much investigation of whose gun fired what bullet, etc.
Your reaction are awesome, girls. Incredible how much you pick up along the way.
This movie is a masterpiece and perfectly depicts the randomness of life, beyond good and evil.
Shit happens, that's all.
19:13 Out of superstition they use to number floors 11, 12, 14, 15, etc on buildings. Purposefully mislabeling the 13th floor. Of course, there still is a 13th floor. It's just that nobody has to put "13" on any address to the building.
Yeah, that's not it. One of the floors is a drug operation, so it is unmarked and locked out of the elevator, Carson figured this out and was letting him know that he knew.
@@alittlebitgone I don't believe there's anything in the movie to support that theory.
theres not many post 2000 movies ill watch reactions to, but thats definately one of them
One of my all time favorite films. Anton Chigurh is such a chilling character.
It's a Coen brothers movie. They're like saints to cinema lovers. Not everything they've made is great, but there's a big bunch if you want more. Also comedies.
19:10 - Many buildings will not include a 13th floor (out of superstition and tradition). So if you count the floors from the outside, there may be 18, but the elevator will go to 19. Thus the weird dialogue.
theres also probably an unlisted thirteen floor where they do drug processing or money laundering stuff
Obra maestra, sin necesidad de tener música de fondo, la tensión es magistral, y Javier Bardem interpreta a uno de los mejores villanos de la historia del cine.
You would love reading the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. This screenplay is one the best adaptations for film I can think of.
One of my top 10 favorite movies of all times and my list is top tier.
Incredible book by an incredible writer brought to cinema by incredible directors and actors.
Josh brolin , his dad was in the amityville horror movie first one 1979!
And this why linked -behind the back hand cuffs were invented! I can get out of chain hand cuffs, but not solid linked ones!
Makes you think, doesn't it? And some of it there's just no making sense of. That's why the sheriff is bone weary of it all. He's seen enough. He's too old to see anymore. He's done. Thanks for sharing this one.
You're right, it was stupid of Llewelyn to go back to the scene of the shoot out. But if he hadn't he and his wife would have been dead within a couple of hours because he didn't know the money was being tracked. Of course, with Anton Chigurh chasing him he only prolonged the inevitable.
The land lady, he respected her. It's difficult to explain
she stood on business....he could relate (which i presume he probably NEVER experiences)
When Woody Harrellson was asking about the "missing floor" in the bldg, he was just being sarcastic. The majority of high rise buildings don't number the 13th floor because 13 is a superstition of being an Unlucky Number. Great reaction by you Two Cuties! 🥴🤔🥰❤️🤣
The missing floor is because one of the floors in the building is being used for the drug business. It was Carson's way of letting the other guy know that he knows what's going on there. The book has a bit more detail on it.
@@wufners ohh ok. It went straight over my head! Lol. Thanks for clarifying. After all these years. Lol. Makes sense. 🤔🥴🤫🤣
The missing floor Woody is referring to is the 13th floor I'd assume. Old superstitions and all that. Great reaction.
Over the years this has become my favorite movie. Some small details. There is no soundtrack\music. Not during the opening, not during the movie and not during the credits. It gives the movie an intimacy without us being manipulated by a soundtrack. Another thing, the opening shots there are long, lingering shots of barren landscapes - very similar to the opening shots of Stanly Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. I compared them once, think they are both 7-8 shots and roughly the same length.
This is a horror movie, but not because of the guy with the bad haircut. The only real conversations are the three with the main character, the sheriff (the old man). The sheriff with the other sheriff "once we stop saying ma'am or sir, the rest follows", the sheriff with his friend "what you got ain't anything new", and his two dreams at the end. The first dream was about "losing some money" a single short sentence that dismisses the entire movie you just watched. The second about his father going ahead, making things better. Then he woke up. It's the realization there is no 'progress'. Things will never get better because of human nature.
This story take place in the 70s... tracking devices were not used a lot back then.
80's.
@@TheBuckMuscles Yeah 1980 to be precise 😅
Did you guys notice this movie had no music.
8:07 "that poor dog though. damn." -Jyn
that dog chose that life.
No dog chooses their owners.... NONE!
Llewelyn Moss is also Thanos from the Avengers. This was a long time before then tho.
In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, there's a scene with analogous tension to the dog pursuit of Llewelyn. Comanche are the doing the pursuing in that story. (No Country for Old Men is a Cormac McCarthy novel.)
"You want to know what this movie is about?" Flips a coin into the air, "Call it!"
The weapon is called "captive bolt pistol" (or gun), there is no projectile, it works like a gas powered piston. It is used at slaugherhouses to stun (or kill) the cattle for slaughter. It ejects a piston at very high speed, but the "projectile" doesn't leave the gun.
Anton is the personification of Fate. He's generous with the coin toss, giving people the opportunity to change it. Moss represents Chance, it was by this he found the money etc. Sheriff Bell represents Order, but when Chance meets Fate, he feels "overmatched," he has no choice but to bow out, hence No Country For Old Men. Ps. Heads on the coin toss is always right cuz the point is if you use your HEAD, you won't end up on the TAIL end of the barrel.
2 million dollars would be the equivalent of 8 million dollars today. So ask yourselves would you have left the money there?
Most people don't get it, the story is about *"The Sheriff"* that's why the movie starts and ends with him. The title says it all *No Country for Old Men* its set around 1980, when the Drug Wars started, the Mexican Cartels and their American counterparts were in turf wars so to speak. Killings skyrocketed on those small Texas Border towns. That why it end with him *retiring* it was no place (country) for old lawmen, who most never had to shoot their guns. That is why Tommy Lee Jones is the main character.
Cormac McCarthy wrote the book based on the movie. His book "Blood Meridian" is a tough read.
...the randomness of violence...the arrogance of greed...the illusion of self-confidence...the indifference of evil...
Check out the movie "Smokin' Aces". I think you'll love it.
Love the book & the movie. Another Cormac McCarthy story that got turned into a great movie is The Road.
I went on a Cormac McCarthy book binge after I saw this movie lol. The Road, All the Pretty Horses and a couple of other ones I don't remember
The best western movie set in modern times ever made. 🐎
It's set 45 years ago.