It sort of is a best picture movie if a film like that could ever be best picture. It's amazingly done.
And Javier Bardem! Like, I can't make words. Have you seen Goya's Ghosts? Worth it for his utter creepiness (also, that's the film that turned him into my latest Snape-like lust object in my head).
No, I haven't seen Goya's Ghosts-- though I certainly would like to now. He's sensational. And scary.
After the film, I kept threating Chris with a "whollop from my Chigurgh-stick".
But I know what you mean. It's honestly both one of the best-made movies I've ever seen, and one that touched me fairly profoundly, and the two don't often go together. I honestly have no idea how it will do award-wise. Though tense films that sort of resemble thrillers but aren't are doing very well this year.
The acting all across the board is just astounding. And the only book-to-screen adaptation I've ever seen that was able to create the tone of a book so profoundly . . . I have an on-again-off-again love affair with McCarthy, some of his books are really taut and mysterious and gorgeous, others are just dusty and bloody (to me). This was able to capture that desolate, warring-with-nature-and-man thing that he does so well-- and the results are riveting.
So great. Though it's the type of movie I have a very hard time recommending to others unless I know them VERY well.
Seriously, I was hoping you had an interest because I thought that it would really be dificult for you but that you'd also love it.
And Goya's Ghosts is not a well structured film at all, but I swear I'm buying it the second it comes out on DVD because I could watch Bardem's performance over and over and over.
Back to No Country.... I can't remember the last time I saw a film just this perfectly, perfectly tight.
It was definitely not an easy film for me to sit through. :)
I'd never seen Bardem in anything before this, though I'll have to now. The seen with him and the gas-station attendant was just . . . so well done. The humor was at the perfect pitch, it was tense-- I was biting my fingernails and laughing at the same time.
Have you seen Blood Simple? It's the most "like" No Country of previous CB's films, and also really well done. I think you'd really dig it--- many similarities to Shallow Grave.
I've not seen Blood Simple which has always ben a terribly omission. I should have P add it to the Netflix.
Bardem also has the lead in the upcoming Love in the time of Cholera, but I'm not sure how I'm going to take to him playing someone who isn't completely evil while also having his own personal code of honor as that's totally the guy he is for me after these two films. I expect the obsessive nature of his character in Cholera is going to unavoidably come to the fore.
Yeah-- I look forward to Cholera and his role in it. I mean, without the Prince Valient haircut, he's quite dashing. :)
You should definitely see Blood Simple, especially if you've got a bug for it right now. It's the type of movie that just won't work if you're not in the right frame of mind for it. That said, it's great, and ESPECIALLY great for a first film.
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Date: 2007-11-13 01:33 am (UTC)But SCARY.
Javier Bardem is SCARY.
*shudder*
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:27 am (UTC)And Javier Bardem! Like, I can't make words. Have you seen Goya's Ghosts? Worth it for his utter creepiness (also, that's the film that turned him into my latest Snape-like lust object in my head).
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:39 am (UTC)After the film, I kept threating Chris with a "whollop from my Chigurgh-stick".
But I know what you mean. It's honestly both one of the best-made movies I've ever seen, and one that touched me fairly profoundly, and the two don't often go together. I honestly have no idea how it will do award-wise. Though tense films that sort of resemble thrillers but aren't are doing very well this year.
The acting all across the board is just astounding. And the only book-to-screen adaptation I've ever seen that was able to create the tone of a book so profoundly . . . I have an on-again-off-again love affair with McCarthy, some of his books are really taut and mysterious and gorgeous, others are just dusty and bloody (to me). This was able to capture that desolate, warring-with-nature-and-man thing that he does so well-- and the results are riveting.
So great. Though it's the type of movie I have a very hard time recommending to others unless I know them VERY well.
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:42 am (UTC)And Goya's Ghosts is not a well structured film at all, but I swear I'm buying it the second it comes out on DVD because I could watch Bardem's performance over and over and over.
Back to No Country.... I can't remember the last time I saw a film just this perfectly, perfectly tight.
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:47 am (UTC)I'd never seen Bardem in anything before this, though I'll have to now. The seen with him and the gas-station attendant was just . . . so well done. The humor was at the perfect pitch, it was tense-- I was biting my fingernails and laughing at the same time.
Have you seen Blood Simple? It's the most "like" No Country of previous CB's films, and also really well done. I think you'd really dig it--- many similarities to Shallow Grave.
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:52 am (UTC)Bardem also has the lead in the upcoming Love in the time of Cholera, but I'm not sure how I'm going to take to him playing someone who isn't completely evil while also having his own personal code of honor as that's totally the guy he is for me after these two films. I expect the obsessive nature of his character in Cholera is going to unavoidably come to the fore.
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Date: 2007-11-13 05:55 am (UTC)You should definitely see Blood Simple, especially if you've got a bug for it right now. It's the type of movie that just won't work if you're not in the right frame of mind for it. That said, it's great, and ESPECIALLY great for a first film.
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