No Country For Old Men

I hated it
I'm a Coen brothers fan
Maybe it was the winter blues.
OSCARS liked it.
I didn't get it.

PS: A father of my son's is a gun collector and he said there is no way you can out a silencer on a shotgun.
Not that that matters.
Maybe I will watch it again when the winter passes.

Mike

"Excuse me Mr. Carjacker, will you stand a wee bit closer?"

I like the Cohen brothers..think I will have to pass.

I thought I didn't like it.

Then a few hours later I wasn't sure.

Now it's been a few weeks and I think it was brilliant, and I want to see it again.

although I found it a mesmerizing well done story I came away from it depressed and deflated and couldn't really recommend it to others based on that.
but I'd see it again now for sure. not every story has a happy ending. this was some kind of deep wake up call, methinks. the old guard is dying, the criminals are more daring in full safety in unwritten laws custom made for predators advantage.

btw, I saw some clips last night for the SAG awards and that Chugarr (sp?) actor - wow. I find him so attractive! not so much in the movie but at the awards he was stunningly beautiful looking to me. wierd.

The only other movie that affected me that way was "Dancer in the Dark". I came out of that movioe just HATING it. But it stuck in my mind... a lot.

I now own it and think it's a fantastic movie.

extras on the Sheriff's thoughts, but basically very true to the original.

I stopped thinking about the movie as about those individual people and looked at it like a fable.....a scary and all too appropriate fable.

And Javier Bardem is just brilliant. Scariest performance in a long long time. My Wife, after three days, still wants me to make sure all the doors are locked......

The kind of movie you have to enjoy for the experience. It reminds me of the way Ingmar Bergman films always make a strong impression and leave me confused at the end.

There are silencers available for shotguns, but they do not as well as those made for rifles and pistols. The shot cup has to be held shut until it clears the end of the silencer. To do this the silencer has a tube with holes drilled into it to vent off the gun powder gases into the silencer body and keep the shot cup closed. Silencers are legal in most states in the USA, but there is a $200 to be paid when getting the routine authorization from the BATFE.

Reflex in Finland makes a shotgun silencer but claims it only reduces noise by up to 6 decibels where as a good rifle silencer is good for 20-30 decibels noise reduction. See the below link for a photo. There is a company in England that makes them too.

The shotgun silencer you saw in the movie is too short to be very effective. The sound effects are usually put in after filming is completed anyway. Typical microphones and speakers do a poor job of reproducing impulse noise like gun shots.

It is a good movie but after the way it ended, I was like :wtf: but after I had my bro explain it to me, it made it a lot better.