This review of “No Country For Old Men” comes from our ace suburban field correspondent. Check it out:
“The villain (Javier Bardem) is the greatest villain EVER. He also uses the best weapon in a movie since the light saber. He makes Hannibal Lector look like fucking Joe Dirt.
This film is one of the greatest movies I’ve ever ever seen. I knew after one view it went in my top ten of all time- and now after two views it might go top five… I’ll have to re-consider and get back to you…
This movie is smart AND bad ass !!! It’s gory and allegorical.
Take the coolest, badass mob hit movies ever, mix it with the best westerns, put it in a philosophy class and you have “No Country” RUN don’t walk to see this movie. Unless you have a pussy. Then you might wanna go see “ACROSS THE UNIVERSE” the Beatles sacrilege. You pussy.
AND if Tommy Lee Jones does not win the academy award for this performance I’m burnin’ the Oscars DOWN !!!”
While I will agree with the ace suburban field correspondant’s review, I must question if No Country For Old Men is really for The Menternet’s target audience. Putting it under “Highbrow Cinema Forum” helps, but let’s be honest, I don’t know if there was anywhere near enough tits in this flick to satiate the average Menternet Man. And when I say “I don’t know if there was anywhere near enough tits in this flick” I mean “There were no tits in this flick at all.”
Point well taken Slone. I must admit it was a somewhat concious decision to forgive it’s lack of mammory, as it were.
I felt that given it’s overabundance of wounds, blood spatter and sensless killing it may live up to men who want to see manly movies.
Specificaly, there were three MAIN reasons I felt this film was worthy of our MENTERNET viewers:
1. SELF repaired flesh wounds. When dudes fix their own blood sputtering wounds, as happens several times here (eg: John Rambo stitching his own tricep) that’s a film for MEN. And, exposed bone no hospital= BADASS.
2. There were several women in the theatre who buried their faces in their smiling boyfriends shoulders during voilent scenes. Two chicks even walked out. It was then I smiled and thought of this site.
But mostly it was reason number 3:
3. Javier Bardem. This guy was SO perfectly badass I simply suspended my rage that Brolin’s film wife never so much as showed her bra. Which come to think of it…is total bullshit !