Movie: No Country For Old Men (Save Your Money!)

[Leprechaun]

OK, so we took in this movie yesterday only because it was supposed to star Tommy Lee Jones. Well, seems he only had 'half a role' as the main character was Llewelyn Moss (played by Josh Brolin) whose character gets gunned down by a Mexican death squad towards the end of the movie. The flick was going good up until that time as he was playing 'escape from Jackson Browne' the evil and murderous antagonist. And I didn't understand Woody Harrelson's cameo role - he had like only a few scenes before getting blown away by JB. And there was never the final resolve regarding the two million dollars of drug cash Moss was toting around for the first 3/4 of the story. See he was out hunting in West Texas and happened upon a scene of murdered mexican drug mules - obviously a deal gone bad. This film reminded me of Fargo and A Simple Plan (sort of).
Anyhow the ending was very abrupt ... Tommy Lee was having a conversation with his wife and then boom - the credits. And we never did find what happened to the $2M or why Jackson Browne didn't kill Tommy Lee at the El Paso motel room!!!

And this had been Leprechaun-The-Film-Critic reporting for S&B!

[lar]

I thought this would be a good movie for us to see, sounds like maybe we should just wait for DVD???

[Chupula]

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Oh, where to start. First of alll, this movie was produced by the same folks that did Fargo, which I found out after I had sat through the movie thinking the whole time how much like Fargo it really was.

For starters, I was NOT expecting the movie to be anything like it was. Secondly, I wasn't a big fan of the movie after to was over. When I got home, I immediately hit IMDB to help resolve my unanswered questions... very helpful! I won't say that I now like the movie, however I am much more content with it.

The money most likely ended up with the bad guy (insert name here), as the movie gave a hint of this in the end when he presented a $100 bill to the boys for a shirt.

I didn't care for the ending, nor did I care for the early exit of the main character nor Woody Harrleson. The movie was not created for a "spoon-fed" storyline, which honestly, I quite like.

Overall, I thought the villian in the movie was about as good of a villian as I have ever seen. He was created in such a way that resembled the truck from the old movie "The Duel"... mysterious, dark, unrelentless, unpredictable, and unescapable. Tommy Lee's role was well played and overall, I thought the movie was well directed. The dark bits of comedy were also very much appreciated.

[Black Dog]

Jackson Browne?....as in Running On Empty and Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne? He's doing movies now?

[Leprechaun]

Jackson Browne?....as in Running On Empty and Late For The Sky - Jackson Browne? He's doing movies now?

Sorry, NOT the REAL JB. But there was just a remarkable resemblance ... hair, eyes, lips etc.

[Jenniffer]

But there was just a remarkable resemblance ... hair, eyes, lips etc.

Gotta love a leprechaun confident enough in his masculinity to both notice and remark upon another man's hair, eyes, and (swoon) lips

[Leprechaun]

Gotta love a leprechaun confident enough in his masculinity to both notice and remark upon another man's hair, eyes, and (swoon) lips

Ah, and you should see me with my green eyeliner and sparkle lipstick!!!

[Leprechaun]

This is the bad guy from 'No Country' ...

[Leprechaun]

And then here is the real JB ...

[Jenniffer]

weiiirrrddd