I Got No Country For Old Men, The Assassination of Jesse James and Michael Clayton

[Uncle Sam]

Yes? Good?

 

[Sparky]

im tired and feeling dumb.

 

[Gelgarin]

I've only seen no country, and appear to be in the minority by being of the oppinion that it's a colossal pile of half baked, pretentious crap, experiencing positive aclame purely because of who prodced it in what I affectionally like to refer to as "The Tarrenteno Effect".

If you take the film at it's most simple level and treat it as what it is, (a simplistic action movie with a focus on tension over plot), then the film simply doesn't measure up on any meaningful scale.

Conversely, if you take the film for what it is seemingly trying to be (an adaptation of the modernist literary style for cinema) then it falls flat on its face since dramatic gun battles totally undermine everything modernism is supposed to be about.

Then again, I currently live with three film studies students, all of whom brand the film as one of the 'best things ever' and IMDB also seems to have a beef with my oppinions on the matter, so my oppinon should probably be taken with a few dozen grains of salt.

As for the other two, no idea.

 

[TheOneBigWill]

I wanna say anything regarding Jesse James is > to anything else.

But the fact is.. I only really enjoyed "American Outlaws".

 

[Papa Shango]

American Outlaws is so bad it's funny.

Personally, I liked all three movies. I didn't think I would like Michael Clayton, but it turned out to be a pretty taut thriller, with really good acting and writing.

 

[Murfish]

There will be blood > all

 

[justinsayne]

I've only seen no country, and appear to be in the minority by being of the oppinion that it's a colossal pile of half baked, pretentious crap, experiencing positive aclame purely because of who prodced it in what I affectionally like to refer to as "The Tarrenteno Effect".

If you take the film at it's most simple level and treat it as what it is, (a simplistic action movie with a focus on tension over plot), then the film simply doesn't measure up on any meaningful scale.

Conversely, if you take the film for what it is seemingly trying to be (an adaptation of the modernist literary style for cinema) then it falls flat on its face since dramatic gun battles totally undermine everything modernism is supposed to be about.

Then again, I currently live with three film studies students, all of whom brand the film as one of the 'best things ever' and IMDB also seems to have a beef with my oppinions on the matter, so my oppinon should probably be taken with a few dozen grains of salt.

As for the other two, no idea.

Ummm....what he said^^^

I remember sitting in the theater watching thios monumental peice of crap and when the movie stopped (cause there is no real ending) everybody in the theater collectively got up and let out a big old , the movie just drags along with no real point then stops with no conclusion what so ever, just goes to show that is the critics are ready to blow their load over a movie then 90% of the time the movie is going to be complete and utter shit

I have yet to see the other two so I really can't comment of them

 

[Uncle Sam]

There will be blood > all

Seen it. Pretty good, yeah.

 

[Freedom 35]

assasination of Jesse James rules ass

 

[Papa Shango]

There's no real ending to Easy Rider, either. Still considered one of the greatest and most influential films of the 60's.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Jesse James is good if you like slow burning brooding. Don't watch it in the hours between Big Brother & Unforgiven, Sam. Hard work. Watch it in the day.

 

[Papa Shango]

This is true. It is not a film you can just put on and expect to enjoy. You have to watch it. If you put it on after a long day at work, you'll probably fall asleep. That happened to me with both Jesse James AND Michael Clayton.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I thought Jesse James was shite the first time I saw it. But I watched it in the three hours before One Night Stand which started at 1am. Second time it's pretty good, but still not to everyones tastes.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Watched it part the way through. I don't get it.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

There's nothing to get, it's all in the title.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Drags a bit.

 

[CaseyisBA52'sGFnow]

The Jesse James movie is the only western that i have ever liked.

 

[Papa Shango]

Well then you need to go out and rent Tombstone motherfucker.

 

[Monkey_Mania]

Westerns are generally shit.

 

[Uncle Sam]

What he said. I'll be watching one of the other two tonight.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Clint Eastwood westerns are good. But you either like the genre or not.

 

[Uncle Sam]

No Country For Old Men was good. Not amazing. Too pretentious to be amazing. Better than Jesse James. Yet to watch Michael Clayton.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

No Country For Old Men is awesome. The ''Nominated for 5 Oscars'' tag should alert you to how pretentious each of those films are.

 

[Uncle Sam]

True. I also love the shoot-out scenes. Tense.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

I bought 10,000 BC yesterday Sam. For the cool tin you understand.