No Country for Old Men ending.... WTF..... Spoilers

[videoholic]

You shouldn\'t be in this thread if you care about the movie and haven\'t seen it yet.

Actually, since I\'m asking questions about the movie, you shouldn\'t be in here at all if you ahven\'t seen it since you have nothing to add.



That said....







Can someone please explain to me the ending...  I mean, how really does the Tommy Lee Jones character play out?  Why is this character even needed?  I kind of fell asleep on that last monologue of his before it fades to black.

I dunno.  I liked how Bardem played the killer.  Very cool.  But other than that it was just another let down for me.

I mean how easy was it for Woody Harrelson to find Brolin (Lewelyn Moss) in the hospital?  WTF?????  How could the killer dude have found Moss so easy in that second hotel  (The one in the city)  I mean I understand he had the sensor, but shit he was there so fast.

I guess this is one of those movies where the killer gets away with everything and that\'s cool and all, but I just felt the ending was odd.

[GmanJoe]

Definitely a few important strings that didn\'t get tied neatly in the end.

Overall, I liked the move a lot. But yeah....the monologue in the end was - well? No country for old men.

I thought back.....all the men that Chigur killed for convenience were old guys. I need to read on more indepth interpretation.

[videoholic]

let me know if you find something that talks about the backstory stuff.

[GmanJoe]

let me know if you find something that talks about the backstory stuff.

Only thing I know for now is that there was a deleted scene in the movie where Tommy Lee was talking about a hit man that killed a judge in Texas. That hit man was, of course, jailed. His son is Woody Harrelson. I read in IMDB\'s trivia thing for the movie.

I\'m a huge fan of the author after reading "The Road" and was totally excited to see this movie.


That said, I was kinda disappointed in the movie. I liked it and all, I was just expecting to LOVE it.

I had all the same question Vid did.

[videoholic]

OK, so I am not a dumb fuck.  whew.

[GmanJoe]

Man, it ended abruptly for EVERYONE!

[CHIZZY]

I guess he had eyes everywhere, so there was no escaping him...also, tommy lee jones had a clue the whole time with the slaughterhouse tool, and he never put 2+2 together.

About the ending... remember the boring scene where Tommy Lee Jones visits the guy in the wheelchair?  Their conversation explains the ending where baddie breaks his arm at the end.

[Viper_Fujax]

i didnt get to watch it twice, plus understanding everything he mumbles at the end was impossible, so i never got the full point of tommy lee jones\' character either..

but i think the point of the movie was the balance between good and evil will always exist, and the bad guy walking away at the end was just showing how the balance would continue, and there\'d always be something bad in the world..so i liked how they ended it with him

I like to think of it as the story simply goes on, as in life. I like how it wasn\'t the standard tie everything up type endings. Also Vipers explanation sums it up well I think.

I like to think that the movie just plain sucked.

I like to think that the movie just plain sucked.

For once we agree.

Well not quite I guess. I didn\'t hate the movie, but I didn\'t find it overly great either. It was a bit of a meh for me.

[GmanJoe]

Here\'s what I got from the movie.

Chigur is death incarnate. Anyone who sees him dies. The accountant asks him if he\'s going to die. Chigur asks him if he sees him. Sometimes he\'ll offer you a choice: fate by a toss of a coin and which side you choose.

Tommy Lee is an old cop who doesn\'t have the dedication like his dad and others had. He knew he could be more involved in the investigation but chose not to except enough to keep Llewellen\'s wife from getting killed. Modern day criminals are way over his head and he was basically out matched.

Llewellen. A dedicated man. If he had a chance to divert his faithfulness for that horny lady by the pool, he\'d be alive.....but his wife would have been killed by the Mexicans. His faithfulness gets him killed but it does spare his wife\'s life.

Until Death Incarcarnate shows up in her house.

[videoholic]

If it wasn\'t for the tommy lee thing I think I would have liked the movie.  That character I just didn\'t get.

That and the timeline of how easy it was for the killers to find the money each and every time.  That woody Harrelson character finding Lewellyn in the hospital?  Give me a break.  Finding the case of money by the Rio Grande?  Give me a break.