{"id":684,"date":"2007-11-23T08:50:20","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T08:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=684"},"modified":"2025-04-03T18:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T23:14:22","slug":"big_screen_no_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/big_screen_no_c.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Screen: No Country for Old Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Super (awesomely!) violent and sometimes gross.  It&#8217;s from a McCarthy book so you should know that going in \/ shouldn&#8217;t come as a shock.<\/p>\n<p>Super freakily (psychologically) messed up villain (Javier Bardem. Spooky as shit. Crazy entrancing eyes).<\/p>\n<p>Great performance from Tommy Lee Jones and solid from Josh Brolin (and I&#8217;m not even a fan of his!) and it&#8217;s fun to see LOTS of random actors popping up in bit parts (the coach from &#8220;One Tree Hill&#8221;, the nasty lady who ran the grocery store on &#8220;Jericho&#8221;, Woody Harrelson (what a relief to see him in something good again after <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/10\/chicago_film_fe.html\">that other shitehole movie<\/a> which I actually think was way worse than I seem to have written there), Garrett Dillahunt who just played a Russian mobster on &#8220;Life&#8221;)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I have to say: what made this movie for me was pure Coen brothers; you can tell\/feel where they inserted themselves into this script:  the small-town, down-home country humor and the warm personal relationships and comfortable feeling between many of the characters (despite the nasty killings and brutal stuff).  And believe you me, humor and warmth = those are NOT things you will find in a McCarthy book.<\/p>\n<p>Really excellent filmmaking and I (given my extreme dislike of McCarthy&#8217;s writing) wasn&#8217;t even really sure I wanted to see this&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super (awesomely!) violent and sometimes gross. It&#8217;s from a McCarthy book so you should know that going in \/ shouldn&#8217;t come as a shock. Super freakily (psychologically) messed up villain (Javier Bardem. Spooky as shit. Crazy entrancing eyes). Great performance &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/11\/big_screen_no_c.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-flicks","category-watchin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}