Saw 'No Country For Old Men' on Tuesday. Wanted to see it again today...

[Richardo]

...and it's gone from all but two theaters in Houston. ALL of Houston.


I'm miffed. :grr:

I think it's one of the Coen Brothers' best, and I really appreciated a lot of the parallels to their first movie 'Blood Simple', which still blows me away.

[hisownpetard]

1. Do you have to have seen the first one, to appreciate the 2nd one?

[Richardo]

2. I don't think so.

It's very intense, but a great story - I want to read the novel now.

[hisownpetard]

3. Oh, good. I haven't seen the first but I hear that "No Country..." is terrific.

[Richardo]

5. I rented 'Blood Simple' tonight just to remind myself how good it was

...and I'm still enjoying it. It's 24 years old (how can THAT be?) but great.

[hisownpetard]

6. Good idea. I may do the same thing.

Thanks!

[Shakespeare]

7. Not at all. They're completely different, completely unrelated stories.

No Country is based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy.

[applegrove]

4. I'll put that on my list to see.

[Infomaniac]

8. Isn't it amazing how schlocky films

play forever in the local theaters, but anything really good opens and closes so quickly? I do hope you get to see it again. I think like 'Blood Simple' this one will become a classic too.

[Richardo]

9. No kidding: 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' is still playing dozens of screens.

:eyes:

[DS1]

10. I'll have to check out this Blood Simple

[jonnyblitz]

11. I liked it.

:hi: