Coens 'Country' Wins Best Picture Oscar

The Coen brothers completed their journey from the fringes to Hollywood's mainstream on Sunday, their crime saga "No Country for Old Men" winning four Academy Awards, including best picture, in a ceremony that also featured a strong international flavor.

[boomer 1]

These guys are good.Have always enjoyed their films.Among many of them,Miller's Crossing is my favorite.These guys are top notch,in any form.

[Uncle Bill]

The Coens deserve it! I have every Coen film ever made in my queue on Netflix and have enjoyed them all!

[No body]

Man I guess I am just out of touch but that was one of the stupidist movies that I have ever seen. Well, I can't remember the last time I liked something that won an oscar. Look at Al Gore's half truth filled movie. Yea, I am just out of touch.

[Matthewabln]

I want to see this movie. I loved Bardem in 'A Sea Inside'. I can't say that I've seen any of the Coens films.

[holysmokes]

it was the best movie of the year.

hands down.

good for them.

[holysmokes]

Matthewabln wrote:

I want to see this movie. I loved Bardem in 'A Sea Inside'. I can't say that I've seen any of the Coens films.

i'd recommend in order

no country (on dvd 3-11-08)
fargo
big lebowski
raising arizona

you will be hooked

[Iron Ranger]

No body wrote:

Man I guess I am just out of touch but that was one of the stupidist movies that I have ever seen. Well, I can't remember the last time I liked something that won an oscar. Look at Al Gore's half truth filled movie. Yea, I am just out of touch.

That makes TWO of us! In fairness, Blood Simple and Fargo were their absolute best. The latter was a huge hit here in Minneapolis.

However as to their AA so-called winner, "No Country..." is an appropriate title. There is NO SUCH an country in Texas. Coen's characterize Texas as a vast wasteland where people are either meaner than shit and/or stupid. So this got my "NO" vote. People are like sheep. Reviewers have pushed this lameass show into the consciousness of knee-jerk movie-goers.

Somebody said Millers Crossing was a good show. Lousy. It is tied with Barton Fink as another lameass, no plot, amorphous movie.

Aside from Blood Simple and Fargo, the only things that hold the other Coen Brothers movies together are the sprocket holes in their films showing in the theaters.

[holysmokes]

Iron Ranger wrote:

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That makes TWO of us! In fairness, Blood Simple and Fargo were their absolute best. The latter was a huge hit here in Minneapolis.
However as to their AA so-called winner, "No Country..." is an appropriate title. There is NO SUCH an country in Texas. Coen's characterize Texas as a vast wasteland where people are either meaner than shit and/or stupid. So this got my "NO" vote. People are like sheep. Reviewers have pushed this lameass show into the consciousness of knee-jerk movie-goers.
Somebody said Millers Crossing was a good show. Lousy. It is tied with Barton Fink as another lameass, no plot, amorphous movie.
Aside from Blood Simple and Fargo, the only things that hold the other Coen Brothers movies together are the sprocket holes in their films showing in the theaters.

i can appreciate your opinion although i disagree.

what holds coen brothers movies together are characters that defy categorization.

[Iron Ranger]

holysmokes wrote:

<quoted text>i can appreciate your opinion although i disagree.
what holds coen brothers movies together are characters that defy categorization.

Their mean characters are merely typical stock villains. They are simply re-hashed, ho-hum variations on the old-time vaudeville and old-time movie villains that tied Sweet Nelly to the track.

The Coens' villains are 100 percent scum. The only thing missing is the old-time "HISS AT THE VILLAIN" cards inserted or subtitled.

And the larger thing going here is the choice of such a film.

I liked the technical awards. Those are the folks that REALLY make the movies. However I tire of the Borne-Again movies with scrEEEEETching tires and wham/bam/slam sfx over and over and over again. This kind of shit applies to reptilian minds. And it appears that is what moviegoers hae become.

And although movies keep evolving technically--with the exception of archaic film-based cameras--the story quality goes down. If the Technical Curve were plotted on a graph with the Story curve, they would be two separate curves that could never intersect.

Indeed, sfx editing has evolved so that it is really a no-brainer. Sfx are now electronically rendered before the final mix-to-pix. There is no end to the amount of sfx.

And what happens is that sfx compete to kill the dialogue mix. You can add just so much 1 to 3Khz presence to speech before it breaks up into SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsibila nce. The movie house speakers won't reproduce it clearly.

And when it gets to DVD, it's a real mess!!!

Enough for now. Gotta have a bit of breakfast and cuppa mud.

[Curious]

No body wrote:

Man I guess I am just out of touch but that was one of the stupidist movies that I have ever seen. Well, I can't remember the last time I liked something that won an oscar. Look at Al Gore's half truth filled movie. Yea, I am just out of touch.

I agree... that movie was a terrible movie.

[Concerned Black Citizen]

Has the Oscar's lost some of its luster and appeal or was it practically nonexistent because of the strike? To be honest I didn't even know the Oscars were on which brings me to my question. I've noticed that many of the top awards went to foreign actors, what is happening to our American actors? Are we not producing good enough talent to win the big awards or are foreign actors better at the craft? I see an influx of foreign actors that are doing very well but I don't hear a thing about the up and coming or new American actor. I'm not really a big time movie fan or anything but this is something I've noticed and I wonder if anyone else has noticed the same?

[Ishhhh]

Curious wrote:

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I agree... that movie was a terrible movie.

I cannot beleive that this movie won Best Picure.
I was sooooooooo disappointed. I almost walked out of the theater..but kept thinking that there had to be something that was actually going to be interesting....
Simply one of the worst movies I have seen..along with All the Kings Men (which I did walk out on...and I love Sean Penn)

[Uncle Ruckus]

I have not seen this picture, but in the past, I have enjoy the Coen Brothers films.

However, I now view Hollywood and the Oscars with the same status as the AVN awards:

http://www.avnawards.com/

Both sides of film these days lack and social redeeming values and only exist because of greed & vanity.

[Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate]

Ishhhh wrote:

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I cannot beleive that this movie won Best Picure.
I was sooooooooo disappointed. I almost walked out of the theater..but kept thinking that there had to be something that was actually going to be interesting....
Simply one of the worst movies I have seen..along with All the Kings Men (which I did walk out on...and I love Sean Penn)

You probably didn't understand it because you're stupid.

[Agnostic_One]

Just curious but I am going to go out on a limb and guess all of you that didn't like it probably loved the latest Die Hard movie lol and Faux news... lol

[Hijacked Journalism]

THIS WAS A GREAT MOVIE. IT WAS RAW AND VIOLENT....JUST LIKE I LIKE IT. THE COENS ALWAYS MAKE GRITTY FILMS, AND THIS WAS NO EXCEPTION. THIS WAS A "MANS MOVIE"

[Iron Ranger]

The award for this piece of shit speaks very, very poorly of Hollywood.

Bring back the days, below, for such songs.

"Oh Lord, I must see Garbo in person.
And Gable when they're rehearsin'
And some director is cursin'"

{More later, if we are all still around}

[Iron Ranger]

Concerned Black Citizen wrote:

Has the Oscar's lost some of its luster and appeal or was it practically nonexistent because of the strike? To be honest I didn't even know the Oscars were on which brings me to my question. I've noticed that many of the top awards went to foreign actors, what is happening to our American actors? Are we not producing good enough talent to win the big awards or are foreign actors better at the craft? I see an influx of foreign actors that are doing very well but I don't hear a thing about the up and coming or new American actor. I'm not really a big time movie fan or anything but this is something I've noticed and I wonder if anyone else has noticed the same?

It's because they have a much higher caliber of actor overseas. The movie actors also have extensive stage training. They know how to express themselves more openly and portray much, much wider ranges of characters.

US actors must be chosen for their lack of talent. There has to be some buggery going on because there is a HUGE lack of movie talent here.

However I see a LOT more talented people in independent and made-for-cable/TV movies, especially in this area. This is a HUGE stage theater town with local actors very, very skilled in theater. So the transition to movies is just a sleepwalk.

Thus local actors here are quite like foreign actors, having a ton of theater background as well as movie opportunities.

[Concerned Black Citizen]

Iron Ranger wrote:

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It's because they have a much higher caliber of actor overseas. The movie actors also have extensive stage training. They know how to express themselves more openly and portray much, much wider ranges of characters.
US actors must be chosen for their lack of talent. There has to be some buggery going on because there is a HUGE lack of movie talent here.
However I see a LOT more talented people in independent and made-for-cable/TV movies, especially in this area. This is a HUGE stage theater town with local actors very, very skilled in theater. So the transition to movies is just a sleepwalk.
Thus local actors here are quite like foreign actors, having a ton of theater background as well as movie opportunities.

I think you are right. When we keep promoting non talents like Lindsay Lohen as the American Actress of the future you know we are in horrible shape.

[Sloppy Joes]

Thank God they won, I thought that retarded movie "Juno" was going to get it...thats what the polls showed on the net.