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Originally Posted by ilduclo
No Country for Old Men. Certainly not a great Coen Bros work, but pretty good Cormac adaption, anyways....
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I tend to disagree. It's not "Coensy" in the traditional, lovable, bizarro, funny-even-when-deadly-serious way, but I think as a film, it's a goddamn masterpiece. One of the few instances where I actually prefer the movie to the book (the others are... well... mostly Harry Potter films).
I'm not a Cormac fan generally speaking. Or... at all, really. But I like the stories, if not his style of writing. I think the Coens' take on No Country was fucking mind-blowing. And oddly, even though it lacks "Coenness," it kicks ass as a cinematic feat.
Wish Javier Bardem would stop playing ridiculous villains (he's in the new -- yes, another one -- Pirates of the Caribbean, as the disfigured, creepy, oozey, hunch-backed baddie... just like he was the creepy disfigured baddie in Skyfall, and blah...) and love up to that role once or twice before being the world forgets about him.