No Country For Old Men

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

TWBB disturbed me greatly. It felt a knife cutting my insides in two. Masterpiece.

The only knife cutting I felt was me trying to slit my wrists. That movie did NOTHING for me. It was horrifically long, and boring. No Country owned it.

[Gozer]

I watched NCFOM late on a Sunday evening, I got to work on Monday and no one else had seend it, but my mind was racing so I just wrote an impromptu essay about it and felt worlds better.

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Mike F

I hear that all of the time, yet I couldn't make it through Blood Meridian.

I flew through NCFOM, The Road and all three of the Border Trilogy, but just didn't find Blood Meridian to be worth the effort to read, which is what it really was.

It's probably the least conventional of all his writings, but it's a piece of beauty. Honestly, every time that I've read it, I've read it in one night. I just can't put it down.

The Road is pretty good too. Not his best by any means, but I'm pretty attracted to the post-apocalyptic genre.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by peter12

It's probably the least conventional of all his writings, but it's a piece of beauty. Honestly, every time that I've read it, I've read it in one night. I just can't put it down.

The Road is pretty good too. Not his best by any means, but I'm pretty attracted to the post-apocalyptic genre.

I love The Road, someone told me they were making it into a movie. Anyone else heard of this?

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I love The Road, someone told me they were making it into a movie. Anyone else heard of this?

Yup, with Viggo Mortensen. Actually, the whole cast looks top notch:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/


It's one of three upcoming McCarthy novels to be made into films, with a Ridley Scott version of Blood Meridian also scheduled for this year, and Cities of the Plain in 2012.

[liamenator]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I love The Road, someone told me they were making it into a movie. Anyone else heard of this?

Yep... It's due out some time this year. Starring Viggo Mortenson.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0898367/

[peter12]

Originally Posted by Rathji

I love The Road, someone told me they were making it into a movie. Anyone else heard of this?

Yeah, the whole setting of the book really got me going and the whole father/son dynamic was brilliant.