The Reel Rejects - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) IS BRILLIANTLY INTENSE!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:00:55 It is a task, and we appreciate all the hardworking dedication. They are constantly doing it. for all these videos being able to be released on YouTube. Yeah, just really quick, before we get in the question, just how are you feeling really quickly? Yeah, man, that was a ride. That was definitely a ride for sure. It was really good.

Starting point is 00:01:16 I really, really enjoyed it. It was full of really great dialogue, a lot of awesome monologues. You get inklings of histories from these different characters. Yeah, it's a story about, all these different men in there their personal parents and their the determination

Starting point is 00:01:35 to get the things done that they perceive are important to them or value to them and at least one of them lost their lives because of it is this cat and mouse game with these different people that all want the money

Starting point is 00:01:51 or want justice or whatnot I thought it was phenomenal. I thought it was a great movie. Yeah no I thought it was an incredible film too the only thing I knew about this film it was just that Tommy Lee Jones was in, Josh Boland, and Javier Bardem gives one of the greatest villainous performances, and that certainly lived up to its hype

Starting point is 00:02:08 as I was just, you know, teasing here at the opening of the review. And, yeah, I think Javier Bardem, he is, he's so calm, he's so sadistic, he's methodical, and you just can't take your eyes off him whenever he's on screen, but also he does what every great villain does.

Starting point is 00:02:26 You don't justify what he... I mean, us as an audience, we don't justify, we don't feel a justification for what he's doing, but we understand why he's doing what he's doing. I think those are the best kind of villains, the way he's written. And also, too, the way, I think you pointed out best, the way he can just go from scary to cold in a insta second like that,

Starting point is 00:02:47 it's just, it's really, it's amazing to watch an actor be able to perform like that. And the thing, too, that my favorite types of villainous roles when I watch them on screen. Heath Ledger is the Joker in the Dark Night, Ove Here Partime now. And this, Hans Gruber and Die Hard, I really do not see the actors anymore.

Starting point is 00:03:10 They are so, like, locked into their roles that they disappear entirely. And I'm like, oh, shit, I forgot. I was watching Avi or Bardeen there. I forgot this is Heath Ledger. I forgot that's Alan Rickman there. They're the character right now. I could probably ask the actor on set at the time any question backstory-wise right now.

Starting point is 00:03:34 And they would just probably know everything in an instant. That's how locked into the character they are. And I just appreciate that type of dedication to the performance. Because it feels more authentic and real that we're watching, not a movie, but like a set of events rather that is now masked as a film. So it was just impressive. And also I think Josh Brolin really liked this character a lot too. and, like, he was kind of,

Starting point is 00:03:56 he was just thrown into this circumstantial situation. Granted, he could have gotten out, you know, at certain times if he'd, you know, done certain things. But, I mean, look, he found money, you know, did. And also, he had a compassionate side. I also think that he grounded the film in vulnerability. And I just, I loved his performance. I actually liked his character a lot, too.

Starting point is 00:04:19 I think, like I said, he had a very compassionate sign to him. And also, he was a very proud man as well. I think his wife said it best that he would never ask for help even if that might have been the wise choice to make but he survived a war in Vietnam you can understand where his mindset is at when it comes to that and he was just trying to look for a better life and that's what that money represented to him

Starting point is 00:04:43 so I totally get up with the cat and mouse game between him and Javier Bardeen was intense it was suspenseful but it was also like incredible to watch as well being you know and I think Tommy Lee Jones too I really appreciate and this goes for the other two characters I loved how observant and intelligent he was

Starting point is 00:05:02 but also at the same point I think he brought a lot of gravitas to the film I like that serious demeanor that he always brought but then there was a little bit of humor in that serious demeanor as well kind of balanced out the rest of the film because it's such a bleak and serious film so I really appreciated his performance as well

Starting point is 00:05:18 but that's our initial thoughts right now so we do have a few questions here and as we always point out at the beginning if you become a royal reject, you get to drive the narrative of this and you get to ask us the questions where we'll shout it out. We will shout you out individually.

Starting point is 00:05:30 So here we go. All right. From Melissa Taylor. Hey, Roommies. Hey, Melissa. Josh Brolin has said that Javier Bardeme was doing... By the way, sorry if I'm misproncing his last name. Bardem.

Starting point is 00:05:48 It's me. You guys know I just... I can't pronounce freaking names Ardon. It's okay. Don't great. Javier Bardem was depressed during the making of this film because of his awful haircut. Oh, no, that sucks. It's like his paycheck made up for it.

Starting point is 00:06:04 He's like, I'm good. What do you think this particular hairstyle says about the character, Anton? Oh. I got ideas, but you go. I feel like it was definitely a very 80s, late 70s to the haircut. Good point. But, yeah, it kind of told me that. his appearance

Starting point is 00:06:25 there's not necessarily something of concern he's a man about a mission and maybe I don't know maybe he was ridiculed for his looks and he just kind of like went into it yeah I think

Starting point is 00:06:41 it was definitely a choice I've never seen a character with a haircut like that and I think he just added to the off-putting nature of his character's not only demeanor but his appearance you know he just had those those very cold eyes very like quaffed sort of hair which yeah it was just so everything about him was creeping unsettling yes it was oh man like

Starting point is 00:07:04 i feel like even if i was on set and i know he's just an actor i'm like i'm i've got just chills down my running down my spine right now that's good performance by you but i feel so uncomfortable right now and unsettled but in regards to his hair what it says about Anton. I like the 70s 80s thing. You just mentioned. Totally agree with that. I think it just says how unhinged he can be. And that he's such a force of nature

Starting point is 00:07:30 and he can't be controlled. And yeah, just like he's just again, just a force that not to be trifled with and to be and he's just like a reckoning even. You know what I would say? Yeah. Something

Starting point is 00:07:46 else about it is that the hair was so, so neat yet something was just so off about right you know so that's like i would say it's something along the lines of like um what's the words i'm looking for it's it's like calculated or put together yet obtuse meticulous very meticulous type of haircut for sure that's that's a great point thank you so much for the question we appreciate it okay jaden roads thank you for the question jaden uh i haven't seen this in years but one of the things that did stick out over the years

Starting point is 00:08:26 was anton played by harvard dam he's considered one of the best villains of all times do you all agree with that statement or do you think this is an overstatement at all he was he was incredible i think just all the reasons i said i loved how calculating he was methodical uh he could go from uh just scary uh to cold and then have that that that dribbling smile on his face too like it's it's just one of those performances where again, you see Anton and there's no Javier Bardem. And it's, I really hope it doesn't come off as Aaron and I just having a recency bias because it doesn't really feel that way. This is just like he was just so magnetic while at the same time being so freaking ruthless and just downright scary at the same time. So, and I think the scariest part for me about this

Starting point is 00:09:14 performance, like this isn't like a Terminator or a joke or even though you can make an argument, like there could be people who behave like the Joker in real life whereas Terminator that's an actual machine even though we're getting to that point in AI and all that and stuff but this guy could be walking amongst us in real life right now there are people that can be like this you know what I mean so that's a scary thought in itself so yeah I would say it's one of the greatest villains

Starting point is 00:09:38 I've ever seen and I truly don't feel Aaron and I are having recency bias when we say that no it's kind of funny watching a villain like Vier R Bardem, who's clearly a psychopath, but yet has his own sort of strange morals and how he operates. And the first thing that comes to mind in watching this is the contrast between a villain like this and a villain like the High Evolutionary in Guardians 3. And the reason I say that is because...

Starting point is 00:10:10 It's been a while. The one thing, when I think of that villain and, you know, Greta, I love him in Peacemaker. I think the actor's great. But I feel like the villain, his energy and the way he was represented didn't come across as threatening to me. It came across as petulant. And the main reason being is because he screamed so much. He was like always having temper tantrums. And for me, screaming isn't a representation of power.

Starting point is 00:10:37 It's a representation of someone in the loss of control. You know, it means they are asleep to their emotions. Whereas someone like Javier Berndem's, Anton, he is, he knows. never yells he never is afraid he's so calm he is smooth and calculated and the thing that really sets the tone over his character is the scene inside the liquor store where he's just eating the corn nuts we don't even see him kill the guy he's just talking to him looking at him telling him to make a choice and that was probably the most terrifying scene in the movie but you saw how scared that guy was too yeah how much control he had in the situation and i felt like yeah this

Starting point is 00:11:15 is somebody you do not want to mess with because they're unpredictable and they're strange and they will do anything it takes to get what they want no matter what the cost and you will never see them coming and that is the most terrifying kind of villain. That's a great

Starting point is 00:11:31 point here because that guy in the liquor store he was like just he was being friendly just schmoozing the customer making conversation with him and then it's like he flipped it on its head to him and he was like I'm closing he's like what time do you close now now is not a time and it's like

Starting point is 00:11:48 he got him he like absolutely like just broke him down and like put him in such a went from schmoozing a customer to having him fearing for his life and he wasn't physically armed he was mentally breaking him down and fearing for his life and the guy again just was having an interaction with them calmly and methodically that is scary and fascinating if you don't have a weapon in his hand he was just eating yeah he had the little nuts in his hand And also, he was nuts. Very symbolic that he is what he is eating, right?

Starting point is 00:12:21 That's the old saying, you are what you eat. So anyways, great question, Jaden. Thank you so much. We appreciate it. Reject Nation, at the start of this year, I was sitting over 20% body fat, 218 pounds of his end of January, as of a couple weeks ago, finally took the photos I've been talking about it all year.

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Starting point is 00:14:01 Was there a scene where the film's almost total lack of music, its super sparse dialogue, or the deliberate slow burn, hits you the hardest? How did those choices shape your feelings or change? the way you followed what was going on that's a great question kev fantastic yeah i think yeah i think

Starting point is 00:14:21 yeah i think Andrew called it kind of early in the movie that there was very minimal score if any i don't remember i wasn't i was waiting for it yeah yeah i think it just adds to the the slow yet methodical nature of the film i feel like because there is no music it adds to the tension and it's kind of ironic in the sense that you know usually when you're watching something that is scary or full of tension. It is the music that makes it what it is, that adds to that, the loud sounds crashing, the creepy score,

Starting point is 00:14:52 but yet this here, there's something so eerie about the fact that we don't hear anything. We just hear footsteps and people moving, which is closer to how it is in reality. You know, we don't have a score following us around in life, but

Starting point is 00:15:08 because we are watching people in high pressure situations and the silence of the situation adds to the internal fear and tension the characters are feeling which is an audience in the positions of what they are going through and when it is louder we do hear loud crashes we feel the same effects that the characters are feeling on the same level because when characters are in a movie they can't feel the score so I feel like it did a that's a good point yeah it did a it did a really good job of

Starting point is 00:15:38 establishing that the scene that that did that for me um there's a few the corn nut scene really that was one of the bad yeah that's a good one oh man it was another scene that got me do you have any of that well while you're thinking about that i agree with everything you just said was so beautifully articulated uh yeah music is there you know it's there to make us feel you know what i mean it's it's speaking without saying anything it's you know what i mean so i was like literally i was playing music for Aaron and his girlfriend yesterday from Adventures of Pinocchio, which came out in 1996, directed by Steve Barron,

Starting point is 00:16:16 who did the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film in 1990. And I was just asking them, how does this make you feel? And what they were telling me, I was like, I'm not going to give you context. I'm not going to tell you what's happening in the scene. And they were both very accurate. I'm like, okay, the score is doing its job. And by the way, it was Rachel Portman, who did that score.

Starting point is 00:16:31 She's so underage. She also did one of my favorite scores, legends are Bagger Vance. I digress. I'm not getting off topic here. My point being is, that's what the score is there to do. It's there to make you feel. even if you're not watching something so that's why I made that comment so earlier I'm not hearing a score but it's not taking away my lack of like locking in usually if I don't if I'm not hearing a score I'm not as locked into a film

Starting point is 00:16:55 as long as you insert it in the right spots and I don't even really think I heard much of a score for the whole time for this film I could be wrong but that's what was again what Aaron just said that was the chilling part of this like I really almost didn't even feel like I was following a film I just felt like it is an incredible film, obviously, but it felt like I was watching real-life characters in a real set of events. I'm just following along their journey. But it was paced so, even though it was a slow burn, it was paced in a way that was very understandable,

Starting point is 00:17:26 but also very compelling. And I think the choice, normally I would say, I need to have a score because I'm a movie score freak. This was the absolute right decision to make. It adds to the groundedness of it, because Aaron just said one of the most insanely accurate things I've ever heard, which is very obvious too, but I've never heard anyone actually say it

Starting point is 00:17:47 and got a little chuckle on me. Characters can't hear the movie score, which is true. So it makes sense because when they're hearing these noises, we as the audience are hearing these noises too and we're reacting like we are there with them. So I think that was actually a smart decision. I'm sure, and it was an ambitious decision.

Starting point is 00:18:06 We're not going to have a movie score for the most part for this film. what uh yeah i don't know about that you can say that beforehand but you don't know how it's going to execute when you actually put it on smart great choice yeah and that's me saying that you know it's the right choice when i'm freaking saying i'm the movie score freak so um yeah it just works so well in tandem with the film in regards to is there a specific scene the whole movie um dude that that i'm sorry it's so hard to to go against that one scene with Javier

Starting point is 00:18:41 in that liquor store. I mean, that just said everything about his character and he didn't have to do anything with all interaction right there. So I know that's the obvious one to go with I don't give a shit. Another scene is when

Starting point is 00:18:56 Josh Bolton's character, he has the tracker and then Anton's at the door and he's just like sitting there waiting for him to do something and then it goes in on the lock and then it hits him in the chest. and then Josh Boland shoots him out on that whole entire scene scoreless and super tense

Starting point is 00:19:14 that cat and mouse in that scene I did also really quickly I liked seeing the contrast between the two of them because one is an extremely compassionate man compassionate man as Josh Roland is but just even like when it comes to little things and I know he ended up having to go to the hospital when his wounds got a little too much Josh Brolin but then like even at the beginning when he got shot I think from the the cartel at the beginning he was healing up his wounds and then Javier Berden. They're very resourceful and intelligent guys. And I

Starting point is 00:19:44 appreciate that about their characters. So, and yeah, it's so well written this movie. But yeah, I'd love to hear in the comments, though. What are like some scenes for you guys that really hit the hardest or like really shaped up the film for you? Love to hear that. So thank you

Starting point is 00:20:00 so much for the question. All right. Oh, and I think this one's also from Kev B. It's trivia. It's going to be waiting for that one. Yeah. So we'll do that one last. Oh, okay. Resonant Z, thank you for setting in a question. I saw this movie ages ago around the time the movie came out,

Starting point is 00:20:18 and despite remembering a couple of story beats here, and they're watching it now, would be like a new movie. However, one thing I can never forget is the capital bolt... The captive. I'm sorry, captive bolt pistol. It's iconic for the movie. It was awesome. There are any other weapons in movies that you can think of

Starting point is 00:20:36 that has become nearly a symbol of the movie. Something like a lightsaber for Star Wars or Ash's chainsaw in the Evil Dead. Okay, great choice. I mean, that, was it the air gun or the captive bolt? Is that what it's called? A bolt pistol? That is awesome. Yeah, that is awesome.

Starting point is 00:20:54 Obviously, lightsaber Star Wars. I have not seen Evil Dead, but I'm going to just agree with you on Ash's chainslaw then in Evil Dead. I'm going to go with Terminator Shotgun and Terminator 2. that that damn thing is so icon and the way Arnold flips it around while he's on the motorcycle come on I gotta go with that one what about you is there a specific weapon

Starting point is 00:21:15 from a franchise or a movie or like that's so damn iconic that's good I don't know there's so many movies I don't know Pudding Tank's belt because he uses a belt to beat people okay nothing is coming to mind

Starting point is 00:21:30 that man's crap so many movies you know Deadpool has his two guns that are pretty cool. Yeah, do you have any other ones that are... Oh, besides Terminator Shotgun? I'll go with Terminator Shotgun and his other gun that he has

Starting point is 00:21:49 when he goes to the police station. The first... No, I'm just kidding. Other weapons that are so iconic in film. I'm sure there's like a million choices. Just when we get asked this question right away, it's like to think about it on the spot because we've got to try to be quick with these answers.

Starting point is 00:22:03 I came up with a good one, that Terminator, too. trying to think what else is a really good one. You know which one I really did like? I don't know if you call it an iconic wecombin, but I thought Tom Cruise was really sick with the samurai sword and the last samurai. Oh, okay. That's a pretty good one. I don't know.

Starting point is 00:22:19 I don't know if you'd call it iconic weapon in all film, but I thought he was, I thought he did a great job with that. Harley's Javelin and Suicide Squad. Okay. That's a pretty good one. I was going to say, I know you haven't seen the Matrix movies, any weapons, any characters used in those movies?

Starting point is 00:22:35 They're sunglasses. I know those aren't weapons, but that's just a cool look. I'll just go with that. How's that? The Joker's pencil in the dark. Oh, that's a good one. How about a magic trick? Thank you for the question.

Starting point is 00:22:49 But let us know in the comments. We'd love to hear some iconic weapons that we probably didn't even mention. Thank you, though. All right, from Jay Rushden. What up, Jay? The weapon used is cattle prod used for making cows into burgers. question. What is your favorite? Okay, I was right. What is your favorite place for burgers there? Just in general, our favorite place for burgers? Is that a lot of good spots for burgers?

Starting point is 00:23:16 I like this place we've been going to lately. OG smash burgers. That place is pretty bomb. And then, I mean, we're going to give you the simple West Coast answer in and outperger. That's pretty great. Easy Street burgers out here is really a bomb as well. If you go to Fleming's, like the steakhouse, they have really good. I've never had their burgers. try it sometime yeah most definitely i will have to try that they're having them on a happy hour like 15 bucks i will have to try that um all right well i guess uh will let us know in the comments what your favorite burger places are we'd love to hear if we have any suggestions aaron and i can try or any of the other uh uh hosts here on the real rejects we will give them try and give you our reviews thanks jay thanks jay appreciate you as always buddy all right and our final thing we're reading today for kev b because it says trivia if time and luckily there is time

Starting point is 00:24:05 So I will read it. Trivia, during the filming production of No Country for Old Men was temporarily halted because a nearby shoot for There Will Be Blood involved a large pyrotechnic test. The resulting smoke from an oil rig drifted over to the Cohen Brothers set in Marfa, Texas, making it impossible to continue. Why did you say that name? Make it an impossible? Wow, that is what I got, have you seen There Will Be Blood, by the way? I don't think so.

Starting point is 00:24:36 I heard it's an incredible film. I know it's Paul Thomas Anderson directed in it. I don't know Daniel Day Lewis is the act, is the star. I just met the director. But, wow, that's a crazy story. I wonder how long it halted. It's a temporarily halted. So it's probably just like a day or two or three.

Starting point is 00:24:53 Still, that's wild. I know they both came out in 2007, to my recollection. So wild. But maybe let us know in the comments. Would you like Aaron, myself, or anyone else on the channel to react to there will be blood. Yeah. So, yeah.

Starting point is 00:25:07 Let us know. Thanks for, but Kev, thank you for the, I mean, we always love trivia here. So that's a wild and crazy piece of knowledge, or trivia, rather. So thank you for sharing that. Really quickly. Did you already look up Rotten Tomatoes or no? I did. Okay.

Starting point is 00:25:21 I didn't look at just in case. That's how we know each other so well. Yep. That's why I pull my phone up. All right. Let's see. I'll do the critics first. I'm going to go 87.

Starting point is 00:25:34 Okay. oh we're just oh you're not going to confirm we're going to go you're going to have me do both audience i'm going to go that havier bard bar dem performance was so damn electric i feel like this one has to have a high score for that reason i'm going to go 91 87 and 91 why are you laughing at me i'm laughing because those scorers are close the exact reverse right not the exact no So you said 87. 87 critics. You said 87 for credits.

Starting point is 00:26:10 86 audience. Ah, I'm always one off, but it's just on the other one. And critics were 93. Okay. So, yeah, you're close for reverse. In the ballpark of the... You were just off by 2% flip that. I was in the ballpark.

Starting point is 00:26:26 Yeah. Anyways, that's a fun game. I love the Ron Tomatoes game. Anyways, guys, this was a tragic. but incredible ride what an incredible film i i haven't seen a ton of cone brothers films i saw with fellow geek check i saw fargo go check out that reaction if you haven't that was an incredible film but this was right up there as well obviously i've also seen i hate myself i always do this i literally said that big lobowski thank you uh that's an incredible film too but this is right up

Starting point is 00:26:59 there with some of the best uh films of the cone brothers uh you know that they've ever made. So I'd love to also, I know I've asked you guys several times, comment, let us know this, let us know that, but let us know what some of your favorite Coen Brothers films are. And like I said, I don't know about Aaron. I have not seen many of their films. So if there's other Coen Brothers, you'd like myself, Aaron, any other members of the, or rather host of the channel to react to, let us know. We'd love to hear your thoughts. And if you stayed with us this song, Real Rumi and myself, we appreciate it. We love you guys so much. And take care. Be safe out there. We'll see you later.

Starting point is 00:27:35 Thank you.

The Reel Rejects - NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (2007) IS BRILLIANTLY INTENSE!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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