The whole point of the movie is to be a certain anti-western. The hero dies offscreen unceremoniously, the sheriff gives up and never catches the villain, the most sympathetic character in the movie gets murdered and the most evil one walks off into the sunset. The reason for this is because it's pointing out how old people in each era always look at the past through rose colored glasses. The truth is the world has never been kind and just nor has it been evil. It's all just kind of chaos and it's largely out of our hands.

One of my favorite quotes in the movie... “All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.”

2007 is one of the most impressive years of American cinema over the past 20 years. This film, Andrew Dominik's 'The Assassination of Jesse James,' and of course Paul Thomas Anderson's masterwork 'There Will Be Blood' are three of the finest pieces of cinema you're bound to watch ❤

Love this movie. My favorite line is when Ellis says to Ed Tom that "it all ain't waiting on you. Thats vanity".

2:56 "he said hold still just like what the guy said." -Ryl good catch. i missed that myself.

An amazing film. From the casting and dialogue, to every frame of camerawork and lighting. It's as though it was painted and not photographed. That the story is so real and doesn't have a "Hollywood ending" just makes it all the better.

I love how this movie doesn't have any music and it doesn't matter, great movie

This is set in 1980. There would be no reason for him to think there was a tracker in the money. This is before the tech revolution. Nobody thought like that back then.

12:18 "there's something about milk." -Ryl 🥛😈 their next reaction is Inglourious Basterds. freaky 🤯🤯🤯🤯

The actress who plays Carla Jean is actually Irish. She nails the West Texas accent.

You girls are my favorite. Authentic and funny. Ive been watching you for a while, just wanted to stop to say keep up the good work.

The device used in the movie by the assassin is technically not a gun. It's called a captive bolt stunner, under pressure it ejects a metal rod which then retracts. It's used to kill cattle.

Javier Bardem killed it in this movie (literally). He is such a good actor. Also, at the very least we all now know to check for a tracker device if we ever find a random bag of money.

This movie is a masterpiece fun fact- none of the 3 mains are ever in the same shot together.

The Coen Brothers who did this film make cool movies. A lot of dark humor. In fact while they were filming this they were working on the script for their next movie which is one of my favorites. Burn After Reading. You two need to watch it.

The story is from the perspective of the Sheriff. He is the narrator. It's how he feels time, for his kind, has passed him by. All that he thought was logical, and fair about life, isn't..He is overwhelmed by senseless violence, and feel's powerless in the face of it all..That's why the ending is perfect...Some stories shouldn't end tied up with a pretty bow wrapped around it. We all know that's not how actual life happens, most times.

8:53 "and this freaking hair." -Jyn FINALLY!!  I didn't think you would ever mention his hair. that's the craziest thing about him.

If there's a "winner" in this movie it's probably Sheriff Bell, who was wise enough to retire when he realized the world had moved on beyond his ability to contend with it. Anton doesn't really win because Anton isn't about winning or losing. His principles are beyond that kind of idea. He's more of a universal force, a personification of Death who carries out the whims of fate. People cross his path, by chance, meet his gaze, by chance, and die, by chance. The most he can do, if he has any sympathy for them, is to give them an extra chance in the coin flip, which is one of the principles he follows. He gets the money, but like Carson says, the money's not important to him. He never even uses any money in the movie except when he gives some to the kid at the end for his shirt. Winning doesn't come into it, he just performs his function.

2:33 "Aaah!" -Jyn i think that's the loudest i've ever heard Jyn scream. 😮😆

Honestly, this is one of the most insightful reactions to this movie that I've ever seen. I LOVE "No Country" and you two picked up on things that I had to watch several times to understand. Kudos to both of you!

The missing floor Woody is referring to is the 13th floor I'd assume. Old superstitions and all that. Great reaction.

the gas weapon is called a captive bolt stunner its what they use too kill Cattle on farms. such a unique weapon for a killer in the movie

Jyn like, "This whole movie...why?!?!?" 😂. Cause shit is real in the field, my sweets...I hear ya though.

Crazy when you said "empty vessel" cuz that's exactly the term they used to describe another serial killer, in the movie The Third Murder. Both that killer and Anton are antisocial

Most people don't get it, the story is about *"The Sheriff"* that's why the movie starts and ends with him. The title says it all *No Country for Old Men* its set around 1980, when the Drug Wars started, the Mexican Cartels and their American counterparts were in turf wars so to speak. Killings skyrocketed on those small Texas Border towns. That why it end with him *retiring* it was no place (country) for old lawmen, who most never had to shoot their guns. That is why Tommy Lee Jones is the main character.

Anton is the personification of Fate. He's generous with the coin toss, giving people the opportunity to change it. Moss represents Chance, it was by this he found the money etc. Sheriff Bell represents Order, but when Chance meets Fate, he feels "overmatched," he has no choice but to bow out, hence No Country For Old Men. Ps. Heads on the coin toss is always right cuz the point is if you use your HEAD, you won't end up on the TAIL end of the barrel.

I really like the way y'all bounce ideas back and forth til you come up with solid theories and explanations.

I'm a vegetarian but when I was young I worked in a meat factory. Every time people watch this I'm shocked that no one knows what a bolt gun is and does.

32:01 "no. no. the answer is no." -Ryl 😆

Did you guys notice this movie had no music.

Surprisingly the movie follows the book pretty closely

Such a beautifully crafted film where every scene and action - no matter how small and mundane - somehow becomes riveting to watch. I want to say so much more, but I will stick to two random things that made me smile: First, the early dog talk was exactly what my mind was thinking when I initially watched this movie, haha. And second... Jyn with the hair up is better than Jyn with the hair down. Just the personal aesthetic preference of another soul living on a different part of this planet. :) Always great reactions from you guys. I hope you keep going.

Over the years this has become my favorite movie. Some small details. There is no soundtrack\music. Not during the opening, not during the movie and not during the credits. It gives the movie an intimacy without us being manipulated by a soundtrack. Another thing, the opening shots there are long, lingering shots of barren landscapes - very similar to the opening shots of Stanly Kubricks 2001: A Space Odyssey. I compared them once, think they are both 7-8 shots and roughly the same length. This is a horror movie, but not because of the guy with the bad haircut. The only real conversations are the three with the main character, the sheriff (the old man). The sheriff with the other sheriff "once we stop saying ma'am or sir, the rest follows", the sheriff with his friend "what you got ain't anything new", and his two dreams at the end. The first dream was about "losing some money" a single short sentence that dismisses the entire movie you just watched. The second about his father going ahead, making things better. Then he woke up. It's the realization there is no 'progress'. Things will never get better because of human nature.

In Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, there's a scene with analogous tension to the dog pursuit of Llewelyn. Comanche are the doing the pursuing in that story. (No Country for Old Men is a Cormac McCarthy novel.)

I remember seeing this. It became one of my favorite movies. Later, I read the novel it was based on, too. The story, though fictitious, is based on the US-Mexico drug trade that reached a high peak in 1980 (and still continues today). It resulted in lots of organized crime (around the US border states: Texas (depicted in the film), and also New Mexico, Arizona, and California (where I live now today)). Today, since the 80s, those 4 states remain the highest in level of drugtrafficking and organized crime.

This story take place in the 70s... tracking devices were not used a lot back then.

27:33 "ohhhhh, the psychopath is behind you!" -Jyn 😮

This movie is based on a book of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, a fantastic author. One of his other novels, "Blood Meridian", *is* in fact based on a true story, features a villain (Judge Holden) who (probably) actually existed and has been referred to as "Anton Chigurh at proper scale". Give it a read (J/K, it's absolutely terrifying; approach w/ caution). The device used by Chigurh is usually used to kill cattle. The lack of sound means that it won't startle the whole herd if you kill one, there's no bullet fragments to dig out of the head, and it's (in aggregate) much safer to use than a gun. Previously, farmers used to use a large hammer to knock the cows in the head, which is comparatively time & labor intensive. Mike Hanlon uses a similar device as a kid in "IT".

Chigurh sums up the theme of the film before he murders Carson: “If the rule you followed brought you to this, what use was the rule?” In the pursuit of the money, every character killed was following some “rule” or code of ethics. Chigurh followed none of them, so he always had the advantage over his adversaries.

25:48 the simultaneous turning of the heads... 🤌🏽

I love tgat this movie calls vanity to anyone who things back in the days things were better and today is worse. It is vanity to think like that.

When Woody Harrellson was asking about the "missing floor" in the bldg, he was just being sarcastic. The majority of high rise buildings don't number the 13th floor because 13 is a superstition of being an Unlucky Number. Great reaction by you Two Cuties! 🥴🤔🥰❤️🤣

“And then I woke up…” If you enjoyed Carson, you should check out True Detective. The same actor (Woody Harrelson) is partnered with Matthew McConaughey to try to solve a series of brutal murders in Louisiana

theres not many post 2000 movies ill watch reactions to, but thats definately one of them

Fargo is a great movie made by the same guys

This is my favorite killer movie EVER! The fear, the coldness, and every other feeling I feel watch this killer is just. Chefs kiss

Incredible book by an incredible writer brought to cinema by incredible directors and actors.

I love it....'they chose that life'....(in reference to feeling empathy to the dead dog and not dead humans)

There’s a lot going on in this movie starting with the title. ‘NCFOM’ is a line in the poem, ‘Sailing To Byzantium’ which involves an old man coming to terms with his own mortality. That’s what’s really scaring our main character, Sheriff Bell, more than anything else in the movie, Death. Anton only kills when he has too. When he’s not sure the person is a threat, he gets out a coin. Anton thinks he’s an agent of The Fates (of Greek mythology) or something along those lines. This Anton business is all about the philosophical argument of Free Will vs. Determinism. You hit on it yourself when you were talking about the dead dog at the drug deal gone wrong crime scene. You said those guys made choices, the dog didn’t. There’s a recent book called Determined by Robert Sapolsky that argues the opposite. Scientifically speaking, all the evidence seemingly points out that we are incapable of making choices, just like serial killers have to kill others, but there’s more to it than that. It’s very, very, counterintuitive. I won’t go further into it right now but you can get the gist of it on youtube. There are tons of interviews of the scientist who wrote the book. Determinism really messes with the idea of using justice systems as anything more than just a form of containment as any ideas of retribution, punishment, and an eye for an eye mentality, all go out the window if in actuality, no one is capable of making conscious choices. Nobody come at me on this please; watch the Sapolsky interviews, or read the book first. I just find the book interesting but am no one qualified to have a serious opinion on either the philosophical or the scientific deas. When Anton says to the gas station owner, “You married into it.” he half chokes on a peanut or whatever, because he is shock at the intricacies involved with the moment. The Fates spun the thread of both Anton and the station owner to come together at this moment. Anton realized the station owner married into the coin toss. It could not be avoided. Anton’s relieved when the station owner calls the coin correctly. I don’t think Anton kills people like a serial killer does. He’s just doing his job, and sure, he’s crazy, and a walking metaphor for Determinism. When Mrs. Moss refuses to call the coin, Anton kills her because she might have information from her husband, or maybe because he keeps his promises. He doesn’t know if she’s a threat but refuses to call the coin toss. “The coin ain’t have no sa it’s just you.” That’s the Free Will argument. The book, ‘Determined,’ subject matter isn’t metaphysical in nature, the Determinism in the book does not involve gods, or The Fates necessarily, but Anton believes something metaphysically crazy that justifies his killing for sure. There’s much more too this film including, foundation myths, The Aeneid, the CIA, Vietnam, and stuff I don’t have time to go into, the food just arrived. Thanks for making videos eh.

About the realities and unpredictable nature of life. The uncertainty. Choices mixed with random events. Very simply put. Great reaction ladies.

LOVE this movie. Probably the Coen's best movie. Anton was ruthless, but he did stick to his rules. The lesson I took out of this movie: You stumble upon a scene where there's lots of money, drugs and dead people...call the cops. And I don't know why but I always tear up at the end listening to Tommy Lee Jones telling his wife about his dream about his father. God, I love this movie.

One of my top 10 favorite movies of all times and my list is top tier.

You ladies are some of the sharpest and most fun reactors. Plus, you actually watch the movies and pick good spots to comment.

I think you guys have reacted to "The Goonies" but if you haven't you should. Anyway the lead actor running from the physico is Josh Brolin who played the older brother in the Goonies. His father is James Brolin, an old time actor. 🥰🤣❤️🤫🥴

One of my all time favorite films. Anton Chigurh is such a chilling character.

This is what real cinema can be, far away from the usual Hollywood trash.

8:07 "that poor dog though. damn." -Jyn that dog chose that life.

"You want to know what this movie is about?" Flips a coin into the air, "Call it!"

Chigurh makes the point that the universe is random, like a coin toss. But when his own precious personal ass gets crushed in a car accident (sometimes you're not the one flipping the coin), he insists on giving the kid money for his shirt, because he's buying his silence. Even though the kid offers it to him for nothing, for free. The little bit at the end about the dream of his father 'carrying the fire' refers to the idea of civilization going forward in community and family. Good movie.

Llewelyn Moss is also Thanos from the Avengers. This was a long time before then tho.

Cormac McCarthy wrote the book based on the movie. His book "Blood Meridian" is a tough read.

Good review ladies🙂👍

I also love that Antoine Shugar or however you spelt it won. I find it a fascinating movie with great acting. I agree that him taking the money and THEN going back was dumb. but I love the realness and brutality but also the body language and conversations soooooo much

19:10 - Many buildings will not include a 13th floor (out of superstition and tradition). So if you count the floors from the outside, there may be 18, but the elevator will go to 19. Thus the weird dialogue.

Crazy good film selection on this channel.....top quality..just having my milk and watching😊

This movie won Best Picture in a tough year. Atonement was also based on a fantastic novel, and has one of the best endings ever filmed. But No Country For Old Men is a masterpiece from the Coen Bros who have made a series of film classics from Fargo to The Big Lebowski to O Brother Where Art Thou (3 films in a row), No Country, a remake of True Grit that is far better than the John Wayne version, and closer to the book. I would actually recommend you try True Grit, it's more of a straight forward story of vengeance in the Old West. One of my favorite things about this film is that the three main characters never share a scene together apart from Sheriff Bell arriving too late to speak to Llewellyn, and Anton and Llewellyn shooting at each other, but never seeing each other's face. What other movie could ever even attempt something like that. Also, it took me seeing it in the theater on the fourth time before I noticed there is almost no music, just the mariachi band playing over a wounded Llewellyn in a truly twistedly funny scene. The Coen Bros are the best filmmakers of the last 40 years. You should check out more of their films. Blood Simple is similar in tone to No Country, and was their first film in 1984. Raising Arizona in 1987 is a screwball comedy with the greatest opening scene in film history, an 11 minute setup for the entire movie, including three robberies, a meet cute, three jail sentences, a fertility struggle, and a kidnapping plot involving an officer of the law, twice decorated. They followed that with the gangster film Miller's Crossing and the surreal Barton Fink. That's plenty to start with. Great reaction, it's not the easiest movie to follow, and intentionally so, like a novel, and good commentary!

The land lady, he respected her. It's difficult to explain

...the randomness of violence...the arrogance of greed...the illusion of self-confidence...the indifference of evil...

Y'all have to consider just how in the middle of nowhere the crime scene was. The odds of somebody returning to the scene of the crime were minimal. The encounter with the dog and the gang was a one in a million chance of happening.

Another perfect react that I can't thumbs up (see my Rocky comment). I've seen most reacts to Old Men, and yours is the the only one that almost got it.. You are AWSOME reactors, and your editor is the best.

I was pissed too first time I saw how the killed our boy off screen. but as I watched it more I started too appreciate the balls they had too do that XD

Your reaction are awesome, girls. Incredible how much you pick up along the way. This movie is a masterpiece and perfectly depicts the randomness of life, beyond good and evil. Shit happens, that's all.

The old man at the end is Lewelyn's uncle.

Fun fact: the briefcase that held the money is the exact same briefcase that held the ransom money in FARGO

The weapon is called "captive bolt pistol" (or gun), there is no projectile, it works like a gas powered piston. It is used at slaugherhouses to stun (or kill) the cattle for slaughter. It ejects a piston at very high speed, but the "projectile" doesn't leave the gun.

Along with probably all the John Grisham stories, No Country For Old Men is the most faithful adaptation of a book into a movie I've seen.

The great thing about this movie is that it doesn't give you what you expect (seeing the main character die, knowing what happens to anyone, not being sure if Anton killed the wife) but it gives you things you didn't know you needed.

Carson was the retired Army Colonel that the other sheriff was talking about.

5:51 "it's like winning the lottery..." -Jyn it's like winning the lottery where the lottery officials, after giving you the check, kill you, the clerk that sold you the ticket, and the guy that was getting a candy bar standing in line behind you.

In the end, the world doesn't care. It doesn't have favorite characters, or preferred outcomes. Trying to force the world to be ordered, results mostly in confusion, and disappointment. All we can really do is try to make the best of what we've got.

7:10 "[gasp] 😮 there's another vehicle." -Ryl

You would love reading the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name. This screenplay is one the best adaptations for film I can think of.

This movie had no music. It really helped the realism. Great movie.

27:57 "he knows!" -Ryl 😄

Obra maestra, sin necesidad de tener música de fondo, la tensión es magistral, y Javier Bardem interpreta a uno de los mejores villanos de la historia del cine.

When I think of many of the lines from the sheriff (Tommy Lee Jones), and the overall message of the movie, I think of the hour about a series on the 1970s. CNN did a multi-part series on the '70s. This was around 2014 i think, one episode was called "Crimes and Cults", even had a story about a guy in Texas (I think near Houston or that part of the state) in the early 70s that had an older teen boy lure other teen boys to his place, the middle age guy tortured, raped , killed over 20 boys, in the early 70s. Starting with the Zodiac killer, Tate-Labianca murders etc in the late 60s, the next 10-12 years saw a huge rise senseless murders, and more serial killers. Psychopaths. Leopold and Loeb, Charlie Starkweather, the Clutter family(In Cold Blood), these things happened before the late 60s but were much more rare. One of the points this hour made was from the late 60s, over the next 10 years we saw skyrocketing rates of these senseless murders, serial killers etc that are just gonna be observed as evidence of pure evil by some of us. To someone the age of those 2 sheriffs having coffee, thinking about it on a macro level, them knowing about many of the crimes of the last 10-12 years (in real life, as it happened in the U.S.) it must've seemed to them that much of the world has lost it's mind, or is simply bloodthirsty, or just plain evil now, like the kid he describes at the beginning, he'd do it again, just wants to kill, no reason given..........don't be deceived, (like it says in Ephesians) it wasn't always like this, true they existed, but few and far between, not like the last 55 years, people used to hitchhike (Once Upon A Time In Hollywood) they still did in the '80s when I was growing up. Both the hitchhiker and the driver must have a death wish to do something that stupid now, there is no shortage of psychopaths nowadays who want to see someone suffer. I had paper routes from age 6 to 14, we knew people like John Joubert existed even in an area where I grew up......get eyes in the back of your head 24/7 or else

It's a Coen brothers movie. They're like saints to cinema lovers. Not everything they've made is great, but there's a big bunch if you want more. Also comedies.

Is he a cop? A bounty hunter? He's a Texan.

19:13 Out of superstition they use to number floors 11, 12, 14, 15, etc on buildings. Purposefully mislabeling the 13th floor. Of course, there still is a 13th floor. It's just that nobody has to put "13" on any address to the building.

Moss died because the old momma ratted the meeting place out to the Mexicans. But Moss told his wife not to bring her, saying she'd be alright. But she wanted to bring her mom along anyway. That was the one variable that messed them up.

glad u gals finally got to see this one!!! its in my top best films ever !! and not because this film is based on my home town lol !! just the small details of the movie i love ...like the motel scene is so well done !!! u girls have the best reaction to this film !!!

Love ya but I'm LMAO at your reactions to the end 😂😂😂😂

Jyn is right. Carson should have had more situational awareness. He knew what kind of monster he was dealing with.

Anton was setting in his car when the sherrif was in the motel room. It's in the book.

You both realized the whole movie had no music? Great film. If you both like this you might like True detective.

The moral of this movie is when you find a bag of money check for a tracker.

I think this movie is a great morality tale about money and greed. Even the small interactions like Llewelyn buying the beer from the young guys at the border. They try to shake him down for more money even though he is clearly badly hurt and needs help. And at the end, the kid who was willing to give Anton his shirt for free ends up arguing over the money he gets with the other kid. Characters in the movie are perfectly happy until you put money between them and suddenly they are in conflict.

There is no closure to this movie.

you guys might know this but Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) is also Thanos in the MCU

Recommendation: "Hell or High Water"