I’m that way with Super Troopers
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How incredible that we are all living in the era when all the best films were made.
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If you were into movies in 1999, you have memories other people can only dream of. God what a year.
I think NCFOM is a great movie and the Coen Bros did great work, but there are things I don’t like which are the fault of Cormac McCarthy.
Would you like to get into it now or during the movie? I’m eager for your perspective.
If something comes to me and I’m watching I will during the movie, but I just think he has a terrible and inaccurate view of human nature and I think portraying that is actually part of what he’s trying to do in fiction (basically that we’re all horrible sinners and can only be redeemed through Christ).
You were (though RF may have been levelling me).
We all are sinner. Some way worse than others.
I like the idea of randomness that gets mixed in here.
Sometimes whether you live or die or love or win or lose; its completely out of your hands.
Top 5 Coen movies:
NCFOM
Blood Simple
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou
Burn after Reading
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I should have taken it further. It’s not just that he thinks people are sinners, he thinks they are innately bad.
Great movie/book. idk if I’m game for a rewatch, but y’all have fun.
If going top 5 I’d put 'em
-Fargo
-Miller’s Crossing
-NCFOM
-Raising Arizona
-Big Lebowski
And make no mistake, they’re all just flat out phenomenal. If I had to snap rank them again I might mix up the order. Though Fargo will always be my clear #1. Fargo not winning Best Picture still grinds my gears lol English Patient
My favorite line from all of their movies
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McCarthy isn’t a true believer in the awfulness of humanity. He’s a true believer in nihilism. It’s in how he wrestles with nihilism that defines each of his books.
To that point, No Country and The Road in particular illustrate a profound change in how he answers the meaning of life if there is no “cosmic” point to it all. That’s my first point. Second, McCarthy became a different man when he had his second child at the ripe age of 66*. He was already an old man at that point, and you see him working through questions about the nature of humanity and morality in a new way with these later works.
Third, yes he sees the ugliness of humanity in most of his works. Sometimes, it seems like that’s all he sees. But read The Road again (or watch the movie). McCarthy no longer feels hopeless in the face of the pointless ugliness of humanity. Rather, he believes we must all decide whether to persevere. In the words of the Father in The Road, whether we will “carry the fire” despite certainty that there will be no happy ending.
It’s in No Country for Old Men that we see him first beginning to approach nihilism with this new perspective.
*edited for fact check from jaff
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anyway Imma try to make this
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He wasn’t even 30 when he had his first child.
I am a moron! His second child.
36 years between first and second child…holy shit…
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Ok so we’re doing this?
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We are starting at 10pm EST on the dot 
Were you able to access a place to stream it?
Amazon Prime
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