No Country for Old Men Will Be Loved by Fans of Fargo

If somebody asked me, "Is No Country for Old Men, the new Coen Brothers movie, worth seeing?" I would first ask them, "Did you like Fargo?" before offering my answer. Now, if you didn’t like Fargo... well, you’re an idiot. I wish there was some other way to put it, but there’s not. Stop reading. Go play in traffic. However, if you’re not some sort of moronic, hairless monkey and you did like Fargo, then, to answer your question, I’d say, "Hells yeah! No Country for Old Men is definitely worth seeing."

"But why?" you might then ask. "After all, the Coen Brothers’ last two movies stunk like putrid milk."

Here, I’d have to agree with you. 2004’s Ladykillers, one of the lousy movies that populated the five-year winter Tom Hanks languished in between Catch Me If You Can and this year’s Charlie Wilson’s War, was funny for all the wrong reasons and 2003’s Intolerable Cruelty enjoys the privilege of being pretty much the only unredeemable movie George Clooney has made since The Peacemaker (though I guess his bit part in Welcome to Collinwood counts, too). It takes a lot to make Hanks and Clooney suck like, say, a Nicolas Cage or Matthew McConaughey, but the Coen Brothers managed it.

"So why should I see No Country for Old Men then? Woody Harrelson has a part in it, and he hasn’t been in anything good in almost a decade."

Well, you’re right about Woody. He’s kind of a waste of talent these days, but don’t hold that against No Country.

"So what’s it about?"

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