I know this is an unusual statement

[andrewducker]

But I actually preferred "Burn After Reading" to "No Country For Old Men".

Not that I disliked "No Country", but "Burn After Reading" was a hell of a lot more fun.

Comments

[heron61.livejournal.com]

From my POV, "Burn After Reading" was quite fun fluff and George Clooney was predictably wonderful.

SF author Daniel Keyes Moran eloquently expressed what I think about "No Country For Old Men".

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

I felt Old Country... was an awkward combination of the realistic and the mythic which never quite came together compared to, say, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.

Burn After Reading was more fun, but also disposable / lightweight, as I feel Coen Brothers films tend to be. It's what keeps them from being great IMO, that they're always just ironic movie movies, with nothing to say about reality.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Holly and I both thought the same. Both had essentially the same worldview, but I thought Burn... was the best Coen brothers since The Man Who Wasn't There...

[endless-psych.livejournal.com]

so did I

[chuma.livejournal.com]

Not seen Burn after Reading, but No Country for Old Men just seemed to lose itself about 3/4 of the way in. I was left feeling like they cut it to make it fit an alloted time frame or that they forgot to shoot some of the closing scenes. It tried to be clever and interesting but instead fell up its own arse and what *was* an interesting movie became very forgetable. I doubt I will sit through it a 2nd time.