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This movie, while slow, kept me engaged until the end, where it fell apart for me. WTF happened? Did the writer's strike cause them to run into a brick wall or what?

No, the book is exactly like that.

Seriously.

Shaf is not kidding. Except for Brolin's length of tooth, it was as close of an adaption of a novel as I have seen in nearly half a century of movie watching.

I don't remember the end dream sequence / metaphor thing entirely well, but I do remember that the book made more sense of it than the movie did. The book was able to do this because we got a lot of information directly from the old man, whose dream-thing you've got to interpret at the end. I can't recall the "meaning" of any of it without getting the book back out, though.

Saw in the theater when it first came out. Thought it was amazing then. Picked up the DVD for nothing and watched it tonight. Very re-watchable. This will be a film I probably watch every nine months or so.

Usually films that rely heavily on suspense only work once or twice for me, but the pacing, cinematography, acting, and dialogue are perfect in this one. The end is brilliant.

Great movie and a great book. Anton was the perfect bad mother.

I just rewatched this and Eastern Promises.

I think I liked Eastern Promises a bit better, but it was a close call, but No Country for Old Men is visually stunning and astonishingly true to Mccarthy's book.

I was soooooo happy that Eastern Promises DIDN'T end with a car chase.

Friend-O.
That character turned out better in the film than the book for me 'cause I never would have visualized him like that, nowhere near as close to perfect as that.
The movie ending was weakly done and didn't do shit for me, but hell, I read the book quite a while before seeing the movie and forgot so all the way through it was like deja vu Yogi Berra style. There were chemical additives with the movie though.

Eastern Promises, hey, I mean how beautiful was Viggo's role in that.
Steambath Viggo!