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There's also the issue of the transponder...

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In Reply to: RE: No C for Old Men posted by Duilawyer on February 04, 2008 at 12:50:45

...He would have gotten caught, anyhow. I wish they'd let us know who got the money, and how Brolin's character died. This seems to be a season filled with highly regarded films with plot holes one could fly a C-130 through.

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RE: There's also the issue of the transponder... - Grant 12:22:23 02/07/08 (0)
"how Brolin's character died"

That's easy, the woman by the pool set him up, and the Mexicans came in blasting. The maniacal killer got the money, as Brolin hid it in the same ventilation hiding spot he'd hidden it in the other hotel and the killer found it there.

What blew it for me was that Brolin's character made so many savvy moves, and then he made the fatal one's out of contradictory stupidity by the way he involved his wife/her mom.

I would have liked to see more of Harrelson's character--his role seemed wasted, more of an homage to him in their earlier films.

Oh well...
Not so much "plot holes" as trails that peter out. nt - clarkjohnsen 12:00:03 02/05/08 (0)
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Spoilers galore: - tinear 04:18:33 02/05/08 (2)
the film ultimately fails because of it's extreme negativity. The pursuing cop that seems to chicken out. The brutal and unpunished slaying of the girl (related, perhaps, to the previous officer inactivity). I'll let someone else supply more examples.
- RE: Spoilers galore: - rdf 09:34:43 02/23/08 (0)
  Naw, it fails ultimately because the world the characters inhabit is no more believable than the one in 'The Hitcher' with Rutger Hauer, a film NCfOM uncomfortably parallels. To its credit in the latter law enforcement actually showed up when people walked the streets with firearms or played bumper cars downtown. Film craft of a very high order torpedoed by a combination of taking its mundane moral concepts too seriously and a setting from a comic book planet.
- some people like everything wrapped up... - luigi22 07:53:04 02/13/08 (0)
  in a nice neat package, some don't. the dark vision and the ambiguity are pluses in my book.
he died of terminal lead poisoning. nt - Duilawyer 19:51:32 02/04/08 (0)
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