no country for old men

Great movie. Go see it. Enjoy it. Don't over-analyse it, and enjoy a movie getting Texas right for once in our lifetimes.
 
Wait a minute-the newbie waitress at the Alamo messed up the food order? So you're saying there was in fact, a dessert shoot-out?
 
Good points, Beau. I'd say his return to the scene was more compassion than pure error. He managed to hide the money and retrieve it effectively at the hotel when he saw there were killers there. He fought the best killer to a draw. His toss of the money was not optimal, but he couldn't haul it around the streets unable to defend it. It was his best choice.

But you're right about my choice of word. It's a little overstated. Still, Moss was a formidable man in the situation in which he found himself.
 
I think of Moss as an intelligent, resourceful, and savvy man who knows what he is up against and is almost up to the challenge, but he is just not a professional. As the Woody Harrelson character tells him, "You're not cut out for this." (Of course, neither was Woody, as it turned out.)

Moss does almost everything right, but he makes a couple of minor errors that seal his fate.
 
"Same thing" in my post refers to defying expectation not copying High Noon verbatim. I think maybe you are not as familiar with that movie as you think. For the last time, and sorry if I am not clear, I am not arguing that No Country for Old Men should have been a remake of High Noon.

And here, you are plain wrong:

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With all the hornfans hype surrounding this movie, I went to see it last night. It was a really good movie. I agree regarding how well the West Texas scenes and dialogue were done. Acting was really good as well. As a previous poster asked, I don't see how Chugura found Moss in the second hotel in Del Rio. Even though the transponder was in the bag, you had to be within a certain yards for it to work correct? If so, how did he locate him when he hitchhiked to Del Rio?
 
Moss doesn't say why he goes back to the site. He takes a gallon of water with him, so perhaps he intended to get the drugs AND give the dying man some agua.
 
He goes back to take water to the gutshot guy. That's it!!! Man, that's just pure disinformation that he was after the drugs. I can quote directly from the book if you like.
 
Page 29: "He closed the bag and redid the fasteners and shoved it under the bed and rose and stood looking out of the window at the stars over the rocky escapment to the north of town. Dead quiet. Not even a dog. But it wasn't the money that he woke up about. Are you dead out there? He said. He'll no, you ain't dead. " - that was Moss' inner dialogue before going back to the scene of the shootout. There are several more of these passages in the pages that follow. I truly worry about some people's reading comprehension.
 
I've been rereading to see where this idea that Moss went back for the narcotics would come from. There is NOTHING that either suggests that or could possibly be interpreted that way by someone with reading comprehension above a Fifth Grade level. I am vexed as to why this b.s. was introduced into an otherwise intelligent exchange of ideas:
 
I agree and also read the book. It's bs for anyone to say Moss went back to snag the drugs. Orange-explosion has been called out for a flat out lie or bad interpretation of what he thought he read. Maybe he can explain where in the book he got this from cuz I sure as hell didn't read it.
 
Must have gotten a-hold of one of those bootleg copies...No County For Girlie Men. I heard in that version Moss finds a case full of Bolex watches and flies away on a Boowing Jet-Liner. Tommy Leigh Johnson is the protagonist in that one. Seriously, Orange, explain your "observation" or feel free to not post on this thread.
 
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