5. No Country For Old Men
Mmhmm. Ye olde Tommy Lee Jones talks about his weird dreams and then the movie ends. To me, this and Mullholland Drive share some similar territory. Pretty coherent, sensible story most of the way through, then weirdness happens and the movie ends and you feel like you could reach into your head and poke your brain and it'd be stiff. I'm in the minority when it comes to this film. I didn't like it. It wasn't like Mullholland where it's strange ending left you feeling insecure and unsafe, rather I felt like it insulted my intelligence by being such a strait forward plot that they purposefully threw the audience a curve ball at the end to be artsy. I like artsy, but No Country For Old Men was the epitome of, "Bet you didn't understand it, huh? Well go watch it again." Except that assertion was met by me with a resounding, "No." As an audience we put all our time and effort into the story and the apparent themes that the payoff is Tommy Lee Jones' mystical dreams. It's just unrewarding.