What the corpus says about No Country for Old Men (2007)

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What was said about it (24)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:10:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · It works as neo-Western, chase movie and killer-on-the-loose flick but is monumental for another reason. · "A neo Western, a chase movie, a killer on the loose flick, and it does all of those things perfectly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:23:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Not showing the heist works as in No Country; slowly unfurling beats showing. · "No, we've learned this from no country for old men."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:03:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Raftery links Stone's film to the Coens' as a different take on one man in over his head setting off destruction. · "That kind of domino effect was explored in a very different movie from the year before."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:20:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Its message of powerlessness fit audiences after 9/11, Katrina, Iraq and the economy. · "911, Katrina, Iraq, the economy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:17:16 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] Zodiac ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007. · "But even like just these nihilistic endings where you're like, you know, there's just there's no hope."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:05 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ No Country for Old Men · contrast · Recent Best Picture winners like The Artist, The Hurt Locker, and No Country are not like The Judge, which is the old kind of Oscar bait. · "the best picture winners of the last whatever years are like the artist and the hurt locker and like no country for all men"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:38:21 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · contrast · Raftery implies Moss at least realizes he is in trouble; Bush in Stone's film never does. · "Still, at least Lou Ellen Moss has a moment or 2 where he realizes he's in trouble."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ Fargo · people · The Coens previously made the crime dramas Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing and Fargo. · "The filmmaking brothers behind such classic crime dramas as Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, and Fargo."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:02 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ Million Dollar Baby · verdict · Heavy Best Picture winners of the 2000s, but none as violent or relentless as No Country. · "Million Dollar Baby, The Departed, Crash, but none were as violent, nor as relentless, as no country for old men."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:34:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ No Country for Old Men · verdict · Last nihilistic Best Picture winner, offered as the comparison for how unlikely this one is to win. · "when was the last time a movie that was this nihilistic one best picture? Is it is it no country for old men?"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:29 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · Both were bleak 2007 contenders at the Oscars, where none of the nominees went down easy. · "I mean, none of that year's contenders went down easy."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · No Country beat There Will Be Blood for best picture, then ratings were low and the Academy changed the rules. · "And it beat, there will be blood, which is painful for me, but still, no country for all men, incredible film."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:20 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ No Country for Old Men · tonal sibling · No Country feels like a less humorous Fargo, both asking whether it is worth fighting the world's darkness. · "in an interesting way, no country feels like a less humorous version of Fargo."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:43 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ No Country for Old Men · mythic figures · Sugar is an evil myth figure and Marge a good mythic one. · "But sugar is this evil myth figure and Marge is kind of a good mythic figure in a weird way."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:17:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fargo ↔ No Country for Old Men · off-screen violence · Fargo's off-screen disintegration (Jean's death) is likened to the way No Country hides its violence. · "much like in the move they pull in no country. of just like you can figure it out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:24 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · too satisfying · Seeing something that is exactly what you want, like this cast or No Country, can feel weirdly unsatisfying. · "I had it too when I saw No Country for Old Men because I love that book so much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:57:06 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · perfect vs rewatchable · No Country is note perfect but he has watched it far fewer times than The Departed, because flawed movies leave room to check out and ask questions. · "I have watched it 80% less than the departed because the departed, it actually feels like a roller coaster ride when you're on it."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · title pun · On Obama beating McCain, Raftery quips that this was no country for old men. · "And this was no country for, well, you know."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down. · "You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:02:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Gaear caring about Jerry's cruelty is compared to Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff not knowing whether he belongs in this world. · "This is like his Tommy Lee Jones in no country sort of like conundrum where he's like, I don't even know if I belong in this world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:08:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Javier Bardem ↔ No Country for Old Men · career · Bardem's recent Oscar may have counted against a nomination for Skyfall. · "he just won 3 years or 5 years before this for no country."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:09:45 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Woody Harrelson ↔ No Country for Old Men · people · Harrelson's role is a classic Woody performance of low-key menace. · "This is a classic woody performance, by the way."

Films put beside it more than once (4)

[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ Fargo · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ The Departed · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:13:03 · Gene Jones (0.90)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Gene Jones never read the novel or full script; his scene was all he needed. The gas station scene took a little over two hours to shoot, on a set in New Mexico. · "My scene is the Bible, and that's all I need."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:13:46 · Gene Jones (0.90)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Gene Jones says the Coens never told him, but both knew tension should escalate so gradually you never notice it. The Coens didn't watch the coin-toss scene; Joel folded up behind the counter, Ethan listened at the window. · "Joel kind of folded up in a corner behind the counter and listened."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:14:02 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Raftery listened to the coin-toss scene with the screen off and found it even more unsettling without the actors' reactions. · "This is dorky, even for me."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:15:47 · Brian Raftery (0.60)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Raftery links the coin toss to the old story of the appointment in Samarra: death won't catch me today. · "The appointment in tomorrow, the old Middle East story about death won't catch me today because I'm going to Samara."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:02 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Hot take: the Ellis kitchen scene is the single best scene of any film from the 2000s. · "Ellis then offers a closing thought that, for me at least, makes this the single best scene of any film from the 2000s."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:21:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Raftery found it comforting in 2007 that somebody else realized how messed up everything had always been. · "thank God somebody else realizes just how fucked up everything's always been."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (17)

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Fargo · programming · Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop. · "I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:52 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] W. ↔ Frank Capra movie (unspecified) · theme · Stone thought of Bush as a character out of a Frank Capra movie, a regular guy risen from alcoholic bum to most powerful figure. · "Stone said he thought of Bush as a character out of a Frank Kabra movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ There Will Be Blood · theme · Milkshakes as a cinematic beverage: Pulp or There Will Be Blood. · "Is it this or there will be blood?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ⇒ Fargo (unaired NBC pilot with Edie Falco) (the host's read) · lineage · An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. · "There was like an NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco playing Marge Gunderson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:17:09 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] Zodiac ↔ There Will Be Blood · craft · Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007. · "There's something in the air that year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Fargo · theme · Barbarian is called a scary movie that is funny with humor from the bizarreness of human behavior, as with the Coens. · "you made a scary movie that was funny."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."

Who said it, by their latest sketch (6)

[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Gene Jones · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Cares about the craft of building tension gradually; unbothered about not reading the novel or script. Wanted direction his first big film role but accepted the Coens' hands-off approach. · stances: The scene is everything; Tension should escalate unnoticed
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished No Country for Old Men (2007) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about No Country for Old Men (2007) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:21:37 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Panic Room ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Rooting for a morally complicated figure (Whitaker) recalls No Country and The Godfather. · "is it really that far afield from like no country for old men or the godfather"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:04:13 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · theme · Both arrived as the Bush era wound down and prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century. · "No country for old men in W arrived just as the Bush era was winding down, and both movies prompted audiences to take stock of the 21st century so far."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:10:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · It works as neo-Western, chase movie and killer-on-the-loose flick but is monumental for another reason. · "A neo Western, a chase movie, a killer on the loose flick, and it does all of those things perfectly."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Reservoir Dogs’ · 1:23:02 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Reservoir Dogs ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Not showing the heist works as in No Country; slowly unfurling beats showing. · "No, we've learned this from no country for old men."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:03:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Raftery links Stone's film to the Coens' as a different take on one man in over his head setting off destruction. · "That kind of domino effect was explored in a very different movie from the year before."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:20:57 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Its message of powerlessness fit audiences after 9/11, Katrina, Iraq and the economy. · "911, Katrina, Iraq, the economy."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:17:16 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] Zodiac ↔ No Country for Old Men · craft · Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007. · "But even like just these nihilistic endings where you're like, you know, there's just there's no hope."
[Blank Check · Judging The Judge · 1:14:05 · David Sims (0.50)] The Judge ↔ No Country for Old Men · contrast · Recent Best Picture winners like The Artist, The Hurt Locker, and No Country are not like The Judge, which is the old kind of Oscar bait. · "the best picture winners of the last whatever years are like the artist and the hurt locker and like no country for all men"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:38:21 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · contrast · Raftery implies Moss at least realizes he is in trouble; Bush in Stone's film never does. · "Still, at least Lou Ellen Moss has a moment or 2 where he realizes he's in trouble."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:19 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ Fargo · people · The Coens previously made the crime dramas Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing and Fargo. · "The filmmaking brothers behind such classic crime dramas as Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, and Fargo."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:02 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men ↔ Million Dollar Baby · verdict · Heavy Best Picture winners of the 2000s, but none as violent or relentless as No Country. · "Million Dollar Baby, The Departed, Crash, but none were as violent, nor as relentless, as no country for old men."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:34:49 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ No Country for Old Men · verdict · Last nihilistic Best Picture winner, offered as the comparison for how unlikely this one is to win. · "when was the last time a movie that was this nihilistic one best picture? Is it is it no country for old men?"
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:06:29 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · Both were bleak 2007 contenders at the Oscars, where none of the nominees went down easy. · "I mean, none of that year's contenders went down easy."
[The Big Picture · Emergency Mailbag: The Oscars Are Streaming and Hollywood Is Fighting Over Trolls | The Big Picture · 0:57:14 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · industry · No Country beat There Will Be Blood for best picture, then ratings were low and the Academy changed the rules. · "And it beat, there will be blood, which is painful for me, but still, no country for all men, incredible film."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:20 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ No Country for Old Men · tonal sibling · No Country feels like a less humorous Fargo, both asking whether it is worth fighting the world's darkness. · "in an interesting way, no country feels like a less humorous version of Fargo."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:43 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ No Country for Old Men · mythic figures · Sugar is an evil myth figure and Marge a good mythic one. · "But sugar is this evil myth figure and Marge is kind of a good mythic figure in a weird way."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:17:24 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Fargo ↔ No Country for Old Men · off-screen violence · Fargo's off-screen disintegration (Jean's death) is likened to the way No Country hides its violence. · "much like in the move they pull in no country. of just like you can figure it out."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:02:24 · Chris Ryan (0.60)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · too satisfying · Seeing something that is exactly what you want, like this cast or No Country, can feel weirdly unsatisfying. · "I had it too when I saw No Country for Old Men because I love that book so much."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:57:06 · Chris Ryan (0.65)] The Departed ↔ No Country for Old Men · perfect vs rewatchable · No Country is note perfect but he has watched it far fewer times than The Departed, because flawed movies leave room to check out and ask questions. · "I have watched it 80% less than the departed because the departed, it actually feels like a roller coaster ride when you're on it."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:43:38 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] W. ↔ No Country for Old Men · title pun · On Obama beating McCain, Raftery quips that this was no country for old men. · "And this was no country for, well, you know."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:07:47 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] Cormac McCarthy ⇒ No Country for Old Men (the host's read) · lineage · The film adapts McCarthy's 2005 novel and the Coens refused to water it down. · "You can tell the cones were determined not to water down McCarthy's book."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:02:52 · Griffin Newman (0.40)] Peter Stormare ↔ No Country for Old Men · theme · Gaear caring about Jerry's cruelty is compared to Tommy Lee Jones's sheriff not knowing whether he belongs in this world. · "This is like his Tommy Lee Jones in no country sort of like conundrum where he's like, I don't even know if I belong in this world."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Skyfall’ · 0:08:43 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Javier Bardem ↔ No Country for Old Men · career · Bardem's recent Oscar may have counted against a nomination for Skyfall. · "he just won 3 years or 5 years before this for no country."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:09:45 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] Woody Harrelson ↔ No Country for Old Men · people · Harrelson's role is a classic Woody performance of low-key menace. · "This is a classic woody performance, by the way."
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ Fargo · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ W. · said 4 times in 1 episode
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ There Will Be Blood · said 2 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] No Country for Old Men ↔ The Departed · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:13:03 · Gene Jones (0.90)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Gene Jones never read the novel or full script; his scene was all he needed. The gas station scene took a little over two hours to shoot, on a set in New Mexico. · "My scene is the Bible, and that's all I need."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:13:46 · Gene Jones (0.90)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Gene Jones says the Coens never told him, but both knew tension should escalate so gradually you never notice it. The Coens didn't watch the coin-toss scene; Joel folded up behind the counter, Ethan listened at the window. · "Joel kind of folded up in a corner behind the counter and listened."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:14:02 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Raftery listened to the coin-toss scene with the screen off and found it even more unsettling without the actors' reactions. · "This is dorky, even for me."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:15:47 · Brian Raftery (0.60)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Raftery links the coin toss to the old story of the appointment in Samarra: death won't catch me today. · "The appointment in tomorrow, the old Middle East story about death won't catch me today because I'm going to Samara."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:19:02 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Hot take: the Ellis kitchen scene is the single best scene of any film from the 2000s. · "Ellis then offers a closing thought that, for me at least, makes this the single best scene of any film from the 2000s."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:21:17 · Brian Raftery (0.95)] No Country for Old Men · fun · Raftery found it comforting in 2007 that somebody else realized how messed up everything had always been. · "thank God somebody else realizes just how fucked up everything's always been."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:27:03 · unknown (0.40)] Fargo ↔ Fargo · programming · Jerry's salesman-of-the-month picture behind him is offered as a Fargo secret-handshake prop. · "I would love uh, Jerry's, like, salesman of the month picture that's behind Jerry in Fargo."
[The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · 0:30:52 · Brian Raftery (0.90)] W. ↔ Frank Capra movie (unspecified) · theme · Stone thought of Bush as a character out of a Frank Capra movie, a regular guy risen from alcoholic bum to most powerful figure. · "Stone said he thought of Bush as a character out of a Frank Kabra movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:45:24 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Scarface ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The film has references to classic gangster films like the original Scarface that feel like pastiche. · "there's a couple of references in this movie to classic gangster films like the original Scarface"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Pulp Fiction’ (Part 2) · 2:02:10 · unknown (0.00)] Pulp Fiction ↔ There Will Be Blood · theme · Milkshakes as a cinematic beverage: Pulp or There Will Be Blood. · "Is it this or there will be blood?"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:18:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Silence · programming · Amanda watched Silence the day before and went straight to Killers. · "I watched silence yesterday and immediately went to sit down with you to watch Killers of the Flower Moon"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:10:45 · Griffin Newman (0.50)] Fargo ⇒ Fargo (unaired NBC pilot with Edie Falco) (the host's read) · lineage · An NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco as Marge aired years later; the Coens were not involved. · "There was like an NBC pilot directed by Kathy Bates with Edie Falco playing Marge Gunderson."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:59:09 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Infernal Affairs ⇒ The Departed (the host's read) · lineage · The Departed is a remake of the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs, which is tighter. · "It was called Infernal Affairs, the Hark Kong one?"
[Blank Check — Patreon · Zodiac · 0:17:09 · Leslye Headland (0.40)] Zodiac ↔ There Will Be Blood · craft · Zodiac, There Will Be Blood and No Country shared a nihilistic mood in 2007. · "There's something in the air that year."
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:35:48 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Titanic ⇒ Killers of the Flower Moon (the host's read) · lineage · The car make-out scene is a funny Titanic callback. · "I thought there was a really funny callback to Titanic when they're making out in the car."
[Blank Check · Fargo · 0:33:14 · unknown (0.50)] Barbarian ↔ Fargo · theme · Barbarian is called a scary movie that is funny with humor from the bizarreness of human behavior, as with the Coens. · "you made a scary movie that was funny."
[The Rewatchables · 'Mission: Impossible' · 0:25:07 · Sean Fennessey (0.40)] Mission: Impossible ↔ The Departed · theme · The rat in the air duct at Langley recalls The Departed's final shot, the hunt for a betraying rat. · "the rat in the air air duct in Langley, like a little bit of like the departed final shot"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 1:00:16 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ Kundun · lineage · An American version of the desolate landscapes and haunting spirituality of Kundun, Silence, Last Temptation. · "it is him doing an American version in some ways of what he did in Kundun, in silence, and last temptation of Christ"
[Blank Check · Fargo · 2:40:16 · David Sims (0.40)] Prelude to a Kiss ↔ Fargo · theme · Alec Baldwin treats Prelude to a Kiss as his Fargo, a perfect movie that didn't last. · "as if it was obviously his Fargo."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Color of Money’ · 0:35:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] The Color of Money ↔ The Departed · craft · The fast-cutting montage with a blues soundtrack explosion in the Grady Seasons scene is a Scorsese move they also discussed on The Departed and Wolf of Wall Street. · "This like super fast cutting montage blues soundtrack explosion thing that he does"
[The Big Picture · ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Is Astounding · 0:26:35 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Killers of the Flower Moon ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · theme · Both feature a too-smart-for-his-own-good man doing dumb things who thinks he'll get away with it. · "I thought a lot of Wolf of Wall Street. While doing it because that is a guy who is too smart for his own good, but also doing a lot of really dumb shit."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 0:14:46 · Craig Horlbeck (0.50)] Fargo ↔ The Shining · theme · A carpeted-restaurant joke leads to Kubrick's carpets and a Palm Springs hotel with the same carpet as the Shining hotel. · "I was at a hotel in Palm Springs a few months ago and it has the exact same carpet as the Shining Hotel."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Departed’ · 0:17:49 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] The Departed ↔ Dropkick Murphys · craft · The Dropkick Murphys needle drop over the title sequence is singled out as a high point of the film. · "The title sequence coming in 18 minutes in with Dropkick Murphy."
[speaker] Brian Raftery · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Loves slow-burn tension and scenes built on dialogue, naming the Ellis kitchen scene the best of the 2000s. Is drawn to films that capture their national moment. Has little patience for the word classic, and dry humor about presidents and haircuts. · stances: No Country for Old Men is about inevitability and powerlessness; Its 2007 release resonated with Bush-era anxiety; W. was undone by timing, not quality; Stone's late-2000s movies are best read through the decade's politics
[speaker] Chris Ryan · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · A franchise and genre scholar who likes Jason, the early sequels, and Manhattan; attention to trivia, tropes and critic reception. Treats slashers as a canon with tiers. · stances: Parts 1, 2, 4 and Manhattan are the good ones; The series finds its legs at 4
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[speaker] Gene Jones · latest sketch, The Big Picture · 5. ‘No Country for Old Men’ and ‘W.’ | Mission Accomplished · Cares about the craft of building tension gradually; unbothered about not reading the novel or script. Wanted direction his first big film role but accepted the Coens' hands-off approach. · stances: The scene is everything; Tension should escalate unnoticed
[speaker] Griffin Newman · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Calls Last Temptation his college-era favorite Scorsese; loves Scorsese's smaller 80s and the film's closing transcendence and Gabriel score. Cannot stand fundamentalist outrage at it. A sucker for casting trivia and Tom Cruise-silliness. · stances: Hot take: Last Temptation structurally mirrors New York, New York as a better version; Outrage over the film is stupid; it is respectful to Jesus; Scorsese's smaller 80s work beats his later baroque phases
[speaker] David Sims · latest sketch, Blank Check · The Last Temptation of Christ · Prepares history: novel, casting, budgets, box office. Reveres the film and thinks it reads as a normal ground-level story. A sucker for Hollywood deal backstory and box office game. · stances: Praises Keitel and Dafoe casting; Respects Scorsese's persistence and Corman discipline; The film is now well regarded though not 'canonical Marty'
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with No Country for Old Men (2007); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend No Country for Old Men (2007) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.