Now that the dust has settled, which was better?

>>213480262 (OP)
>TWBB
anticapitalist antichristian garbage
>NCFOM
edgelord nihilist garbage

paul dano

>>213480356
Neither is true beyond an extremely surface level reading absolute fucking plebbitor

>>213480356
name your favorite movie right now

>>213480262 (OP)
tough choice. twbb is great and DDL is mesmerizing but the same can be said of ncfom and TLJ

>>213480262 (OP)
No Country for Old Men. Simple as.

>>213480262 (OP)
There Will Be No Country For Old Men

Imagine being alive to appreciate these kinos when they were both simultaneously in theater. Now we get nothing but sequels and marvel slop. I was born in the wrong generation

there be no blood for country men

>>213481087
Batman vs Superman

>>213481216
fuck you

>>213480262 (OP)
These two gay movies started the whole Oscar bait/grimdark obsession and ruined Hollywood forever.

>>213481295
sure it did little buddy

>>213480262 (OP)
Jonny Greenwood's score on theater speakers was the absolute highlight of my 2007.

For me it’s TWBB

I can watch NCFOM with my dad, one day TWBB was on and he asked me if itbwas good so i said yeah but you have to watch it from the start i think it would bore him but i like it

>>213481216
>No Country for Old Men
>There Will Be Blood
>The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
>Ocean's Thirteen
>Transformers (yes it was kino, shut up)
>Zodiac
>The Bourne Ultimatum
>3:10 to Yuma
>Superbad
>Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
>Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
>Ratatouille
>The Simpsons Movie
>300
2007 had so many good movies, even the slop was kino at times. The 2008 writer's strike fucked the industry for good, and it has never been the same since.

>>213481295
>the problem with hollywood is that too many directors are copying... the cohen brothers

>>213481422
>i drank your coinflip

>>213481216
Fuckin zoomer stop making us feel old. My only theater experience with TWBB was having to pee for the last half hour of it. That movie is way too long.

>>213481387
Yikes dude Oceans sequels are trash fires. Simpsons movie??? Fuck off.

>>213480356
>too lazy to spell out the name of the films

zoomers were a mistake

>>213480262 (OP)
i cant decide

>>213481701
They're better movies than the shit we get now.

>>213480262 (OP)
I would say NCFOM if not for the motel sequence

>>213481387
there's like 4 good movies there bro LOL

>>213480356
you're right, i hated those movies when it came out. that whole era of movies was extremely nihilistic and then it shifted to extremely woke, but when these were the top movies was when i started to notice hollywood was becoming shit

>>213480262 (OP)
Paul Dano, and Javier Bardem both have chudface. I think that's the important thing to take away from this. Having a chud in your flick can elevate it to kino.

never watched either one
always been meaning to
i barely watch movies though
and tv for that matter
i just find this board entertaining

>>213480356

>>213481738
>t. KWABOTY

>>213482244
this is probably the only way to reply to that post with something even more retarded, good job.

>>213482246
still tony

>>213482015

God damn you are fucking stupid

>>213481387
Specialty division movies stay only a couple of days on theatres, which meant eugenia cooney tier margins. Piracy made these movies even less profitable. This lead major studios to close their specialty divisions around that time. You did this. You killed movies.

>>213482546
A confluence of events really.
Capeshit was so big that for years running Disney took home MOST of the global box office.
China was opening up more as a viable market that was cheap to market to, and studios all started chasing the cinematic universe hype train, which meant they could ask for hundreds of millions from investors that they could use to pay themselves, and shit out a trash movie.
Disney bullied more of a cut from the theaters when star wars was coming out, and they basically squeezed out anyone else.
Streaming is bigger, and since almost every big company has their own platform, they want to fill it with crap as fast as possible because they don't have to split the pot.

>>213482645
No it was all his fault I blame him specifically

>>213480262 (OP)
TWBB is obviously better.
First, its mostly original (only the drilling taken from Oil) and has PTAs style all over it (and its his best movie). Where as No Country is a strict novel adaptation which is deliberately stripped of the Coen Brother’s style (and Miller’s Crossing is better). From an artistic standpoint, I give more props to an artist achieving his unique creative apex rather than creating a “perfect” recreation of someone elses’ work.
Secondly, its idiosyncratic. It has music and cinematography unlike anything else, its storytelling choices are very unique and “PTA” (like the opening which doesnt show Daniel’s one-legged crawl back to town, which Tarantino talks about)
Thirdly, its a timeless portrait of the world in which we live. Much like Citizen Kane, its a character and story that can be endlessly talked about and applied to all aspects of people and life. No Country is a fine “no nonsense” thriller with a stripped down style. Its themes are similarly timeless like TWBB, but the style of story makes it feel much more about a time and place where as TWBB feels more mythological and archetypal, like Kane and Lawrence of Arabia and other great movies.
TWBB is simply the more impressive and unique artistic achievement. When I think of “what artistic achievements has American cinema achieved in the 2000s?” I instantly think of TWBB. If I were to think of adaptations, I would think of LOTR before No Country.

>>213482699
fair enough, he is an asshole

>>213480262 (OP)
Ah yes the technically """well made""" movie that's completely and utterly boring.

I can't choose the better example, they both perfectly exemplify that style.
>>213481387
None of those are memorable in any way shape or form, and several of them are outright terrible.

>>213480356
hot new incel take just dropped. have sex, incel

>>213481387
Where do you get your film recommendations from? The middle aged lady who works at the desk next to you ?

>>213480262 (OP)
>No Country For Old Incels
it was ahead of its time

>>213480262 (OP)
No Country for Old Men is slightly better than There Will Be Blood.

>>213481216
Yeah my mom was a sag actress and got them straight to DVD to review, I watched at home. Shit was cash.
There will be blood is better in every way guys, but no country is good. Think the book probably is better, anyone read TWBB book?

>>213481387
We are lucky to get one good movie a year

>>213482984
Well said anon