# Movies You Didn't See for a Long Time: Me, "No Country for Old Men" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 15, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744 "2024-08-15T17:41:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/41 "2024-08-18T19:04:19Z")
That scene was triggering for me. The one in the movie, I mean. Not the parody. I have PTSD from a… not disimilar incident. Wasn’t expecting to be hit with that, watching the movie. It’s how I came to believe that maybe there’s something to trigger warnings. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/42 "2024-08-18T19:06:55Z")
> [@ASL\_v2.0](#): > > That scene was triggering for me. The one in the movie, I mean. Yeah, that was trauma-inducing for sure. It helped put into perspective each family member’s problems. ---
**Author:** ![ASL\_v2.0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asl_v2.0/32/3525_2.png) [@ASL\_v2.0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASL_v2.0)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/43 "2024-08-18T19:19:49Z")
Anyway, it’s hard for me to participate directly in this thread because so many of the movies I might put into this category came out before I was born and/or old enough to see them. I’m hard-pressed to recall a movie that might be considered something of a cultural phenomenon and that I waited to see for more than a couple years, then not only saw, but actually enjoyed. I guess maybe _Toy Story_s one and two? I saw the third with some friends when it came out and liked it quite a lot, but I hadn’t seen the first two growing up (which is odd, because I was about the right age for the first at least). I then managed to see them over the course of the next couple years and enjoyed them. And I still haven’t seen _Toy Story 4_, so… maybe I will? ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/44 "2024-08-18T20:55:15Z")
I’m going to talk about some highly rated movies that I still haven’t seen. This is despite the fact that I’ve spent my adult life watching films in theaters, seldom on broadcast television, cable television, videotapes, DVDs, or streaming. Among the top 50 films on the IMDb list of highest ranked ones, the only ones I haven’t seen are these two: **City of God** (a.k.a. **God’s Town** ) (2002, Brazil/France, dir. Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund) and **The Intouchables** (a.k.a. **Intouchables** , **Untouchable** ) (2011, France, dir. Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano) There’s a movie theater a mile from me that does little of the standard blockbuster stuff. It does a lot of currently critically important stuff. It also does interesting classic films. Just recently I saw the following film there which I’ve never seen anywhere before: **Laura** (1944, U.S., dir. Otto Preminger) This is one of the films on the list of those with a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes which have at least 20 reviews. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/45 "2024-08-18T23:27:02Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Did he buy the kid’s shirt to use for a bandage? I love how the one kid tries to get half the money from the other. Totally what a kid would do! > [@dorvann](#): > > On the other end of the scale I watched _The Star Wars Holiday Special_ for the first time a few years ago and it was as bad as people made it out to be, I did the same. I was expecting _bad_, but was remarkably surprised how much worse it really was than I could ever imagine. It was just… Stupefying. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/46 "2024-08-18T23:29:21Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > I did the same. I was expecting _bad_, but was remarkably surprised how much worse it really was than I could ever imagine. It was just… Stupefying. By the standards of movies, sure. It was just made-for-TV holiday variety schlock, though, and that sort of stuff back then was generally pretty horrifying. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/47 "2024-08-20T00:14:29Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > By the standards of movies, sure. It was just made-for-TV holiday variety schlock, though, and that sort of stuff back then was generally pretty horrifying. That “special” is what would have happened if the _Brady Bunch Variety Hour_ had decided to do a tribute to _Star Wars_ and included cameos from some of the original cast. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/48 "2024-08-20T01:27:55Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Just recently I saw the following film there which I’ve never seen anywhere before: > > **Laura** (1944, U.S., dir. Otto Preminger) It’s on TCM _all_ the time. I love it. I can almost recite the dialog. " A dame in the Bronx once got a fox fur out of me." ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/49 "2024-08-20T03:27:13Z")
> [@Atamasama](#): > > > [@RickJay](#): > > > > By the standards of movies, sure. It was just made-for-TV holiday variety schlock, though, and that sort of stuff back then was generally pretty horrifying. > > That “special” is what would have happened if the _Brady Bunch Variety Hour_ had decided to do a tribute to _Star Wars_ and included cameos from some of the original cast. Well, and also if they also thought Wookies watching porn was fitting for a Christmas special. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/50 "2024-08-20T04:06:32Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Well, and also if they also thought Wookies watching porn was fitting for a Christmas special. Christmas Wookiee Nookie ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/51 "2024-08-21T04:57:19Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > It’s on TCM _all_ the time. Turner Classic Movies is a premium channel. I only have basic cable. I rarely watch movies on cable anyway. I have just enough time to see perhaps two movies in a theater each week, and that’s how I would prefer to see them rather than on television or streaming on a computer. I’ve been a big movie fan since early 1975. I didn’t grow up watching movies in a theater because our family lived too far from a movie theater to walk to one, and we were too poor to frequently drive to one. The first time I lived close enough to any movie theaters to see a lot of such films was in my first year in graduate school (and I have never studied or worked in anything related to the film industry). It was only then that I really got into watching movies. Now judging by ratings of top films like the IMDb list or the ratings of Rotten Tomatoes or the most recent Sight and Sound critics poll, I’ve done a pretty good job of seeing nearly all the standard classics. Although, I should mention, I haven’t seen the number one film on the Sight and Sound poll, which is this one (but then a lot of big film fans haven’t): **Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles** (1976, Belgium/France, dir. Chantal Akerman) I also spend a certain amount of my spare time hanging out with other members of a local film society. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/52 "2024-08-21T05:06:11Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > I also spend a certain amount of my spare time hanging out with other members of a local film society. _“Oh My Heavens! What has been implied here???”_ I envy you. All my spare time is spent with Dachshunds in the Desert. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/53 "2024-08-21T07:01:32Z")
Umm. TCM isn’t a premium. It’s on the most basic satellite networks. Not sure about cable companies and how they work. Never fear, you’re not missing a hell of a lot. They are constantly recycling stuff repeat, repeat, repeat. I watch a bunch of it because I don’t buy the _real_ premiums. When I did I couldn’t take the movies for the most part. Another horror flick or replay of 50 shades of Grey or some stupid sci-fi Star Trek wannabe just couldn’t be watched. I have a big load of DVR’d stuff and shows I watch and DVDs. No movie theaters near me. Not that I wanna go there…sticky floors, nasty air and too many people. I don’t know how you do it. Aren’t the tickets like $20. now? ETA… someone recently convinced me to watch _Exorcist_. I was to young at one time. I was too scared another time. I don’t really like horror films. Then, I said “Eh, didn’t seem important”. So, then I was talked into it. Yeah, I was still too young and scared. It’s not important, but good grief. Pea soup will not be on the menu for years, years I say! ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/54 "2024-08-21T08:03:47Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Umm. TCM isn’t a premium. > It’s on the most basic satellite networks. Not sure about cable companies and how they work. It’s premium on some, if not most networks. > **[What Channel Is TCM On?](https://www.cabletv.com/entertainment/what-channel-is-tcm)** > > TCM (Turner Classic Movies) is the go-to channel for the best movies of yesteryear, going all the way back to the 1920s. Here’s how to get TCM in your home now. > TCM isn’t as widely available as Warner Bros. Discovery cousins TBS and TNT, but it can still be found in most major cable and satellite TV provider lineups ( **usually in the more expensive packages** ). You can’t say, “TCM isn’t a premium,” without knowing where a person lives and what they are using to access television networks. That’s like contradicting a person who talks about a big tree in their front yard because you don’t have a big tree in your own front yard. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/55 "2024-08-21T08:18:04Z")
_The Godfather_ came out in 1972, but I was too young to see it. Back then, I had to settle for the Mad Magazine version. Somehow, I never saw the actual film until 2010. Or in other words, 38 years later. But when I saw it—whoa! I had been missing something. Loved it upon first viewing, and the next, and the next. Of course, then I had to see _The Godfather Part II_, which I saw 36 years after it came out in 1974. Loved it too. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/56 "2024-08-21T09:21:42Z")
Did not know that. So sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/57 "2024-08-21T09:46:03Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Aren’t the tickets like $20. now? No, it’s not that much. Also, the ticket prices vary depending on the time of day you’re there. They also vary depending if you’re a senior. The theaters near me are clean and not crowded. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/58 "2024-08-21T15:12:14Z")
Not only have I still not watched it, I’m not reading this thread, like I haven’t read any other thread on the movie. As a matter of fact, I’m not even here. Apparently there is…something…noteworthy or _shocking_ or twisty or whatever, and even knowing _that_ is too much, too dangerous. So sometime I’ll finally see it. Then I can read all these threads. And zombie them! ---
**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/59 "2024-08-21T15:18:26Z")
Sicario 2 was fine, but the first is like a 8.5 or 9, the second is probably a 6.5 so a let down in comparison. There are a ton of things I’ve never seen: Citizen Kane, any Godfathers, most Hitchcock, Chinatown. Of things I have seen, maybe Robocop? I was 3 when it came out, and only saw it a couple years ago. ~20 year gap between appropriate to watch and actually watching. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744/60 "2024-08-21T17:32:43Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > Turner Classic Movies is a premium channel. I only have basic cable. Sorry. I thought it was Basic. > [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > I didn’t grow up watching movies in a theater because our family lived too far from a movie theater to walk to one, and we were too poor to frequently drive to one. This is similar to me, but not because I wasn’t surrounded by theaters. We were too poor to afford even cheap tickets for four kids. I watched old movies _all_ the time. And loved them. I watched so many 1930s movies that I once told my mom if I could go back in history, I’d like to live in the 1930s. People wore pretty clothes, lived in fancy houses and had parties all the time. LOL. I learned the truth soon enough! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-you-didnt-see-for-a-long-time-me-no-country-for-old-men/1005744.md?page=4)