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Believe me, I fully recognize that a guy pretty much has to be a moron and a glutton for punishment to criticize Diablo Cody at this point. Either that or he has to be a very, very brave man, a man with the stones of Anton Chigurh.

I'll plead absolutely guilty on the first counts. As to the second, well, yes, ma'am, I do believe I'm your man there as well.

No Country for Old Men opens with a series of shots of a dry, desolate Texas, a place that seems unkind to both man and beast. Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones) begins to speak in voice-over, ruminating on his life, on his being a sheriff, admiring the men who served before him, and lamenting the way that crime has spun out of control these days.

I'd never seen "redband" trailers offered on a movie website before. I guess I'd just been going to too many Doris Day movies.

Anyway, I was attracted to the one on No Country For Old Men's site. It's the new Coen Brothers movie.

Anyway, you click on the redband trailer link, and it asks you to verify that you are 17 years of age by putting in your name, zip code and birthdate. They then check this on some database.

For the record, my name is Timothy Pawlenty, 55115,11/27/60.

“ … Sure, it’s all there, but it’s kind of a tease. We’re definitely guilty of teasing.” —Joel Coen, on Barton Fink