The ending of "No Country For Old Men" Yay, meh or Nay

That's how I feel as well. Sometimes I like it when they don't spell an ending out leaving us to draw our own conclusions.

Meh when I first watched it, now it's a yay.

It's a "meh" for now since I have it only watched it once.

Nay. That ending pretty much ruined the movie.

Moss's fate annoys me but I liked Bell's monologue and how Chigurh leaves the story, like the Grim Reaper.

I'm not sure the film could have ended any other way and conveyed the point that this kind of stuff has always gone on, and will continue to do so.

I guess if they had some grand desire to have Anton get his full reward, there would have had to have been the next problem already developed walk by his body and pick up their own form of chaos from there. And that would have added too much to an already whole lot going on.

It works incredibly well as is.

I didn't read the entire novel but still wanted to know if the film's ending was the Coen's or the book's. I found the novel on the shelf at the public library and turned to the last page. Unless I am very much deceived, the last paragraph of the book was the description of the dream, finishing with the line: "And then I woke up" - just like the movie. I don't know when I will get back around to the library to double check it so I hope someone reading this thread will have read it or can look it up.