I'll just skip down to the bottom of this, after reading the review:

Other than bratty English major head games, pretty much the entire substance of "No Country for Old Men" is a series of murders and tortures committed by Chigurh, who may symbolize your high school's worst bully – a bully so terrifying exactly because he targeted English majors.

Clearly this reviewer has tangled with English majors before, and wishes to dismiss their opinions regarding the film version of a book by Cormack McCarthy. It looks like he is anticipating a response to his opinion by offering several preemptive attacks upon those English majors he disagrees with (the bad ones he disagrees with, not the good ones who get murdered). I'll hazard a couple of guesses: that he is an a adherent of the Formalism school of thought, and that he hasn't actually read the book, is only looking at the film.

Film is different than books, even films based upon books. If he's pissed off at the story as it appears on film, then he should take it up with film students, perhaps, or directors, not English majors. If he'd read any Cormac McCarthy then he would know that McCarthy writes some of the darkest, most violent, and incredibly well-written novels out there today. There is a nihilist streak that runs wide through McCarthy's works.

McCarthy started out with gruesome plays and novels set in the Deep South, and moved west a couple of decades ago. His writing is incredible, but I won't pile on superlatives beyond that. You feel like you're walking along with him through his novels. Blood Meridian is a historical novel, many real people populate it. I suspect it would trump even No Country For Old Men for its violence. I would caution that disgruntled viewer not to go see any more films based on any of Cormac McCarthy's novels, but especially Blood Meridian.

As for his opinion of English majors, I'd guess he got into a discussion of Post Modernism with the big kids and got his ass kicked. Too bad. I suggest he get a copy of Modern Criticism and Theory by David Lodge. It would help him understand various positions and points of view in modern English studies. There is even a tiny little niche for Formalists (mostly in classes with the professors emeritus who should have stayed retired and not stand at the front of the class and tell students that a book has just one meaning and that there is no other that counts for anything.)

SRS. MA, English, 1999