Originally Posted by frozenchief:
I agree, but my top two are O Brother and Big Lebowski. TBL is in my top 5 of all movies anyway.
There are a lot that could be third. Miller’s Crossing is great. Hudsucker Proxy doesn’t get its due. Fargo could easily be third, as could No Country. I loved their True Grit. Intolerable Cruelty is another one that doesn’t get its due.
I’d watch their movie If I know nothing more than their involvement.
I've always been a little surprised Intolerable Cruelty doesn't get more love. It's not quite the romantic comedy that O Brother is, but it's still really good.
It has stars in Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones so its not like its obscure casting. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
War of the Roses WAS a shitshow, but everyone I watched it with, male and female, hated it.
It wasn't ineffective in what it did. It was professionally written and acted. But it somehow went too far. I like black comedy, but WotR was like black death speed metal comedy. Maybe it's a testiment to the writing and acting, but it was TOO affecting. You left the theater feeling like you actually watched a married couple hate each other to death.
War of the Roses is probably one of the worst two movies I've ever seen, and it's definitely the worst big-studio movie. It was basically sitting in a room watching people who hate each other fight for two hours. I have no idea how it made it past the big-studio focus group process.
It was probably my second date with my to-be wife, and we went to see it. The cast looked good, so we took a shot. I apologized to her afterwards. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Baby Lee:
I don't know how many people have seen Blood Simple, because it was their first movie and didn't do a lot of box office, and it kind of even predated home rentals. But I highly recommend it, because it's like a thesis on their style. It's great the first time around, and when rewatching it you see so much of their signature flourishes that still liven up a movie to the present. It's a noir black comedy with a good bit of blunt, but not overly gory, violence. As much as I love Tarantino, Blood Simple is 10x the debut film that Reservoir Dogs ever dreamed of.
There is a Chinese remake/adaption of Blood Simple, A Simple Noodle Story. If you do ok with foreign films, it's worth checking out. [Reply]
Unreal filmography. There is literally no wrong answers here folks.
1. The Big Lebowski (+1 to the ticket taker for letting my friends and I in when we were barely 15 years old haha). I recall seeing this one in theaters and was floored at how weird/original/and funny it was.
2. No Country for Old Men (fantastic McCarthy adaption with a stellar villain)
3. Inside Llewyn Davis (loved the soundtrack)
damn these dudes are talented as hell. I probably could have chosen a number of different films in my top 3 but went with the ones I've rewatched the most [Reply]
Originally Posted by sd4chiefs:
The worst Coen Brother's movie has got to be 'Hail, Caesar!'.
You would be correct here lol. They are normally on point but that film just was a pointless self serving POS film. I saw it in theaters and there were walk outs during it (I should have joined them!) [Reply]
Originally Posted by sd4chiefs:
The worst Coen Brother's movie has got to be 'Hail, Caesar!'.
Then you never saw A Single Man, you could show that film in a library.
My choices, I had Fargo and Raising Arizona as automatic since I've seen each one at least 20 times. Then I had to choose between Blood Simple, which was great at the time and they made with $800K they borrowed from family members. O'Brother which besides being funny with great music, I had to overlook George Clooney the person and lastly No Country for Old Men, which was great until the lead actor was killed and killed off screen. I went with O'Brother because I actually bought the DVD and and the sountrack. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DeepPurple:
Then you never saw A Single Man, you could show that film in a library.
My choices, I had Fargo and Raising Arizona as automatic since I've seen each one at least 20 times. Then I had to choose between Blood Simple, which was great at the time and they made with $800K they borrowed from family members. O'Brother which besides being funny with great music, I had to overlook George Clooney the person and lastly No Country for Old Men, which was great until the lead actor was killed and killed off screen. I went with O'Brother because I actually bought the DVD and and the sountrack.
A Serious Man
A Single Man was one of those uptight British gaybob movies. [Reply]