Originally Posted by Groves:
Not enough love for Burn After Reading!
Though it doesn’t make my top 3 either. So many greats to choose from.
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That was decent, but definitely not their best work... though seeing Pitt play a hapless goofball was interesting, since that’s not his typical role [Reply]
Fargo - Frances McDormand was absolutely brilliant.
O Brother - You gotta love it when a bunch of dumb ass hillbillies do The Odyssey.
No Country - Tommy Lee Jones is one of my favorite actors. Perfect casting. [Reply]
It's occurred to me that I'm just not a big fan of the Coen Brothers. I know I'm supposed to be but I'm just...not.
Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and True Grit. And ultimate True Grit shouldn't have gotten a vote there, it's just the John Wayne fan in me coming out (Damon really did a nice job with LaBeouf's part and any time you can take a John Wayne movie and remove Kim Darby from it, you've earned my money). [Reply]
Originally Posted by Frazod:
Miller's Crossing True Grit (superior to the original in pretty much every way)
O Brother Where Are Thou
I haven't seen most of these, though.
Stuck to the source material better but it didn't have the Duke.
Worse still, they mangled the showdown between him and Lucky Ned Pepper something awful. Bridges mumbled the 'Fill your hands!' line so badly you could barely understand it and having him ride w/ twin pistols instead of twirling that Winchester lever action was just blasphemy.
I went to one of those dinner and a movie theatres with the recliners and beer with my old man to see it. Hardly had any complaints but man - that is one of the climactic moments in western history and while the cinematography is great, poor line reading and a weird stylistic choice just took some of the starch out of it. [Reply]
Originally Posted by DJ's left nut:
It's occurred to me that I'm just not a big fan of the Coen Brothers. I know I'm supposed to be but I'm just...not.
Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and True Grit. And ultimate True Grit shouldn't have gotten a vote there, it's just the John Wayne fan in me coming out (Damon really did a nice job with LaBeouf's part and any time you can take a John Wayne movie and remove Kim Darby from it, you've earned my money).
To borrow one of your phrases I’ve seen you use, do you think the Coen’s get too attached to the “smell of their own farts” at times? You used the phrase to describe Ad Astra and in some of the Coen brothers work I don’t care for seems to fall into that category. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Chiefspants:
To borrow one of your phrases I’ve seen you use, do you think the Coen’s get too attached to the “smell of their own farts” at times? You used the phrase to describe Ad Astra and in some of the Coen brothers work I don’t care for seems to fall into that category.
Maybe. Probably. Sometimes they just seem cute to be cute.
I feel like Peter Griffin here (though of course, not in relation to the Godfather...because jesus christ, who doesn't like The Godfather?)
I just want to sit here and smugly and nonsensically say "They insist upon themselves..." and not even know what I really mean by that.
I really came to the conclusion during Burn After Reading. I just got done with it and watched a PILE of incredible actors just be shoved into weird parts that didn't suit them and thought "well fuck, Coens, how'd you manage to make this so bizarrely unlikeable? Why'd you have to Coen it up?"
They just had to make it a 'Coen' property. That's why Hail Caesar failed so badly - same problem.
They're better when they're taking on harder, more 'serious' stuff, IMO. And maybe I'm in BL's camp of just not having seen TBL enough to appreciate it like I should, but in contrast to Raising Arizona where they nailed the humor, I don't see why I should have to watch it 5 times to accept it's greatness.
Some folks just fall in love with what makes them well known. Cruise did it for a bit, Denzel did as well; both guys spent a decade kinda playing themselves in slightly different places. Then Johnny Depp spent his entire latter career playing Captain Jack Sparrow. M. Night Shyamalan's goofy twist shit is the first example to come to mind with directors but Nolan's timeline things make his movies decidedly 'Nolan' movies as well (though I like just about everything he's done). Sometimes people fall in love with their brand and steer hard into it a little too much.
I dunno - they just don't quite hit the mark for me most of the time. [Reply]
And my word people, how does Miller's Crossing only get 8 votes? Byrne and Finney just throwing 100 mph the whole movie. Gotta just be a function of fewer people having seen it.