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| Blood Simple |
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1 | 5.88% |
| Raising Arizona |
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2 | 11.76% |
| Miller's Crossing |
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1 | 5.88% |
| Barton Fink |
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1 | 5.88% |
| The Hudsucker Proxy |
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0 | 0% |
| Fargo |
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1 | 5.88% |
| The Big Lebowski |
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3 | 17.65% |
| O Brother, Where Art Thou? |
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1 | 5.88% |
| The Man who Wasn't There |
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0 | 0% |
| Intolerable Cruelty |
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0 | 0% |
| The Ladykillers |
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0 | 0% |
| No Country for Old Men |
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3 | 17.65% |
| Burn After Reading |
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1 | 5.88% |
| A Serious Man |
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2 | 11.76% |
| True Grit |
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0 | 0% |
| Inside Llewin Davis |
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0 | 0% |
| Hail, Caesar! |
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0 | 0% |
| The Ballad of Buster Scruggs |
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1 | 5.88% |
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 WHEEL FOR THE INDECISIVE https://wheelofnames.com/hem-wfu  winter is unquestionably for coen brothers movies, so lets watch a shitload of em. we're gonna take two weeks off our normal movie club rotation and slam through as many coen movies as you want to.  Blood Simple - 1984 "Blood Simple" begins deep in the heart of Texas, where a jealous saloon owner hires a cheap divorce detective to kill the saloon owner's younger wife and her bartender lover. But the detective gets a better idea: he follows the two lovers, and...  Raising Arizona - 1987 Fast-paced farce about an unlikely pair who go to extreme lengths to have a child. When an incompetent robber marries a policewoman, they discover that they are infertile. In order to appease his wife's longings for a child, the man steals one of a set of quintuplets, but mayhem ensues when the child's rich father sends a rabbit-shooting bounty hunter after the kidnapper.  Miller's Crossing - 1990 When the Italian Mafia threatens to kill a crooked bookie (John Turturro), Irish mob boss Leo O'Bannon (Albert Finney) refuses to allow it, chiefly because he's dating the bookie's sister, crafty gun moll Verna Bernbaum (Marcia Gay Harden). Leo's right-hand man, Tom Reagan (Gabriel Byrne), is also seeing Verna on the sly, and when he's found out is obliged to switch sides, going to work for the Italian mob amidst a dramatically escalating gang war over liquor distribution.  Barton Fink - 1991 Set in 1941, an intellectual New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) accepts an offer to write movie scripts in L.A. He finds himself with writer's block when required to do a B-movie script. His neighbor tries to help, but he continues to struggle as a bizarre sequence of events distracts him.  The Hudsucker Proxy - 1994 Greedy executive Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) hopes to take control of the company he works for by purchasing a majority share -- but he must first devalue the stock. So he convinces the board to appoint know-nothing recent graduate Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins). But Mussburger's plot backfires when Barnes' latest invention succeeds, thereby increasing the company's value. Worse yet, undercover reporter Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh) has the scoop on Mussburger's shady dealings.  Fargo - 1996 "Fargo" is a reality-based crime drama set in Minnesota in 1987. Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) is a car salesman in Minneapolis who has gotten himself into debt and is so desperate for money that he hires two thugs (Steve Buscemi), (Peter Stormare) to kidnap his own wife. Jerry will collect the ransom from her wealthy father (Harve Presnell), paying the thugs a small portion and keeping the rest to satisfy his debts. The scheme collapses when the thugs shoot a state trooper.  The Big Lebowski - 1998 Jeff `The Dude' Leboswki is mistaken for Jeffrey Lebowski, who is The Big Lebowski. Which explains why he's roughed up and has his precious rug peed on. In search of recompense, The Dude tracks down his namesake, who offers him a job. His wife has been kidnapped and he needs a reliable bagman. Aided and hindered by his pals Walter Sobchak, a Vietnam vet, and Donny, master of stupidity.  O Brother, Where Art Thou? - 2000 Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro), then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters.  The Man Who Wasn't There - 2001 A dark tale of infidelity and murder, crime and punishment. Set in a small northern California town of the late 40s, the film portrays Ed Crane (Billy Bob Thornton), a barber dissatisfied with his life. His wife Doris' (Frances McDormand) infidelity presents Ed with an opportunity for blackmail that he thinks will help him to change it. However, Ed's scheme unravels and lays bare even darker secrets...  Intolerable Cruelty - 2003 Miles Massey (George Clooney) is an exceptional divorce lawyer who specializes in saving cheating husbands from having to pay expensive settlements. Unchallenged, he wearies of his life -- until he meets the cunning Marylin Rexroth (Catherine Zeta-Jones). When Massey's representation of her husband in court denies her any divorce compensation, Marylin vows to get revenge, enlisting the help of an oil baron (Billy Bob Thornton), and the two vie for the advantage in a flirtatious duel of wits.  The Ladykillers - 2004 Professor G.H. Dorr (Tom Hanks), a courtly Southern gentleman, arrives at the home of devout, elderly Marva Munson (Irma P. Hall), hoping to rent her extra room and use her basement to rehearse with his classical music ensemble. His fellow musicians, however, are actually criminals, and together they plan to rob a casino. When Mrs. Munson learns of their plan, they decide she must be silenced. Certainly, murdering one little old lady cannot be too difficult.  No Country for Old Men - 2007 While out hunting, Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) finds the grisly aftermath of a drug deal. Though he knows better, he cannot resist the cash left behind and takes it with him. The hunter becomes the hunted when a merciless killer named Chigurh (Javier Bardem) picks up his trail. Also looking for Moss is Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), an aging lawman who reflects on a changing world and a dark secret of his own, as he tries to find and protect Moss.  Burn After Reading - 2008 When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst (John Malkovich) falls into the hands of Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo doofuses and those in their orbit.  A Serious Man - 2009 Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is a physics professor at a 1960s university, but his life is coming apart at the seams. His wife (Sari Lennick) is leaving him, his jobless brother (Richard Kind) has moved in, and someone is trying to sabotage his chances for tenure. Larry seeks advice from three different rabbis, but whether anyone can help him overcome his many afflictions remains to be seen.  True Grit - 2010 After an outlaw named Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) murders her father, feisty 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) hires Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges), a boozy, trigger-happy lawman, to help her find Chaney and avenge her father. The bickering duo are not alone in their quest, for a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Matt Damon) is also tracking Chaney for reasons of his own. Together the unlikely trio ventures into hostile territory to dispense some Old West justice.  Inside Llewyn Davis - 2013 In 1961 New York City, folk singer Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) is at a crossroads. Guitar in hand, he struggles against seemingly insurmountable obstacles to make a name for himself in the music world, but so far, success remains elusive. Relying on the kindness of both friends and strangers, Llewyn embarks on an odyssey that takes him from the streets of Greenwich Village to a Chicago club, where awaits a music mogul who could give him the big break that he desperately needs.  Hail, Caesar! - 2016 In the early 1950s, Eddie Mannix is busy at work trying to solve all the problems of the actors and filmmakers at Capitol Pictures. His latest assignments involve a disgruntled director, a singing cowboy, a beautiful swimmer and a handsome dancer. As if all this wasn't enough, Mannix faces his biggest challenge when Baird Whitlock gets kidnapped while in costume for the swords-and-sandals epic "Hail, Caesar!" If the studio doesn't pay $100,000, it's the end of the line for the movie star.  The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - 2018 An anthology containing six short films all occurring in 19th-century post-Civil War America during the settling of the Old West.
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Raising Arizona: ★★★★
Fungah! fucked around with this message at 19:50 on Jan 23, 2024 |
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Jan 22, 2024 16:57
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herculon posted:A Serious Man definitely, definitely watch these two. i'm beggin you
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Jan 22, 2024 17:24
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elf help book posted:sick list you cn pick any random three movies and say that though
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Jan 22, 2024 17:28
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symbolic posted:actually lemme ask which are pretty essential cuz out of all of these i've only seen Arizona, Fargo (tho i was drunk as poo poo and don't remember much so rewatch mayhaps...?), Lebowski, Country, and Caesar. was thinking at least Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, A Serious Man, and Llewyn Davis all of em but fargo rewatch, o brother, llewyn davis, serious man, true grit for sure. i havent seen miller's crossing or raising arizona though
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Jan 22, 2024 19:02
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herculon posted:Inside Llewyn Davis was a good film. Coen Bros knew early on that Oscar Isaac and Adam Driver in the same movie is a recipe for cinematic greatness. god th scene where llewyn asks him where to put his box of unsold records and adam driver has to move his own box of unsold records to give him room lmfao
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Jan 23, 2024 16:08
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ok lets go https://wheelofnames.com/hem-wfu
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Jan 23, 2024 16:23
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lol first spin is raising arizona
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Jan 23, 2024 16:23
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herculon posted:lol yeah and it's a well done movie where you pick up hints along the way like why llewyn is solo, why he needs a partner, and what happened to his partner. At first I thought the ending was doing a Taxi Driver type of thing where the movie just loops over again, but I realized the beginning was a flashforward. disagree with your police work there herc, endings definitely just th same thing happens again but different. he's smart enough to keep th cat in the house this time but he still gets his rear end kicked in the alley for making fun of singers at the gaslight.
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Jan 23, 2024 16:44
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also how sick is bob dylan coming out to sing basically a worse version of th same song at the end. here's a dude who in a year or two is gonna have everything that llewyn doesnt but on this one night llewyn outplayed him. only it wont matter in the end because llewyn's just tht kind of guy.
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Jan 23, 2024 16:46
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lmfao this chase scene
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Jan 23, 2024 18:05
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Raising Arizona kino. man nic cage can act when he wants to. felt a little sloppy nd a little slapstick sometimes but man that ending hit. one of th best chase scenes ive ever seen too lmfao ★★★★
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Jan 23, 2024 19:49
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Nostradingus posted:The only Coen Bros I've seen is O Brother and I didn't like it at all but that was a long time ago. Looks like we've got some work to do oh dude. buckle up
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Jan 23, 2024 23:09
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also rewatch o brother
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Jan 23, 2024 23:09
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who the hell voted buster scruggs
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Jan 23, 2024 23:17
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wheel pulled a serious man, lfg
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Jan 29, 2024 17:57
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A Serious Man incredible. funny, sad, horrifying, endearing. maybe th most underrated movie on the list. the guy playing larry holds th whole thing together, he's just tryin his best to keep it together while ha-shem rains poo poo on his head. sy ableman might be th most villainous guy in a coen movie, hes a fuckin snake and seems incredibly sincere at the same time. all th dream sequences, all the rabbi sequences, just fuckin incredible. best opening to a coen movie too. i kind of see this one and llewyn davis as two sides of the same movie, the righteous man who falls apart and the failure tht cant stop failing, and theyre my two favorites. just so much good poo poo in this movie. absolutely mandatory watch for anyone who hasnt seen it ★★★★
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Jan 29, 2024 23:22
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Sub-Actuality posted:The Ballad of Buster Scruggs just rolled this one too, lets go
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Jan 30, 2024 14:30
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this is one ive never seen before and hot drat that first story
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Jan 30, 2024 14:51
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man tht third story is mean as hell
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Jan 30, 2024 16:10
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs woof. really good but man thats one of the most cynical movies ive seen in a while. guess i'll take em in order. loved the framing device btw, ir ead a ton of those western short story books as a kid and they got the vibe pretty dead on the ballad of buster scruggs lmao. funniest one for sure, charming quick story. i love marty robbins music nd th whole thing is basically one big marty robbins song, even startin with cool water. th core joke of what if a 50s western actor was actually a modern western character was great, very dark but funny. near algodones hardest one for me to rate. i loved a lot of th individual scenes, the pan man was hilarious, but i feel like it ws all a setup to get the "first time" joke from the memes. probably my second least favorite meal ticket woof. very good, massive bummer. its cool how much character liam neeson and the performer got with basically never talkin to each other all gold canyon neat character piece, liked it a lot. not much to say except tom waits was born to play a weird grizzled prospector the gal who got rattled my least favorite. too long, very meh. the romance worked, the ending was good, dunno., nmot much for it the mortal remains godly. incredible poo poo. i feel like they made th whole movie to get a place to put this story. all th acting is amazing, brendan gleesons song is incredible, the ending is unreal. like elf bot said, so much happening with so little bein said. metaphor stacked on metaphor. i love that its super obvious that this is them goin into the afterlife but its never ever ever even slightly alluded to, just conveyed with staging and acting. if it hadnt been for the last one this would be three stars but this is definitely ★★★½
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Jan 30, 2024 18:35
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copy posted:coming backf rom eye surgery to kick down the door and say i love the ballad of buster scr lol
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Jan 30, 2024 18:47
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lol and the followup is hail caesar. talk about whiplash
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Jan 30, 2024 18:54
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Fungah! fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jan 30, 2024 |
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Jan 30, 2024 21:07
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elf help book posted:you linked to this thread lol lmfao
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Jan 30, 2024 21:32
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Hail, Caesar! lot better thn i remembered. its still a fluffy period piece but its a lot of fun with some really good acting nd a couple insanely good scenes. the dance number is insane, all th long take speeches kicked rear end. its got a ton of love and care put into it and some huge laugh lines. i think its still bottom of my list but its a lot of fun and i think does a lot better on a rewatch. lost my poo poo at th HUAC night mare commie cell complete wth russian sub and at a bunch of other stuff. worth a look even if its not one of the greats. ★★★
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Jan 31, 2024 17:29
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oh yeah biggest laugh line of the movie was a perfect deadpan its not about money, its about economics!
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Jan 31, 2024 17:29
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elf help book posted:me after picking up my $175 special edition copy of Phoenix Wright 7
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ok time up for th free rental period. ty all for participating! see you in th other thread.
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