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As Nero Danced posted:I'm gonna be that moron and say I didn't like No Country and I need someone to sell me on it. No, it's really bad. So bad that I start thinking Will Smith's kid has a point with his "How do I know you're not seeing a cat when we look at a tree" Tweets. I kinda don't believe people who like it are watching the same movie I did.
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Poetic Justice posted:OP, aren't you wayne gretzky, the weird guy from canada that took pics of his balls??? No, but I can understand the confusion as we're both quite prolific FYAD posters.
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Sep 18, 2016 21:05
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Anyone who complains about any of the movies on the list being boring or pointless Doesn't Get It
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Frankenstyle posted:No, it's really bad. So bad that I start thinking Will Smith's kid has a point with his "How do I know you're not seeing a cat when we look at a tree" Tweets. I kinda don't believe people who like it are watching the same movie I did. It is a good movie if you basically put your mind into the state of an old man. Kinda like Gran Torino. The country is going to poo poo and it'll never reach that golden* age. *Vietnam. JFK assassination. Watergate. It's always been a loving shithole you dumbass shitlord.
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a land where parents are strong and wise and capable and all children are happy and beloved maybe it was utah
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im gaye posted:a land where parents are strong and wise and capable Son, you got a panty on your head.
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Gabriel Pope posted:Anyone who complains about any of the movies on the list being boring or pointless Doesn't Get It the ending of no country was great because half the theater i saw it in got up and left confused and angry and this was in one of those fancy places where they serve beer and full meals and mostly shows arthouse crap so you'd think they'd be a little more sophisticated can't imagine what the reaction was like in a regular pleb theater
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gleebster posted:Son, you got a panty on your head. when there was no meat, we ate fowl. and when there was no fowl, we ate crawdad. and when there was no crawdad to be found, we ate sand. you ate what we ate sand you ate sand?
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No country for old men It's like Fargo but better. And with Anton chigurh
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when I saw no country in the theater everyone sat completely silent and unmoving for like a full minute after the end, it was incredible the thing that gets me about that movie is how efficient the storytelling is, I mean it gets going real fast and introduces characters by telling you exactly as much as you need to know and nothing else and you don't even notice it
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Zesty Mordant posted:when I saw no country in the theater everyone sat completely silent and unmoving for like a full minute after the end, it was incredible yeah this was my theaters reaction as well, I've never seen anything like that before or since
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Zesty Mordant posted:the thing that gets me about that movie is how efficient the storytelling is, I mean it gets going real fast and introduces characters by telling you exactly as much as you need to know and nothing else and you don't even notice it The book is like that too. The Coens really "got" McCarthy's style and translated it so well to the screen. What gets me is the lighting, oddly enough. It manages to seem real while nudging you towards the mood of the scene just that much more. I don't know poo poo about lighting from a technical level but apparently it's god-tier; and the Coens were similarly praised for being able to get great picture quality in a super-snowy environment for Fargo.
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Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing is a close second
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jiharlequinade posted:Miller's Crossing fuckers Jon Polito RIP
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ive really only watched 4 of those movies from the poll btw and you know which ones
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I voted for Lebowski because it's the one I enjoy the most even if I know No Country and many others are way better films. By my metric No Country is third behind Oh Brother Where Art Thou, that one's on tv all the time and I still get a kick out of it.
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It's Hail Caesar! because their foray into George Clooney BDSM slash fiction expresses the deepest expression of their artistic intent. Also, it has Jonah Hill in its top billing when he has three lines and 4 seconds of screen time establishing that he is, for all intents and purposes, a person who is legally in the movie, playing the role of a "person," pure and simple. It's a great meta joke about Jonah Hill's making a career out of being just a person, an anti-movie-star, in contrast to Clooney's hyper-stardom.
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Only Coens I haven't seen yet are Miller's Crossing, Intolerable Cruelty, and Inside Lleywn Davis. The Ladykillers isn't as good as their other movies, but it's still hilarious and worthwhile. I wish more filmmakers could have "worst" movies this good.
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Frankenstyle posted:No, it's really bad. So bad that I start thinking Will Smith's kid has a point with his "How do I know you're not seeing a cat when we look at a tree" Tweets. I kinda don't believe people who like it are watching the same movie I did. Its your brain thats really bad and doesn't work, and cant enjoy good movies. Sorry
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Barton Fink for being a surreal masterpiece; followed by Miller's Crossing for being a great gangster film with suspense, laughs, and a glorious ending. Edit; PinkoBastard gets it. DangerDongs fucked around with this message at 05:07 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Xenophanes posted:It's Hail Caesar! because their foray into George Clooney BDSM slash fiction expresses the deepest expression of their artistic intent. Also, it has Jonah Hill in its top billing when he has three lines and 4 seconds of screen time establishing that he is, for all intents and purposes, a person who is legally in the movie, playing the role of a "person," pure and simple. It's a great meta joke about Jonah Hill's making a career out of being just a person, an anti-movie-star, in contrast to Clooney's hyper-stardom. Josh Brolin is fantastic in it, too.
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Egbert Souse posted:The Ladykillers isn't as good as their other movies, but it's still hilarious and worthwhile. I wish more filmmakers could have "worst" movies this good. Yeah it has a lot of good stuff but never quite comes together. There are some banging acting performances for real. I sure do like me some Stephen Root.
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Burn After Reading has the best brief seconds of hilarity when George Clooney shoots Brad Pitt in the face. The fatuous grin on Pitt's face as Clooney pulls the trigger really really REALLY hit my guffaw button. It's well worth pausing and single frame advancing that scene.
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dee eight posted:Burn After Reading has the best brief seconds of hilarity when George Clooney shoots Brad Pitt in the face. The fatuous grin on Pitt's face as Clooney pulls the trigger really really REALLY hit my guffaw button. that scene almost killed my dad
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dee eight posted:Burn After Reading has the best brief seconds of hilarity when George Clooney shoots Brad Pitt in the face. The fatuous grin on Pitt's face as Clooney pulls the trigger really really REALLY hit my guffaw button. i laughed so hard at this scene i almost threw up
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My film snob friends hated Burn After Reading to the point that they walked out and I was confused. Bear in mind these guys practically masturbated to discussion of There Will Be Blood every night so I imagine a movie that dealt in a similar sense of cynicism but without the same pomposity really killed their hard-ons. I mean I didn't love Burn After Reading myself but it was an amusing Shaggy Dog story with some funny moments.
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mind the walrus posted:The book is like that too. The Coens really "got" McCarthy's style and translated it so well to the screen. I wish they would do the Border Trilogy mind the walrus posted:My film snob friends hated Burn After Reading to the point that they walked out and I was confused. it's one of Brad Pitt's best roles imo. Earwicker fucked around with this message at 16:13 on Sep 19, 2016 |
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Earwicker posted:
Agree completely. Tough call for me between Fargo/Raising Arizona/Lebowski. I watch any of those any time I see that they're coming on. TY Coen Bros.
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Gatekeeper posted:It's a whole new story, related to the first season. The ladycop Solverson's dad (Keith carradine) references some heavy poo poo in the 70s that he experienced. Season two is said heavy poo poo. That guy who played the impotent owl man in Watchmen plays young Carradine, he did a great job. But oddly enough Kirsten Dunst was the real star of the season, it was absolutely her best performance in anything ever. I always felt bad for her because her finest role was when she was a lil kid in Interview with the Vampire and she was never quite that good ever again. Until season Two of Fargo. She fucken KILLED it, yo. Dunst was very good but the star of the season was Bokeem Woodbine period full stop the end
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Earwicker posted:I wish they would do the Border Trilogy suttree is practically a coen bros script as is
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im gaye posted:that scene almost killed my dad I knew O Brother was special when some old timer sitting behind me at the theater nearly stroked out laughing at the tight spot escape, and probably 2-3 times after that. The elderly have seen a lot and aren't surprised by much, so it was doubly contagious. The Coens recognized that Southern diction of the era was part of the appeal and tried to get lightning to strike twice with Ladykillers. It didn't. The movie (T-Bone Burnett, specifically) was responsible for about a zillion roots/americana albums with sepia toned artwork for the next 5-6 years. No country was legit frightening on the big screen the first time, but I don't think it holds up as well to repeat viewings. The Fargo series was/is really well done and Martin Freeman absolutely owned as Lester.
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mind the walrus posted:What gets me is the lighting, oddly enough. It manages to seem real while nudging you towards the mood of the scene just that much more. I don't know poo poo about lighting from a technical level but apparently it's god-tier; and the Coens were similarly praised for being able to get great picture quality in a super-snowy environment for Fargo. what also made it so effective was the film score other than a low pitched tone that increases gradually to a whisper level during a few tense scenes, there's basically no background music, and there's so many scenes with almost no dialogue
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If I had to argue which movie is their "best", it would likely be a tie between Fargo and Barton Fink as they are close to as perfect as a movie can be. But my favourite is The Hudsucker Proxy, because it's the type of movie I could watch a hundred times and end up feeling better each time. I feel about it the way most people feel about Lebowski. I would say their worst isn't The Ladykillers - it's just wholly disposable. For me it's Intolerable Cruelty as there are some parts of scenes and a few lines that are just plain bad. It's very obvious that it was a movie written by someone else first that the Coen's just added their weirdness onto later, and you can totally tell which parts are which.. Same with Jurassic Park III with Alexander Payne doing a re-write.
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