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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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I'm going to see how many movies I can get through this week. I started out with Raising Arizona. I've seen it a lot growing up from it being one of those films always playing on basic cable, but this is my first rewatch in probably 20 years. Absolutely a timeless classic. 5/5
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Jan 29, 2024 20:55
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I watched Blood Simple for the first time last night. I wouldn't call it good, but it was a good first effort. You can see a lot of elements that really shine in their later films that don't quite work here. The plot is definitely a Coen Brothers plot, especially the ending, which I feel is the strongest part of the movie. The soundtrack bouncing back and forth between oldies and generic synth music was pretty jarring, but I'm pretty sure that was just a budget issue. M. Emmet Walsh was great, but it was the only strong performance in the movie.
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Jan 30, 2024 17:52
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I enjoyed Miller's Crossing. I went into it blind hoping for a deconstruction of the gangster movie, because I was never big on gangster movies. What I ended up with was a love letter to gangster movies. Despite the fact that the movie was 90 percent references I didn't get, the Coen Brothers still made a movie that was a lot of fun to watch. 4/5
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Feb 3, 2024 06:32
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I also watched Crimewave because Amazon kept recommending it to me. It's the film the Coen Brothers wrote for Sam Raimi early in their career. A businessman hires two hit men posing as exterminators to kill his business partner. It starts a lot like a Coen Brothers crime drama except the hit men are clearly based off of the three stooges, and the rest of the movie plays out like a three stooges comedy except they murder people. It didn't work at all, but you can definitely see the start of some of the ideas they used in Raising Arizona.
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Feb 6, 2024 08:28
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