THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Bloodwake on October 24, 2007, 10:35:17 PM
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So, I went to my friend tehjaybo's house and abruptly changed my mind: I'm no longer doing my first film paper on Psycho (pretty overdone choice) and am now doing it on Fargo, since the film's fucking amazing. I borrowed the film and I'm through my second viewing in as many days.
So, APPRECIATE this film in this thread.
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Shouldn't you pick a better Coen Brother's film?
We have to do it on films we watched in class. That's not a lot of films, and since Citizen Kane (obvious view in all film classes) and anything Hitchcock will probably be overused, Fargo seems to be the best choice since it's great.
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Shouldn't you pick a better Coen Brother's film?
Fargo is the best Coen Brothers film. Big Lebowski is up there too. I cant get into their earlier stuff
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:lol
So whats your favourite?
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Oh OK. What else did you watch?
So far:
Shadow of a Doubt
Psycho
Seventh Seal
Once Were Warriors
Our Hospitality
Singin' In the Rain
There's more films coming up, but the only one I remember off the top of my head is Fargo.
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do Once Were Warriors. And you have to track down the sequel OMG
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If you said 3rd worst I'd agree.
Wait, are you saying Big Lebowski is third worst, or Fargo?
If you mean the former, then :(
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do Once Were Warriors. And you have to track down the sequel OMG
Eh, I'm going to, but not for the first one. I want to be able to watch and rewatch the films as much as possible, and that film isn't readily available to me at the moment. They are on hold at the library for our use, but they can't leave the building, and I would rather watch the films on a widescreen monitor somewhere where I can turn the sound up.
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:lol
So whats your favourite?
Big Lebowski and Barton Fink are their best for different reasons, with Big Lebowski being my favorite because the investment to watch it isn't as high. but to say Fargo is their third worst is only relative to their films. It is still a good movie.
The worst IMO (from what I've seen so far) is O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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That film isnt bad, compared to Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers its a AAA title
And Im not kidding about the sequel to Once Were Warriors, its called 'What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?' and its probably in my top 5 greatest movies ever. Its like an actual proper comedy with thought out jokes and everything
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Introlerable Cruelty better than Fargo?!? Well I guess creative work is all very subjective
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Intolerable Cruelty is an enjoyable piece of fluff.
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:piss Catherine Zeta Jones. She couldnt act her way out of a tiger's ass
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Shouldn't you pick a better Coen Brother's film?
That haven't made it yet.
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:lol
So whats your favourite?
Big Lebowski and Barton Fink are their best for different reasons, with Big Lebowski being my favorite because the investment to watch it isn't as high. but to say Fargo is their third worst is only relative to their films. It is still a good movie.
The worst IMO (from what I've seen so far) is O Brother, Where Art Thou?
I shall shit on your chest.
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O Brother was fuckin' awesome, what the hell?
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O Brother was fuckin' awesome, what the hell?
I do have a bias.
My family members play this movie and the soundtrack over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
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Yeah wtf o brother was awesome you shut the fuck up
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:lol
So whats your favourite?
Big Lebowski and Barton Fink are their best for different reasons, with Big Lebowski being my favorite because the investment to watch it isn't as high. but to say Fargo is their third worst is only relative to their films. It is still a good movie.
The worst IMO (from what I've seen so far) is O Brother, Where Art Thou?
you're a douche sometimes but I love you still
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I do have a bias.
My family members play this movie and the soundtrack over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
oh, ok. yeah I can see why that would get annoying.
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Shouldn't you pick a better Coen Brother's film?
Fargo is the best Coen Brothers film. Big Lebowski is up there too. I cant get into their earlier stuff
I dunno, I may have agreed with you in years past, when Lebowski was the frat movie du jour. I longed for the halcyon days of Fargo. During the hubbub, I ended up going years without seeing Fargo, naturally assuming that since it wasn't as silly as Lebowski, it was probably better, as I remembered. I also developed a dislike for O Brother, without even seeing it. I worked in a book and music store when that movie broke big, and near constant exposure to the soundtrack made me uninterested in seeing it.
Anyway, about 2 years ago I got Fargo on DVD, and discovered that it's a pretty boring movie with a few totally great scenes. Lebowski is the best of the three, and O Brother is a somewhat close second. Colored me wrong. Raising Arizona is alsoup there. Better than Fargo, probably not quite at Lebowski or O Brother levels. It's kind of unrefined, and Lebowski and O Brother are so much better to look at.
I can get behind Barton Fink as their best. It's tough to name one single best because their movies are all so very different. Hard to believe the same people behind Lebowski did Barton Fink.
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of the coen bros movies i've seen
the big lebowski
barton fink
o brother where art thou
fargo
the hudsucker proxy
raising arizona
the man who wasn't there
blood simple
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(getting raped by a pitbull named caligula)
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intolerable cruelty
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(being forced to watch shake and g fuck on a bed of buffalo wings)
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the ladykillers
i am very pumped for no country for old men, cormac mccarthy + coen bros SHOULD equal SPLOOGE and if they fuck it up i will blame scorsese shitheads like shake
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I think you are ranking Fargo too high there. I would put Hudsucker and Arizona above it.
Fargo should be the best movie ever. It has some awesome bits, a fucking incredible cast, and an unusual setting for a noir-y story. But watching it now, it's kind of all dressed up with nowhere to go. Not to make it sound bad or anything, because it is a really good, really funny movie. I just don't think they were firing on all cylinders there.
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william h macy and francis mcdormand made fargo for me. i agree that the crime elements got lost amid the character development scenes and shots, but they WERE great characters! that said, i flipflop between which of those three -- hudsucker, arizona, and fargo -- are the best amongst each other.
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God damn, I can't wait for No Country for Old Men