THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Great Rumbler on October 30, 2009, 02:46:59 PM
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Caught a showing of A Serious Man a few weeks ago and finally got around to watching Blood Simple last night. The latter is still a very good movie and it's clear that even 25 years ago the Coen's knew exactly what they wanted to do and had the talent to pull it off. All of their movies do a very good job of casting the right people for the right character and getting great performances out of actors in even the minor roles. They're also well shot too and weave dark humor into even the most serious of their movies. Not all of their movies are American classics, but even the worst are better than the average movie Hollywood puts out. I can't really think of American director working today that's been that consistent across 25 years and 14 movies.
I'd put their movies into three tiers:
Top Tier
-Blood Simple.
-Raising Arizona
-Fargo
-The Big Lebowski
-No Country for Old Men
-A Serious Man
Middle Tier
-Miller's Crossing
-Barton Fink
-O Brother, Where Art Thou?
-The Man Who Wasn't There
-Burn After Reading
Bottom Tier
-Hudsucker Proxy
-Intolerable Cruelty
-The Ladykillers
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I've been meaning to watch Blood Simple forever, but it wasn't on netflix for a couple years.
whoa, hudsucker proxy towards the bottom? I know it's their crowd pleaser, but damn, I loved it. and seeing Prezbelewski from the Wire act like he did in that movie was surreal.
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I wanna watch you up to date. :-*
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I've been meaning to watch Blood Simple forever, but it wasn't on netflix for a couple years.
I had the same problem. I was watching a bunch of their movies on Netflix, they had all of them EXCEPT Blood Simple. They've got it now though.
whoa, hudsucker proxy towards the bottom? I know it's their crowd pleaser, but damn, I loved it. and seeing Prezbelewski from the Wire act like he did in that movie was surreal.
I waffled on that one a bit. Thought about putting it in the middle tier, but ended up going with the bottom tier instead. It's fun, but I just don't think it's as good as their other movies, barring how great it looks.
I wanna watch you up to date.
:-*
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? doesn't deserve to be in the same tier as Burn After Reading :maf
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? doesn't deserve to be in the same tier as Burn After Reading :maf
George Clooney is great in both, don't be hatin' now.
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Bottom Tier
-Hudsucker Proxy
-Intolerable Cruelty
-The Ladykillers
Hudsucker is better than that.
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I love O Brother Where Art Thou?, thats probably one of my personal Coen brother favorites. For me, from what I've seen:
1) Big Lebowski
2) No Country for Old Men
3) O Brother Where Art Thou?
4) Burn After Reading
5) Intolerable Cruelty
Unfortunately I haven't ever seen Fargo all the way through, nor the other ones. I'm working on it, they're all on my netflix account
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Unfortunately I haven't ever seen Fargo all the way through
wtf
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Fargo is amazing. You must rectify this immediately.
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Fargo is pretty amazing.
You have criminally underrated Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing.
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O Brother, Where Art Thou? doesn't deserve to be in the same tier as Burn After Reading :maf
George Clooney is great in both, don't be hatin' now.
Woops. I meant that it should be higher. Burn After Reading was a funny but sloppy mess, and I love O Brother, Where Art Thou?
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I more or less agree with how you've ranked things, and yet, goddamn if that middle tier isn't filled with awesome movies.
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You have criminally underrated Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing.
:bow
:bow John Goodman and Tony Shaloub in Barton Fink
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I'm getting kind of restless with their supposed adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. The book is pretty good, and if there was ever a novel that felt like a Coen Bros. movie, it's that one.
Where is it, jerks?
Also, The Hudsucker Proxy is ranked too low. It co-stars Bruce Campbell and was co-written by Sam Raimi. Where is the love?
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Unfortunately I haven't ever seen Fargo all the way through
wtf
Of that list, I've only seen burna after reading and the big lebowski. :-[
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I said I'm working on it, I'm not proud of that fact!
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I'm getting kind of restless with their supposed adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. The book is pretty good, and if there was ever a novel that felt like a Coen Bros. movie, it's that one.
They're making Yiddish Policeman's Union?
:hyper
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Of that list, I've only seen burna after reading and the big lebowski. :-[
smh :spitzer
time for BoresquadTM date night
http://www.netflix.com/RoleDisplay/Joel_Coen/18016?strackid=776432aed54742e3_1_srl&strkid=1324699381_1_0 (http://www.netflix.com/RoleDisplay/Joel_Coen/18016?strackid=776432aed54742e3_1_srl&strkid=1324699381_1_0)
no excuses now, half of those are instant viewable
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I'm getting kind of restless with their supposed adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. The book is pretty good, and if there was ever a novel that felt like a Coen Bros. movie, it's that one.
They're making Yiddish Policeman's Union?
:hyper
Yeah, it was announced almost two years ago. (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980719.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1) And still no word.
I mean, that is great source material to work with.
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sorta related but heard this while listening to all things considered yesterday.
Roger Deakins, Keeping An Eye On The Small Things
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114249616
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... We should definitely do a BORE POPCORN AND J.O. MOVIE NIGHT (NO GAY STUFF) for Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink. I'm down.
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goddamn if that middle tier isn't filled with awesome movies.
Yeah, like I said, even their worst movies are still pretty good.
Also, The Hudsucker Proxy is ranked too low. It co-stars Bruce Campbell and was co-written by Sam Raimi. Where is the love?
I keep thinking about moving it higher, but then I think "is it REALLY as good as the other movies in the middle tier?" and I move it back down. I'd say that's the one I'm most conflicted about. It's easily the best of the bottom tier though.
I'm getting kind of restless with their supposed adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. The book is pretty good, and if there was ever a novel that felt like a Coen Bros. movie, it's that one.
Me too, man. I haven't read the book, but my brother told me about it and it sounds like it would make for a really awesome Coen movie.
You have criminally underrated Barton Fink and Miller's Crossing.
I like them, in their own way, but they just didn't click with me as much as the other movies in the top tier.
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ARGHHHHHHH
Hudsucker low tier?!?!?
Miller's Crossing & Barton Fink mid-tier!?!?!!?
ARGHHHHHHH
/Miller's Crossing & Barton Fink & Lebowski are my top3
//This makes me realizes I never got around to watching Raising Arizona because I hate Cage so much. I should do that.
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I'm getting kind of restless with their supposed adaptation of Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union. The book is pretty good, and if there was ever a novel that felt like a Coen Bros. movie, it's that one.
They're making Yiddish Policeman's Union?
:hyper
Yeah, it was announced almost two years ago. (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117980719.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1) And still no word.
I mean, that is great source material to work with.
Was the novel good? I've heard mixed opinions on Chabon, but I haven't actually read any of his stuff
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I didn't particularly like The Man Who Wasn't There. Of course, I only watched it once, and it was on a night that admittedly wasn't the best night of my life.
I have the aforementioned movie, The Big Lebowski (obviously), Fargo, O Brother, Hudsucker, and Raising Arizona in my collection. I haven't seen the others.
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Looking at a list of their films makes me realize just how talented these guys are.
Oh definitely. 14 movies in 25 years and almost all of them are at least GOOD, there aren't a whole lot of directors that can boast that many in 50 years.
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//This makes me realizes I never got around to watching Raising Arizona because I hate Cage so much. I should do that.
My Nicolas Cage hatred runs wide and deep but I'll be damned if he doesn't play the perfect white trash bumpkin in Raising Arizona. He was born to play that role.
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//This makes me realizes I never got around to watching Raising Arizona because I hate Cage so much. I should do that.
My Nicolas Cage hatred runs wide and deep but I'll be damned if he doesn't play the perfect white trash bumpkin in Raising Arizona. He was born to play that role.
Yeah, he plays that role really well. Plus, it's Coen brothers movie, it's not going to have bad acting in it.
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I've only seen NCFOM, Fargo, and Big Lebowski. All three rocked
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//This makes me realizes I never got around to watching Raising Arizona because I hate Cage so much. I should do that.
My Nicolas Cage hatred runs wide and deep but I'll be damned if he doesn't play the perfect white trash bumpkin in Raising Arizona. He was born to play that role.
There was a time when he was cool. See also: Wild at Heart.
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Fargo :rock
O' Brother was slightly a mess (it was based loosely on the Odyssey for much good reason), but it was an enjoyable mess.
COW! I HATE COWS WORSE THAN COPPERS!
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Coen brothers need to make a movie about American hero Lynndie England. A dark comedy.
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Coen brothers need to make a movie about American hero Lynndie England. A dark comedy.
:|
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I'm not sure I could pick out a personal favorite Coen bros. film, as there isn't any of their movies that I don't, at the least, like a lot (even The Ladykillers is a riot I tells ya). And even though they came very close to one with No Country for Old Men, I fervently believe if they ever tackled a straight horror film, they would absolutely nail it.
Oh, and by the way, did you all know that Blood Simple is getting remade by Chinese auteur Zhang Yimou. Yes, really, here you can see the awesome Sun Hong Lei (Mongel, Triangle) as M. Emmet Walsh.
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look for it in American art house theaters sometime next year.