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Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 09:57
by driftin
Fargo, No Country, Big Lebowski are the three best but Inside Llewyn Davis and A Serious Man are the most under-appreciated and easily make up the rest of the top 5.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 10:03
by Jumper K
Theres lots to like in most of them but I find it really hard to love any of them. Its the contrivance that puts me off and the fact that most have a 1 idea plot with lots of frivolous frippery glossing over the rest. They mostly look fabulous though.
I do really like Millers Crossing and Lebowski is one of the best sketch shows you will ever see.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 12:28
by joels344
The Big Lebowski
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 07 Mar 2017, 12:30
by joels344
driftin wrote:Inside Llewyn Davis and A Serious Man are the most under-appreciated and easily make up the rest of the top 5.



Agree with this statement 100%.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 01:39
by Hightea
Miller's Crossing saw it at a screening before it came out and was blown away.
Dude
Fargo

like most of the others
haven't seen Inside Llewyn Davis
I thought Hail, Caesar was awful

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 14:04
by hippopotamus
K wrote:
Mike Boom wrote:If you haven't seen the Hudsucker Proxy you should do yourself a favor and see it, its their best along with The Big Lebowski and Fargo in my book

This was my 3. However I love a lot of their stuff: Raising Arizona, Barton Fink. Burn After Reading and Hail Caesar are all favourites. Slightly disappointed with No Country... but it just couldn't compete wiht the book



Also my 3.
Hudsucker is under-rated

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:02
by Matt Wilson
No time for True Grit then, eh? No matter...

I see not many of us care for anything in the 21st century save No Country for Old Men. Methinks they've peaked.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:19
by naughty boy
Minnie the Minx wrote:I turned off 'No Country' after ten minutes. No stomach for it.


The violence? 'cos that certainly bothered me. And I'm not that squeamish.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:40
by Matt Wilson
There was no violence in that movie!

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:41
by Goat Boy
Yeah I'm not sure what they are referring to really. The dog getting shot?

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:41
by Matt Wilson
All the violence was offscreen.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:45
by naughty boy
You must be joking.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:46
by Goat Boy
It wasn't gory or gruesome though

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:49
by Matt Wilson
Maybe I don't remember the movie then. Remind me of a violent scene.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:52
by naughty boy
He uses the rivetter to blast someone between the eyes. Outside in the road, I think. That really turned my stomach.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 16:53
by naughty boy
The stuff in the gas station too

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 17:03
by Goat Boy


I mean, it's badass but...

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 17:11
by naughty boy
Yeah, well you like all that shit - people getting their heads blown off. As far as I'm concerned it's extremely disturbing.

Just that whole thing with the compressed air canister he carries around - there's always the threat of violence. And it's more sinister than the usual stuff, for obvious reasons.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 17:19
by Goat Boy
It's true! I like violence in films. I get why it's disturbing. It's sorta humdrum. He's so cold, disconnected, which is the point of course cos he's Death.

Re: Coen Brothers movies (poll)

Posted: 28 Apr 2017, 17:33
by Matt Wilson
I dunno, my skin's pretty thick, I guess. To me, the gas canister scene wasn't violent.