Hooligans Sportsbook

Coen brothers

  • Start date •
  • Replies
    20 Replies •
  • Views 1,745 Views
Follow
Mudcat

Mudcat

yap
Since
Jan 27, 2010
Messages
32,603
Score
436
Tokens
0
I am a big Coen brothers enthusiast. I have reviewed 3 of their films in the last couple weeks. Thoroughly enjoyed them all. Even Intolerable Cruelty which, fair to say, is considered one of their weaker works, had me completely entertained start to finish. I give it a 7 out of 10.

Burn After Reading - love it. 8 out of 10

The Man Who Wasn't There - love it. 8 out of 10. I had forgotten how good that was.



I don't give out a lot of 8's. That's the recent viewing but I see more 8's in my ratings history. Fargo, Lebowski.

No Country For Old Men I have at 9.

To my discredit, I haven't seen True Grit yet.



I look down their filmography and there is a whole lotta good stuff for Mudcat in there.


Coenfographic_Muller-blogfull.jpg
 
I rewatched Fargo in HD this weekend. 8.7 Matty Rains. Great fokken flick.

Love how they pay so much attention to the local scenery & linguistic oddities in all their movies.

True Grit (8.3 Matty Rains) is probably their most conventional movie. Straight-up Western. I usually don't care for Westerns, but that was good. The little girl is awesome, Jeff Bridges is awesome and Matt Damon doesn't look like Matt Damon.

Ok you do you spend a lot of time looking at him, going "hey, that's Matt Damon".

 
The Man Who Wasn't There is amazing. I am usually very plot-and-acting oriented in my movie watching. I am not an artsy critic type who raves about cinematography and whatnot. I seldom worry whether I watch a movie on a big screen or DVD. I am not thinking much about the scenery.

But the photography of that movie was incredible. It couldn't be ignored.

And the music! It had those beautiful haunting piano sonatas all through it. It was so perfect at capturing a mood.
 
My bro lent me his Euro copy of The Man Who Wasn't There a buncha years ago. It had an alternate DVD with a full-color version of the movie.

I need to rewatch that soon, it's not fresh enough in my mind for an official rating. It's definitely an 8-something. Below Fargo, O Brother and No Country, but prolly not far.
 
I can't imagine it in color. Just can't imagine that at all. Doesn't sound right.



I love most of those movies though and would watch them again and again. Love Hudsucker.

I at least like everything else. I guess the weak link would be The Ladykillers. I only saw that once right when it came out which was awhile ago. I need to check that again. I wasn't expecting to like Intolerable Cruelty as much as I did and maybe Ladykillers would be the same.



I love Miller's Crossing. There are a catalog of great quotes from that movie.




Johnny Caspar: You think that I'm some guinea, fresh off the boat, and you can kick me! But I'm too big for that now. I'm sick a' takin the scrap from you, Leo. I'm sick a' marching into this goddamn office to kiss your Irish ass. And I'M SICK A' THE HIGH HAT!


:littleboy:
 
Eddie Dane: How'd you get the fat lip?
Tom Reagan: Old war wound. Acts up around morons.



Eddie Dane: You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't.



Tom Reagan: Rug Daniels is dead.
Verna: Gee, that's tough.
Tom Reagan: Don't get hysterical.



Leo O'Bannion: You hear about Rug?
Tom Reagan: Yeah, RIP.
Leo O'Bannion: They took his hair, Tommy. Jesus, that's strange, why would they do that?
Tom Reagan: Maybe it was injuns.



Tom Reagan: If I'd known we were gonna cast our feelings into words, I'd've memorized the Song of Solomon.



Verna: I thought you said you didn't care about Leo no more.
Tom Reagan: I said we're through. That's not the same thing.


Tom Reagan: You don't hold elected office in this town. You run it because people think you do. They stop thinking it you stop running it.




Johnny Caspar: What is this, the high hat?



:littleboy:
 
durito
lebowski should be 10
Click to expand...

:yes:

My favs are
1. Big Lebowski
2. Burn after Reading
3. tie between A Serious Man, Fargo, Millers Crossing.

And those five \ probably would all be in my top 20 all time.

The Man Who Wasn't There went on too long. After initial promise turned into a very mediocre film imo. Don't care for Raising Arizona either. Need to re watch some of the other ones.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.