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I have the ones I haven't seen on my Netflix que.
Well, I'm a huge Coen Brothers fan, but not so huge as to go see Ladykillers or Irreconcilable Differnences (which I know some people liked).
I guess they've got mortgage payments to make.
My favorites are: Barton Fink, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, O Brother.
Didn't enjoy: The Man Who Wasn't There (it still had a few good scenes)
Not great but sort of fascinating: Hudsucker Proxy
Excellent but atypical: Blood Simple
Irreconcilable Differnences
Do you mean Intolerable Cruelty? (Which I thought wasn't bad, but didn't have much particularly Coen-y about it. It was pretty bland.)
Excellent but atypical: Blood Simple
I've found there's an interesting subset of Coen Bros. fans who will insist until their dying day that Blood Simple is the Coens' best.
Do you mean Intolerable Cruelty? (Which I thought wasn't bad, but didn't have much particularly Coen-y about it. It was pretty bland.)
That's it. See? I didn't even care enough to remember the title.
If for nothing else, Blood Simple must be rented so that one may listen to the hysterical commentary track.
I've found there's an interesting subset of Coen Bros. fans who will insist until their dying day that Blood Simple is the Coens' best.
That is interesting. They're wrong, but that's interesting.
or Irreconcilable Differnences
I think you mean Intolerable Cruely. Huh, I think you might even like it, Hec. What about it made you not want to see it?
The ones I have seen: Ladykillers, Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski (I am the only person in the world that is "Eh" on Lebowski), O Brother, Intolerable Cruelty
Ones I haven't seen: The Man Who Wasn't There, Hudsucker Proxy, Blood Simple, Fargo
And for some reason, I always think A Simple Plan is Coen Bros.
Do you mean Intolerable Cruelty? (Which I thought wasn't bad, but didn't have much particularly Coen-y about it. It was pretty bland.)
What Jessica said. Zeta-Jones and Clooney are both perfectly fine, and there are a few clever lines, but the film didn't especially stick with me.
I liked Fargo, a lot, and thought OBWAT and Big Lebowski were pretty good but not as great as people told me they were. Hated Hudsucker Proxy. Liked The Man Who Wasn't There, but fell asleep 2/3 of the way through, which I'm guessing means I didn't like it *that* much. Haven't seen any of their other movies. (I think. I always get Barton Fink mixed up with Glengarry Glen Ross, and I've seen whichever one had Alec Baldwin in it.)
I had to turn off Hudsucker Proxy after about 15 minutes. It was just annoying me too much.