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I like that they always make George Clooney look odd. The whole teeth thing in IT was funny.
I think Clooney and the Coen Brothers is an even better combination than Clooney and Soderburgh.
Actually my favorite part of IT is Wheezy Joe getting his asthma inhaler and the gun mixed up.
Somebody accidentaly blowing their own brains out shouldn't be that damned funny.
I love Hudsucker Proxy, but I am a sucker for the kinds of films they were spoofing.
I should like Lebowski more than I actually do. I'm not sure why it didn't quite gel for me.
my favorite part of IT is Wheezy Joe
BWHAHAHAHAHA!
Sean, so very with you on the Wheezy Joe moment. I was wetting myself laughing. My favourite is definitely O Brother. The only ones I haven't seen are Blood Simple and The Ladykillers, though I do plan to get around to them eventually.
I laughed myself sick at that scene.
Too damned funny.
Fargo and A Simple Plan have some similarities. Seemingly regular people getting corrupted by greed. Violence and all that snow. Easy enough for a mix-up.
I love Fargo and Big Lebowski, but I couldn't finish Barton Fink, despite the fact that I love Judy Davis. For some reason, I seem to have poor tolerance for overwrought display of writerly neuroses. Throughout the movie, I was just overwhelmed with an impluse to bitchslap the whiny-ass John Turturro character until Sunday. And despite liking the movie a lot better, I felt the same way about Nick Cage character in Adaptation. Don't know what this says about me.
Among the deleted scenes on the IT DVD is a collection of something like thirty or so takes of Clooney's dorky partner saying "Everybody loves berries," to him at the wedding.
It's very surreal. The words begin to lose all meaning.
Throughout the movie, I was just overwhelmed with an impluse to bitchslap the whiny-ass John Turturro character until Sunday. And despite liking the movie a lot better, I felt the same way about Nick Cage character in Adaptation. Don't know what this says about me.
Writers tend to make for main characters that engender a burning desire to bitch-slap the hell out of them. It's a thing.
Okay, wait, we have a rapture about the Coen brothers and nobody mentions Miller's Crossing?
Because it's my favorite hands-down (seconds are Lebowski and Raising Arizona ) and I would say probably their most complex. They cribbed the plot of it from a Dashiell Hammett novel, but made it their own with a particularly sour interpretation.
I heart Miller's Crossing very, very much.