Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
Coen's Brothers - Rank 'em
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they’re all perfect
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
Inside Llewyn Davis
No Country for Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou?
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Burn After Reading
The Ladykillers
The Man Who Wasn't There
True Grit
The Big Lebowski
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Intolerable Cruelty
Blood Simple
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
Inside Llewyn Davis
No Country for Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou?
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Burn After Reading
The Ladykillers
The Man Who Wasn't There
True Grit
The Big Lebowski
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Intolerable Cruelty
Blood Simple
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to clarify this thread is about ranking the brothers themselves - not their works
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I know.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:to clarify this thread is about ranking the brothers themselves - not their works
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mods?
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Calm down
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i can’t believe your placement of the ladykillersdurdencommatyler wrote:Calm down
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It is a little low, I know. I noticed that when I added Buster Scruggs.lennytheweedwhacker wrote:i can’t believe your placement of the ladykillersdurdencommatyler wrote:Calm down
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Right now, at this moment in time, my top 5 would be:
Fargo
Lebowski
Raising Arizona
No Country for Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Many I haven't seen still though.
Fargo
Lebowski
Raising Arizona
No Country for Old Men
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Many I haven't seen still though.
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Just realized Barton Fink=Barney Fife
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Revised:
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Inside Llewyn Davis
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona
True Grit
The Ladykillers
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
Hail, Caesar!
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Blood Simple
Intolerable Cruelty
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Inside Llewyn Davis
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
Raising Arizona
True Grit
The Ladykillers
Miller's Crossing
The Big Lebowski
Hail, Caesar!
The Man Who Wasn't There
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Blood Simple
Intolerable Cruelty
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A Serious Man
The Hudsucker Proxy
No Country For Old Men
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
The Hudsucker Proxy
No Country For Old Men
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
AMAB