Coen's Brothers - Rank 'em

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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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they’re all perfect
And they say that a hero could save us
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
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to clarify this thread is about ranking the brothers themselves - not their works
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:to clarify this thread is about ranking the brothers themselves - not their works
I know.
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mods?
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Calm down
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durdencommatyler wrote:Calm down
i can’t believe your placement of the ladykillers
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lennytheweedwhacker wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Calm down
i can’t believe your placement of the ladykillers
It is a little low, I know. I noticed that when I added Buster Scruggs.
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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.
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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
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A Serious Man
The Hudsucker Proxy
No Country For Old Men
Barton Fink
Miller's Crossing
AMAB
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