Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[LoathedVermin72]

Team Lenny

[lennytheweedwhacker]

a serious man may be one of my favorite coens' works now

Wow, why is that? I'd say they are my favorite directors, and A Serious Man is easily my least favorite of their films. My assumption is that a lot of Jewish humor is going right over my head. What is it that you like so much about this movie?

i'm sure some of the jewish humor went over my head too, but it did not permeate the whole film and wasn't a distraction at all

i guess i just really enjoy their approach as to how we try to understand why things happen to us and how we respond to them - albeit in their own bleak, almost sarcastic way

they've had a lot of great performances, and stuhlbarg's is right up there with the best

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

a serious man may be one of my favorite coens' works now

Wow, why is that? I'd say they are my favorite directors, and A Serious Man is easily my least favorite of their films. My assumption is that a lot of Jewish humor is going right over my head. What is it that you like so much about this movie?

i'm sure some of the jewish humor went over my head too, but it did not permeate the whole film and wasn't a distraction at all

i guess i just really enjoy their approach as to how we try to understand why things happen to us and how we respond to them - albeit in their own bleak, almost sarcastic way

they've had a lot of great performances, and stuhlbarg's is right up there with the best

The performances are definitely great. I just felt like there were whole swaths of dialogue that were boring, which isn't something I can say about any other Coen Bros. film; and I think that boredom is more a reflection on my own background, rather than the story they were telling.

have you just seen it once? i liked it on first viewing, but the second is when i really appreciated it

also, rank the coens' filmz

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[LoathedVermin72]

Yeah, I didn't get it on the first viewing either. Seems to happen to me a lot with Coen movies.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

though it's been a long time ago, i've only seen barton fink twice and i'm still not sure i get it

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i'm going to be so depressed when the coen's die and or stop making films

[BurtReynolds]

Heh looking at that list, they were in a real slump there for awhile (imo). I didn't like that Lady Killers phase at all.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[LoathedVermin72]

Kinda surprised Burt isn't a fan of Ladykillers

[BurtReynolds]

Heh looking at that list, they were in a real slump there for awhile (imo). I didn't like that Lady Killers phase at all.

Oh man, Tom Cruise and JK Simmons are both so excellent in that movie. Hanks in particular turns in one of the most criminally underappreciated performances I can think of.

It's all ruined by that Wayans brother shitting on everything.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

the ladykillers is by far my least favorite...i don't dislike it, but it's easily their worst to me

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i like intolerable cruelty a lot more than most die hard coen's fans

[BurtReynolds]

Kinda surprised Burt isn't a fan of Ladykillers

I was really looking forward to it when it came out, too.

[LoathedVermin72]

i like intolerable cruelty a lot more than most die hard coen's fans

I'm a big fan of IC. Underrated.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i like intolerable cruelty a lot more than most die hard coen's fans

I'm a big fan of IC. Underrated.

i love you so much