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Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 4:56 am
by Mickey
durdencommatyler wrote:Hail Caesar!

Fun. But a minor Corn film.
Haven't seen this one, but it's on Netflix now so I probably will soon. Rank the Coen films?

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 12:16 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:15 pm
by VinylGuy
Mickey wrote:Haywire
looooved it. I have to watch it again.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:15 pm
by VinylGuy
Mickey wrote:Haywire
looooved it. I have to watch it again.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:23 pm
by epilogue
Mickey wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Hail Caesar!

Fun. But a minor Corn film.
Haven't seen this one, but it's on Netflix now so I probably will soon. Rank the Coen films?
Masterpieces
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Fargo
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Raising Arizona
No Country For Old Men

Great
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
True Grit
The Man Who Wasn't There

Good
The Lady Killers
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Big Lebowski
Miller's Crossing

Decent
Hail Caesar!
Blood Simple
Intolerable Cruelty

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:25 pm
by VinylGuy
Watching The Big Lebowski so low in your list....makes me wonder who hurt you as a kid.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:26 pm
by Jorge
I loved Hail Caesar(!).

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:27 pm
by Jorge
I think Llewyn Davis is my least-favorite Coens film by some distance

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 2:40 pm
by Anders
Miller’s Crossing —-> The Big Lebowski

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 3:00 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 3:44 pm
by lennytheweedwhacker
they’re all perfect

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 3:51 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 4:25 pm
by Mickey
tragabigzanda wrote:I've had this on my coffee table, from the library, since right before the pandemic broke out.

Image
Cool picture man.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 4:27 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 4:39 pm
by Mickey
Lol it wasn't loading for me. It does look good. Remember libraries?

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 4:40 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 5:34 pm
by Biff Pocoroba
Finally watched Good Boys. It was okay for what it was worth; most of the best jokes were in the trailers though.
Jacob Tremblay does an especially great job with standard material; he's an outstanding kid actor.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 5:43 pm
by epilogue
VinylGuy wrote:Watching The Big Lebowski so low in your list....makes me wonder who hurt you as a kid.
:lol:

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 5:44 pm
by epilogue
theplatypus wrote:I loved Hail Caesar(!).
It's a charming film. Very funny. A wonderful little tribute to old Hollywood. There's a lot to like about it, for sure.

Re: What movies are you watching?

Posted: Thu April 23, 2020 5:47 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Mickey wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:Hail Caesar!

Fun. But a minor Corn film.
Haven't seen this one, but it's on Netflix now so I probably will soon. Rank the Coen films?
Masterpieces
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Inside Llewyn Davis
Fargo
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Raising Arizona
No Country For Old Men

Great
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
True Grit
The Man Who Wasn't There

Good
The Lady Killers
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Big Lebowski
Miller's Crossing

Decent
Hail Caesar!
Blood Simple
Intolerable Cruelty
Joe, I urge you to watch the HD remaster of Blood Simple and reconsider this
I do need to revisit Blood Simple. It's been far too long. My memory of it though is that it emphasizes some aspects of the CB's work that doesn't resonate as strongly with me and doesn't have enough of the stuff that I do love about their work. It felt like a sketch that was fleshed out later (and better) in subsequent work. Seeing after I'd seen a good many of their other films didn't help either. It made it feel repetitive and lesser even though it was the first and probably more groundbreaking outside of the context of what came later.