What movies are you watching?

[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.

[tree_]

I've yet to see Miller's Crossing and Blood Simple. Need to see those soon I think.

Miller's Crossing is a bonafide masterpiece, but it's a bit impenetrable on the first viewing. The dialogue is fast, deep, and the accents are heavy. Consider watching with captions on!

I love Blood Simple. But it's kind of a minor Coens film, in that they improved on the core formula in their later works.

Would you consider either to be in their top 5?

[Anders]

Goldderby had Blood Simple in 4th, Miller’s Crossing in 9th. It’s highly subjective though.

https://www.goldderby.com/gallery/coen- ... old-men-2/

[Malloy]

I've yet to see Miller's Crossing and Blood Simple. Need to see those soon I think.

Miller's Crossing is a bonafide masterpiece, but it's a bit impenetrable on the first viewing. The dialogue is fast, deep, and the accents are heavy. Consider watching with captions on!

I love Blood Simple. But it's kind of a minor Coens film, in that they improved on the core formula in their later works.

big agree

[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.

[Anders]

1. Fargo
2. Barton Fink
3. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
4. No Country for Old Men
5. Miller’s Crossing
6. The Hudsucker Proxy
7. The Big Lebowski
8. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
9. The Man Who Wasn’t There
10. Inside Llewyn Davis
11. True Grit
12. Burn After Reading
13. Blood Simple
14. A Serious Man
15. Raising Arizona
16. Intolerable Cruelty
17. The Ladykillers
18. Hail, Caesar!

[BurtReynolds]

Finished all 3 john wick movies. What fun!

First one is the best as there seems to be a little more gravitas to the story, but all are super entertaining. Keanu Reeves is a treasure.

Theyre so beautifully shot and choreographed. Wild fun!

Never saw the first one, didn't like the second, but thought the third was a lot of fun.

[tree_]

Here's how I think I'd rank the movies I've seen (all but Miller's and Blood):

Can't Get Enough
Fargo
No Country For Old Men

Hilarious/Awe-Inspiring
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski
Burn After Reading

Gotta Be in Right Mood, but Great
O Brother, Where Are Thou?
Raising Arizona
A Serious Man
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Hail Caesar!
The Man Who Wasn't There

Can Do Without
The Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty
The Lady Killers

Don't Remember Well Enough To Rank (mixed initial impressions)
True Grit
Inside Llewyn Davis

[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.

[Anders]

Based on that, I think you will like both.

[Anders]

all this True Grit is bumming me out. That movie made me feel like a kid again!

I love John Wayne, and I think the original is better. If you do a remake, it should be better.

[tree_]

Yeah, I remember just being a little confused by True Grit. Wasn't sure what it was going for. Probably because I was expecting something similar to No Country. I would like to see it again soon though.

[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.

[Anders]

Have you guys forgotten about The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs?

[tree_]

Based on that, I think you will like both.

Have you guys forgotten about The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs?

holy fuck .. no i was just thinking about that but was going by trag's list... edited

[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.

[Farmer John]

I recently rewatched Buster Scruggs and I loved it even more the second time.

I haven't seen every Cohen Brothers movie, but I would rank it near the top. I love that movie so much.

[Anders]

all this True Grit is bumming me out. That movie made me feel like a kid again!

I love John Wayne, and I think the original is better. If you do a remake, it should be better.

I think they're very different movies with very different goals.

The movies are often frame to frame copies. But Bridges is far from his best, while Wayne won an oscar and a golden globe for best actor.

Of course the Coen’s have some more color and artsiness, but the humor disappointingly works less than in the original.

[tree_]

I haven't seen one John Wayne movie. Next to old musicals, old westerns may by my biggest cinematic blind spot, which is weird because I know I will probably love them. I loved Good Bad and Ugly.. just saw that for first time several months ago.

[Mickey]

I don't think this video proves what Anders thinks it proves. I agree with Trag, wildly different movies, and I much prefer the Coens. It's top-five for me too.