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.

[bart]

Look at this cool motherfucker, if anything she held out too long

[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.

[wease]

Did they make love or did they fuck?

[bart]

That’s from the end! After they made love.

[bart]

peak tweed

[BurtReynolds]

I'm never going to get an answer to my mystery.

[bart]

I also thought it was terrible

[Anders]

Not awful, but one of the lesser Coen movies. In the discussion for the bottom place. I love the Coens though.

[doug rr]

the resemblance is uncanny..

[Got Some]

The Menu on Disney!!!

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Not awful, but one of the lesser Coen movies. In the discussion for the bottom place. I love the Coens though.

I liked it a good bit better on rewatch, but yeah it's probably in my bottom 5.

[BurtReynolds]

It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.

They probably do, those sick b*stards. But I can't say I've ever felt punished in that regard, even with the films I'm not crazy about.

[BurtReynolds]

It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.

I can't say I've ever felt punished in that regard

Maybe you should.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.

I can't say I've ever felt punished in that regard

Maybe you should.

I can’t manufacture that feeling!

[Anders]

Her

First rewatch. Wasn’t too crazy about it the first time in 2015, but think I may have been the problem, not the movie. We’ll see.

A bit boring at times, but I did enjoy the movie more this time. It’s very beautifully shot.

[Anders]

The Grand Seduction

[Malloy]

It's interesting that The Coens have so many movies with such warm, interesting, endearing characters, but also a handful of movies with truly unpleasant people presented unpleasantly that are torture to watch. It's almost like they want to punish their audience.

my reading of the coens is that they're misanthropes, and that even the most endearing of their characters are in fact dupes of various stripes. not all, but most.

so there is a political valence to their stuff that is quote/unquote bad. i can suspend that shortcoming because they're very good writers and make good pictures.

to your original q. I find the pastiche in hail caesar to be lots of fun & as "authentic" as can be hoped for, in a movie like this. it's filled with great scenes. why? if I find them funny. and though I never found much use for his thinking, i liked seeing one of the more visible exponents of the frankfurt school in a hollywood movie. clooney has been a wonderful comic instrument for them and he is here, too, and this movie adds josh brolin to their character repertoire of capable idiots. no grand argument. just plays to my predictions and pretensions

[Anders]

The Grand Seduction

This seems to be just ok. Like a tv movie. Lightly entertaining. Comedy, but not funny. Some nice Canadian nature, actually reminds me of Norway.