The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread

[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.

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what's the arm consensus toward their A Serious Man and Burn After Reading

I enjoyed them both quite a bit but rolled my eyes at the end of Burn and prolly never want to watch a serial man agagin

[VinylGuy]

A long time ago I would have been so stoked for that...these days I don't even care about all that Netflix content. Im also really tired of the Coens, I'm not sure why because I haven't even seen their last two or three movies.

You saw True Grit though, right? Because that's an A+ movie.
Inside Llewyn Davis was very well made, I just didn't care for the story very much. I'd give it a C relative to the rest of their filmography. And Hail Caesar, while it had its funny moments, is bottom-of-the-barrel Coens.

Yeah True Grit was a good remake but thats the last thing I saw from them that I was kinda interested.

[McParadigm]

I barely remember burn after reading

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We watched True Grit and it was very well done, really liked it. I have ILD in my queue for when I can trick/convince everyone to watch it. I saw HC on the airplane coming back from Europe and liked it well enough.

[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]

A long time ago I would have been so stoked for that...these days I don't even care about all that Netflix content. Im also really tired of the Coens, I'm not sure why because I haven't even seen their last two or three movies.

You saw True Grit though, right? Because that's an A+ movie.
Inside Llewyn Davis was very well made, I just didn't care for the story very much. I'd give it a C relative to the rest of their filmography. And Hail Caesar, while it had its funny moments, is bottom-of-the-barrel Coens.

True Grit might be their single worst movie.

I’m really curious to revisit Davis and Caesar. I haven’t really been able to get the latter out of my mind since I saw it. I think there’s something there.

[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]

I absolutely fucking love A Serious Man and Burn After Reading. The ending of BAR is so important! It’s the key to the whole movie!

[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.

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I absolutely fucking love A Serious Man and Burn After Reading. The ending of BAR is so important! It’s the key to the whole movie!

cause, like.. it's a punchline saying none of it really matters who gives a shit or something?

[LoathedVermin72]

I absolutely fucking love A Serious Man and Burn After Reading. The ending of BAR is so important! It’s the key to the whole movie!

cause, like.. it's a punchline saying none of it really matters who gives a shit or something?

Yes. It’s classic Coen Bros existential absurdism. That has been their bread and butter their whole careers. And rarely has it been as bluntly, horrifyingly, hilariously, honestly tragic and ludicrous as that final moment, in which it is so beautifully made clear that none of us know what the fuck we’re doing.

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nice

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So you're saying there's a chance.

[LoathedVermin72]

So you're saying there's a chance.

Who cares at this point?

[VinylGuy]

Burn After Reading might be the last time I really enjoyed a movie from them.

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First trailer for the Coen's Netflix movie just dropped. Looks mostly great, Tim Blake Nelson and Stephen Root in particular, but I could do without James Franco, and the episodic nature (it's six mini-stories) could much things up a bit.

I thought they scrapped the series. I thought this was just a movie now.

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Inside Llewyn Davis is majestic.

[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.

[epilogue]

First trailer for the Coen's Netflix movie just dropped. Looks mostly great, Tim Blake Nelson and Stephen Root in particular, but I could do without James Franco, and the episodic nature (it's six mini-stories) could much things up a bit.

I thought they scrapped the series. I thought this was just a movie now.

it is, but it's an anthology film with six mini-stories

Ah. I don't see that as a hiccup for a Coen film, but I get what you're saying now.