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     Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1113 Registered: 05-2005 |
1 Fargo - Pure genius. Not a bum note anywhere. The key line for me is when Frances MacDormand's character turns to her husband in bed and says "You know what Normie?, we're doin' alright". The cinematography, particularly the use of snowm is magisterial. 2 Raising Arizona - Just so funny. The film I've watched most often after Spinal Tap and The Breakfast Club. 3 Miller's Crossing - I didn't get it first time. Second time I thought it was brilliant. Dark and hilarious. 4 O Brother, Where Art Thou? - I know some people don't rate it so highly but I love it. The all singing, all dancing klan rally is one of the funniest movie scenes I've ever seen. 5 Barton Fink - So dark and deep. I have not seen it in a very long time. Must get the DVD. 6 Blood Simple - A brilliant debut. Some great lines. 7 The Big Lebowski - I'm in the minority in thinking it's overrated, but I have liked it more on repeated viewings. 8 The Ladykillers - I liked it. A nice, gentle comedy, not pretending to be anything other than that. 9 The Man Who Wasn't There - Can't really judge it as I fell asleep in the cinema (tiredness, not boredom) while watching it and have not seen it since! Must get it out. 10 Intolerable Cruelty - intolerable rubbish. 11 The Hudsucker Proxy - would have been a shark jumper had they not come back with Fargo. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1335 Registered: 05-2005 |
7 1 4 6 11 5 couldnt be bothered watching the rest because they had lost their mojo by that time | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1426 Registered: 03-2006 |
I love 'em all, am a bit of a Coen bros. fanatic and completist. I think their absolute best really is Fargo, but the one I probably have the most affection for is Big Lebowski, which, conservatively estimating I've probably seen 8 times... "O Brother" was really delightful, too, and had a brilliant soundtrack. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 466 Registered: 10-2004 |
1. Big Lebowski (I never get sick of this. In fact, I just watched it for the umpteenth time the other night) 2. Raising Arizona 3. Blood Simple 4. Barton Fink 5. Fargo 6. Man Who Wasn't There 7. Miller's Crossing And I've never seen O Brother, Ladykillers, Intolerable, or Hudsucker. | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 396 Registered: 01-2005 |
1. Miller's Crossing - So many layers to it. The plot may be lifted fron Hammett's "Red Harvest" and "The Glass Key", but that's not a bad thing in my book. And if you don't like it, "Take your flunky and dangle"! 2. Fargo - A movie that you have to watch during a cold winter night. Not a summer movie. 3. The Big Lebowski - The dude abides. 4. O Brother, Where Art Thou? 5. Barton Fink - Tom Reagan, Gabriel Byrne's character from Miller's Crossing, lived at the Barton Arms. Inside joke from the Coens for the movie following MC, which was of course Barton Fink. Tom ratted out a few characters, hence the fink from Barton Arms. 6. Blood Simple 7. Raising Arizona - Could rank higher, but I haven't seen it a long while. 8.The Man Who Wasn't There - Had Scarlett been prancing around in pink panties, it could have rated higher. 9. Intolerable Cruelty - Terrible Ladykillers, Hudsucker need to be viewed yet. | ||
| andreas Member Username: Andreas Post Number: 421 Registered: 04-2006 |
1. fargo 2. miller's crossing 3. the man who wasn't there 4. o brother, where art thou? 5. bood simple 6. barton fink 7. the big lebowski | ||
| Jerry Clark Member Username: Jerry Post Number: 545 Registered: 08-2004 |
Fargo Miller's Crossing Barton Fink Raising Arizona The Big Lebowski Haven't seen any others. I'm old school. | ||
| kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 1337 Registered: 05-2005 |
Looks like most of us think they Jumped The Shark a good few movies ago. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 279 Registered: 08-2006 |
I'm with Michael. Miller's Crossing, numero uno. I love Fargo, Barton Fink and Raising Arizona, but as a writer I marvel at the inventiveness of the language in MC. I've watched it so many times I'll probably be one of the first people ever to find out if DVDs can wear out. | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 1152 Registered: 04-2005 |
I won't rate 'em all, but "Fargo" is #1 for me. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 1115 Registered: 05-2005 |
Michael, I agree with you that Fargo is a winter movie, but I last watched it one afternoon after Christmas 2005, ie in the height of the Australian summer. And thought it was steaming hot outside I felt a cold chill everytime I saw the snow in Fargo! | ||
| Michael Bachman Member Username: Michael_bachman Post Number: 401 Registered: 01-2005 |
Padraig, that shows you how effective the Coens were in enveloping the viewer into the movie setting if you felt the chill during a steaming Australian summer. The German U-Boat movie, Das Boot, it never fails to transform me into a crewman inside that cramped, smelly, moldy boat. The Original Uncut 293 minute version is the best war movie ever in my book. Of course, you have to listen to it in German with the English subtitles. | ||
| Little Keith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 1433 Registered: 03-2006 |
The humor in even the bleakest of Coen films is hard to beat. Fargo, for example. One scene and line that always crack me up is when Buscemi is having sex with a prostitute and that Indian bursts in to the room, looking to inflict mayhem upon his person. Buscemi's character's immortal line: "Hey man, I'm bangin' a chick here...". The lame-itude and clueless need to state the obvious tickle me senseless... And, it's complete slapstick, but the scene in Big Lebowski, where the Malibu police chief beans the Dude with the coffee cup is another perennial. I have seen all of them, though those two kind of eclipse all the rest. I actually own all of them, and honestly, enjoyed each and every one of them. "Hudsucker", probably sucks hind tit on my list - it just didn't work. "Intolerable Cruelty" was not a great flick by any means, but it had its moments, and the megawatt star power of the two leads carried it off, for me, particularly Catherine Zeta, who was so unbelievably luscious in it - she was like a human version of Jessica Rabbit. |