WOW WOW OMG WTF BBQ new Coen brothers movie trailer

[JuntMonkey]

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[NT!]

pj, it's ok if you don't think lebowski is the best coen bros movie... there are times when i prefer raising arizona or o brother or fargo myself. but ranking it below such obvious fluff as intolerable cruelty - which i liked, but didn't find all that memorable? or behind the ladykillers, which i actually thought really sucked and was boring? i mean wtf. lebowski is a great movie even if you resent all the hammy cultural crap and sloganeering that it spawned.

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Lebowski at #11? You're leveling us, right?

If not, watch it again. Seriously.

[nath]

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EDIT: p.s. plz make sure you don't have the contagious strain of ghey hipster, i don't want to wake up in ballhugging jeans listening to bloc party or something tomorrow

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I actually haven't seen enough of their dramas, and I kind of feel like the Big Lebowski is a little overrated, but it's still great

I remember really liking Fargo, but I did see it at a pretty formative movie-going age for me, so that might be part of it. I also completely [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] The Hudsucker Proxy.

[bluef0x]

Ladykillers is one of the worst movies ever, and you rate it above Lebowski? WTF?

I laughed ONCE during Ladykillers. It was with 15 minutes to go when I realized I wouldn't laugh at the movie, that notion had me cracking up.

[kagame]

#6 for omgwtfbbq...



a very long acronym, often defined as:

"Oh, by the name of God Himself! What in the righteous Lord is over there, Rigel? It seems to be a delightful friendly gathering in which one person cooks elongated processed meat over a grill and then dishes it out to everyone where they put it into a wrap of break and smear condiments on top of their delectable meat! Joy!"

YES!

[Dominic]

Raising Arizona
Blood Simple
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski
The Man Who Wasn't There
Barton Fink
The Hudsucker Proxy
Intolerable Cruelty

Didn't see Ladykillers

[Stagger_Lee]

Tommy Lee Jones - for [censored] sake.

[Stagger_Lee]

Fargo
Daylight
O Brother Where Art Thou?
The Big Lebowski

[private joker]

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pj,

That's just, like, your opinion, man.

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I see what you did here.

NT -- I know it won't change your mind about IC, but here's a review I wrote that at least justifies why I think it is such a great movie (and I've seen it 4 times now):

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If it had just been the funniest movie of the year (and it is), I wouldn’t like it this much. And if it had just been an expertly crafted statement on romance, equality, battle, cynicism, and institution, I wouldn’t like it this much. But it happens to be both of these things as well as containing the added intangible element that makes most Coen brothers films so remarkable: a grace and musicality that's immediately recognizable and distinctly unique.



While their best films remain their heaviest – in my opinion, Miller’s Crossing, Fargo, and The Man Who Wasn’t There – the Coens’ lightweight comedies show off a certain dexterity of dialogue that literally no one else in the industry can match. Their banter goes beyond the mimicry of classic Hollywood rom-coms of the ‘40s and elevates into a type of dance; the motif of repeated refrains and increasingly complicated one-line choruses, introduced in The Hudsucker Proxy and honed to near-perfection here, has an effect not unlike lyrics in a musical. And what better tone to set for such a wicked, sprightly comedy?



Another aspect present in all Coen films, dramatic and comic (and the ones in between), is their precise attention to miniscule visual details, an almost Kubrickian devotion to every spot in the frame. It takes a DP as strict as Roger Deakins to light and color the frame with such acuity, but it takes a creative mind as innovative as Joel Coen’s to add flourishes like the one in the greasy-spoon diner: Cedric the Entertainer (the first time this guy has made me laugh, his Spike Lee concert film notwithstanding) says firmly to his employers, “I see an ass, and I nail it!” while right behind him, the most perfectly sweet ass of a hot black chick walks right behind him, and he misses it. Coen even directs the extra to scratch one of her butt cheeks to draw our attention to the lovely derriere, but the absolute ignorance of the characters on screen is a great example of the visual ironies present in the best Coen gags.



Equally impressive is the performance given by George Clooney in the lead role, expertly tailored to his marquee hunk persona. He goes the extra mile, ridding himself of the quirks and forced wackiness of his O Brother, Where Art Thou? turn and bringing a confidence that melds spectacular physical comic timing (his race to the elevator in Vegas, his walk through the ballroom during the satirical “slow clap” at Caesar’s) with smooth, subtle facial suggestion (an imperceptible left-eye wink in the courtroom, a sly double take at a dinner date). Between this and Solaris, Clooney is finally proving himself worthy of the A-list accolades he unjustly received from such mediocrities as Ocean’s 11 and The Perfect Storm.



Yet what remains in the afterglow of this delightful flick is how bold its voice is, and how sharp its artistic focus is in light of the producer credit of one Brian Grazer (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13). Where lesser artists might have sold out to Grazer’s mainstream demands, the Coens have brought Grazer to them – presenting the audience with the sheen of a mainstream romantic comedy starring two gorgeous Hollywood icons (Zeta-Jones deserves some praise for her low-key work as the feminine calm amidst massive male chaos) along with the underlying brutality of their most aggressively independent work and its refusal to succumb to the softening edges of its peers. That they were able to throw on top of all this a genuinely effective love story that complicates the film’s own cynicism is icing on a multi-layered cake and proof that it will take more than a big budget, a plot hole or two, and a greedy, artless producer to tame two of the finest filmmakers of the past 15 years.

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