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That movie wasn't good at all. :/

It's weird and confusing, but it's one of the best films I have seen all year.

Best film I have seen in years.

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

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oggiss wrote:That movie wasn't good at all. :/

RONG.

The movie is always better than the book!!!

GabonX wrote:The movie is always better than the book!!!

Not always. Did you read Forrest Gump?

ignotus wrote:

GabonX wrote:The movie is always better than the book!!!

Not always. Did you read Forrest Gump?

Or Die Hard?

Dancing Mustard wrote:

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

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I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.

i saw it yesterday. enjoyed it but, but i do not think it deserved to be nominated for an academy award

I certainly thought it was miles ahead of the Daniel-Gay Lewis. "There Will Be blood". Pfff. There hardly was any! What the fook was the about? I demand my £5 and 3 hours of my life back.

Napoleon Ier wrote:

Dancing Mustard wrote:

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

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I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.

i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.

First of all, I called No Country as the best picture as I walked out of the the theater when I saw it.

It is a very fine movie, it was well plotted and acted. it deserved every Oscar that it earned.

it is not they type of movie that you buy a big bag a popcorn and bring a date too... it is the type of movie that tells a good story and tells it well.

And to the poster that made the comment about Daniel "Gay" Lewis... his performance in that movie was amazing. The way that he was able to act the greedy and lonely Oil Man was simply phenomenal. "blood" was not the best picture of the year, however it did deserve to be nominated. DDL did such an amazing job in that movie, that I had to stay in the theater until the curtains fell to compose my self again. The final scene in that movie is one of the greatest scenes in all of cinema.

heavycola wrote:

Napoleon Ier wrote:

Dancing Mustard wrote:

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

Mega-Word

I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.

i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.

You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?

Napoleon Ier wrote:

heavycola wrote:

Napoleon Ier wrote:

Dancing Mustard wrote:

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

Mega-Word

I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.

i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.

You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?

I'm fairly certain I've seen every Coen Brothers movie, and they're all excellent. They've been completely unappreciated until recently.

See all their movies. Now.

InkL0sed wrote:
See all their movies. Now.

will do!

Great movie, IMHO. Nothing like it out there.

yeah, Coens' films are the best in the business.

i've met Randall Tex Cobb in real life. you'll see him in Raising Arizona. he was in an Ernest movie too, i think. the one where he goes to jail. Cobb was a boxer from philadelphia. still lives here. cool guy. he and i played chess in the park a few times.

Hudsucker Proxy is prolly one of the best comedies ever made. and Barton Fink was written when they were having writer's block working on Miller's Crossing.

see all of it.

skip Ladykillers. see the original with Alec Guinness. that was brilliant.

nmhunate wrote:First of all, I called No Country as the best picture as I walked out of the the theater when I saw it.

same... the ending was absolutely brilliant. those who wanted a typical hollywood ending were sorely disappointed.

It was pretty good. Better than I expected.

Daniel Day Lewis was very sexy in it. And in general.

Napoleon Ier wrote:

heavycola wrote:

Napoleon Ier wrote:

Dancing Mustard wrote:

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

Mega-Word

I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.

i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.

You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?

Miller's Crossing is one of my favourite coen bros movies. I remember reading one of the bros saying the idea all stemmed from a single image - a grey fedora blowing around in a wood. Irish gangstres: Gabriel Byrne, Albert FINNEY, the femme fatale, some of the snappiest dialogue they ever wrote.
I never watched the Ladykillers. It came just after Intolerable Cruelty, which was good fun but way beneath them. And i heard Ladykillers was even worse - and as someone pointed out, a pointless remake. It has Tom McBland Hanks in it for a start...

heavycola wrote:

Napoleon Ier wrote:

heavycola wrote:

Napoleon Ier wrote:

Dancing Mustard wrote:

heavycola wrote:Best film I have seen in years.

Mega-Word

I have to say, and despite admiring the Coen brothers, I thought it wasn't quite in the league of Fargo, Lebowski, or O Borther Where Art Thou. They did stick too closely to the plot in the book which resulted in a feeling of incompleteness and stagnation towards the end. I thought.

i would swap Miller's Crossing for OBWAT in that sentence. The latter was pretty, and funny, but it was ultimately lightweight.
The ending of NCFOM made the film, IMHO. It is a departure from a standard narrative structure rather than an incomplete standard narrative. It is a bleak, nasty headfuck of an ending that had me lost in thought for a good while after I left the cinema.

You know, shamefully, I've not seen Miller's Crossing. How good is that?

Also, what did you think of the Ladykillers?

Miller's Crossing is one of my favourite coen bros movies. I remember reading one of the bros saying the idea all stemmed from a single image - a grey fedora blowing around in a wood. Irish gangstres: Gabriel Byrne, Albert FINNEY, the femme fatale, some of the snappiest dialogue they ever wrote.
I never watched the Ladykillers. It came just after Intolerable Cruelty, which was good fun but way beneath them. And i heard Ladykillers was even worse - and as someone pointed out, a pointless remake. It has Tom McBland Hanks in it for a start...

It really wasn't classic Coen, no. Still, it had some nice dialogue and a Southern Gothic thing going on. As you put it, a bit of fun but way beneath them.