Total Recall: Welcome to Coen Brothers Country
Summary
Before expanding wide on November 21, No Country for Old Men (90 percent) will play in select cities this Friday riding a wave of huge expectations. The Cormac McCarthy-based thriller has made big splashes during festivals and it's touted as a major comeback for the Coen Brothers. What better time to look at the movies that have made the filmmaking siblings so popular? Back to Article
Before expanding wide on November 21, No Country for Old Men (90 percent) will play in select cities this Friday riding a wave of huge expectations. The Cormac McCarthy-based thriller has made big splashes during festivals and it's touted as a major comeback for the Coen Brothers. What better time to look at the movies that have made the filmmaking siblings so popular? Back to Article
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on Nov 07 2007 08:20 PM Boo. I am drunk and was hoping for Total Recall Ahnold style. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 07 2007 08:55 PM Amped for this movie! (Reply to this) |
on Nov 07 2007 08:56 PM I disagree with RT on The Hudsucker Proxy. That was definitely one of their weaker films. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 07 2007 09:21 PM When did The Big Lebowski fall to 74 percent?? What a travesty! I remember it was at 85 percent not too long ago. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 07 2007 09:25 PM In reply to this comment (#1261820) I don't remember The Big Lebowski being accepted as a great film when it first came out. I'm sort of surprised that it's rated that highly since I think a lot of people didn't get it at first. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 07 2007 10:19 PM In reply to this comment (#1261821) Absolutely correct, arendr. It was considered a big disappointment after "Fargo." And you are also correct, Absurdity. For this essay, we went back and read a lot of contemporary reviews, which resulted in a lower score. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 07 2007 11:30 PM RT-...a period office comedy-"CUM"-Christmas tale HAHAHAHAHA (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 08 2007 03:33 AM The Coens are pretty damn good filmmakers. I've seen quite a few of there films,and The Ladykillers and The big Laboswki are the only I didn't care for. NFOM will rock,though! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 08 2007 06:41 AM just watched blood simple last weekend for the first time. it's a haunting movie, made especially so by the chilling perfromance of M. Emmit Walsh as Visser the private eye. the score also sticks in your head, managing to steer almost completely clear of 80's synth territory. deffinately worth a viewing, but get ready for a scene that makes the woodchipper sequence in fargo look mild. can't wait to see no country tomorrow at my local arthouse. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 08 2007 08:31 AM Gotta say that The Big Lebowski still stands as one of my favorite films to date for its quirky Taoist protagonist and ridiculous plotline with a bounty of perfectly unique characters (Sam Elliot as the Stranger being a personal fave). If I had my way it would have a high 80 to mid-90, but then again that's just one man's humble opinion... But back to topic, can't wait for NCFOM! (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 08 2007 08:59 AM In reply to this comment (#1261888) It's pronounced "koom" and it's a preposition taken from latin. I bet you laugh if you read a turn of the century novel using the word "gay", don't you? Oh wait, you probably don't read much. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 08 2007 10:14 AM In reply to this comment (#1262354) are you kidding? that kid's a regular summa cum laude (Reply to this) |
on Nov 08 2007 10:22 AM I hate Latin. I liked the Ladykillers though. I think it was pretty underrated, but it isn't the type of film that'll ever get a cult following. Too bad. Tom Hanks should play Colonel Sanders one day when he gets old enough. Hell, I think he would have been funny as the Architect in the Matrix. (Reply to this) |
on Nov 08 2007 12:46 PM The Cohen Brothers are some of the most inventive, original filmakers today. Props for keeping it outside the hollywood mold. Can't wait for No Country. (Reply to this) |
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on Nov 10 2007 10:45 AM I'm a little surprised that Inolerable Cruelty rated as high as it did. I thought both actors were miscast and that the movie wasn't quite sure what it wanted to be. (Reply to this) |
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on Jan 18 2008 02:00 AM You guys mis-identified the actor who plays the Big Lebowski. It was David Huddleston, fools. Charles Durning--no. (Reply to this) |
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