Hail, Caesar! ... next up from the Coens (1 Viewer)

[prosopis]

This looks like absolute garbage. Other than a big cast what am I missing here?

The actual movie. Almost anybody can make a quality trailer, but the Coen Brothers consistently make great movies. I'm in.

I agree with both of you. Movie does look horrible but I will go due to the Coen brothers track record.

After reading the reviews in here I may have changed my mind. I think I will wait for the DVD

 

[Insein]

So consensus meh on this?

 

[The_Man]

Not great. But it did feature Highlander and the Kragen. That can't be a coincidence, right? I feel like there has to be a reason both those guys were in the movie 

 

[lombardi]

Movie was just sooooooo boring.   Cast was great, looked good, but it was completely and utterly dull.  I think it was one of those inside baseball movies that a lot of director's make at some point in their career. Movie history buffs like it, critics like it, young actors don't understand it but pretend to like it.  The viewing public just goes to sleep through it because they wanted to be engaged or entertained and not slipped a quick Hollywood history lesson wrapped in a few jokes.

I hate movies about Hollywood, they're almost always so self-indulgent. This one was no exception.

I was really disappointed.  oh Brother is one of the best comedies ever made and the previews made this look like it was going to have that same vibe.  Coens have made some of my favorite movies ever (Miller's Crossing, No Country, Oh Brother) but their last couple have really sucked.  Same problem with Llewn Davis, preview looked amazing, music was so good, everyone in it was good... movie was just boring.

 

[Rick James]

O' Brother is their best movie and I will fight anyone who disagrees.

 

[shader]

I enjoyed the movie.  Very interesting to see Hollywood in that day and age.  A different world.

But it wasn't all that funny.  A few funny parts, but no way this becomes a classic Coen brothers film or ever rivals O Brother Where Art Thou

 

[fatguyinalittlecoat]

O' Brother is their best movie and I will fight anyone who disagrees.

I'm a lover, not a fighter.  O Brother is great but Raising Arizona is among the greatest achievements in the history of civilization.

 

[Insein]

Movie was just sooooooo boring.   Cast was great, looked good, but it was completely and utterly dull.  I think it was one of those inside baseball movies that a lot of director's make at some point in their career. Movie history buffs like it, critics like it, young actors don't understand it but pretend to like it.  The viewing public just goes to sleep through it because they wanted to be engaged or entertained and not slipped a quick Hollywood history lesson wrapped in a few jokes.

I hate movies about Hollywood, they're almost always so self-indulgent. This one was no exception.

I was really disappointed.  oh Brother is one of the best comedies ever made and the previews made this look like it was going to have that same vibe.  Coens have made some of my favorite movies ever (Miller's Crossing, No Country, Oh Brother) but their last couple have really sucked.  Same problem with Llewn Davis, preview looked amazing, music was so good, everyone in it was good... movie was just boring.

Yea the trailer was way different. Jonah Hill in the trailer longer than his part in the movie. Like what was the point of that?

 

[The_Man]

As far as dance numbers go, the Channing Tatum number was flawlessly executed, though I was also like, "Why did they decide to feature the gayest dance number in the history of cinema, featuring Channing Tatum, into the middle of this movie?"

The submarine sequence at the end was so twee that I felt I had stumbled into a Wes Anderson movie.

Brolin was great. The rest of it, I didn't really get. It felt like a two-hour set-up for a movie that never arrived.

 

[Chaka]

O' Brother is their best movie and I will fight anyone who disagrees.

I disagree with both statements.

 

[Chaka]

I love so much of their work but it really feels like they have simply lost their mojo.

With the notable exception of No Country (and to a significantly lesser degree, True Grit) it has been pretty much a whole lot of meh since O' Brother.

 

[Rick James]

I think people expect a Fargo or No Country every time the Coens release a movie. A violent, funny, dark comedy. But they like to switch it up. I really like Inside Llewyn Davis.

 

[Chaka]

I think people expect a Fargo or No Country every time the Coens release a movie. A violent, funny, dark comedy. But they like to switch it up. I really like Inside Llewyn Davis.

Not at all.  Llewyn Davis wasn't meh because it was kinda different for them, it was meh because it was meh.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I think people expect a Fargo or No Country every time the Coens release a movie. A violent, funny, dark comedy. But they like to switch it up. I really like Inside Llewyn Davis.

No Country was a dark comedy?

 

[KarmaPolice]

There are a few of their films that I didn't really enjoy...Barton Fink, A Serious Man, Inside L. Davis...

But the only ones I would consider "wildly overrated" are Oh, Brother Where Art Thou and Big Lebowski.

I have a similar reaction to Coen comedies that I do to a Wes Anderson movie.  Good to look at, but just don't get the appeal at all.  I love their dramas though. 

 

[Insein]

No Country was a dark comedy?

Chigur was hilarious with his dead pan delivery.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I have a similar reaction to Coen comedies that I do to a Wes Anderson movie.  Good to look at, but just don't get the appeal at all.  I love their dramas though. 

I'd rather have a kidney stone the size of a walnut than watch another Wes Anderson movie.

 

[lombardi]

Chigur was hilarious with his dead pan delivery.

Is it any business of yours where I'm from?  Friendo

 

[lombardi]

 

[Insein]

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