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[TylerRoseFan]

Watchmen

Saw it again this weekend. The first time viewing, I hated it. It was late. I was tired. Few beers. Fell asleep. Then realized the cards were stacked against the movie. Watched it again. LOVED it. Loved the story. Loved the visuals. Loved the characters. Loved the dark hero story lines. So, now it's become one of those movies I watch every time I happen to flip to it while scanning channels. Not Shawshank, but getting there.

4/5

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

 

[D_House]

This is fun:

The Coen Brothers Movies Ranked from Best to Worst

The odd thing is the title is wrong. The title should have read "from worst to best."

Man, the Coens are incredible. Can't wait for True Grit.

 

[El Floppo]

When I think of Fargo, I can't get the picture of Frances McDormand standing in the snow and looking and talking stupid. Buscemi and Macy nail their roles, but it's probably my least favorite of the Coen's serious films to watch.

But that's the WHOLE idea. She looks and talks stupid, but she's far, far from being actually stupid. In fact it's quite the contrary as she correctly divines what actually happened. She shows that she's a really good cop.The only flaw she has is that she can't conceive that someone would lie to her. That's why the Mike Yanagita character is so important. She can't believe that he would lie to her about his wife dying. When she realizes that he lied to her, she also realizes that Jerry did too.

 

[hooter311]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"A Serious Man posed the question that if you stuck a live cat in a box full of poison and closed it, would you consider the cat dead or alive? I don't think the ending was abrupt, it was just equivilant to closing the box.

 

[El Floppo]

This is fun:

The Coen Brothers Movies Ranked from Best to Worst

The odd thing is the title is wrong. The title should have read "from worst to best."

Says "From Worst to First" for the original article title, but yeah...Miller's ridiculously low, No Country surprisingly low, and Barton Fink WTF too high.

Barton Fink is a beautiful movie, but ultimately unsatisfying. I'd rank it near the bottom along with The Man Who Wasn't There.And Fargo #1? No way. Really love that movie, but Miller's Crossing and No Country are the two best Coen movies.

Love Barton Fink. can someone post the list here, I can't view it, just curious.

14. 10 The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) 13. not worth ranking Intolerable Cruelty (2003)

12. 11 The Ladykillers (2004)

11. genuinely disliked this Burn After Reading (2008)

10. 4 Miller's Crossing (1990)

9. 1 Blood Simple (1984)

8. 6 A Serious Man (2009)

7. 5 No Country for Old Men (2007)

6. 12 The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

5. 8 The Big Lebowski (1998)

4. 7 O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000)

3. 2 Raising Arizona (1987)

2. 9 Barton Fink (1991)

1. 3 Fargo (1996)

My own rankings in red. IMO, 1-6 are all incredible and relatively interchangable- although I am extremely partial to the first two.

 

[El Floppo]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"A Serious Man posed the question that if you stuck a live cat in a box full of poison and closed it, would you consider the cat dead or alive? I don't think the ending was abrupt, it was just equivilant to closing the box.

I have no idea what that means. But I liked Magnolia a lot too.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"

That Mr. Fox movie was terrible too.

 

[hooter311]

When I think of Fargo, I can't get the picture of Frances McDormand standing in the snow and looking and talking stupid. Buscemi and Macy nail their roles, but it's probably my least favorite of the Coen's serious films to watch.

But that's the WHOLE idea. She looks and talks stupid, but she's far, far from being actually stupid. In fact it's quite the contrary as she correctly divines what actually happened. She shows that she's a really good cop.The only flaw she has is that she can't conceive that someone would lie to her. That's why the Mike Yanagita character is so important. She can't believe that he would lie to her about his wife dying. When she realizes that he lied to her, she also realizes that Jerry did too.

Top notch analysis.But oh yeah, you betcha I still didn't like it compared to their other stuff, not that I still wouldn't watch it over 95% of other available options.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"

That Mr. Fox movie was terrible too.

That's Wes Anderson, not Paul Thomas Anderson

 

[hooter311]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"

That Mr. Fox movie was terrible too.

No way dude, but I'm fine with agreeing to disagree.

 

[belljr]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"

That Mr. Fox movie was terrible too.

That's Wes Anderson, not Paul Thomas Anderson

Not a fan of Dracula either

 

[hooter311]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"A Serious Man posed the question that if you stuck a live cat in a box full of poison and closed it, would you consider the cat dead or alive? I don't think the ending was abrupt, it was just equivilant to closing the box.

I have no idea what that means. But I liked Magnolia a lot too.

Simple quantum mechanics my friend.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat

 

[joffer]

In Bruges - really liked it, especially the ending

I'm not sold on it. Saw it late one night and was tired. Perhaps I need to see it again.

 

[hooter311]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"

That Mr. Fox movie was terrible too.

That's Wes Anderson, not Paul Thomas Anderson

Wes would be third on my list. I watch Life Aquatic and Bottle Rocket at least once a month.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

Magnolia was terrible.

Yeah, I'm that guy. Magnolia was great. PTA would be the 2nd filmmaker on my "If I could only watch"

That Mr. Fox movie was terrible too.

That's Wes Anderson, not Paul Thomas Anderson

Oh yeah. Don't like either.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Frost/Nixon - good, not great. probably a 7/10. I didn't like the guy that played David Frost, but everyone else was good.

I agree that it wasn't great, although I'd call it very good.

 

[jdoggydogg]

In Bruges - really liked it, especially the ending

Big fan of this movie.

 

[jdoggydogg]

When I think of Fargo, I can't get the picture of Frances McDormand standing in the snow and looking and talking stupid. Buscemi and Macy nail their roles, but it's probably my least favorite of the Coen's serious films to watch.

But that's the WHOLE idea. She looks and talks stupid, but she's far, far from being actually stupid. In fact it's quite the contrary as she correctly divines what actually happened. She shows that she's a really good cop.The only flaw she has is that she can't conceive that someone would lie to her. That's why the Mike Yanagita character is so important. She can't believe that he would lie to her about his wife dying. When she realizes that he lied to her, she also realizes that Jerry did too.

Fargo is a fantastic movie. I know it's not as flashy as movies such as No Country or Miller's Crossing. But every great aspect of the Coen's art is contained in Fargo.

 

[jdoggydogg]

A Serious Man is their worst.

Preposterous. Intolerable Cruelty has to be their worst (least creative) and its not even really close and it's not like it's bad but it's probably the only one you couldn't immediately tell there were a couple geniuses behind it.A Serious Man is one of their best and would have won Best Picture that year if I was the only person in the world voting.I'm glad most people don't care for Ladykillers (except for jdoggy), it's like my own little special treat when I watch it.If I was limited to watching only one filmmaker's works for the rest of my life it would most certainly be the Coen's.

A Serious Man is a weird movie. It's one of the least accessible movies the Coens ever made. But it's brilliant work. I agree that the Coens would be my desert island filmmakers.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Watching this made me realize that 40 years from now Sean Penn will be in the debate as the greatest actor of all time. His body of work is simply incredible since he was a kid. I don't agree with the man on almost anything else he does, including as a director. I hated Into the Wild and still don't know what to think about The Pledge.

Loved Into The Wild and The Pledge.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Due Date

Rote comedy with Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey, Jr. Not great by any means, but the movie does have some fairly black comedy that I enjoyed. Not a classic, but it'd be a blast to watch while high.

Took me a while to get into it, but it gave me a the rest of the crowd several really good laughs.Worth seeing if you've got the time.

The movie is very cliche, and owes almost everything to Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. But for a comedy to be this dark it gets points from me.

 

[jdoggydogg]

A Serious Man was the WORST movie I saw last year. Do you love Magnolia? I hate that one, too.

I'm starting to see a pattern with your taste.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

A Serious Man is their worst.

Preposterous. Intolerable Cruelty has to be their worst (least creative) and its not even really close and it's not like it's bad but it's probably the only one you couldn't immediately tell there were a couple geniuses behind it.A Serious Man is one of their best and would have won Best Picture that year if I was the only person in the world voting.I'm glad most people don't care for Ladykillers (except for jdoggy), it's like my own little special treat when I watch it.If I was limited to watching only one filmmaker's works for the rest of my life it would most certainly be the Coen's.

A Serious Man is a weird movie. It's one of the least accessible movies the Coens ever made. But it's brilliant work. I agree that the Coens would be my desert island filmmakers.

I agree with all of this, except David Lynch would be my desert island director.......then the Coens.

 

[El Floppo]

A Serious Man is their worst.

Preposterous. Intolerable Cruelty has to be their worst (least creative) and its not even really close and it's not like it's bad but it's probably the only one you couldn't immediately tell there were a couple geniuses behind it.A Serious Man is one of their best and would have won Best Picture that year if I was the only person in the world voting.I'm glad most people don't care for Ladykillers (except for jdoggy), it's like my own little special treat when I watch it.If I was limited to watching only one filmmaker's works for the rest of my life it would most certainly be the Coen's.

A Serious Man is a weird movie. It's one of the least accessible movies the Coens ever made. But it's brilliant work. I agree that the Coens would be my desert island filmmakers.

I agree with all of this, except David Lynch would be my desert island director.......then the Coens.

Probably Malick for me.

 

[jdoggydogg]

A Serious Man is their worst.

Preposterous. Intolerable Cruelty has to be their worst (least creative) and its not even really close and it's not like it's bad but it's probably the only one you couldn't immediately tell there were a couple geniuses behind it.A Serious Man is one of their best and would have won Best Picture that year if I was the only person in the world voting.I'm glad most people don't care for Ladykillers (except for jdoggy), it's like my own little special treat when I watch it.If I was limited to watching only one filmmaker's works for the rest of my life it would most certainly be the Coen's.

A Serious Man is a weird movie. It's one of the least accessible movies the Coens ever made. But it's brilliant work. I agree that the Coens would be my desert island filmmakers.

I agree with all of this, except David Lynch would be my desert island director.......then the Coens.

Probably Malick for me.

I love Lynch. But his body of work is very disturbing. So I feel like I'd become mentally ill if I watched his movies all the time. I picked the Coens because they have a great balance of humor, violence, drama, and chaos.

 

[LHUCKS]

Saw 127 hours this past weekend...I'm gonna go 8/10. Really enjoyed it, something a bit different.

Anybody else see this?

 

[RudiStein]

Saw 127 hours this past weekend...I'm gonna go 8/10. Really enjoyed it, something a bit different.

Anybody else see this?

Sounds way too long.

 

[krista4]

Can I have a dead desert island director, or do they still have to be working today?

 

[jdoggydogg]

Can I have a dead desert island director, or do they still have to be working today?

You can have anyone you want.

 

[El Floppo]

Can I have a dead desert island director, or do they still have to be working today?

 

[krista4]

Can I have a dead desert island director, or do they still have to be working today?

The first one that popped into my head was Kurosawa. He bats 1.000 for me in his films; have never seen one I didn't love.But then I thought about documentaries and the fact that, given a choice between documentaries and fiction, I would choose the former. So I'm going with Errol Morris, but only if he promises to make a movie more than once every few years as he does now.

 

[hooter311]

Saw 127 hours this past weekend...I'm gonna go 8/10. Really enjoyed it, something a bit different.

Anybody else see this?

Sounds way too long.

Really want to, but I doubt it gets any theater play in my area.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

It's cliche, but I would go Scorcese for sure (especially since I would get The Last Waltz, No Direction Home and Shine a Light as well...Music!!!)

 

[saintfool]

It's cliche, but I would go Scorcese for sure (especially since I would get The Last Waltz, No Direction Home and Shine a Light as well...Music!!!)

for you? this is a no brainer.

 

[Chaka]

In Bruges - really liked it, especially the ending

I'm not sold on it. Saw it late one night and was tired. Perhaps I need to see it again.

This film surprised me. I knew nothing about it going in and pretty much loved everything about it.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

It's cliche, but I would go Scorcese for sure (especially since I would get The Last Waltz, No Direction Home and Shine a Light as well...Music!!!)

for you? this is a no brainer.

On of my favorite quotes was Mick Jagger talking about "Shine a Light:"

"I think it's the only Marty Scorcese film without Gimme Shelter in it"

 

[jdoggydogg]

Posted the trailer for Jim Carrey and Ewan McGregor's new indy comedy I Love You Phillip Morris here.

Could be fun.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I love Lynch. But his body of work is very disturbing. So I feel like I'd become mentally ill if I watched his movies all the time. I picked the Coens because they have a great balance of humor, violence, drama, and chaos.

I still can't do the Coen's comedy movies, so I'd go with Kubrick. That, and I probably wouldn't get tired of watching Mr. Nolan's movies either.

 

[badmojo1006]

Eagle Eye - too bad the plot was so lame, there were some good acting performances

 

[TylerRoseFan]

Eagle Eye - too bad the plot was so lame, there were some good acting performances

There was a lot to like about the premise of big brother and invasion of privacy and all. But, c'mon man, cranes synchronized to pick up and throw cars for a getaway????? Just too much for me.

 

[beer 30]

Eagle Eye - too bad the plot was so lame, there were some good acting performances

There was a lot to like about the premise of big brother and invasion of privacy and all. But, c'mon man, cranes synchronized to pick up and throw cars for a getaway????? Just too much for me.

I saw this the other night on FX for the first time, enjoyed it. The only issue I had with the whole flick was at the end, when they finally disable the computer, all it took was smashing the ball/eye? Why did they #### around doing all that stuff beforehand, just shoot the ball/eye thing and walk away.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

The Host - 4/10

Crappy Korean "horror" meeting where the characters are so dumb you're actively rooting for the creature to eat all of them by the end of the move.

 

[hooter311]

The Host - 4/10

Crappy Korean "horror" meeting where the characters are so dumb you're actively rooting for the creature to eat all of them by the end of the move.

Whoa. This movie was awesome. Best monster movie released in a long time. Characters in monster movies are supposed to be dumb........and brave.That first scene where it appears is fantastic.

 

[hooter311]

Ninja

Actually enjoyed this more than Ninja Assassain. There were a lot of cool things that I will want to see more of in action movies going forward like the way the gunfights were orchestrated and the sword trailing. That said, the acting and story pretty much suck and the ninjas aren't very ninja like. More like a throwback to the Seagal and JCVD movies of yesteryear.

3/5

 

[Andy Dufresne]

The Host - 4/10

Crappy Korean "horror" meeting where the characters are so dumb you're actively rooting for the creature to eat all of them by the end of the move.

Whoa. This movie was awesome. Best monster movie released in a long time. Characters in monster movies are supposed to be dumb........and brave.That first scene where it appears is fantastic.

The first scene was cool, but it went downhill dramatically after that. And when the little girl complained to her dad that her cell phone wasn't good enough and she was embarrassed to take it out at school - I instantly wanted her to be monster food.

 

[badmojo1006]

Eagle Eye - too bad the plot was so lame, there were some good acting performances

There was a lot to like about the premise of big brother and invasion of privacy and all. But, c'mon man, cranes synchronized to pick up and throw cars for a getaway????? Just too much for me.

I saw this the other night on FX for the first time, enjoyed it. The only issue I had with the whole flick was at the end, when they finally disable the computer, all it took was smashing the ball/eye? Why did they #### around doing all that stuff beforehand, just shoot the ball/eye thing and walk away.

I was watching it for the first time last night on FX also and what did I miss? Because I posted my first quote before the end of the movie. I thought he was shot dead in the capital, but then he showed up at her house in the epilogue.

 

[hooter311]

The Host - 4/10

Crappy Korean "horror" meeting where the characters are so dumb you're actively rooting for the creature to eat all of them by the end of the move.

Whoa. This movie was awesome. Best monster movie released in a long time. Characters in monster movies are supposed to be dumb........and brave.That first scene where it appears is fantastic.

The first scene was cool, but it went downhill dramatically after that.

And when the little girl complained to her dad that her cell phone wasn't good enough and she was embarrassed to take it out at school - I instantly wanted her to be monster food.

Yeah, sounds completely unlike something a pre-teen/early teenage girl would do.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

And when the little girl complained to her dad that her cell phone wasn't good enough and she was embarrassed to take it out at school - I instantly wanted her to be monster food.

Yeah, sounds completely unlike something a pre-teen/early teenage girl would do.

Of course. And those girls should be eaten by formaldehyde created river monsters too.

 

[hooter311]

And when the little girl complained to her dad that her cell phone wasn't good enough and she was embarrassed to take it out at school - I instantly wanted her to be monster food.

Yeah, sounds completely unlike something a pre-teen/early teenage girl would do.

Of course. And those girls should be eaten by formaldehyde created river monsters too.

Now this I can agree with.