Posted on 11/18/2018 5:14:03 PM PST by SamAdams76
I was out on the Netflix last night and saw this new Coen Brothers movie that was available. I was always a fan of the Coen Brothers with "Fargo" being one of my favorite "dark comedy" movies of all time. I especially liked that car salesman fellow who was constantly screwing up and ended up getting his wife inadvertently murdered by having her kidnapped for ransom by a couple of bungling criminals who hated each other.
Basically all their movies are worth watching with "The Big Lebowski" being another favorite. Especially when that John Goodman character throws his friend's ashes into the wind and they end up blowing right back in their faces.
So I immediately clicked PLAY on this new movie which I hadn't even heard of and I'm not sure what to think. It was such an odd movie. It was actually six different stories, all with an "Old West" theme. The cinematography was excellent with some of the most incredibly brilliant scenery I've ever seen in a movie and had me tripping at times. And the stories were just plain weird and might have been drug-induced. Though one of them was clearly based on a Jack London short story. It was about 2am that I saw this movie and was half asleep during parts so that might have affected my take. It now seems like I dreamed the movie as opposed to watching it in real life.
Just wondering what others thought of it. I might watch the movie again under more sober and wakeful conditions.
Thank you. I’m about half way finished. Just wow. The scenery is all worth it. I’ve prospected a little myself. I want a hat like that guy had, lol.
Fargo, Raising Arizona, and the newer True Grit.....outstanding...
TONS of other HD movies there also.
You know what they say, people are like ferrets.
Some of their humor works, but it’s not all funny. I think they are trying to be the Grimm Brothers of today because a lot of the tales are dark and gruesome; and some of it approaches a morality but veers back into the dark and gruesome. The uptake for me is that there is a lot more accident, violence and evil in life that we don’t care to recognize, and the brothers want to point that out and attribute it to some grand indifference. That attitude is pernicious because it makes us indifferent. So they can live all they want in their own fractured fairy-tales, but that attitude or view grows weary on me.
I've been a fan of theirs and have most of their movies. I've had arguments with many over trying to assess their politics...left or right. It seems to waver back and forth.
One of my favorites is "The Big Lebowski", a wandering character study with minimal plot. Definitely a tribute to the "world owes ME" leftist sentiment throughout. But hilarious.
Their "Hail, Caesar", sporting a rare "G" rating for the brothers, I found to be the most "right of center". A film homage set in 50's(?) big studios Hollywood, it portrays the religious hypocrisy of film making while a studio head goes to confession every 24 hours. It is also one of the best put-downs of the communist infestation of Hollywood during that period, showing them as pompous incompetents. The media didn't talk about this one much, for obvious reasons. See it.
This one will leave you the viewer feeling uneasy about what life is all about. No hints, although every fiber in me wants to.
I thought the first segment was an eccentric trip terminating in a useless cul-de-sac. When the next two segments proved to be equally depressing/pointless, I stopped watching. Life is too short to spend on drivel.
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