The story of a young woman and her brother on a wagon train headed to Oregon is one of the most poignant, sad stories I've ever seen on film. The dialog and romance are just delicious.
A bit more from Ebert...
What’s most bewitching throughout “Scruggs” is its sense of detail. Its meshing of formal discipline and screwed-down content sometimes give it the sense of a work that has been carefully and elaborately embroidered rather than photographed.Highly recommended!
For the purposes of this marvelous and disquieting movie, it’s enough. Its pleasures—the endless succession of perfect shots of remarkable scenery, the gorgeous music by Carter Burwell and others that swells and dips like the landscapes themselves—are real, and acknowledged as such, but there’s something more real underneath it all.
Watched it a couple weeks ago. Very good.
I’ll give it 4 stars cause you can waltz to it.
The cinematography is outstanding. All Coen Brothers movies are beautifully shot, and have wonderful imagery that add to the picture. But this one is really really good.
4 stars.
You have to be in the mood for something weird to enjoy this movie. To say it is warped is an understatement. This is a love it/hate it movie, all dependent on the viewer
Loved the wacky Buster Scruggs tale. The miner’s tale was great too.
Filmed in New Mexico. Lots of movies made here. I can tell which ones just by the sky and clouds.
Totally agree!
The character in the first vignette is the same guy - “Shorty” - in “O Brother Where Art Thou” that dashes forth to be baptized:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fztz_Vr9uHk
BTW, if you like the music and visuals in that scene, check out Iris Dement’s “Leaning on the Everlasting Arms”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1r-aTbaA-c
Blessings to all my FR brothers and Sisters
Enjoy! (-:
I watched everything through Meal Ticket and, feeling I must have been missing something, stopped watching out of boredom and pointlessness. Sorry I couldn’t get into it.
Ping.
Ebert died in 2013.
Didn’t quite get the last one though.
It’s a weird movie. But “highly recommended”, indeed.
Every vignette in the movie ends in a way that you don’t quite expect. But yet each ending makes sense. Would I put it in my top-ten westerns list? Well, just maybe I would. Because it’s so unique.
No man can compel another to engage in recreation. That said - it’s the Coen Brothers best ever - which is why yours truly has seen it 3 times already
A home run that totally took me by surprise.
It was a hoot! But I didn’t like the ending.
I watched it too and was pleasantly surprised...good movie! But Roger Ebert is still alive???
I saw it on Netflix in November and have recommended it many times.
Very well done.