A Serious Man

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/aseriousman/

really looking forward to this, it looks like it could be their most interesting film since Fargo , although i really did love No Country i can't compare it since it wasn't written by them

everything these guys do looks interesting, and i'm not saying that in a bad way.

will add this to the calender.

Yeah the coens are great. Looks fun

Did anybody see Burn after reading? I missed it

i did, it's not one of their greats but it's an entertaining film for sure.

there is one scene in particular in it that i think is genius, the entire audience burst into laughter at a part that almost no other filmmaker could successfully pull off. i dont want to spoil it because it's my favorite scene.

  On 7/31/2009 at 12:15 AM, Mr Salads said:

Yeah the coens are great. Looks fun

 

Did anybody see Burn after reading? I missed it

I love how quickly these guys can make movies. I was not expecting this. Ditto with Burn After Reading.

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. The Coen Bros are absolutely no miss for me. Even their worst movies are within the top 2% of movies that ever make it to theatre. No one else currently making films even comes close.

  On 7/31/2009 at 12:18 AM, Awepittance said:

i did, it's not one of their greats but it's an entertaining film for sure.

 

there is one scene in particular in it that i think is genius, the entire audience burst into laughter at a part that almost no other filmmaker could successfully pull off. i dont want to spoil it because it's my favorite scene.

The legs?

love the coen brothers. trailer looks interesting.

Looks good. I like the fact that I don't recognize most of the actors in the trailer.

Yeah me too. They cast it well

  On 7/31/2009 at 12:15 AM, Mr Salads said:

Yeah the coens are great. Looks fun

 

Did anybody see Burn after reading? I missed it

it was enjoyable but didn't feel coen enough for a coen movie. still liked it though.l

burn after reading was pointless nihilistic garbage

  On 7/31/2009 at 5:52 AM, zaphod said:

burn after reading was pointless nihilistic garbage

What's your favorite Coen brothers film, Zaphod? I don't think Burn After Reading is their best but I don't see anything drastically different, in theme, from any of their other comedies. Just seems like lazy criticism.

There seem to be a few "middle class white man trying to make sense of the world" movies/shows these days

  On 7/31/2009 at 7:04 AM, takeshi said:

  On 7/31/2009 at 5:52 AM, zaphod said:

burn after reading was pointless nihilistic garbage

 

What's your favorite Coen brothers film, Zaphod? I don't think Burn After Reading is their best but I don't see anything drastically different, in theme, from any of their other comedies. Just seems like lazy criticism.

i think it's pretty different from their other comedies, but i don't agree with zaphod. Pointless, yes, nihilistic, yes, but garbage? no. I though if anything it was just a little too star studded, and frances mcdormand was not great in it. She does not have strong acting chops to be a leading role imo, Blood Simple and Fargo being exceptions. I absolutely loved how they turned the 2 generically sexiest men in hollywood into dolty total idiotic fuckups, Cloony especially with his gold chain and tan skin and overly tucked in shirt. Its definitely what i would describe as 'diet' coen bros, to use a term someone else used here. The artistic cinematography is notably missing from Burn, and you can tell with Serious Man they are focusing more on camera angels and lighting and aesthetical look this time around (which i prefer out of a coen film).

I personally feel like they took a dip in quality post Fargo, with No Country being the main exception. I love Lebowski as well but i feel like that was their attempt to bring in a new or younger type of audience. Serious Man looks like potentially their most well rounded movie since Fargo imo

It may be mediocre for the Coen's, but that end scene with the FBI agents is fucking classic. In a world where that movie's garbage, everything else must be a pile of shit.

i'm not gonna type out why i think it's shit, and if it's lazy, fine, it's lazy, i'm a pretty lazy armchair angry internet critic and we all know that. my favorite coen film is probably miller's crossing or fargo. and burn after reading was not like either of those films.

i liked scenes in burn after reading more than the movie.

malkovich and the gym manager mostly

hated clooney

point is zaphods opinion doesn't affect how much i enjoyed the movie.

jesus.

that'd be awesome if my opinion affected anything, i'd find that hilarious

your haircut is stuck in my mind and makes me want to be gay, faggot.

  On 7/31/2009 at 7:14 AM, zaphod said:

fargo. and burn after reading was not like either of those films.

woah really? one of the first things i thought while watching Burn is that it was trying to be some parallel sillier version of Fargo

let's talk about Serious Man, i read about half of the script online and my impression of the movie is that it's much darker than the trailer seems. The opening scene in the film is almost like some kind of nightmare dream sequence and no explanation later as to if it actually happened or not. I stopped reading because i didn't want to spoil it for myself, but i would say it most closely resembles Barton Fink in tone.

i'm not a big coen fan. they've basically just been remaking the same movie over and over again. in fargo the characters were at least sort of human beings. in burn after reading they're just cartoon characters. it didn't work as an espionage film or a parody of one, and it didn't elicit any kind of response from me as entertainment. the characters were all self interested one dimensional scumbags, there was no tension because i didn't give a shit about what was happening on screen. it was just the usual coen zaniness. set up a house of cards full of unlikeable characters and watch it collapse violently. that's all they do. as much as i didn't like no country it was at least extremely well made and faithful to the source, the problem in that case was the source. burn after reading wasn't a comment on anything, so it was completely nihilistic, it was violent for absolutely no reason except the apparent spite the film makers have toward people, and so it was garbage. one of the few movies i genuinely wanted my money back after watching.

the trailer for this one looks like it's going to be along the same lines as burn, so i'll just skip it and back out of the thread while i'm at it.