Favorite Coen Brothers' Movie?

My apologies to anyone who likes "The Ladykillers" the best--it wouldn't fit. At any rate, I think it's probably their worst
movie--despite the fact that a high school colleague of mine has a leading role. But even a bad Coen brother film would be a standout anywhere else...

Oh, and my favorite would definitely have to be Fargo. Please, Lebowski fans, don't feed me into the wood chipper.

But Raising Arizona has a special place in my heart!

Such a great fucking movie!

1. Fargo
2. O Brother Where Art Thou?
3. Miller's Crossing

I went with Fargo, but I have a real soft-spot for Hudsucker Proxy. I just adore that movie.

but Fargo makes me laugh until my sides hurt.

But then again, I'm a sick fuck. My favorite gag is a visual. When Macey drives to the top of the parking garage and finds his FIL's body. It's a crane shot looking down on the scene from above. The audience is wondering, "Well, what's he gonna do now? Hasn't this scheme of his gone too far? Is he gonna call the cops and maybe save his wife?" No. Instead he pops the trunk. :rofl:

Also Steve Buscemi burying the ransom in a snowy featureless landscape and marking it with an ice scraper.

"Well, we've never done this before. But seeing as it's special circumstances and all, he says I can knock a hundred dollars off that Trucoat."

Just brilliant. For me, I would rank them
1. Fargo
2. Hudsucker
3. Lebowski

Nice story, plus good performances from everyone, but especially Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh channelling Katharine Hepburn. "Hudsucker" is very Capraesque.

but that is really a reflection on how great most of their movies are. From just about any other director, it would be a career highlight.

but I went with "Oh Brother." That movie cracks me up. It made me a hugh George Clooney fan.

but, if I have to choose--it's "O Brother".

:thumbsup:

LMAO the whole time I was watching it...

"Hippity-hop music...." rofl

Hard to top Guiness and Sellars at Ealing.

Although the original didn't have any sackbutt jokes. And the bit where the Poe enthusiast was getting excited at the notion of walling up the lady was clever.

I watched it with my in-laws, the new one, and we all laughed pretty hard at it. Did the original have Peter Sellars in it?

Alec Guiness is the leader of the gang, and Peter Sellers is one of the other criminals. It's a really funny movie. The Coens' version had it's moments, but it is really just another example of why you shouldn't try to remake truly great movies.

Kind Hearts and Coronets - another Ealing movie starring Alec Guiness - is even better.

i fucking love his freak-outs toward the end of the ladykillers, where he keeps singing the melody from that record

Policeman: Do you have any disgruntled employees?
Nathan Arizona Sr.: Hell, they're all disgruntled. I aint running no damn daisy farm. My motto is "Do it my way or watch your butt!"

Evelle: (about the balloons he just bought) These blow up into funny shapes and all?
Grocer: Well no... unless round is funny.

:rofl:

Ok, my picks - in no particular order:

Raising Arizona
Big Lebowski
Fargo

They had Yodas and shit on them.

Always cracks me up.

Favorite overall is Miller's Crossing, and The Big Lebowski is a very close runner-up.

Not only the best Coen Bros. from beginning to end, but one of my favorites of all time. Brilliantly casted and edited as every performance is excellent and the movie flows so well with the opening titles coming in after almost 25 minutes into it. The soundtrack as well is great, espcially during the chase scene in the supermarket when the music turns into supermarket muzak.

"Now, what's it gonna be young feller? You want I should freeze or get down on the ground? 'Cause if'n I freeze, I can't rightly drop. And if'n I drop, I'm gonna be in motion. "

Looking at it now, it really tracks America over the last decade. I just hope America has the happy ending.

Go Bears! :rofl:

No doubt, no hesitation. I love that film. When Material Girl was born kevsand sent out a wav file from that film, "What--are you kidding me? We got ourselves a family!"

I loved Hudsucker Proxy and Miller's Crossing ("What's the rumpus?") along with the other films, but Raising Arizona is far and away one of my personal favorite films of all time.



Laura

In fact, in my top five ever. Our wedding vows consisted of "I do" "You bet I do" "Well, okay then!"

Ya, or tomorrow we come back und we cut off your chonson!

Yah think? Oh Yah!

:D

but so many have been so good.

It makes more sense if you're a Raymond Chandler fan and live in L.A. :D

Also rounding out the Top 5 (roughly) in order:

Raising Arizona
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink

got my vote.
maybe because I grew up with people muttering things like "Dat don't sound like too good a deal for him, den."
too close to home.
cracked up with Clooney's "are any of you boys skilled in the smithy arts?" and couldn't stop laughing throughout.

It has one of the best final lines in a movie, ever. :D

But I'm a real big fan of Raising Arizona, too. Mind his little fontanelle!

There may be entertaining moments scattered here and there through the others, but they all fall apart sooner or later. Fargo is 75% filler. The Big Lebowski is an utter waste, 2 hours of Jeff Bridges doing a Tommy Chong impersonation and an endless parade of contrived oddball characters, none of which have 10% of the charm of the oddballs in John Waters' films. O Brother Where Art Thou starts out pretty good, then falls apart when John Goodman appears. The ONLY film the Coens have ever done that holds up from beginning to end is "The Man Who Wasn't There." How could they make such a brilliant film as "The Man Who Wasn't There" when everything else they have done is completely disposable?

:P

Although Fargo is a personal favorite, I'd have to go with Oh Brother, simply because of the sheer genius of putting "The Odyssey" in that context.