Best Coen Bros movie

[yelpster]

Big Lebowski
Fargo
Raising Arizona
O Brother
No Country for Old Men


or one I left out...

my vote rests with the dude....it's the rug it just sets off the room...followed closely by Fargo yeah you betcha!!!

[Tom Hoefer]

I like pretty much all of them. I will say that The Big Lebowski is the most overrated and Burn After Reading is the most underrated, but all are worth watching.

[Daev Larrazolo]

I haven't seen the Big L but have seen all others. Fargo is the best.

[yelpster]

Hey tom never seen burn after reading...If the Lebowski is overated then tell me where else to see Julianne Moore in a Vikings costume and I will give you that point....

[yelpster]

forgot Blood Simple with the PI who drives a VW

[amadan]

I like nearly all their movies, but Miller's Crossing and Raising Arizona are my favorites.

[John H.]

I'm sorely addicted to " o brother..." Just can't get enough o' that ole timey music. I wonder if I could request "Man of Constant Sorrow" at BG......

JCH

[chaunasknight]

I'm sorely addicted to " o brother..." Just can't get enough o' that ole timey music. I wonder if I could request "Man of Constant Sorrow" at BG......

JCH

It's the only movie I have on my laptop, and I have the song as a ringtone for a few old timers I know. Arizona is great too, "Son, you got a panty on your head."

[Daev Larrazolo]

I went to look at some timber an the opening scene where they are chasing the chicken around the lean too was filmed on the guys tract of land.

[Longhorn Mike]

For comedies, the Big Lebowski is best. For dramas, I'll go with No Country for Old Men. If that movie had a better ending, it could have been one of the best movies in years.



- Mike

[yelpster]

also never seen Millers Crossing...yeah buddy 2 new ones to look forward to seeing. Another thing I like about them is they have favorites they cast in a lot of their movies such as: John Goodman, Turturro (sp?), Frances McDormand etc....you guys are right the soundtrack for O Brother is kick ***...I like the Go to sleep pretty Baby segment (the sirens by the river)

[Bryan2]

For comedies, the Big Lebowski is best. For dramas, I'll go with No Country for Old Men. If that movie had a better ending, it could have been one of the best movies in years.



- Mike

Boy, you ain't lyin there. So much time invested in that movie and then that ending. There has to be an alternate ending somewhere.

[Wheaton]

My vote is for Fargo, hands down. I like everybody in that cast individually, and putting them all together was a stroke of genius.

Miller's Crossing gets honorable mention.

[yelpster]

found this cheat sheet on youtube...thought it might come in handy...
ever find any cans to send me wheatie???

snow tomorrow here finally....

1984 Blood simple. 1987 Raising Arizona 1990 Miller's Crossing 1991 Barton Fink 1994 The Hudsucker Proxy 1996 Fargo 1998 The Big Lebowski 2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 2001 The Man Who Wasn't There 2003 Intolerable Cruelty 2004 The Ladykillers Joel & Ethan 2007 No Country for Old Men 2008 Burn After Reading 2009 A Serious Man 2010 True Grit 2013 Inside Llewyn

[Wheaton]

Cans: I'll bet that subject gets a lot more interesting starting Feb 15! Don't lose hope. I may be slow, but in the end, I'm good...

[stringsx24now]

Oh ya, Fargo is the one!
I liked Burn after Reading, but it was slightly weird.
Most of them on the list are good, the ones I have seen. No country was good, but like others have said, the ending was less than climactic.
Never saw the Big L. Not a big desire too.
Blood Simple was good. O Brother had it's good moments, overall kind of uneven. True Grit was good.

[yelpster]

yeah you betcha...

[yelpster]

if you are ever in the north country be sure to watch out for guys that are funny lookin and also the Marlboro man....and have a bottle of grainbelt with Jerry Lundegaard while you are at it...

[Canoe]

My favorites are Blood Simple, Fargo, and Raising Arizona, in no particular order...but I have not seen No Country for Old Men.

[Jay]

(Neville) "Do these balloons blow up in ta funny shapes at'all".....(old man) "Not unless round is funny''.

Raising Arizona and Fargo are pretty good, I always laugh at the Big Lebowski when the Dude drops the roach between his legs in the car and tries to put it out with beer, then crashes into the dumpster.

[yelpster]

I love that scene as well.

Also when he tries to go get his car from impound Ford Torino...a tank basically...and wants the important papers and the Creedence....

Also I just have to say Shut the **** up Donny....

[yelpster]

I have to say I was not impressed with Millers crossing..If you like to see a good beating watch fight club...good gangster movie the godfather

[Beverlx]

Seen them all. I like 'Blood Simple,' 'No Country for Old Men,' and 'True Grit' best. They blew the John Wayne 'Grit' off the screen.

Obviously I like the thrillers, though 'Fargo' and 'Arizona' are my picks out of the comedies. Not many surprises in my picks. I am a huge fan since I saw 'Blood Simple' in the theater where it made its UK debut in '85. It blew my mind.

[Wheaton]

I have to say I was not impressed with Millers crossing..If you like to see a good beating watch fight club...good gangster movie the godfather

It definitely wasn't the archetypal gangster movie, but I think that's why I liked it. It moved differently, and the setting and tone were a complete divergence from your traditional Chicago/New York mob movie fare. Plus I love Christopher Walken no matter what he does, so that was a big help.

But yeah, I am a Godfather junkie. All of them, even the somewhat unpopular third installment.

[yelpster]

also a fan of mad men I remember in one episode the main guy (Draper) was drinking hamm's flat tops the blue ones with the trees on them. Love the vintage beer stuff that pops up..just watched Jaws the other day where quint and dreyfuss crushed their Narragansett cans too

[yelpster]

hey wheatie if you love walken you gotta love the deer hunter

[BrianS]

For me it would be a tie between Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing.

I think Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest was the basis of the plot for Miller's Crossing!

[yelpster]

I am going to have to watch Miller's Crossing again...Maybe my slam on it was premature as many people seem to really like it...

[yelpster]

favorites from the coen movies for me are Frances McDormand, John Turturro, John Goodman and Steve Buscemi

[Wheaton]

Buscemi...that guy gets me rolling on the floor every time I see him. And he had such a dark comic character in Fargo, taking himself so seriously when in fact he was just a dweeb with limited faculties. Peter Stormare, on the other hand, was all kinds of creepy. You can watch Constantine where he plays the part of the devil, and even that's not half as weird as watching him play Gaere Grimsrud in Fargo.

What was the movie where Buscemi played "Crazy Eyes?" I can't remember the movie offhand but I also can't get his image out of my head. WAY too funny. There are certain things in this world that, once seen, cannot be "unseen." He's one of them.