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Post by codystarbuck on Jan 25, 2022 2:41:46 GMT -5
One I wish I had seen in a theater was Bite the Bullet. Saw it on tv, originally, then bought video, later. Love the images in it, the characters, and the story that unfolds through the race. Also enjoy the "End of the West" sub-genre in Westerns, like The Shootist. Still, would have like to have seen the vistas on screen.
Willy Wonka was another; but, I was young enough, when it came out, that the tv commercials scared the Nesquick out of me. I was pretty edgy when it was first broadcast on tv and was freaked out by the boat tunnel sequence, and that was edited, a bit, for tv. I think I would have been too freaked out, in a theater.
I saw Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang, when it was shown on tv, and ran out of the room screaming, when the Child catcher leered into the camera. Seriously, that film should have ended with the hidden children beating him to death, after they caught him in the net! You wanted to make sure he was dead. The Wicked Witch of the West was a piker, by comparison.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 25, 2022 12:32:11 GMT -5
I like most Coen Bros. films I've seen. The only one I disliked was The Big Lebowski.
I don't think I've seen anything since A Serious Man, though.
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Post by Prince Hal on Jan 25, 2022 12:32:51 GMT -5
While we are on the Coens, how about Hudsucker Proxy and The Man Who Wasn't There? Miller's Crossing? Blood Simple? Intolerable Cruelty? Ladykillers? I love Hudsucker and mostly Man Who Wasn't There. Both are nice nods to old genre favorites; the Howard Hawks-style comedies and James M Cain noir. Miller's Crossing is one I like in parts; but, kind of feel it's a bit uneven. Blood Simple was one where I appreciated what they were trying to do; but, wasn't overly enamored with the final result. I think part of it was that I didn't really have a character to identify with, which made it harder for me to get into the story. Intolerable cruelty I didn't care for, at all. Ladykillers was okay, with some good quirky characters; but, don't really feel it was any kind of improvement on the original. All of these I saw after the fact, on home video/dvd as Fargo was the first Coen Brothers film I saw in a theater, after catching up with their other work. I haven't seen anything from them, since O Brother; so, no No Country or True Grit. I enjoyed True Grit, which stuck more closely to the novel, and also Hail, Caesar, about 1950s Hollywood. Definitely looking forward to seeing Macbeth, directed by Joel alone. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 25, 2022 13:12:00 GMT -5
From the titles y'all are mentioning, it's becoming increasingly apparent that apart from The Big Lebowski two years ago, I never saw a Coen brothers movie.
D-OH!!!
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Post by berkley on Jan 25, 2022 14:59:58 GMT -5
While we are on the Coens, how about Hudsucker Proxy and The Man Who Wasn't There? Miller's Crossing? Blood Simple? Intolerable Cruelty? Ladykillers? I love Hudsucker and mostly Man Who Wasn't There. Both are nice nods to old genre favorites; the Howard Hawks-style comedies and James M Cain noir. Miller's Crossing is one I like in parts; but, kind of feel it's a bit uneven. Blood Simple was one where I appreciated what they were trying to do; but, wasn't overly enamored with the final result. I think part of it was that I didn't really have a character to identify with, which made it harder for me to get into the story. Intolerable cruelty I didn't care for, at all. Ladykillers was okay, with some good quirky characters; but, don't really feel it was any kind of improvement on the original. All of these I saw after the fact, on home video/dvd as Fargo was the first Coen Brothers film I saw in a theater, after catching up with their other work. I haven't seen anything from them, since O Brother; so, no No Country or True Grit.
Loved Blood Simple and was lucky to see it on its first release, as the university town was living in at the time had a small repertory theatre (also saw Lynch's Blue Velvet there, among other things).
Saw Raising Arizona just recently on tv and liked it well enough. I think I would have enjoyed it a lot more if I'd seen it back in the day.
Hudsucker Proxy I didn't really take to, perhaps because not a great fan of the genre it's paying tribute to.
Fargo and Miller's Crossing are two I should watch again: I've seen them, but on video and in the company of a large group of people, with all the distractions that setting involves. I have good impressions of them both but can't really judge after seeing them that way.
The Big Lebowski I saw for the first time just a couple years ago at the cinema. This one I thought pretty much lived up to its reputation, but I still probably would have been even more impressed if I'd seen it at the time. Not a huge drop-off here, though, I don't think.
Intolerable Cruelty was lightweight but very entertaining. It helped that I liked the two leads, Zeta-Jones and Clooney, more than I do many current-day movie stars. I think they just wrote but didn't direct that one, which made it less characteristically Coen brothers work.
The Man who Wasn't there, I remember liking at the time, but don't recall well.
O Brother and No Country were both great, the former better than the latter, which may be just a little over-rated, IMO. Maybe I should downgrade it to "very good" instead of "great". O Brother is one of their best, though.
Burn After Reading I thought was also one of their best, and maybe their funniest.
Hail, Caesar! was a lot of fun and very entertaining but I found the political message distasteful, though they've denied there is one in interviews. Viewers will have to judge for themselves. I recommend it regardless, though.
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Post by badwolf on Jan 25, 2022 16:21:27 GMT -5
From the titles y'all are mentioning, it's becoming increasingly apparent that apart from The Big Lebowski two years ago, I never saw a Coen brothers movie. D-OH!!! Barton Fink is my favorite. |
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jan 25, 2022 16:39:39 GMT -5
From the titles y'all are mentioning, it's becoming increasingly apparent that apart from The Big Lebowski two years ago, I never saw a Coen brothers movie. D-OH!!! Barton Fink is my favorite. It used to be on Netflix Canada... I'll have to check if it's still there! |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 25, 2022 23:01:57 GMT -5
From the titles y'all are mentioning, it's becoming increasingly apparent that apart from The Big Lebowski two years ago, I never saw a Coen brothers movie. D-OH!!! Barton Fink is my favorite. I love Barton Fink SO MUCH!! But it’s not the Coen Brothers movie I would recommend to a neophyte. I’d go with Fargo, Brother Where Art Thou? or True Grit. I saw A Serious Man a few months ago and it blew me away! One of their best. But it’s another one I wouldn’t recommend as a starter Coen movie. I saw Barton Fink when it first came out. I saw it in Hollywood at the Los Feliz theater before it was divided into three theaters. The old Los Feliz theater was pretty big. Cavernous. I saw Barton Fink at the first show on a weekday, and I was the only one in the theater. Despite all that space, it’s one of the most claustrophobic movies I’ve ever seen. I was suffocating! Barton is in one room for most of the movie, and it’s stifling! I could barely breathe for much of the film. And yet I sat there and watched the whole thing because I didn’t want to miss anything. I usually sit through the credits. But I didn’t do that for Barton Fink. I needed air and light. |
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Post by berkley on Jan 26, 2022 2:51:43 GMT -5
Looking up their filmography, wiki says they did direct and co-write Intolerable Cruelty, so I don't know where I got the idea they didn't direct it. Maybe it was just a memory of my own impression at the time that it was a bit atypical of their style.
Barton Fink is probably the one I most want to watch of the ones I've missed up to now. But I like their movies enough that I'll probably want to try everything eventually, at least once. Maybe not the Ladykillers, as I don't find the idea of re-makes attractive, usually, unless I think the original was missing something, e.g. a good concept badly executed, or whatever the case might be. True Grit I think of more as an alternative adaptation of the original source material rather than a remake, so i'll likely see that before The Ladykillers.
I had been planning to see Macbeth earlier this month but the theatres shut down just before I could get to it. Hope it's still playing when they open up again, as they're supposed to do in a week or two.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 26, 2022 10:14:56 GMT -5
Looking up their filmography, wiki says they did direct and co-write Intolerable Cruelty, so I don't know where I got the idea they didn't direct it. Maybe it was just a memory of my own impression at the time that it was a bit atypical of their style. Barton Fink is probably the one I most want to watch of the ones I've missed up to now. But I like their movies enough that I'll probably want to try everything eventually, at least once. Maybe not the Ladykillers, as I don't find the idea of re-makes attractive, usually, unless I think the original was missing something, e.g. a good concept badly executed, or whatever the case might be. True Grit I think of more as an alternative adaptation of the original source material rather than a remake, so i'll likely see that before The Ladykillers. I had been planning to see Macbeth earlier this month but the theatres shut down just before I could get to it. Hope it's still playing when they open up again, as they're supposed to do in a week or two. It very much is. And it also likely helps that the original True Grit is pretty terrible except for John Wayne. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jan 26, 2022 12:28:45 GMT -5
Looking up their filmography, wiki says they did direct and co-write Intolerable Cruelty, so I don't know where I got the idea they didn't direct it. Maybe it was just a memory of my own impression at the time that it was a bit atypical of their style. Barton Fink is probably the one I most want to watch of the ones I've missed up to now. But I like their movies enough that I'll probably want to try everything eventually, at least once. Maybe not the Ladykillers, as I don't find the idea of re-makes attractive, usually, unless I think the original was missing something, e.g. a good concept badly executed, or whatever the case might be. True Grit I think of more as an alternative adaptation of the original source material rather than a remake, so i'll likely see that before The Ladykillers. I had been planning to see Macbeth earlier this month but the theatres shut down just before I could get to it. Hope it's still playing when they open up again, as they're supposed to do in a week or two. It very much is. And it also likely helps that the original True Grit is pretty terrible except for John Wayne. Thanks for saying this. The original is not good. But it’s not politically correct to notice. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 26, 2022 12:49:00 GMT -5
It very much is. And it also likely helps that the original True Grit is pretty terrible except for John Wayne. Thanks for saying this. The original is not good. But it’s not politically correct to notice. I'm not sure that it is or isn't politically correct, whatever that means this week. Wayne is great because he's having fun and playing Wayne. It's by no means his best acting, which would be in either The Searchers or Red River. Even his later turn in The Shootist was better. I think most of the issues come down to Henry Hathaway's direction, which is overly mannered and just terrible with most of the cast. I'll forgive him for Kim Darby, who is just atrocious. And Glenn Campbell probably had no business in the part of La Boeuf. But when you can take Robert Duvall, Dennis Hopper and Strother Martin and get them to turn in bad performances you're clearly doing something wrong. |
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Post by Randle-El on Jan 27, 2022 11:00:50 GMT -5
The next movie on my to-see list is going to be another work from the filmography of Linda Hamilton: Children of the Corn.
I used to see this movie sitting on the shelves of the video store that my family rented from when I was a kid. The box art always unnerved me, but for some reason I had a morbid fascination with it. Some of the kids in my neighborhood had seen it and used to talk about it... I got the sense that some of them had issues with their parents and were living vicariously through the characters of the movie.  It was one of those movies that, for a time, I heard a lot about but never got around to seeing. Since it's currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, I thought I'd give it a go. Hopefully I'll get to it sometime this weekend.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2022 12:16:12 GMT -5
I still have to watch the DVD of The Hidden Fortress I bought three years ago.
I still need to see both of the Kill Bill movies. There's no excuse for me not having seen these in the theater.
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Post by Marv-El on Jan 28, 2022 13:46:07 GMT -5
I still have to watch the DVD of The Hidden Fortress I bought three years ago. I still need to see both of the Kill Bill movies. There's no excuse for me not having seen these in the theater. With the recent talk about Coen Brothers films, for me, it's Tarantino films that I'm woefully behind on watching. Of the 9 films that he's written & directed, I've only seen one in it's entirety, Pulp Fiction. I saw that in the theater and was mightily impressed by it, especially it's story structure (though the sodomy scenes with Rhimes and Willis were uncomfortable to watch) I've seen the latter half of Kill Bill Vol 1, specifically Thurman's confrontation with Lucy Liu. I've seen the last half hour of Once Upon A Time In Hollywood but that's about it. Beyond those, I loved his guest appearance in Desperado and oddly enough, my favorite film by Tarantino is one he wrote but didn't direct, True Romance. |
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It was one of those movies that, for a time, I heard a lot about but never got around to seeing. Since it's currently available to stream on Amazon Prime, I thought I'd give it a go. Hopefully I'll get to it sometime this weekend.
