Your favourite Coen brothers films ?

Colonel Kurtz

Anyone fans of the Coen brothers films ? What are your favourites ?

Here's my Top 5

1. Big Lebowski
2. Raising Arizona
3. Barton Fink
4. O Brother, where art thou ?
5. Fargo

Sad Professor

1. The Big Lebowski (my favourite film ever!)
2. Fargo

I love most of their other films but they're all quite different so it's hard to compare.

Karl Hungus

You know, a thread discussing the Coen brothers in depth could be something fantastic, but no, someone had to start another intellectuall drainage ditch of a thread...

Post ur favs lol!111 :rolleyes:

is_that_so

For sheer impact - Blood Simple.
Would also include Fargo and O Brother Where art Thou with a nod to Barton Fink.

Colonel Kurtz

Karl Hungus wrote:

You know, a thread discussing the Coen brothers in depth could be something fantastic, but no, someone had to start another intellectuall drainage ditch of a thread...

Post ur favs lol!111 :rolleyes:

Feel free to begin that in-depth discussion Mr. Hungus......I was merely testing the waters

DaBreno

Has to be Millers Crossing. Gabriel Byrne as his best. A 1920s(ish) gangland epic with all the swearing, violence and double-crossing. I thought it was a very well executed flick, sharp dialog, interesting characters (The Dane was a scary dude) and a cracking story-line. Also has a great cast too. Many stand out scenes, pick of the bunch is where the henchmen show up to whack Albert Finneys gang-boss as he listens to Danny Boy. Loved the opening credits music as well.

Close second from Raising Arizona which is just side-splitting from start to finish.

Ho-Hum

I love their movies (with the exception of The Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty) my favourite would have to be O Brother where art thou, a fantastic take on The Odyssey and extremely funny to boot. The soundtrack to this film also deserves a mention with some brilliant songs that really add to the feel of the film.
Honourable mentions for The Big Lebowski and Hudsucker Proxy.

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BopNiblets

The Dude abides!
I like The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother, and Raising Arizona too.
The Man Who Wasn't There was also good, very noir.

Still have to see the other ones.

Playboy

The Man who wasnt there .... by a country mile! Barton Fink is the next best.

johnny_ultimate

I'd like to pick one of their more obscure ones, but the Big Lebowski is quite possibly the best comedy film of all time.
Barton Fink would be a close second - a wonderfully original take on how Hollywood and art works, and featuring some memorable perfomances and scenes.
Blood Simple I prefer to Fargo, felt it was somewhat more daring and had more to say about the guilt people feel

after committing a murder

. Both very striking visually though.
O Brother where Art Thou is one of the most original comedies in years, and is one of those rare viewings which improves with repeated viewings ("Damn, We're in a tight spot!"). Hudsucker is highly enjoyable also.
TBH never really disliked a Coen Brothers film. I've watched them all and the new 'disapointing' ones are in fact 'disapointing', but still hold up as well made films against the drivel that is out there today.

Bodhidharma

I was always of the opinion that the Coens, Spike Lee, Tim Burton and Terry Gilliam were the best directors (besides Scorsese). It is a little disheartening to look at all of the aboves last few films.

They all seem to have sold out, at least a little bit. I know in Holywood you have to do the big movies in order to make the little, personal ones but even they have not been made. I dont think directors like these will be allowed to make 10 or 12 cult films anymore. Its annoying because some of these guys films are really,really great.

In terms of the Coens, "The Ladykillers" and "Intollereable Cruelty" were total pay days.There best movie in my opinion is "The Big Lebowski", followed closely by "Blood Simple" and the "Hudsucker Proxy".

quickbeam

1. O Brother Where Art Thou - love the story, the humour and especially the music.

2. Raising Arizona - I think it was the first Coen Brothers film I saw, and came across it by accident (I was very young at the time, probably too young to have been actually watching it, to be honest), but I loved it and still love it.

3. .... well, I can't really put the rest in order. I have liked most of them, Lebowski, Hudsucker, Fargo, even Intollerable Cruely was a decent movie, even if not very Coen-like. Of course I haven't seen all of theirs yet and The Man Who Wasn't There and Blood Simple are on my "to view" list.

The only one I haven't really liked was Barton Fink. I don't know why. Maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it. But it bored me, and sort of gave me a queezy feeling in my stomach for some reason.