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that first vignette is pretty much a perfect piece of film making.  the pacing, the cinematography, the dialogue, the music, the humor i have watched that so many times already...

I think I have Near Algodones at the bottom right now.  It's still great, I've just thought about it less than any of of the other ones.

Meal Ticket is tough but damn - the whole venture was grim and fucked up when it was going well, became more grim and fucked up when it started to falter and you could see exactly what both the man and the stump were thinking.  And then of course it happens, because why would there be a twist.  Dudley watching the dude feed the chicken.  The subtext of "high" brow versus low brow and pandering to the masses just adds to it.

I think Meal Ticket bumping against All Gold Canyon is a bit of whiplash, even with how slow it is.  It was tough for me to believe that after all of that, and after having watched Dudley get replaced by a chicken, that Tom Waits was going to walk out of that valley with Mr. Pocket.

The Coens had me at Blood Simple and it shall continue as long as I can find their work.  34 years - so hard to believe.  This antholgy is no exception.  I'm still savoring every chapter, a veritable feast for the senses.  It's hard to watch Stephen "Pan Shot!" Root without flashing back to the blind deejay.

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So I'm not clear, do you like the Coen brothers or not?

Suppose I better spoiler all this:

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I think my favorite was the Oregon Trail one. Brutal scene with the Indians, but until that scene was a completely different film. Did the dog really "survive" or did the guy let it live?

Also really liked the one with Liam Neeson. Was the actor really missing both arms and legs or was that some camera trickery?

I'll be the contrarian here: My least favorite was the Ballad of BS. (I didn't say I didn't like it, I said it was my least favorite.) 2nd least favorite was the gold valley one.

Anybody else think the carriage ride one was going to veer off into some sort of supernatural carriage ride to hell?

 

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I also really liked that each one was so very different from all the rest.

I think this is my next go-to if I can get the wife on board.

1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Also really liked the one with Liam Neeson. Was the actor really missing both arms and legs or was that some camera trickery?

The actor is Harry Potter's cousins from the movies.

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1 hour ago, High Plains Drifter said:

Fuck sorry, the spoiler didn't work. Mods please delete if necessary.

 

How the fuck do you do the spoilers-- I'm  not a smart man.

atomheartbevo beat me to it.

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I used the word "cousins" when clearly, he would only qualify as a cousin these days.

Buster sprouting wings moves out in front of Danny Boy scene from Miller's Crossing as my favorite Coen Bros. scene. 

Really want a full movie of how we got to the Buster segment.  

You know he’s Chigurh’s ancestor somehow, with that body count.  

Still have one or two episodes to go.

This is moving from good to possibly fantastic.  The pace they are using in some of these episodes are fantastic.  The Oregon Train/Dog episode was perfection.

Is this one of the most beautiful flicks ever made?  Even the Waits episode held the whole thing together.  I could have watched another hour just enjoying that valley. 

On 11/28/2018 at 1:46 PM, Sbbruin said:

I think this is my next go-to if I can get the wife on board.

Ha ha. 

Seriously?  My wife refuses to watch ANY western with me, other than her re-watching Silverado now and again.

She has the worst taste in movies of anyone who has ever drawn breath, but when I got tired of riding the trail and sleeping on the ground, I figured I needed to take a wife, and start a family,, and she was available.  

1 hour ago, tantric superman said:

Ha ha. 

Seriously?  My wife refuses to watch ANY western with me, other than her re-watching Silverado now and again.

She has the worst taste in movies of anyone who has ever drawn breath, but when I got tired of riding the trail and sleeping on the ground, I figured I needed to take a wife, and start a family,, and she was available.  

We are often at odds as well.  So we've made it through the first four, and she is not engaged.  She thought the "All Gold Canyon" was boring, but I liked it.  Only 2 to go, so I'll force it on her, like I do my wiener.

On 11/30/2018 at 10:26 AM, Sbbruin said:

so I'll force it on her, like I do my wiener.

Let me guess, she more of an In n Out girl.

Watched this Saturday morning to pass the time before the game.

Absolutely brilliant and beautiful.

My favorite line in the entire thing was James Franco looking over at the sobbing guy next to him and saying, "your first time?" 

 

 

The Girl Who Got Rattled was the best, followed Gold Canyon and then Buster. 

the facial expressions of the helpless stump-boy as his fate unfolds before him is a nightmare that will haunt me until the day I die.  some of the most unsettling shit I’ve ever seen.  true greatness.  

Love these brothers

I could listen to their dialogue forever

On 11/30/2018 at 4:21 PM, tantric superman said:

Ha ha. 

Seriously?  My wife refuses to watch ANY western with me, other than her re-watching Silverado now and again.

She has the worst taste in movies of anyone who has ever drawn breath, but when I got tired of riding the trail and sleeping on the ground, I figured I needed to take a wife, and start a family,, and she was available.  

are we married to the same person?

Have to admit, didn’t love it. The first story was fun, the rest didn’t do much for me.


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I was joking with my brother that whenever I see anyone trip ever again, I'm going to yell "dog hole!"

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I wonder if you can get poster art of those illustrations.  I loved this and the final scene of the episode:

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On 11/18/2018 at 10:45 AM, Bobby Light said:


Pan-shot!

Ha, busted out laughing at that part. About to start the third story

On 11/30/2018 at 9:21 AM, tantric superman said:

Ha ha. 

Seriously?  My wife refuses to watch ANY western with me, other than her re-watching Silverado now and again.

She has the worst taste in movies of anyone who has ever drawn breath, but when I got tired of riding the trail and sleeping on the ground, I figured I needed to take a wife, and start a family,, and she was available.  

I see what you did there.

Finished last night with the Girl who got rattled and the last one whatever it was called.  Enjoyed both.  The Girl one was great.

Meal Ticket might be my favorite. Not sure what that says about me but it’s the one that will stay with me the longest for sure. 

I loved the one about the prospector... just found it to be visually beautiful, calming and with a great ending.  

Also loved the girl that got rattled.

Really, all of it was great but the last one put me to sleep.

I guess I am in the minority, but I thought it was just okay.  Visually amazing, but the stories were just okay.  Acting was fine but I just couldn't connect.  I liked the Ballad of Buster Scruggs the best and it's wackiness sets it apart from the rest.

I guess I am in the minority, but I thought it was just okay.  Visually amazing, but the stories were just okay.  Acting was fine but I just couldn't connect.  I liked the Ballad of Buster Scruggs the best and it's wackiness sets it apart from the rest.


Yeh, same


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The first two were good. I could barely keep my eyes open for the rest of them. 

Meal Ticket stump looks just like one of our interns.  Don't have the heart to tell the kid to watch it.

17 hours ago, noharleyyet said:

Mr. Arthur is a badass. Great dialogue in Rattled. 

I really liked that you got a sense of dread that Mr. Arthur was going to do something that prevented the couple from being together and in the end, he was a complete heroic bad ass.

 

loved the scene in Rattled when Billy was making fun of the dog being named President Pierce and Alice just started laughing about it. Her reaction to it was so out of the blue compared to how somber she had been up to that point.

40 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

I really liked that you got a sense of dread that Mr. Arthur was going to do something that prevented the couple from being together and in the end, he was a complete heroic bad ass.

 

well he kinda did do something that prevented them from being together.  he gave her the gun and told her to blow her brains out if she needed to. 

2 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

I really liked that you got a sense of dread that Mr. Arthur was going to do something that prevented the couple from being together and in the end, he was a complete heroic bad ass.

 

Me too. Similar thing happened in a few of them.

 

1 hour ago, futureman said:

well he kinda did do something that prevented them from being together.  he gave her the gun and told her to blow her brains out if she needed to. 

 

Saw that one coming though.

just finished this. dark, bloody and wacky. just the way i love my Coens.

 

I thought it was kind of a Western Twilight Zone. Each episode had a twist, especially the last one. Great film making. 

Absolutely gorgeous and full of Coen greatness. 

Chelcie “Up your butt Jobu” Ross was unrecognizable. 

Glad I watched.

1. Gal who got rattled
2. Gold dude
3. Buster

1 hour ago, MissingInAction said:

Damn, I thought Billy Knapp was played by Keanu.

looks a lot like him for sure

motherfucking Tom Waits. Having him singing and getting his shit was just great. My favorite

Meal Ticker - Damn

Gal who got rattled - made me think of Romeo and Juliet

Mortal remains - great. made me think of Willie Wonka's boat ride

My least favs were the first two (+ meal ticket)

beautifully shot. Just like with any Coen bros movie I will have to watch again and just listen the the dialogue a bit more. 

I'd be really interested to know what their big influences were for this movie. The Girl Who Got Rattled reminded me of that famous Ambrose Bierce story where the union solider is trapped in a well or ravine or something (no spoliez). Saw nods to Blood Meridian (pretty sure one character was called "the kid") and nods to western artists and authors like Dobie, Tom Lea and Frederick Remington. The Coens used some kind of filter effect to create amazing colors for a lot of the movie (kind of like Soderbergh did with Traffic except he used it to saturate certain scenes with one color). It was beautiful without being too cartoonish. I'm sure they looked at a milion old west books with "plate illustrations" like the title book had.

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Here's a pen and ink from some Dobie books, and they have captions just like the book in the movie did.

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"The manner of settling difficulties"

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Tom Lea

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On 11/28/2018 at 1:46 PM, Sbbruin said:

I think this is my next go-to if I can get the wife on board.

You like to be on the bottom, eh?

Surly Joe,  Surly Joe

Won't be missed by anyone, will Surly Joe

Human kind he frowned upon but not now, his face is gone

Guess your frowning days are done oh Surly Joe  

I want a copy of the book they showed between vignettes.

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