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billyweeds |
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:48 am |
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marantzo wrote: gromit wrote: I recently had a request for some comedy films from my 18 year old niece.
So one film I tossed in was Burn After Reading, which I thought was pretty amusing and under-appreciated. And I assume they didn't see.
I appreciated it. Liked it a lot. Saw it twice. I agree, it was under-appreciated.
I pretty much loved Burn After Reading, which I think is one of the Coens' best forays into comedy and superior to some more-appreciated films of theirs coughBartonFinkOBrotherWhereArtThoiu?cough |
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gromit |
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 12:54 pm |
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You also don't get Raising Arizona ... |
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bartist |
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 3:47 pm |
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I had heard nothing about "Gambit." Now I'm curious, too. Any project the Coens script is a Coen project, and you wouldn't expect it to enter Distribution Hell after a UK release. |
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billyweeds |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:07 am |
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gromit wrote: You also don't get Raising Arizona ...
Don't quite know what you mean. I happen to love Raising Arizona. |
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gromit |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 1:34 am |
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My mistake then.
I thought you didn't like RA for some reason.
Maybe it's whiskeyp who has trouble with Coen humor (?) |
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whiskeypriest |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 10:04 am |
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gromit wrote: My mistake then.
I thought you didn't like RA for some reason.
Maybe it's whiskeyp who has trouble with Coen humor (?) I don't lile Raisng Arizona and prefer humor as an element of their movies rather than the main course. At least their early stuff. |
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gromit |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:08 am |
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I shall duly transfer my opprobrium on to your person. |
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bartist |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:10 am |
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bartist wrote: I had heard nothing about "Gambit." Now I'm curious, too. Any project the Coens script is a Coen project, and you wouldn't expect it to enter Distribution Hell after a UK release.
HAS ANYONE HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT GAMBIT?? IT IS A FILM WRITTEN BY THE COENS AND THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT THE COENS.
Jeez louise. |
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gromit |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 11:28 am |
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If it's the film with Cameron Diaz and a cheesy cover, I spotted it in the dvd shop on the way home tonight. |
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bartist |
Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:13 pm |
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Yes, with Diaz and Colin Firth and Tom Courtenay and Alan Rickman and, of course, Cloris Leachman, once again teaming up with her posse of handsome Brits. If you look at a synopsis, it fairly screams "I'm a Coen brothers movie!" Why we would see it two years after the UK, and after Chinese are watching on DVD, is mystifying.
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Posted: Sat Dec 07, 2013 12:53 pm |
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Guess I'll pick it up then.
Is this a remake of the Shirley MacLaine/Michael Caine snoozer from the mid-60's?
The new Gambit currently has a 5.6 rating at IMDb.
The Coens don't do light comedy remakes well.
At least in the case of The Ladykillers, which was pretty dreadful.
Hope this one doesn't involve extended fart jokes.
Here's the cheesy cover I was referring to:
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Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2014 12:59 pm |
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I guess I should post this here....
Quote: Like others here, I didn't like Llewyn Davis as much as I wanted to. In spite of the scene-stealing performance of Bill Weeden, who mugs hilariously, shouting "Hi, sailor boy!" and waving around what I can only hope was a prosthetic of some kind, the bulk of the film is a plotless meander of tedious brooding and whiny refusals to grab any of life's opportunities. Plot almost broke out as Llewyn was driving past the freeway exit to Akron, but was adroitly shrugged off, so that the hope-killing and brooding could continue in an orderly fashion. No one really loved anyone and some were vicious, others merely heartless. Connections were not made. No wonder people are praising the cat action - it was about the only thing at all enjoyable to watch.
That said, T. Bone Burnett is awesome - his music makes for a film that is, at least, listenable.
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:56 pm |
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A total misfire, IMO. Good acting, but the roles were caricatures. Plot sucked. Joel and Ethan, what happened, guys? |
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billyweeds |
Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 12:59 pm |
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Though I disagree on the "total misfire" thing, the movie is a disappointment. And although I am a huge Coen fan, the praise (and Best Picture award--or awards?) that the movie has gotten are just wrong. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:08 pm |
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Nonsense. It is brilliant beyond compare. I could not be more.certain of this if I had actually managed to see the movle. Which I haven't. |
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