Director Spotlight: The Coen Brothers • Page 2

I spent years avoiding Lebowski bc of the hype from its annoying bro-y fanbase and then I watched it for the first time last year and it was somehow even funnier than they said it was

 

The Big Lebowski fanbase is pretty terrible, but compared to a lot of the other hysterical ones they are harmless.

 

Fargo, No Country, Lebowski, Llewyn Davis, and O Brother are perfect movies. Most directors would be lucky to make one of them.

And the rest of their filmography is nearly as good (minus a couple duds). The consistency of their quality is remarkable.

 

Literally impossible to choose a top 5 even

 

1. The Big Lebowski
2. No Country for Old Men
3. A Serious Man
4. Inside Llewyn Davis
5. Barton Fink
6. Fargo
7. Miller's Crossing
8. Burn After Reading
9. True Grit
10. The Man Who Wasn't There
11. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
12. Blood Simple
13. Raising Arizona
14. Hail Caesar!
15. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
16. Intolerable Cruelty
17. The Hudsucker Proxy
18. The Ladykillers

 

pretty much agree with that, maybe flip fargo and barton fink and then move blood simple up a few

 

That and this one are probably my two favorite scenes from HC

 

How many other directors have the batting average that they have? Maybe 3 movies out of 18 that aren’t great, so 1/6? The only ones I can think of that come close to that are much less prolific, like Kubrick or PTA

 

O Brother is maybe my favorite movie

 

We watched O'Brother Where Art Thou in 9th grade English after we read The Odyssey. Our teacher loved Man of Constant Sorrow, so we would frequently restart the movie from that part. It took us like a month to watch.

 

I rented it with my dad when it came out and the very next day he went to the mall and bought the soundtrack

 

Fargo is my favorite movie of all time.

 

To be fair it is a good song.

 

The lack of a traditional score in No Country is still just so impressive to me, such effective and palpable tensions throughout

 

wow way less people loving Barton Fink than I thought in here

honestly think it's one of the greatest ever