Exo

Highly underrated and highly exceptional Coen brothers movie. This oen is up there in my top five of their films. They really are just flat out amazing filmmakers.

9/10



Good old sci-fi fun but definitely not a great film.

6/10

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I love Miller's Crossing so much. It's definitely been overshadowed by the other Coen films such as the Big Lebowski, Fargo, etc. A Serious Man is one of their greater feats that was robbed from any favourable limelight IMO.

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debaserr

A film like A Serious Man would never be in the spotlight. It's just not made for it.

Having said that, I love both A Serious Man and Miller's Crossing.

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Moodiesfanalways

Last movie I went to? The Iron lady. Meryl Streep deserved that award she got. It was an incredible performance.

Last movie I watched at the house? Was kind of in a surly mood last night so I popped in Unforgiven. Best line in the movie? Two are tied for first.

"We all got it coming kid."

"Or I'll come back and kill every one of you sons o' bitches!"

jackhammer

I have tried to watch Miller's Crossing a couple of times and just can't get into it for some reason.

I utterly respect the Coen Brothers for making quirky and off mainstream films generally but I barely like any of their movies TBH. Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Fargo is about it for me.


Absolutely nothing wrong with it in principal. Some genuine funny moments and the leads worked off each other well but I just couldn't help thinking Planes, Trains and Automobiles all the damn time (which is far better and more touching).

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MoonlitSunshine

That book that this is based on was a favourite of my childhood, I'm loathe to see the adaptation because I know it is raaaather different. I would give it some leeway - though. The main character isn't meant to be able to speak English, English as a language didn't exist back then :P The line is possibly taken from the book, possibly adapted into a setting from the book, which isn't exactly written in Latin in the first place :P

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jackhammer

It is a bugbear of mine regarding spoken language in pre English Language times which I alluded too. The Passion Of The Christ and Apocalypto both used language close to what was being spoken at the time so why can't these sort of films

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Janszoon

That's never really bothered me honestly. A director can probably get a better performance out of an actor who doesn't have to recite lines in some dead language that they're not familiar with.

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jackhammer

The performances in both aforementioned films were damn good and they were using dead languages. An actor is generally not familiar with many subjects, cadence of speech or use of language initially but that's their job and I would think that many actors would relish the chance to step outside of their comfort zone and also try to be more historically accurate.

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Mrd00d

Definitely under-rated. I haven't seen a Coen Bros film I haven't liked, though.
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I've seen some trash lately. The one I remember most is some C-rate military movie called Hunt For Eagle One or some such. I had no idea it was going to be so laughable. The acting, the script, the direction were all eye-roll worthy. I spent the majority of the film panning it. 2/10

I saw Hunted with ... Tommy Lee Jones and Benicio Del Toro and thought
it was fairly decent. Like 6/10 decent. It kept my attention. I enjoyed the wilderness traps and the 'hunting' aspect, but there were a couple places where the idea fell flat. Generally it was enjoyable though. Good combat, good suspense at times.

and 16 Blocks with Bruce Willis and Mos Def. I got a kick out of Mos Def's accent the whole time. He either really embellished himself or just let loose. But it was a decent story. 6/10 in my books. Bruce was kind of ... so-so but Mos Def (now known as Yasiin Bey by the way... why'd he have to 'grow out of' such a memorable name?) really stole the show, for what it was worth. Mos Def... best rapper -> actor to date in my opinion. That's not saying much, but I'm still saying it.

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