Coen Brothers Movies - Pick Your Top Two Faves

[buffcoat]

Monk's dad and Carla's husband teamed up as a bad Texas dude.

[Christina]

You leave DePalma out of this, Chris.

oooooo! FIGHT! FIGHT!

[scratchbomb]

Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men. I hate to be obvious, but I couldn't think of an argument against picking them other than "everyone else will pick them".

[whaleplane]

A Serious Man is one of the best movies I've seen this year. It's too close to call between that and Inglourious Basterds for my favorite movie of '09, with The Informant bringing up the rear with a strong bronze. Either way, I voted for No Country and Fargo because those two, especially, are untouchable. Barton Fink, Burn After Reading, Raising Arizona, Lebowski are good too. So are the rest of them oh my god don't make me choose.

[Jack from Arkansas]

I can't believe I gave my Dad grief for taking me to see Raising Arizona instead of Spaceballs at the theater.  Raising Arizona is like a diamond mine and Barton Fink has the greatest atmosphere.  It's hard to pick favorites with the C-Bros.

[Wes]

I haven't seen A Serious Man yet, and will probably never see their Ladykillers. My votes went to Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. I think The Dane is their best antagonist, and they've created some of the best villains in movie history.

I was talking about their movies with a fellow FOT the other day and decided I wanted to see a Crisis on Infinite Earths-style Coens movie where all the leads from their films are brought together, though I couldn't come up with what they'd actually do. He countered that the movie should be a Wacky Races/Laff-A-Lympics /Cannonball Run kind of movie. We were undecided as to whether the Dude's Torino or The Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse would be the favorite to win.

[Chris L]

I haven't seen A Serious Man yet, and will probably never see their Ladykillers. My votes went to Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. I think The Dane is their best antagonist, and they've created some of the best villains in movie history.

I was talking about their movies with a fellow FOT the other day and decided I wanted to see a Crisis on Infinite Earths-style Coens movie where all the leads from their films are brought together, though I couldn't come up with what they'd actually do. He countered that the movie should be a Wacky Races/Laff-A-Lympics /Cannonball Run kind of movie. We were undecided as to whether the Dude's Torino or The Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse would be the favorite to win.

Yes, they would be looking for the money Buscemi buried in Fargo.  Don't know if it'd be worth traversing time and space for that amount, but who am I to say.   

[fletcher munson]

Yeah, what happened to Buscemi's career?  I don't really watch 30 Rock, so I haven't seen him in anything since The Sopranos.  

[Pat K]

What a tough call. This will be the hardest decision I make all day.  I'm so tempted to give reactionary votes to The Man Who Wasn't There and Barton Fink, just to shore up their numbers. But if I've gotta be honest, the only correct answer is Raising Arizona and No Country.  When you want Funny Coens, it don't get no funnier than Raising Arizona. And when you want Scary, Hardcore, Badass Coens, it don't get no more hardcore than No Country.

[Chris L]

Fargo and Lebowski would be the two I'd miss most if all of them dropped off the face of the earth.

[Pat K]

I was talking about their movies with a fellow FOT the other day and decided I wanted to see a Crisis on Infinite Earths-style Coens movie where all the leads from their films are brought together, though I couldn't come up with what they'd actually do. He countered that the movie should be a Wacky Races/Laff-A-Lympics /Cannonball Run kind of movie. We were undecided as to whether the Dude's Torino or The Lone Biker Of The Apocalypse would be the favorite to win.

Yes, they would be looking for the money Buscemi buried in Fargo. 

This is so funny I can't stand it. I'm thinking about some wacky It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World-type comic pairings, like where Larry Gopnik and Anton Chighur comandeer an old biplane, while Barton Fink and William H Macy have to drive an old model T or something.

[Jouster]

Yeah, what happened to Buscemi's career?  I don't really watch 30 Rock, so I haven't seen him in anything since The Sopranos.  

Seems like he's focusing more on directing.  He's done two feature films and a bunch of TV (Sopranos, 30 Rock, Nurse Jackie) in the last few years.  I do know he's in the upcoming Youth in Revolt adaptation with Michael Cera.