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Worst Coen Movie Ever

posted 10 years ago by packerpassion4
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This was the worst Coen film ever. It does not compare well with either Fargo or Blood Simple. It needed some violence to make it more interesting. Murders made both Fargo and Blood Simple compelling movies. I was hoping several times that Lawrence was going to kill either his slutty wife or her lover Sal. I would have ejoyed seeing that. It was good though that Sal was killed in a car crash . Judith's incessant crying after his death was sickening. Why Lawrence was forced to pay for Sal's funeral is beyond me. Even more so is why he agreed to do it. No real man would do something like that, paying for the funeral of your wife's lover. Spitting on his grave would be my reaction. This movie just wasted 2 hours of my life.

[–] ossyguy 10 years ago

Have you read through the posts?

I know where everything is.

[–] jcarpenter-1 10 years ago

Worst point of view ever. Stick to Twilight: New Moon.

[–] SonarScan 10 years ago

I guess you missed Ladykilkers and Burn After Reading

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Why couldn't Claire find any hairbrushes in the luggage?

[–] ghostworld2001 8 years ago

And Intolerable Cruelty. That movie & the Coen brothers should not be mentioned in the same sentence.

[–] pmatnike 8 years ago

To think that those aren't good movies, is laughable.

[–] Don_Cheech 10 years ago

You ever hear the saying "Take it with a grain of salt"? That applies here. This movie goes deep. You just don't understand it.

[–] ossyguy 10 years ago

Understanding 'A Serious Man' ..So important

[–] Don_Cheech 10 years ago

sarcasm?

[–] ossyguy 10 years ago

What do you think?

[–] Don_Cheech 10 years ago

Well apparently you enjoy being sarcastic. Its not that its important to understand it, its that its better to understand it. Any subject of entertainment is always more entertaining once you understand it. Its a shame he doesnt understand it. Get it?

[–] ossyguy 10 years ago

Hey I'm with you BUDDY I love this film and have spent years trying to work out what the F is on with it.
My take is that on the surface Larry is hard done by but when you shine a little light you realize he just did not man up...his wife loathed him.. and he didn't even seem to notice..
So no I wasn't being sarcastic....
Peace

[–] jrhpax 9 years ago

I haven't seen "Ladykillers." But my least favorite of the Coen Brothers' movies I've seen is "The Man Who Wasn't There."

[–] pmatnike 8 years ago

It's a very decent, dry comedy/crime film. I recommend it

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[–] iamthewinner 9 years ago

He's quoting the movie...

[–] mark5000910 9 years ago

A "dark comedy"?
I found no humour at all in this film, dark or otherwise!
This was a film I watched because it had a "Cohen Brothers" label, but I too was disappointed

[–] mudsharkbytes (169) 6 years ago

Virtually every scene in the movie is constructed from humorous content, even the darkest ones - It’s just not the belly laugh kind of humor you may be used to.

[–] [email protected] (690) 6 years ago

I've only watched this closely once, but I found it both puzzling and intriguing, which I like a lot.
I see so many posts where people don't like movies that don't conform to their expectation, but that's often what I like most about a film. having a different perspective, an ambiguous message.

[–] dsgoorevitch 9 years ago

The Coen Brothers love every kind of person but two: Jews and non-Jews. That's why I despised this movie. But the little ghost story had merit... and more interest than what follows. I don't think it's a matter of lacking violence. Certainly I would have removed Sal's oleaginous hands as he Dr. Philed me in the cafe but that was kind of the point of the character: he was a kind of onlooker in his own life, as many people are, stumbling from problem to problem, doing his best while the whirlwind rages around them without their even knowing it. If only these two boychiks (the Coen Brothers) would just grow up.

[–] aidankost 7 years ago

This movie was hysterical! I haven't seen many Cohen Bros. movies (much to my dismay), but my least favorite was Raising Arizona. It was a good movie, though. My favorite is Fargo.

[–] mudsharkbytes (169) 6 years ago

In my opinion, at present, this is the last truly great movie the Coen’s have made. Not that the movies they’ve made since aren’t also excellent - they’re incapable of making a bad movie in that sense - but “A Serious Man” is the last one which, like Fargo or Barton Fink, stands up to repeated viewings and has the kind of content that will keep your brain chewing on it for a long time after the movie ends.

When a movie sticks in my head like this, that means I’m still being entertained long after it ended, and that is what makes a movie truly great.