I know this is an unusual statement
Aug. 8th, 2009 10:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
But I actually preferred "Burn After Reading" to "No Country For Old Men".
Not that I disliked "No Country", but "Burn After Reading" was a hell of a lot more fun.
Not that I disliked "No Country", but "Burn After Reading" was a hell of a lot more fun.
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Date: 2009-08-08 10:13 pm (UTC)SF author Daniel Keyes Moran eloquently expressed what I think about "No Country For Old Men".
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Date: 2009-08-08 10:14 pm (UTC)Burn After Reading was more fun, but also disposable / lightweight, as I feel Coen Brothers films tend to be. It's what keeps them from being great IMO, that they're always just ironic movie movies, with nothing to say about reality.
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Date: 2009-08-08 10:29 pm (UTC)It's The Hudsucker Proxy that's my favourite though - it's fantastically well put together, and I love the feeling of magic and humour to it. Not very deep though.
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Date: 2009-08-08 11:44 pm (UTC)Have you seen Blood Simple or Miller's Crossing - probably my two favourite Coen brothers films, though I will always prefer Sam Raimi...
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Date: 2009-08-09 11:51 am (UTC)I like bits of Sam Raimi, and I enjoyed Drag Me To Hell, but his plots tend to be simplistic or downright rubbish (see Spiderman, for instance - I disliked all three movies, with the second being the least dislikable).
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