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In Reply to: Ha! Good one... posted by rhizomatic on March 08, 2004 at 10:06:36:
I think Hanks is a good comic actor who needs to revisit his roots. I didn't think he looked or sounded so ridiculous, but then I've only seen the preview in passing.As for the Coen Brothers, you're right. They don't deserve their currency. Fargo broke them, and I suppose that was dererved, though their best films were already behind them. But everything after has seemed to me to be their selling out to the worst possible caricature of their former work, and it all begins with the writing. No film is so tight or well-conceived as Miller's Crossing (far and away their best film), Barton Fink, or the Hudsucker Proxy (though the latter suffers under some strained performaces if not just from the casting--hard to know exactly where to place the blame).
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I thought this one was VERY good, well written, well cast, and well acted. The black and white cinematography (it is a noir story but is shot in various grays instead of the typical noir high contrast) is stunning.
It was an unexpected gem.
Very moving.
It was a good film, but curiously I donīt have any demand to see it again?
The second time I saw it I thought it was even better than I remembered.
. . . with all their movies. By the third viewing, it all falls into place.I just don't know if I can make it through the 2nd time with "O Brother".
That's the one Coen Brothers film I want to give a second chance to. (Re-watched the Big Labowski again recently, and still don't get the cult following.) But I was disappointed when I saw it, and thought the B & W gimmicky. But it's been how many years since its release? I'm more than willing to be wrong about it.
It was released in late 2001.
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