;-D
― the late great, Thursday, 1 March 2012 01:08 (twelve years ago) link
This might be a bit obscure but if you're interested in more background on Quantrill's Raiders, Cole Younger & his involvement with the James gang, this CBS radio docudrama from the 50's does a pretty good job of it:
http://archive.org/details/OTRR_Crime_Classics_Singles - episode 28 "The Younger Brothers and Why Some Of Them Grew No Older" (geddit hur)(can listen to the ep here online, or it's available on itunes for download too)
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 4 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
just watched this again
i liked it when i first saw it, but i somehow failed to notice that it is unbelievably great
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:15 (eleven years ago) link
yeah! i rewatched it a few months ago remembering that i liked it a lot when it came out but had still filed it away as minor coens... it really isnt though, its top tier. choked up at the end
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:39 (eleven years ago) link
yup.
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:40 (eleven years ago) link
holds up to multiple rewatches for sure. Gets better as time goes on, I think.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 17 December 2012 06:43 (eleven years ago) link
What a great movie. Guess I avoided it all these years just b/c it was a Western. Should have immediately watched it after I loved (most of) Buster Scruggs.
― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
Just rewatched this last Saturday with my wife. The attention to detail was superb throughout and I appreciated that the Coens reclaimed this as Maddie's story, instead of Cogburn's.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 18:48 (four years ago) link
just watched this a few months back for the first time. the cast is great is my main takeaway. will have to rewatch after some time passes, didn't see it as top-tier coens but not minor coens either.
this was the only Coen brothers movie - other than the ladykillers - that I hadn't seen. maybe I should take the plunge with that turkey soon
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 April 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
the ladykillers has one good performance in it by the black landlady and a total stinkeroo from Tom Hanks. I'd be surprised if you stuck it to the end, as it just progressively sinks to lower and lower levels of badness as the time drags on.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
i love the Coens a lot and can't imagine wanting to rewatch The Ladykillers, but there's plenty of time so
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:02 (four years ago) link
I imagine the Coens didn't audition Hanks for the role in Ladykillers, because Hanks was too big a star to audition. Big, big mistake. His complete inability to cope with his role ruined the movie beyond redemption. But, as the Coens no doubt knew, you don't tell that to Tom Hanks during shooting; you swallow hard, take your lumps, and never work with him again.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:11 (four years ago) link
I thought he was trying to one up Peter Sellers tbh, or, he seems like an OK guy, maybe it was a tribute
― clap for content-providers (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:13 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afRFR2UNYzI
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:30 (four years ago) link
Poor Hailee. Her handlers wouldn't even let her sing in her own voice. They had to run it through some filter and drown it in a sea of overproduction. She was v good in the movie, though.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link
She really was.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 20:42 (four years ago) link
I like True Grit but feel like it was a good movie brought down a bit from the upper tier Cohen Brothers oeuvre by the completely useless presence of Matt Damon. I'm enough of a classic western sap to enjoy lots of it though.
― calzino, Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
I completely forgot Matt Damon was in this!
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
Matt Damon is fabulous! He handled the comedy like a pro.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
yeah, Matt Damon is great in this
― COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:53 (four years ago) link
his comedy paedophilia wasn't enough to compensate for him being a shit boring actor imo!
― calzino, Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
This was the era when Matt Damon realized he was a blank and shrewdly started to manipulate it for max impactx.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:56 (four years ago) link