I think that's Eazy's friend.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I did not think Fargo was mean wrt lol mn accents! Ppl talk that way!
― rad bandit (gbx), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
xp (The confusion is understandable, though.)
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:36 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link
That MST3K guy is friends with my cousin - but I knew his brother Ch4d. My friend Avr0m is in the bar mitzvah scene.
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:40 (fourteen years ago) link
chfourd?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:47 (fourteen years ago) link
surely you've never used a number in place of a letter, s1ocki?
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Monday, 19 October 2009 20:50 (fourteen years ago) link
I def. agree the movie didn't hate Larry, at all. It didn't hate Judaism either, it had more of a "humans not fitting into divine systems" thing going on.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
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n0 n3v3r
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
Esp. not when I talk about my friends Avrom and Chad.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
"humans not fitting into divine systems"
To me, it's more amused with humans expecting "divine systems" to be repair manuals, like whatever the punchline the second rabbi uses, along the lines of "Hashem doesn't tell me everything."
I wonder if the rubes will boil as much at this film's sort-of-open ending the way they did with No Country. (This won't be nearly as big a hit, obv, lacking a killer.)
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
those rubes!
― cialis morissette (goole), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Rub3s.
― Alex in SF, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
lacking a killer
more importantly, lacking a bigger star than Richard Kind.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
VERY excited for this -- especially with advance notice that there are twin-cities centric joeks herein, tho maybe of a vintage i won't get
― cialis morissette (goole), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
No gentile babies were conceived during the time frame of this movie (except for me).
― Yo! GOP Raps (suzy), Tuesday, 20 October 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Ella Taylor: "To cap it all, Larry's pneumatic pothead of a neighbor (Amy Landecker), the sole looker in sight and therefore probably a shiksa"
There was a mezuzah on her door!
― suggest friend (hmmmm), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 04:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, didn't she also say, after Larry remarked that he didn't care for the neighbors on the other side, "Goys, huh?"
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:02 (fourteen years ago) link
hmmm someone might want to mark this thread as full of spoilers already
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
yes! watch movies better crazy lady! it really disproves her whole risible "ugly jew" thesis
xp
― suggest friend (hmmmm), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
The hot neighbor was so obv not a goy, tho clearly derived from Mrs Robinson (even the tropical plants in her house).
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:02 (fourteen years ago) link
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after a movie comes out i think spoilers are fair game... i mean you can assume that we're actually talking about the film and not anticipating at this point no?
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:34 (fourteen years ago) link
it hasn't been released everywhere
― elmo leonard (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link
what happened to freedom of speech in this country
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
you're canadian
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:41 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, what country did u think i was referring to
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
a country with free speech!
― how rad bandit (gbx), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 13:48 (fourteen years ago) link
loved loved the ending
― iatee, Friday, 23 October 2009 09:29 (fourteen years ago) link
parking lot rabbi = omg. up there with any scene they've written.
― iatee, Friday, 23 October 2009 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
this was so great
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 October 2009 01:53 (fourteen years ago) link
the son's friend looked EXACTLY like fred armisen.
― LaMonte, Saturday, 24 October 2009 03:30 (fourteen years ago) link
omg I was trying to figure out who he looked like! that's it.
― iatee, Saturday, 24 October 2009 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
call w/ records club guy where he repeats santana's abraxis like 12 times was incredible
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:28 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the coen brothers are making it about there father
― FACK, Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Job was their dad?
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:45 (fourteen years ago) link
embrace the mystery.
― banned, on the run (s1ocki), Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
cause i heard they were basing the character off there dad, i also heard they basing it off the book of job, i could be wrong
― FACK, Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Can't be both unless Job is their dad so yeah.
― We call them "meat hemorrhoids" (Alex in SF), Saturday, 24 October 2009 15:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 October 2009 14:28 (3 hours ago)
THIS^^^^^^^^^^^
― LaMonte, Saturday, 24 October 2009 18:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i kinda dumb, and i know the ending is meant to be ambiguous, but what are we mean to infer about the kid and the 20 dollars? Why that meaningful look? Is he deciding not to give the money?
― ryan, Monday, 26 October 2009 17:01 (fourteen years ago) link
hes all lets see how this tornado plays out before i hand over the money - the general theme was disruption of staid lives - only unlike everyone else in the movie the kid sees possibility in the chaos - he does share their small minded outlook tho
can def see how some might get the impression that the coens dont like these people v much - tho the level of cultural insight and attention to detail is affection enough imo
― ice cr?m, Saturday, 31 October 2009 18:54 (fourteen years ago) link
OK I need a press screening for this, STAT. Very anxious to see this - British reviews are, so far, fantastic - but had a chat with a Jewish writer over here that really needed to go to shul re Midwest Jewry ie. he was surprised there *were* any. I relayed details of the conversation to my mom and it earned a big, fat WTF That said, British Jewish writer said he cursed his great-grandparents for getting off at Southampton instead of continuing on to Ellis Island.
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Saturday, 31 October 2009 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I really really wanted to like this but just... didn't laugh. Yes, a bit too cruel, but that wasn't so much the problem for me - I just found it hammy and unfunny. I think there is something wrong with me, judging by the reaction of the rest of the (Washington DC) audience.
― ljubljana, Sunday, 1 November 2009 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
WaPo meets the Frozen Chosen
― fake plastic butts (suzy), Sunday, 1 November 2009 02:32 (fourteen years ago) link
loved the ending of this
― TGAAPQ (Mr. Que), Monday, 2 November 2009 17:05 (fourteen years ago) link
I quite enjoyed this. The first half seemed tenser and sadder to me. I think the tone lightened a bit in the second half, as the plot twists and tangents got a bit kookier, allowing the Coens to display their gifts of concision and visual narrative. Then when things finally seem to be lightening up, there comes the ominous twist of the ambiguous ending, seeming to foreshadow another downward lurch.
― o. nate, Monday, 2 November 2009 20:57 (fourteen years ago) link
really really really did not dig this myself. everyone was just so damn miserable! didn't even warm up to the main character until the last quarter of the film. and the ending.. ugh. just too nihilistic for me, i guess
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 November 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
well, that speaks well of how your days go, cuz it seemed pretty lifelike to my eyes; mazel tov!
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 November 2009 03:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Miserable was probably not the right word - I meant almost every character felt irredeemably annoying and horrible. Makes sense for this movie, since they're all just different avenues to torture the main character, but it makes for a really aggravating film when it doesn't feel like it's really going anywhere, especially with that ending. I can't believe how much effort and time was wasted for that last joke with the last rabbi, for example. I kind of wish the movie ended after the opening scene.
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 November 2009 03:28 (fourteen years ago) link
believe me my days do not go well
― Nhex, Saturday, 7 November 2009 03:29 (fourteen years ago) link