Tokyo-Saint Posted 11 February, 2013 Share Posted 11 February, 2013 I have heard about deliverance but that is the first time I have actually seen it. One thing that clip doesn't explain is why is the piggy man wearing a nappy? Also something that is not clear, why are tits now banned from the muppet show but bumming videos are ok in the arts section? Is it cause it is art and therefore not porn? The rules are never clear on this forum therefore we all walk the infraction tight rope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 11 February, 2013 Author Share Posted 11 February, 2013 Fargo - always a good yarn Not all Coen Brothers movies have the stuff of greatness about them perhaps, but they have never made a bad film in my opinion - from the almost forgotten 'Blood Simple' all the way to the massively successful 'No Country for Old Men'. But 'Fargo' is perhaps the pinnacle of their creative output thus far. A audacious piece of film making that has gained a (well deserved) cult status among movie fans because in more than a century of film production there is nothing else quite like it. And yes I am 'kinda funny lookin' before anyone asks ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 11 February, 2013 Share Posted 11 February, 2013 Not all Coen Brothers movies have the stuff of greatness about them perhaps, but they have never made a bad film in my opinion - from the almost forgotten 'Blood Simple' all the way to the massively successful 'No Country for Old Men'. But 'Fargo' is perhaps the pinnacle of their creative output thus far. A audacious piece of film making that has gained a (well deserved) cult status among movie fans because in more than a century of film production there is nothing else quite like it. And yes I am 'kinda funny lookin' before anyone asks ... Did you spot all the product placements in Fargo? And have you tried 'A Simple Man'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 I've got some serious gaps in my Coen brothers knowledge. Fargo is excellent, and I'd have a rare measure of agreement with Chapel End Charlie on there being nothing else quite like it. I've seen true life movies before and I've seen black humour. I've not seen much of that in the same film. Frances McDormand's character sums it up neatly at the end, when she reflects on the details of the investigation and remarks upon what a waste it all was, and all for a bit of money. It's not my favourite Coen brothers film, but has a compelling message about the lust for status leading to the destruction of everything important. The Big Lebowski is probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's notoriously difficult to get on with on the first watch, but it truly is a fine wine of movies. Walter, the man represented in my avatar, is a superb character. Complete arsehole, pulls a gun to settle a bowling dispute, goes off the rails several times, can't help relating everything to Vietnam, gets tons of stuff wrong for major comic effect. You watch that movie a few times, and you realise he nails all the big calls. Fantastic movie, endlessly rewatchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearsy Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 you realise he nails all the big calls. You mean Smokey was over the line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 You mean Smokey was over the line? Well, she did kidnap herself, and he can get you a toe by three in the afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 12 February, 2013 Author Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Did you spot all the product placements in Fargo? And have you tried 'A Simple Man'? Well no doubt the sells of tan Oldsmobile Cutlass's took off after this fine movie was released, but please tell more because I just love movie trivia in all it many forms. I must admit to not having read the book either, but judging my some of the reviews available on the net, I probably should! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank's cousin Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Not all Coen Brothers movies have the stuff of greatness about them perhaps, but they have never made a bad film in my opinion - from the almost forgotten 'Blood Simple' all the way to the massively successful 'No Country for Old Men'. But 'Fargo' is perhaps the pinnacle of their creative output thus far. A audacious piece of film making that has gained a (well deserved) cult status among movie fans because in more than a century of film production there is nothing else quite like it. And yes I am 'kinda funny lookin' before anyone asks ... Tis good....Ja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marsdinho Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Whats wrong with you lot !!!!....I cant believe that no one has mentioned Star Wars !!! I too was watching Room 101, during which, Mrs Mars turned to me and said "haven't you seen Star Wars about 18 times?" "Yeah, in one weekend!" I'm 36, I reckon I have watched Star Wars AT LEAST a couple of hundred times. I spent every waking hour watching star wars from about the age of 6 to 12/13. I used to know the whole script off by heart. God, how did I manged to find a female to marry me!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Watching Star wars again with my kids as well, will watch that over and again until I die without a doubt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Anything by David Lynch always gets a watch, and I never tire of Tarantino. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 (edited) Here's another that I left off the list. Just watched for the 20th time at least, always seems to be on a movie channel somewhere. Robocop. Wooden acting from unknowns, script you see coming a week away, 100,000 bullets fired at him and not one hits his face... But it is STILL a damned good film. There is one I believe many of you will eventually watch again and again. To be honest when I told him what we were gonna watch the other night, had to drag son-in-law screaming back into the room.... He simply did not believe it could be funny instead of gross and have jokes in a storyline but he watched... and headed off through the airport today listening to Aladeen muvvafvker on his Iphone still laughing... "I'm pregnant". "Oh good are you having a boy or an abortion?" Yeah The Dictator has joined the elite special movies wallet alongside Kelly's Heroes Edited 12 February, 2013 by dubai_phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 12 February, 2013 Author Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Whats wrong with you lot !!!!....I cant believe that no one has mentioned Star Wars !!! I too was watching Room 101, during which, Mrs Mars turned to me and said "haven't you seen Star Wars about 18 times?" "Yeah, in one weekend!" I'm 36, I reckon I have watched Star Wars AT LEAST a couple of hundred times. I spent every waking hour watching star wars from about the age of 6 to 12/13. I used to know the whole script off by heart. God, how did I manged to find a female to marry me!!! It's a mystery. But you're quite right, every time ITV show Star Wars on the telly I'll happily sit down and watch it all over again. I'll even watch the much derided Episodes 1, 2, and 3 - Ja Ja bloody Binks and all! The kids are much the same with Harry Potter ... I must admit I leave them to get on with that on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 No not the movie just a promo interview Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pap Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 It's a mystery. But you're quite right, every time ITV show Star Wars on the telly I'll happily sit down and watch it all over again. I'll even watch the much derided Episodes 1, 2, and 3 - Ja Ja bloody Binks and all! The kids are much the same with Harry Potter ... I must admit I leave them to get on with that on their own. Rightfully derided Episodes 1, 2 & 3. http://redlettermedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintbletch Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Miller's Crossing. That's about the only film that I will make a point of watching again and again and again (is that tautology or just redundant repetition? Sorry CHAPEL END CHARLIE!) As with books, I usually like to walk away with my memories, and over time fill in the blanks from my subconscious first view. The more questions I'm left with, the more I have to use my imagination, the better the book/film. Reading/watching something twice usually means that I arrive with preconceptions and the 'meaning' ends up being self-fulfilling. I actually find it easier to watch 'pulpy' stuff more than once. I've probably seen Pretty in Pink more than any other film because I loved the sound track when I was younger, and now my wife and daughter regularly watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shurlock Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 Walter, the man represented in my avatar, is a superb character. Complete arsehole, pulls a gun to settle a bowling dispute, goes off the rails several times, can't help relating everything to Vietnam, gets tons of stuff wrong for major comic effect. You watch that movie a few times, and you realise he nails all the big calls. But the ringer was the beginning of the end and the descent into madness? Agree Walter is brilliant - cant think of a more entertainingly pious character: "you're killing your father larry". The Man Who Wasn't There and Raising Arizona are also great Coen Brothers film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timebomb Posted 12 February, 2013 Share Posted 12 February, 2013 For me the first Predator The Godfather - any of them as watching one tends to lead to the others. Casino. Pulp Fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinger Posted 13 February, 2013 Share Posted 13 February, 2013 Films I've watched so many times I know all the words (most of which already mentioned on this thread): The Big Lebowski E.T. Withnail & I Vanishing Point Star Wars (original trilogy) The Princess Bride The Hudsucker Proxy (y'know, for kids) Actually, I don't think I've seen anyone mention Withnail & I yet, and that's definitely the one I've seen most, running easily into the hundreds of times in my youth. Endlessly, tediously quotable. Whenever anyone complains about an artist 'selling out', something not being as good now it's popular, I'll trot out "They're selling hippy wigs in Woolworths, man..." I absolutely love showing it to people who've never seen it before, but then hate having to sit quietly and not quote every line just a fraction of a second before it's delivered on screen. Maybe the best ever British comedy? Monty you terrible ****! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frank's cousin Posted 13 February, 2013 Share Posted 13 February, 2013 How could we forget Uncle Monty - and his cabbages - 'I mean to have you, even if its burglary' - amazingly funny whilst carry an undercurrent of the cultural shifts from the 60s to 70s.... a story of unrequited love? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonManager Posted 13 February, 2013 Share Posted 13 February, 2013 'We've come on holiday by mistake!' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 13 February, 2013 Share Posted 13 February, 2013 The Jerk and the Man with two brains are works of genius and I never get tired of watching them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 15 February, 2013 Author Share Posted 15 February, 2013 EMBARRASSING REVELATION TIME: I found myself watching 'Any Which Way But Loose' yet again last night. Not Eastwood's greatest work by any means, but another movie that kinda sucks you in somehow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinger Posted 15 February, 2013 Share Posted 15 February, 2013 If it's embarrassing ones you're after, I've definitely watched Demolition Man far more times than was artistically merited. Evry time I think, why am I watching this crap. But every time I watch to the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 15 February, 2013 Share Posted 15 February, 2013 How could I have omitted to mention 'Life of Brian'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 15 February, 2013 Share Posted 15 February, 2013 Did you spot all the product placements in Fargo? And have you tried 'A Simple Man'? If you are referring to Coen Brothers films, do you not mean 'A Serious Man'? Wonderfully underrated film IMO. Walter, the man represented in my avatar, is a superb character. Complete arsehole, pulls a gun to settle a bowling dispute, goes off the rails several times, can't help relating everything to Vietnam, gets tons of stuff wrong for major comic effect. You watch that movie a few times, and you realise he nails all the big calls. Walter: Am I wrong? Dude: No Walter you're not wrong, you're just an asshole! Brilliant stuff. You are right about it being a hard one to get to grips with first time round. I watched it on recommendation from a friend of mine and have to admit I was less than impressed with it - I guess I just hadn't tuned in to the Coens' sense of humour yet because it has now become one of my favourite films as well. But coming back to the point of this thread, and this was my first thought before anybody else mentioned any of the Coen brothers' work, the one film I can happily watch over and over and never tire of is O Brother Where Art Thou? The atmosphere they captured when shooting this just does something to me at such a fundamental level, and I love the fact that anybody could dream up the idea of making a wacky, off-the-wall comedy based on Homer's The Odyssey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sussexsaint Posted 15 February, 2013 Share Posted 15 February, 2013 How could I have omitted to mention 'Life of Brian'? Probably my favourite film of all time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 15 February, 2013 Author Share Posted 15 February, 2013 ... But coming back to the point of this thread, and this was my first thought before anybody else mentioned any of the Coen brothers' work, the one film I can happily watch over and over and never tire of is O Brother Where Art Thou? The atmosphere they captured when shooting this just does something to me at such a fundamental level, and I love the fact that anybody could dream up the idea of making a wacky, off-the-wall comedy based on Homer's The Odyssey. From all their varied and wonderful body of work, O Brother and Fargo are certainly my favorite Coen Bothers movies. If I could only take one of them to my own 'Desert Island' then god knows how I'd choose between them - steam would probably start to pour from my ears and I'd then explode muttering "does not compute" like one of those megalomaniac computers on Star Trek TOS. If you really love this marvelous movie then it follows, I would have thought, that you must also love the old music that is such a key element of the film. In which case I will take the liberty of directing you here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/O-Brother-Where-Art-Thou/dp/B002JDWIU6/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1360953871&sr=301-1 If there is anybody out there who has never heard the Peasall Sisters sing 'In the Highways' then I reckon there is something very wrong with their musical education Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbul Posted 15 February, 2013 Share Posted 15 February, 2013 Not all Coen Brothers movies have the stuff of greatness about them perhaps, but they have never made a bad film in my opinion - from the almost forgotten 'Blood Simple' all the way to the massively successful 'No Country for Old Men'. But 'Fargo' is perhaps the pinnacle of their creative output thus far. A audacious piece of film making that has gained a (well deserved) cult status among movie fans because in more than a century of film production there is nothing else quite like it. And yes I am 'kinda funny lookin' before anyone asks ... The remake of The Ladykillers was awful!! But then, how could they improve on perfection?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redbul Posted 15 February, 2013 Share Posted 15 February, 2013 Off the top of my head.... Fight Club is one; The Man With Two Brains; Trading Places; Oh Brother Where Art Thou; and any of the Monty Python films, although Life of Brian is my favourite!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 15 February, 2013 Author Share Posted 15 February, 2013 (edited) The remake of The Ladykillers was awful!! But then, how could they improve on perfection?! Yep, fair comment. I too love the Alec Guinness version - the very definition of 'Black Comedy' and what a wonderfully macabre old thing it still is to watch. However I wouldn't go so far as to describe the Coen Brothers 2004 remake as 'awful', however it's certainly not one of their better efforts. I must say that 'Intolerable Cruelty' didn't do all that much for me either in truth. But we must remember that precious few film director(s) - even the great ones - have a entirely unblemished record. Steven Spielberg made Jaws and Schindler's List, but he also made forgettable guff like 'Always' and a expensive mess out of '1941'. For that matter I bet ace director James Cameron probably still has nightmares over 'Piranha II'. Even the greatest film maker who ever lived - Sir Alfred Hitchcock - has serious disappointments such as 'Topaz' or 'Frenzy' among his otherwise distinguished filmography. So let's forgive the Coen's for the odd slip-up now and then. Because when they're at the top of their game ... well they're bloody brilliant in my opinion. Edited 15 February, 2013 by CHAPEL END CHARLIE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sheaf Saint Posted 16 February, 2013 Share Posted 16 February, 2013 If you really love this marvelous movie then it follows, I would have thought, that you must also love the old music that is such a key element of the film. Oh indeed. It's probably the music that really makes it for me. From the opening sequence featuring Big Rock Candy Mountain, to Man of Constant Sorrow, to the blues song about death sung by the grave-diggers towards the end. It is the most perfect musical accompaniment to any film I could imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dubai_phil Posted 16 February, 2013 Share Posted 16 February, 2013 Mama Mia is on again tonight.... FMDP's again and again and arrrghh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 16 February, 2013 Share Posted 16 February, 2013 Groundhog Day Holy Grail Life of Brian Die Hard Anchorman Withnail & I (great shout) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 16 February, 2013 Share Posted 16 February, 2013 "The f*cker will rue the day!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamilton Saint Posted 16 February, 2013 Share Posted 16 February, 2013 The Third Man Dr. Strangelove if .... A Hard Day's Night Zorba the Greek Dr. Zhivago Bridge on the River Kwai Apocalypse Now The Graduate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jawillwill Posted 20 February, 2013 Share Posted 20 February, 2013 The Back to the Future triolgy. It's on ITV2 about 6 days a week, but I still put it on whever I see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHAPEL END CHARLIE Posted 1 March, 2013 Author Share Posted 1 March, 2013 I see that Film 4 are tonight showing another of those classic films you just never mind seeing again - 'Vanishing Point' starring Barry Newman, a hard driven 1970 Dodge Challenger, and not much else. Stay up late or set your televisual recording devices accordingly ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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