Icon Re: Your Favorite Coen Bros. Film?
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Boy, I have to admit that questions like this are pretty hard for me to answer. I love Miller's Crossing. I love The Big Lebowski. I love O Brother. I love Barton Fink and I love No Country. Fargo too. Basically, I gotta lotta love for their films. I think they have all been worth seeing and the problem is my favorite would probably depend upon my mood. They swing back and forth from comedy, to dark comedy, to oddball set pieces. It really depends. The two I've revisited the most are Miller's Crossing and Big Lebowski this I can say for certain with probably Barton Fink in third place. They are all a hell of a lot of fun. The only Coen film I have not yet seen for some reason is The Man Who Wasn't There and I always forget about it until someone brings it up. I have to check that one out.

I mentioned Burn After Reading in another post and I think it may have seemed from what I said I did not like it. I actually did like it and recommend people see it but it was not among their best stuff. Here's a funny note about it, the ending seemed to me to be a response to the ending of No Country in a way. I told a story here about how the people leaving the theatre when I saw No Country were pretty pissed off. Basically because they seemed to feel the film had no ending and they were ripped off. In Burn After Reading the film builds like a long slow joke and the big punchline comes at the end of the film and it was very funny. What I noticed was the biggest laugh came at the end and then people continued to laugh more and more as the credits rolled as if they had just "got" the joke. The total opposite of the reaction at the end of No Country. So, No Country was certainly a better film but I think some people would be more "satisfied" watching Burn After Reading. I loved Malkovich by the way. He was my favorite part of the film and I think it's worth seeing just for him. I was nearly in tears laughing at his outbursts.

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