Their body of work is by no means defined by The Big Labowski. Id put it in their top 5 but they would still be talked about and loved by movie buffs had they never made that film.
@@moseshamlett3887Big Lebowski is a film bro movie. Not really a film buff movie. I still like it, but it’s not that terribly important to understanding their acclaim and wider appreciation.
I know it’s just like my opinion man but my favorite coen bros movie is a tie between the big lewbowski and no country for old men. I love how they couldn’t be more different from each other but are both damn near perfect films!
I went down a Coen brothers rabbit hole today and thought of Bill Hader and how the vibe of Barry is similar so I am happy to see this video in my recommendations. Maybe it being two brothers helps the creative process, because they grew up together and have the same interest and artistic vision. So its like taking one directors artistic vision and style and doubling it, so many more ideas that fit the vision, plus I am sure each brother has their unique way of looking at things too. Now im going to watch everything they have ever done.
I also know for me, I work better and faster when I have someone I trust to validate my instincts along the way as well as challenge my ideas-it's much harder to do that when you're working alone and it takes a great amount of confidence/delusion to push yourself to the end sometimes.
A movie string theory: Well’s boss (Stephen Root) survived Chigurh’s attack. While on the run and always looking over his shoulder for his attempted assassin, he changed his name to Monroe Fuches.
Yeah I threw this on to one of my friends he was cool, we were high n drunk, it's got the old time feeling, he goes what is this?? This shits crazy, I go I know just watch.
What a good place to start a fight: 1 No Country for Old Men 2 O Brother, Where Art Thou? 3 Fargo 4 The Big Lebowski 5 Inside Llewyn Davis 6 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs 7 True Grit 8 Barton Fink 9 Miller's Crossing 10 Blood Simple 11 A Serious Man 12 The Hudsucker Proxy 13 Raising Arizona 14 The Man Who Wasn't There 15 Burn After Reading 16 Hail, Caesar! 17 Intolerable Cruelty 18 The Ladykillers Haven't seen 9, 10 and 12 in a long time, so they might deserve very different placings.
True Grit, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy and Raising Arizona basically tie for first for me. I love them all so much, and have watched them all repeatedly. If I HAD to pick an order, it would probably be the order in which they're listed here. O Brother Where art Thou, The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading are all a close second. I love them all pretty much equally, almost as much as I love the top six. Hail Caesar, A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis are three I was disappointed by, but they still have a certain charm. Solid third-place tie. The rest just sort of muddle around the bottom of the pile. They all are sub-standard for Coen projects.
@@footofjuniper8212 Very solid list! Ranking Coen movies is probably more of a question of personal connection, because about 12 of them are pretty much perfect in terms of craftsmanship. I could see myself making a very different list on a different day in a different mood (aside from the first two, which are just all-time favourites). I do think Buster Scruggs is generally underappreciated in the same way short story collections and novellas are in comparison to the big novels. The Tom Waits chapter is something I put on time and time again, like a favourite song.
@@brandocalifornia3024 We... thought... you... was... a... toad! My number one comfort movie. Incredible music, characters, images... and the greatest fistfight in film history.
Coens have been my favourite film makers since the mid 90s, Lebowski is my favourite film. Hardly any other film makers do as much as they do, produce, write, direct and cut, they come in on budget outside the studio system and all actors want to work with them.
Do you ever REALLY think about what you're saying? Have you ever just briefly looked at the comments of all these other RUclips clips and seen the exact SAME 'underrated' comment? With every single clip there just HAS to be the person that somehow figures out that a film is 'underrated.' Please stop. Say something about these films if you want, but seriously stop the 'underrated' bullshit.
I remember watching Coen films after watching Barry and I just got such an inclination that Barry was heavily inspired by Lebowski, Fargo and Burn After Reading
I remember watching the first half of barton fink and thinking, did they really make a normal drama about an nyc writer who moves to LA and doesn't quite fit in? and then the movie happened.
Sure, not enough movies made in that vein. I’d love to see some more old-fashioned screwball comedies over anything else really. The rom-com scene has been really sad for over a decade.
He has such odd taste. The Coen's range from masterpieces to not very good films. It's really a grab bag of sifting through the shit to find the gold, like Altman.
Bill first says “No Country is about these two guys” then corrects himself and says “three.” I think he was right at first. Tommy Lee Jones character is unnecessary to the film. He’s a red herring
What. He's the title character, not a "red herring". He's what the movie is ABOUT. He represents the belief that america used to be a safe & lawful place, and the world is tuning towards evil, violence, and sadism, represented by Chigurh. He literally says "people used to say sir and ma'am". But as per the conversation he has with Ellis, evil and sadism has always existed, for as long as people have. He's a sherrif, he's supposed to be the good guy who catches the bad guy and reinforce our naive belief that good will triumph over evil, but he's just playing catch-up the whole time. The movie is about how vain and unrealistic that belief is, and all we can do is cling to those we love in the screaming chaos (as represented by his ending monologue about his dream). It's a very pessimistic movie and Tom Bell is essential for that message. Without him, or by considering him a Red Herring (and considering him not important to the central themes of the movie), you completely miss the point of the movie, and, what, just treat it like a standard robbery action film or something.
@@stratdax4028 ok “Ebert” I never read the book. Brolin is the guy I was rooting for (although Chigurth is incredible), take away Jones’ arc and nothing really changes to the average movie goer. I mean starting in the late 60s-70s most a lot of the good-bad angle wasn’t important to the movie.
@@brgreg8725 I haven't read the book either. Just a surface level engagement with the movie & thinking about the things that are in it. Just think about the things that are put in front of you, don't be a potato. Like obviously they didn't put Tom Bell in the movie as a joke, film is expensive. His character is ineffective, and that's the point. I would hope the average movie goer is at least smart enough to recognize that.
@@stratdax4028 go screw yourself. You must be a blast at parties. You give homework assignment to your friends if you have any? His character is insignificant. You can blab on all you want.
the thing is that TLJ's character is what makes this movie what it is. my own pretty lazy understanding is that TLJ, Bardem and Brolin are necessary to what the story wants to tell. first one is always late, even if he is wiser. second one is *almost* always on time, and the third one is always early. without the first one, the story would only be about bad luck and being at the wrong place in the wrong time. without the second one, it would pretty much become a more familiar coen brothers movie about absurdity, because you crossed out the evil. without the third one, you'll fall into what we know as noir cliches. all this is what makes this movie unique in their career, otherwise it would be a repeat of fargo, lebowski or barton fink
I'm glad he mentioned A Serious Man. I love that movie.
How on earth did he NOT mention The Big Lebowksi.
Because he was talking about the era that happened a decade after The Big Lebowski
It was just, like, his opinion, man.
too, many, man.@@Goldenspiderducck
Their body of work is by no means defined by The Big Labowski. Id put it in their top 5 but they would still be talked about and loved by movie buffs had they never made that film.
@@moseshamlett3887Big Lebowski is a film bro movie. Not really a film buff movie. I still like it, but it’s not that terribly important to understanding their acclaim and wider appreciation.
Clearly Hader is not a golfer.
Well, that's just like, your opinion, man.
I know it’s just like my opinion man but my favorite coen bros movie is a tie between the big lewbowski and no country for old men. I love how they couldn’t be more different from each other but are both damn near perfect films!
Mine as well. Well, Lebowski still wins though.
I went down a Coen brothers rabbit hole today and thought of Bill Hader and how the vibe of Barry is similar so I am happy to see this video in my recommendations.
Maybe it being two brothers helps the creative process, because they grew up together and have the same interest and artistic vision. So its like taking one directors artistic vision and style and doubling it, so many more ideas that fit the vision, plus I am sure each brother has their unique way of looking at things too. Now im going to watch everything they have ever done.
Hey how was your Coens journey? A special thing to have all that work to explore
I also know for me, I work better and faster when I have someone I trust to validate my instincts along the way as well as challenge my ideas-it's much harder to do that when you're working alone and it takes a great amount of confidence/delusion to push yourself to the end sometimes.
I got into movies because of Barry! Bill Hader reccomeneded the Coen Brothers, and after I saw The Big Lebowski that was a wrap
A movie string theory: Well’s boss (Stephen Root) survived Chigurh’s attack. While on the run and always looking over his shoulder for his attempted assassin, he changed his name to Monroe Fuches.
My fave is A Serious Man their best imo is o brother where art thou
nope
I loved No Country For Old Men, it had a style like some of Jean Pierre Melville's best films.
Millers Crossing is my favorite.
easily one of their most distinct films across their filmography
Yeah I threw this on to one of my friends he was cool, we were high n drunk, it's got the old time feeling, he goes what is this?? This shits crazy, I go I know just watch.
What a good place to start a fight:
1 No Country for Old Men
2 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
3 Fargo
4 The Big Lebowski
5 Inside Llewyn Davis
6 The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
7 True Grit
8 Barton Fink
9 Miller's Crossing
10 Blood Simple
11 A Serious Man
12 The Hudsucker Proxy
13 Raising Arizona
14 The Man Who Wasn't There
15 Burn After Reading
16 Hail, Caesar!
17 Intolerable Cruelty
18 The Ladykillers
Haven't seen 9, 10 and 12 in a long time, so they might deserve very different placings.
True Grit, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy and Raising Arizona basically tie for first for me. I love them all so much, and have watched them all repeatedly. If I HAD to pick an order, it would probably be the order in which they're listed here.
O Brother Where art Thou, The Big Lebowski and Burn After Reading are all a close second. I love them all pretty much equally, almost as much as I love the top six.
Hail Caesar, A Serious Man and Inside Llewyn Davis are three I was disappointed by, but they still have a certain charm. Solid third-place tie.
The rest just sort of muddle around the bottom of the pile. They all are sub-standard for Coen projects.
@@footofjuniper8212 Very solid list! Ranking Coen movies is probably more of a question of personal connection, because about 12 of them are pretty much perfect in terms of craftsmanship. I could see myself making a very different list on a different day in a different mood (aside from the first two, which are just all-time favourites).
I do think Buster Scruggs is generally underappreciated in the same way short story collections and novellas are in comparison to the big novels. The Tom Waits chapter is something I put on time and time again, like a favourite song.
Oh brother is my favorite. So many quotables It's unreal.
@@brandocalifornia3024 We... thought... you... was... a... toad!
My number one comfort movie. Incredible music, characters, images... and the greatest fistfight in film history.
Dude! The Ladykillers rules, wtf! FIGHT!!!
Hell yeah Raising Arizona and Millers Crossing!!!
Coens have been my favourite film makers since the mid 90s, Lebowski is my favourite film. Hardly any other film makers do as much as they do, produce, write, direct and cut, they come in on budget outside the studio system and all actors want to work with them.
well, that might be *like* your opinion man :|
O Brother and True Grit are totally underrated films.
Do you ever REALLY think about what you're saying? Have you ever just briefly looked at the comments of all these other RUclips clips and seen the exact SAME 'underrated' comment?
With every single clip there just HAS to be the person that somehow figures out that a film is 'underrated.' Please stop. Say something about these films if you want, but seriously stop the 'underrated' bullshit.
True Grit is genuinely one of their best movies. O Brother is in film bro territory, and it’s fine, but it’s overrated.
No country for men sort of reminds me of the terminator. I love it I love them both. I think something in the pursuit has a similar tone
I remember watching Coen films after watching Barry and I just got such an inclination that Barry was heavily inspired by Lebowski, Fargo and Burn After Reading
I remember watching the first half of barton fink and thinking, did they really make a normal drama about an nyc writer who moves to LA and doesn't quite fit in? and then the movie happened.
That’s like the closest the Coens have ever gotten to Lynchian/Cronenberg experimental horror/drama and I love it
interesting that Bill compared them to Bob Dylan there, as both he and the Coens are from minnesota lol
And Inside Llewyn Davis is essentially about Dylan
Well, it ends with Dylan stealing the show, indicating that Llewyn will never make it in the business.@@bencarlson4300
didn't even mention Hail Caesar. Would that it t'were so simple
I enjoy Intolerable Cruelty. I think people are too quick to dismiss it.
agreed!
Also agreed. It's super fun -- great cast, fun premise, super zany. A screwball farce from two of the best filmmakers around.
Sure, not enough movies made in that vein. I’d love to see some more old-fashioned screwball comedies over anything else really. The rom-com scene has been really sad for over a decade.
Ladykillers was not very good, but i liked Intolerable Cruilty alot
I'm not sure I've heard of BLOOD SIMPLE 🤔
What? No love for True Grit?
#BillHader
Talk about how the Coen brothers treated the actors
I love everything but the western remake. Felt like a waste
He has such odd taste. The Coen's range from masterpieces to not very good films. It's really a grab bag of sifting through the shit to find the gold, like Altman.
Pleas don't include major spoilers on screen.
Bruh most of these movies are like 20 years old
@@sovietsnake2729 I take it you've seen every movie produced more than 20 years ago? Come on now. It's a simple thing.
Saying that this video has major spoilers is probably worse than what the video actually shows.
Barton Fink, as much as I think Tony Shaloub & John Turturro are absolutely STELLAR in every other case, is a stinker in the worst way!
That’s one of their masterpieces for me
I didn't get it on my first watch and the second time I loved it.
Bill first says “No Country is about these two guys” then corrects himself and says “three.” I think he was right at first. Tommy Lee Jones character is unnecessary to the film. He’s a red herring
What. He's the title character, not a "red herring". He's what the movie is ABOUT. He represents the belief that america used to be a safe & lawful place, and the world is tuning towards evil, violence, and sadism, represented by Chigurh. He literally says "people used to say sir and ma'am". But as per the conversation he has with Ellis, evil and sadism has always existed, for as long as people have.
He's a sherrif, he's supposed to be the good guy who catches the bad guy and reinforce our naive belief that good will triumph over evil, but he's just playing catch-up the whole time. The movie is about how vain and unrealistic that belief is, and all we can do is cling to those we love in the screaming chaos (as represented by his ending monologue about his dream). It's a very pessimistic movie and Tom Bell is essential for that message. Without him, or by considering him a Red Herring (and considering him not important to the central themes of the movie), you completely miss the point of the movie, and, what, just treat it like a standard robbery action film or something.
@@stratdax4028 ok “Ebert” I never read the book. Brolin is the guy I was rooting for (although Chigurth is incredible), take away Jones’ arc and nothing really changes to the average movie goer. I mean starting in the late 60s-70s most a lot of the good-bad angle wasn’t important to the movie.
@@brgreg8725 I haven't read the book either. Just a surface level engagement with the movie & thinking about the things that are in it. Just think about the things that are put in front of you, don't be a potato. Like obviously they didn't put Tom Bell in the movie as a joke, film is expensive. His character is ineffective, and that's the point. I would hope the average movie goer is at least smart enough to recognize that.
@@stratdax4028 go screw yourself. You must be a blast at parties. You give homework assignment to your friends if you have any? His character is insignificant. You can blab on all you want.
the thing is that TLJ's character is what makes this movie what it is. my own pretty lazy understanding is that TLJ, Bardem and Brolin are necessary to what the story wants to tell. first one is always late, even if he is wiser. second one is *almost* always on time, and the third one is always early. without the first one, the story would only be about bad luck and being at the wrong place in the wrong time. without the second one, it would pretty much become a more familiar coen brothers movie about absurdity, because you crossed out the evil. without the third one, you'll fall into what we know as noir cliches. all this is what makes this movie unique in their career, otherwise it would be a repeat of fargo, lebowski or barton fink