And to think the Cohen brothers wrote those stories about 15 years earlier in a notebook and shoved them in a desk and forgot about them. Only to later rediscover them and work them into that fantastic film just amazing!
It was probably for the best, this movie seemed like one of their more important pieces of work. The years probably let them iron out the kinks and perfect it it to a T.
@@HighFalutinTootinaccording to the Imdb trivia the bros were asked if this was originally going to be a series and they denied it was stating that it was always going to be a single vignette movie. I guarantee Netflix approached them for a series and they pulled this out of the drawer.
@@Festoniaful people say that one with the meal ticket was boring but I find it very interesting and deep at the same time. Only boring part was the last one with the stagecoach.
Nah guys, it's called an opinion. I form my own, bit of a lost art really. When all you games are buggy, center around immorality, are built in the wrong software, featuring snap aim, filled with duping and cheating, heavily monetized, as well as not appropriate for children, I start to think you're as bad as Bethesda if not worse.
They need to make another buster scruggs with just buster as the protagonist the enire movie. But I loved all the shorts in that film. But buster was just so great.
The reason this won't happen, is that they named it after Buster Scruggs so you wouldn't expect him to die. The series was about how the young die, and how each age category and generation considers and looks at issues like death. Buster Scruggs was at the top of his game and was suddenly gone. That was the point of his arc. To make another movie just about him would be against the writer's intention and run counter to the actual intent of showing how different people view death.
Yes, skruggs was the only one I liked. It set the bar high and the others couldn't do a pull up. The whole family agreed to stop the movie 50 min in but we all loved Buster's tale.
“You killed my brother in cold blood,shot him in the back!” Buster: “buster don’t shoot nobody in the back though your brother was more in the business of suicide” tears rolling I was laughing so hard lol
Yes. No matter how good things were in the moment, peril was waiting in the next heartbeat or a year or two if you were "lucky." Hard, hard life. Where the only entertainment was daily survival.
The movie is so well written. Invokes so many emotions, gives you a sense of the old west, and allows you to use your imagination in a way that adds value to the experience. Might be weird at times, but life isn't always like a romcom script, in fact real life has moments of terror all around it that we just don't see because we are so cozy and comfortable sheltered with friends and our electronics. It's so powerful because it shows people absent of the faith they have put into technology and technological advancement. Funny how relieved we become while watching the bits that are humorous and playful. It takes us away from the thought of our impending demise, for each of us.
Sterling Moffett The Scruggs sequence is many things, but fundamentally, to me, it’s about the juxtaposition of reality with idealized fantasy. Scruggs is a stereotypical, 50’s Hollywood cowboy of the absurdly perfect type before Gunsmoke and the Spaghetti Westerns made it cool and far more interesting to add more realism. But, from the 20s through late 50s, the common trend was to make the hero a flawless Superman, a troupe that came from Vaudeville melodramas. Well, take one of those absurdly perfect heroes and drop him into the REAL West, as close to reality as we can estimate, but with most of his plot armor intact, and you get Buster. What I found interesting, is that they did not see his improbable abilities as qualities of a hero. The bystanders that experienced them first hand seem to regard him as a terrifying freak. Really, that’s the most natural response people from that era could give to someone as strange as that. It really makes you think just how that level of disconnect from the truth could have come about in the early western films. It makes you think how an ACTUAL invincible Mary Sue of any sort would be regarded in the real world.
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is probably one of the more brilliant films made in movie history. It is an extraordinary work of storytelling that stretches you intellectually and emotionally - like, ‘Hey, I know about that!’ All of the stories had a degree of impact on me, but it was the story of the woman on the wagon train that got me the most.
I knew I was in good hands when Buster Scruggs came riding down that pike, his hat pushing down on his weird ears, and the fourth or fifth frame was shot from inside the guitar, looking past his strumming hand into the blue sky. The Coens are masters.
@@bibothor206 I think the point was that time period as well as the average lifetime out there lasted such a short time. they were trying to show how quickly things changed. But thats just what I got out of it.
I loved all the movie and loved 5 of the 6 stories. The last one I just liked, truth be told I didn’t get it the first time and the second time I realized the stage coach was going to the “final destination” if you will and enjoyed it more, but still, the other 5 stories were all amazing and that one was just good.
Really? Personally I found the last one interesting, I had to watch it two times aswell to understand the plot and the hidden meanings behind it. Once I came to understand it, it totally blew my mind. One of the interesting message I found was that we like stories because we connect ourselves to the characters and the events we might not yet come across, but not especially if their approaching death, we dismiss that part because "the midnight caller gets him, never me. I'll live forever." We often think we'll never come across the same plight that happens with unfortunate people simply because it's uncomfortable to think of ourselves subject to the same predicament. We deny our deaths, we despise our inherent powerlessness, we dismiss and willfully blind ourselves to our impending doom. But no matter how much we deny it, no matter how much we blind ourselves, in the end of the day we're all fated with same end. Its very interesting to think about
I feel it fits the theme of the overall message of the movie. No matter how you try to rationalize Life itself, Death is an inevitability. There’s no escape, and there’s no Knowing what happens after you die. Were they all dead? Or were they indeed just traveling and happened to meet each other? It doesn’t matter, what matters is that in that ride they all have their perspectives on Life and wished to share them while they reach their destination.
I flipped on Netflix on Smart TV to test out some HDR settings and randomly chose "Ballad of Buster Scruggs" to play to test out those settings. I ended up watching the whole thing. It was great! I might watch it again. What a trip.
@@ducksinarowpatience3670 The wild west ain't kind to cripples. I guess in his mind it was more merciful to put the kid out of his misery. A fucked up form of love in a way. Like I said: Dark as fuck.
Caffeinated Cinema at first I was like where is this going. And I’ll admit a little bored... but the last third really made up for it. Made it into one of my favorites
Agreed. The most complete one imo in terms of characters development and overall story. It even left me thinking at the end if Billy would believe Mr Arthur's story or not due to him possibly not wanting Billy to retire.
Buster Scruggs was the best one, by far. The bank robber skit with James Franco was hilarious. The actor who played the banker did a fantastic job. The stage coach one was also great. My least favorite one was the one with the dude digging for gold, although that one seems to be the most popular one in this comment section. The entire movie was brilliantly made.
I think a lot of people favor the prospector story because it was Tom Waits playing the role - dude is a legendary artist. I think my least favorite was the one about the man with no limbs. Don't get me wrong, I say "least favorite" in terms of simply HAVING to put something at the bottom. Overall the movie was great from beginning to end.
The actor who played the banker is the same actor who played Milton in Office Space and Gordon in Dodge Ball. If you look at his bio, he's been in 278 shows and films as an actor. His name is Stephen Root.
The gold prospector one is good but its a slow burn and the fact that you basically spend the entre time with one old guy whose digging for gold means its easy to see it as boring but its a great little atory of preserverence. The liam nielsen one was great too.
That’s the beauty of the storyline is that each story progressively gets darker than the one before it until you come face to face with with the grim reaper (or the fella’s he has working for him). For me the first story about buster was funny as hell and my favorite, then it traverses into a brilliantly written story. When the bank robber is strung up to be hung and asks the others “first time?” Just hilariously brilliant! Good to see Tyne Daly come out of being mothballed too!
I didn't Recognize Tom Waits at first. It's when he started talking I recognized his voice. His part was the best part of the movie. I also thought President Pierce was super cute!
@@TastyChevelle I just didn't want to be a jerk and give any spoilers. I'd love to discuss details, in the right setting. Sorry my comment didn't meet your standards.
I had no idea it was him until checking the cast on Google. I thought he would've been sounded like Heath Ledger's, inspired from Tom Waits, Joker voice.
"That's how people died. Lotta people lived that way too. Lotta people lived that way until they died." For crying out loud...brain must do more editing before mouth starts working.
This movie was fantastic. Have not seen something as good in a long time ( especially for netflix ) another Coen brothers masterpiece , especially the miner skit, a gorgeous skit , the whole movies cinematography was gorgeous.
I thought the showman who pitched the greatest orator and mind that ever lived into the river because a counting chicken drew bigger crowds was the perfect metaphor for modern society.
The stories are actually subtly connected with each story referencing the other ones in dialogue, visual cues, music, character types and events reoccuring only slightly differently. Thematically it is about the everpresent possibility of death in the period and how people just lived with it and kept going into the unknown (I think about it like "A Million Ways To Die In The West", only really good).
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is one of the greatest films ever made in my estimation! I LOVE IT!!! Particularly the scene with Tom Waits as the old prospector and also the scene with Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs himself, singing and murdering his way through all his days! MAN this was an amazing film!!
When buster shoots that guy with the behind the back was priceless. The he says to that one guy, hold on, let me get for you partner, had me rollen..😅😂😅😅😂😅😅😂😂
I don't think Buster's was all that dark in terms of the ending. You live by the sword you die by the sword that's how it goes. "You can't be top dog forever"
@tj mgivern I feel for you man, you seem pretty messed up. Sometimes it is hard to tell if someone has problems or they just hate. Hate is so weak, instantly self destructive. An insecurity.
The last story was so awesome. I really enjoyed the conversation they had. I was thinking "finally, a scene / story that relies purely on dialog and it's captivating"
Absolutely loved that movie. It's now among my top 3-5 favourite Coen brothers movies, must have seen it 50 times. Also, I know I'm in a minority here, but my favourite story was the last one. Followed by the Tom Waits one.
I caught on to what the last one was about when the 'bounty hunters' said they were 'harvesters' and when they all arrived at that hotel, and showed them pulling the body upstairs, I knew it was a representation of the after life, meaning the riders were really dead and taken to the other side. The old french dude was hesitant to walk in at first, almost as if he was surprised and didn't want to accept that he was dead but eventually gave in and did accept it.
@@fisterhr yeah agree 100%. I wrote a review of it analysing all the little mythological details pointing to purgatory and the afterlife in the scene once.
I love when people who've never seen this movie come over to my house and see the poster and ask what it's all about. Here, sit down, smoke this and prepare your mind to be blow. I've watched this now more times than I have fingers and toes. It never gets old.
Guy Shafer obviously no country for old men was just about a sheriff trying to catch a murderer. No allegorical symbolism whatsoever 🙄 lmao sarcasm btw if you couldn’t tell. Go watch the ending scene again. Pay special attention to what’s above the door as the enter the “hotel.” Oh and maybe actually listen to what the characters are saying lmao. Yeah clearly about the rugged hardships of western life 🙄
Frontier explorers and fur trappers blazed the rough outlines of the Oregon Trail in the early 19th century, but the route was initially considered too demanding for women, children or covered wagons to navigate. That changed in 1836, when newlywed missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman took a small party of wagons from St. Louis to the Walla Walla Valley to minister to Cayuse Indians. 28-year-old Narcissa became the first white woman to traverse the Rocky Mountains, and her colorful letters home were later published in Eastern newspapers, convincing many would-be pioneers that it was possible for their families to survive the journey west. Still, it wasn’t until 1843 that the pioneer dam finally burst. That year, Marcus helped lead the first major wagon train of around 1,000 settlers along the Oregon Trail, an exodus now known as the “Great Migration.” Traffic soon skyrocketed, and by the late-1840s and early 1850s, upwards of 50,000 people were using the trail each year.
What a coincidence, I watched Scruggs last night! I'd not seen many trailers and was fully expecting a feature length film of Buster going about The Wild West getting into and out of various scrapes. Very stylish and very dark.
Yep, Tom Waits was perfect casting. His little vignette was the only one that turned out well. " You let me do all the work and ya shot me in the back......" I just loved that one.
My grandparents (mom's parents) both moved from Kansas City to Yakima when they were 5 and 6 years old! 1890s, wagontrain. I got firsthand accounts growing up.
I went to see Ang Lee accept a Director's award at an independent film festival near me and small town, and someone asked "Are you staying to see Ethan Coen later?" It was one of the best surprises because I loved Fargo around 10 years old when I saw it on HBO in the 90's, and then saw No Country for Old Men 5 times at the theater. So instead of driving home early, I stuck around for another 5 hours just to meet Ethan Coen.
My favourite was the guy digging for gold
GOODNIGHT GOLD!!!
Lol and that was Tom Waits, who joe and joey diaz have hated on in the past
It was like a badass Disney movie.
Mr pocket!
Yeah, Tom Waits. He also played the mad man who was locked up in the Insane asylum in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
And to think the Cohen brothers wrote those stories about 15 years earlier in a notebook and shoved them in a desk and forgot about them. Only to later rediscover them and work them into that fantastic film just amazing!
I could tell
It was probably for the best, this movie seemed like one of their more important pieces of work. The years probably let them iron out the kinks and perfect it it to a T.
It was supposed to be a Netflix series but the deal fell through so they made it a movie instead
@@HighFalutinTootinaccording to the Imdb trivia the bros were asked if this was originally going to be a series and they denied it was stating that it was always going to be a single vignette movie.
I guarantee Netflix approached them for a series and they pulled this out of the drawer.
Sometimes producers don't like an idea or understand the concept and it says there until they get a shot at the screenplay
“If Buster Scruggs took DMT, he wouldn’t have died.” - Roe Jogan (2019)
“If Buster Scruggs ate Elk”
First Joe Rogan, now Fliko. I have a feeling imma see you in a lot of comment sections lol
Had he been on a keto diet he …
Had buster Scruggs stopped being a pussy and just worked out an hour a day…
I'm afraid of bears so you should be too. Joe Rogan
I almost cried when the frontier girl shot herself. That messed me up.
Saddest story along with Meal Ticket
@@Festoniaful people say that one with the meal ticket was boring but I find it very interesting and deep at the same time. Only boring part was the last one with the stagecoach.
@@arthur2morgan921 Def agree with what you're saying with the exeption that i loved the last scene (stagecoach) the most :p
@BattleAngelFan Not about denying covid in this comment section buddy. Gtho with that shit, go smear it somewhere else. troll.
@@Festoniaful His comment didn’t say that covid didn’t exist, it said that it wasn’t nearly as bad as people were saying it was. Which is true.
A Buster Scruggs outfit for Red Dead 2 would be dope
Fucking yes
If rdr2 hadn't been over hyped trash from a really bad studio, maybe.
Pinnacle Pool and Spa Care
Nice bait fam
@@pinnaclepoolandspacare7810 swing and a miss lol
Nah guys, it's called an opinion. I form my own, bit of a lost art really. When all you games are buggy, center around immorality, are built in the wrong software, featuring snap aim, filled with duping and cheating, heavily monetized, as well as not appropriate for children, I start to think you're as bad as Bethesda if not worse.
The one with Liam Neeson and the guy with no limbs was sadly weird.
He got what he deserved for being a dick to harry potter
Weirdly sad.
I never understood it. Does anyone know what that one meant? The guy without limbs fucked with a magician or something?
weird and boring. its the only one i couldnt wait to end.
Jérémy Guillotel Yeah that was the only meh part
They need to make another buster scruggs with just buster as the protagonist the enire movie. But I loved all the shorts in that film. But buster was just so great.
The reason this won't happen, is that they named it after Buster Scruggs so you wouldn't expect him to die. The series was about how the young die, and how each age category and generation considers and looks at issues like death. Buster Scruggs was at the top of his game and was suddenly gone. That was the point of his arc. To make another movie just about him would be against the writer's intention and run counter to the actual intent of showing how different people view death.
@@theeatherlash69 yeah but it would still be fun tho, and it could be before the timeline
@@theeatherlash69 "It's a series about how the young die"
Tim Blake Nelson was 53 at the time of filming lol
Yes, skruggs was the only one I liked. It set the bar high and the others couldn't do a pull up. The whole family agreed to stop the movie 50 min in but we all loved Buster's tale.
@@ALLSTARDECOURO2 Buster was a bit of a tool as it turned out. Cruel and cocky and his cockiness was the end of him.
"Now I'm not a devious man by nature. But when your unarmed your tactics become archimedean"- Buster Scruggs after 3 kicks to the table.
“You killed my brother in cold blood,shot him in the back!” Buster: “buster don’t shoot nobody in the back though your brother was more in the business of suicide” tears rolling I was laughing so hard lol
@@Thehermderm same.
A table stopped his ticker.
Tactics “might gotta be”
downright archimedian
Loved Buster Scruggs. Every story is about death in one way or another. Especially the last story.
And it's the only story where you don't see someone die and it isn't implied that someone just died, like the limbless guy. The Coen's are masters
@@rowdy1467 exactly
The problem is Joe Rohan and many other westerners have been brainwashed to associate TV with reality, esp. if they have no exp. on the subject.
Really, "the story"? You do realize it's a cheap slapstick movie that has no storyline on purpose?
@@benitofranklyn4237 yeah alright
The story about the caravan is my favorite one, and also the saddest one.
Yes! closely followed by James Franco's story... 'PAN SHoT!'
The one with the Liam Neeson and Dudley (from Harry Potter) was so depressing. That was the only chapter I hated.
made me laugh idgaf
I think Tom waits one is definitely the best
Mine too, poor little gal
I just watched the first half or so, and I absolutely loved Buster scruggs' bit. He needs his own film lmao
A movie and six seasons
ngl I bet he founded the first continental in the John Wick universe
Actor is so annoying
@@rdothl5how
No thank you. I don't like prequels.
"PAN SHOT!" That's the entire film for me.
Lol the worst short
Pan Shot and the Buster chapter are my favorites
that dam banker didn't fight fair.
Heh...first time?
bet that inspired PUBG lol
Death is the theme that ties the shorts together.
Yes. No matter how good things were in the moment, peril was waiting in the next heartbeat or a year or two if you were "lucky." Hard, hard life. Where the only entertainment was daily survival.
nooooo shit...... glad you got that one..
@Jeff Heaton what about the last one?
@@quartzking3997 The people are all dead in the coach and they're heading to their final destination.
@@zephlonsoldier and one of them is the Frenchman playing cards with Surly Joe when Buster arrives
Lemme tell you buddy... There's a faster gun...
and a better music act
I traded my spurs for wings yesterday
Great song!
Coming over yonder when tomorrow come....
Lemme tellllll you buddy... there's a faaaaaster gun...
When the line "First time?" was uttered in the second story.... absolute comic genius.
The movie is so well written. Invokes so many emotions, gives you a sense of the old west, and allows you to use your imagination in a way that adds value to the experience. Might be weird at times, but life isn't always like a romcom script, in fact real life has moments of terror all around it that we just don't see because we are so cozy and comfortable sheltered with friends and our electronics. It's so powerful because it shows people absent of the faith they have put into technology and technological advancement. Funny how relieved we become while watching the bits that are humorous and playful. It takes us away from the thought of our impending demise, for each of us.
I think it's more about the old west of myth and legend more than the reality.
Goodness no
@georgeshibley9529 Thank you, well said!
I want buster Scruggs to be the rod serling narrator in a western anthology tv show
Sterling Moffett
The Scruggs sequence is many things, but fundamentally, to me, it’s about the juxtaposition of reality with idealized fantasy. Scruggs is a stereotypical, 50’s Hollywood cowboy of the absurdly perfect type before Gunsmoke and the Spaghetti Westerns made it cool and far more interesting to add more realism.
But, from the 20s through late 50s, the common trend was to make the hero a flawless Superman, a troupe that came from Vaudeville melodramas.
Well, take one of those absurdly perfect heroes and drop him into the REAL West, as close to reality as we can estimate, but with most of his plot armor intact, and you get Buster. What I found interesting, is that they did not see his improbable abilities as qualities of a hero. The bystanders that experienced them first hand seem to regard him as a terrifying freak. Really, that’s the most natural response people from that era could give to someone as strange as that. It really makes you think just how that level of disconnect from the truth could have come about in the early western films. It makes you think how an ACTUAL invincible Mary Sue of any sort would be regarded in the real world.
@@eldermillennial8330
interesting
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is probably one of the more brilliant films made in movie history. It is an extraordinary work of storytelling that stretches you intellectually and emotionally - like, ‘Hey, I know about that!’ All of the stories had a degree of impact on me, but it was the story of the woman on the wagon train that got me the most.
I knew I was in good hands when Buster Scruggs came riding down that pike, his hat pushing down on his weird ears, and the fourth or fifth frame was shot from inside the guitar, looking past his strumming hand into the blue sky. The Coens are masters.
The one with him finding gold and the the one where the girl dies when attacked by natives was so well told
Buster Scruggs was a dope series of stories... but yeah, weird for sure...
@@bibothor206 I think the point was that time period as well as the average lifetime out there lasted such a short time. they were trying to show how quickly things changed. But thats just what I got out of it.
Bass Astler No moral of the story is somebody will always come along and be better then you...
Bass Astler Interesting take on it. Makes sense.
@@WVU.STEELERS.CELTICS yes. But a story can have more than one theme and moral.
Bass Astler I can say I think it means my asshole should be kissed by everybody in the world doesn't make it so.
Best film I saw last year! Loved it! That table kick 😂
@John McSween
That just saved me about an hour or so, cheers!!!
You haven’t watched bandersnatch
PAN SHOT!
That was some Elmer Fudd n Bugs Bunny 🐰 shit right there lmao 😂
I love everything but the last story was boring as fuck...gooooooooooooooood
I loved all the movie and loved 5 of the 6 stories. The last one I just liked, truth be told I didn’t get it the first time and the second time I realized the stage coach was going to the “final destination” if you will and enjoyed it more, but still, the other 5 stories were all amazing and that one was just good.
Really? Personally I found the last one interesting, I had to watch it two times aswell to understand the plot and the hidden meanings behind it. Once I came to understand it, it totally blew my mind. One of the interesting message I found was that we like stories because we connect ourselves to the characters and the events we might not yet come across, but not especially if their approaching death, we dismiss that part because "the midnight caller gets him, never me. I'll live forever."
We often think we'll never come across the same plight that happens with unfortunate people simply because it's uncomfortable to think of ourselves subject to the same predicament. We deny our deaths, we despise our inherent powerlessness, we dismiss and willfully blind ourselves to our impending doom. But no matter how much we deny it, no matter how much we blind ourselves, in the end of the day we're all fated with same end. Its very interesting to think about
It’s based on a poem of Death driving a group to their destination.
I feel it fits the theme of the overall message of the movie. No matter how you try to rationalize Life itself, Death is an inevitability. There’s no escape, and there’s no Knowing what happens after you die.
Were they all dead? Or were they indeed just traveling and happened to meet each other?
It doesn’t matter, what matters is that in that ride they all have their perspectives on Life and wished to share them while they reach their destination.
When he buys the chicken that can do math i was like yeah, people watch deal or no deal. The wingless thrush is fucked.
@@robertimmanuel577 the last one is the best.
When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings.....I love that song, it was so funny him strumming that harp and going to heaven
I flipped on Netflix on Smart TV to test out some HDR settings and randomly chose "Ballad of Buster Scruggs" to play to test out those settings. I ended up watching the whole thing. It was great! I might watch it again. What a trip.
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Pity its not in 4k.
Lee McQueen Yes it is a pity! It still looks pretty good on my 55" 4K screen upscaled to 4K, but not "extra crispy" like actual 4K.
Lee McQueen wait what ? i just watched it and it’s in HDR which includes it being 4K
@@Hypno_BPM that's not native 4k
Buster Scruggs is a genius level Coen film. Amazingly well written.
It is indeed. Among their very best.
The dialogue was fuckin awesome
Buster Scruggs, Fargo, No Country For Old Men, Big Lebowski are 4 masterpieces. I like many of their other films but that quartet are next level.
The one with Liam Neeson made me get up and stretch just to shake off how casually dark and brutal that whole thing was.
Just watched it tonight and that one gave me the heebie-jeebies for real. Hope the kid's name was Skip or Bob...
Very well said. My thoughts, exactly. I loved the entire series, equally in their own right.
@@konasurfah 🤣
Why didn't he just leave him.on a sidewalk in a town by a church or something? That was messed up.
@@ducksinarowpatience3670 The wild west ain't kind to cripples. I guess in his mind it was more merciful to put the kid out of his misery. A fucked up form of love in a way. Like I said: Dark as fuck.
The James Franco one was great. ‘First time huh?’
Watched the ballad of buster Scruggs not knowing what to expect. But what a movie! Amazing!
The Gal who Rattled was my favorite skit, if it was a full movie that would be a perfect western.
Caffeinated Cinema at first I was like where is this going. And I’ll admit a little bored... but the last third really made up for it. Made it into one of my favorites
Agreed. The most complete one imo in terms of characters development and overall story. It even left me thinking at the end if Billy would believe Mr Arthur's story or not due to him possibly not wanting Billy to retire.
@@Lgg130 Oh, that's pretty dark. I hadn't even considered that. Perhaps they could have hinted at that more in the set-up.
That was Tom Waits!!!! I totally missed that and I watched it twice!
He’s got patience!
I thought it was Nick Nolte
I knew that was Tom, but the old trapper in the carriage made me double check that Denver Pyle was still dead
I'd watch any movie with Tom Waits in it. Even if the movie is awful he'll surely be fantastic
i love tom waits
Buster Scruggs was the best one, by far. The bank robber skit with James Franco was hilarious. The actor who played the banker did a fantastic job. The stage coach one was also great. My least favorite one was the one with the dude digging for gold, although that one seems to be the most popular one in this comment section. The entire movie was brilliantly made.
I think a lot of people favor the prospector story because it was Tom Waits playing the role - dude is a legendary artist. I think my least favorite was the one about the man with no limbs. Don't get me wrong, I say "least favorite" in terms of simply HAVING to put something at the bottom. Overall the movie was great from beginning to end.
The actor who played the banker is the same actor who played Milton in Office Space and Gordon in Dodge Ball. If you look at his bio, he's been in 278 shows and films as an actor. His name is Stephen Root.
POT SHOT! POT SHOT! POT SHOT! while running was fckin hilarious
The gold prospector one is good but its a slow burn and the fact that you basically spend the entre time with one old guy whose digging for gold means its easy to see it as boring but its a great little atory of preserverence.
The liam nielsen one was great too.
*Payback for stealing his stapler.*
That’s the beauty of the storyline is that each story progressively gets darker than the one before it until you come face to face with with the grim reaper (or the fella’s he has working for him). For me the first story about buster was funny as hell and my favorite, then it traverses into a brilliantly written story. When the bank robber is strung up to be hung and asks the others “first time?” Just hilariously brilliant! Good to see Tyne Daly come out of being mothballed too!
I didn't Recognize Tom Waits at first. It's when he started talking I recognized his voice. His part was the best part of the movie. I also thought President Pierce was super cute!
Deep analysis there
@@TastyChevelle I just didn't want to be a jerk and give any spoilers. I'd love to discuss details, in the right setting. Sorry my comment didn't meet your standards.
I had no idea it was him until checking the cast on Google. I thought he would've been sounded like Heath Ledger's, inspired from Tom Waits, Joker voice.
Yes, President Pierce. Lovely little dog. Where did he run off to again?
@@rapaciousinterloper4725 I accept your apology.
Tom Waits was incredible. One of the best performances ever by anyone.
"That's how people died. Lotta people lived that way too. Lotta people lived that way until they died." For crying out loud...brain must do more editing before mouth starts working.
I love the Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
the Knapp/Alice one was heartbreaking
This movie was fantastic. Have not seen something as good in a long time ( especially for netflix ) another Coen brothers masterpiece , especially the miner skit, a gorgeous skit , the whole movies cinematography was gorgeous.
Buster Scruggs, himself needs a standalone film.
The stage coach ride to the afterlife is my personal favorite.
The French guy referred to the trapper as "The tedious man" I fell out!
PEOPLE ARE LIKE FERROTS!!
I thought the showman who pitched the greatest orator and mind that ever lived into the river because a counting chicken drew bigger crowds was the perfect metaphor for modern society.
Every story was masterfully done, my favorites were pan shot, the one with Tom Waits as the gold miner and the Liam Neeson one
The stories are actually subtly connected with each story referencing the other ones in dialogue, visual cues, music, character types and events reoccuring only slightly differently. Thematically it is about the everpresent possibility of death in the period and how people just lived with it and kept going into the unknown (I think about it like "A Million Ways To Die In The West", only really good).
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is one of the greatest films ever made in my estimation! I LOVE IT!!! Particularly the scene with Tom Waits as the old prospector and also the scene with Tim Blake Nelson as Buster Scruggs himself, singing and murdering his way through all his days! MAN this was an amazing film!!
Not a murderer. Self defense.
@@ducksinarowpatience3670 True
I thought the short story with the wagon trail was the best. The story between the man and the young woman was so heartfelt.
"Haaa i finnaly found'ia pocket"
Gold digger was one of my favorites.
The sing-along in the saloon scene remind me of Blazing Saddles.
The grim reaper scene at the end was hella eerie!
Buster Scruggs is the Yodel kid all grown up, feel old yet?
ianjsutt if you don’t know who the yodel kid is, then you don’t get the joke. Google him.
Very good series ... "Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and DISPAIR!" (shivers)
When buster shoots that guy with the behind the back was priceless. The he says to that one guy, hold on, let me get for you partner, had me rollen..😅😂😅😅😂😅😅😂😂
I don't think Buster's was all that dark in terms of the ending. You live by the sword you die by the sword that's how it goes. "You can't be top dog forever"
Buster Scruggs was my favorite movie of 2018 by a wide margin. Long live the Coen brothers.
I agree, Buster is legend and the rest is history.
@tj mgivern Hey youngster, maybe by the time yr 13 you will understand. Wait till yr nuts drop... you cage diner.
@tj mgivern Randy Marsh?
@tj mgivern I feel for you man, you seem pretty messed up. Sometimes it is hard to tell if someone has problems or they just hate. Hate is so weak, instantly self destructive. An insecurity.
The last story was so awesome.
I really enjoyed the conversation they had. I was thinking "finally, a scene / story that relies purely on dialog and it's captivating"
Buster Scruggs felt to me like an Ernest movie. "Earnest Out West." I miss Jim Varney.
My friend said it reminded her of him. 🤣
Seen this on Netflix for ages but never watched it. Think I will now.
Do it.
Absolutely loved that movie. It's now among my top 3-5 favourite Coen brothers movies, must have seen it 50 times. Also, I know I'm in a minority here, but my favourite story was the last one. Followed by the Tom Waits one.
I caught on to what the last one was about when the 'bounty hunters' said they were 'harvesters' and when they all arrived at that hotel, and showed them pulling the body upstairs, I knew it was a representation of the after life, meaning the riders were really dead and taken to the other side. The old french dude was hesitant to walk in at first, almost as if he was surprised and didn't want to accept that he was dead but eventually gave in and did accept it.
@@fisterhr yeah agree 100%. I wrote a review of it analysing all the little mythological details pointing to purgatory and the afterlife in the scene once.
I love when people who've never seen this movie come over to my house and see the poster and ask what it's all about. Here, sit down, smoke this and prepare your mind to be blow. I've watched this now more times than I have fingers and toes. It never gets old.
I've watched the Tom Waits prospectors episode about 50 times. Awesome job making that and Buster Scruggs was awesome as well.
Love the episodic film. Very dark. But that's the west.
maybe there is a market for short films afterall, they just need to be in a series
Geoffrey Young wasn’t about the west, rewatch it
Love the episodic film. Very dark. But that's the -west- Cohen brothers.
@@96mtbrider so what exactly was it about? We should rather take Ford and John Wayne's (i.e. Hollywood's) word for what the old West was all about??
Guy Shafer obviously no country for old men was just about a sheriff trying to catch a murderer. No allegorical symbolism whatsoever 🙄 lmao sarcasm btw if you couldn’t tell. Go watch the ending scene again. Pay special attention to what’s above the door as the enter the “hotel.” Oh and maybe actually listen to what the characters are saying lmao. Yeah clearly about the rugged hardships of western life 🙄
Actually, they interconnected in subtle ways. For example, one of the characters from the last story is playing in buster's poker game.
The best one was forsure the opening one with buster scruggs.. fucking hilarious
Great addition to the Coens Filmography but my absolute favorite is A Serious Man.
I loved the "gal that got rattled" story (the one where the woman kills herself). It was so beautifully tragic. Just can't get over it.
I got 19 seconds into this, then proceeded to go and watch the entire movie. Now, I am going to finish this so I can understand what’s going on.
Coen Brothers are Masters of direction. My favorite directors. No Country is my favorite movie ever made.
The card game table shoot was epic
Red Dead Redemption vibes... that movie was awesome!!!
If that's your only Western reference to draw from......fine. I guess.
@@GregoryCunningham it's just a recent one
@@GregoryCunningham Hahaha.
@@GregoryCunningham trying to sound like a smart ass or what... they came out the same month you goof
Rockstar wishes they could write as well as the Coens.
When a cowboy trades his spurs for wings 😭
Lnao
Clancy Brown in the opening bar poker table scene shooting himself in the head ! Lmao.
I want them to make full length features for each segment.
joe 'you gotta think about those people' rogan
the cohen brothers are geniuses
So are the Coen brothers.
@@localcrew no, not them
Is 2 years considered a slow burn?
@@codymoe4986 ouch
That's funny, I also thought that Tom Waits was Nick Nolte when I first saw the prospecting part
I always thought leaving your family and never seeing them again…and if something happened along the way, never knowing…it’s heartbreaking
RIP Buster Scruggs.
Frontier explorers and fur trappers blazed the rough outlines of the Oregon Trail in the early 19th century, but the route was initially considered too demanding for women, children or covered wagons to navigate. That changed in 1836, when newlywed missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman took a small party of wagons from St. Louis to the Walla Walla Valley to minister to Cayuse Indians. 28-year-old Narcissa became the first white woman to traverse the Rocky Mountains, and her colorful letters home were later published in Eastern newspapers, convincing many would-be pioneers that it was possible for their families to survive the journey west. Still, it wasn’t until 1843 that the pioneer dam finally burst. That year, Marcus helped lead the first major wagon train of around 1,000 settlers along the Oregon Trail, an exodus now known as the “Great Migration.” Traffic soon skyrocketed, and by the late-1840s and early 1850s, upwards of 50,000 people were using the trail each year.
No one gives a fuck
Gold rush
My new favourite movie. Just watced it and stared in front of my self for minutes thinking about all the messeges of the stories
What a coincidence, I watched Scruggs last night! I'd not seen many trailers and was fully expecting a feature length film of Buster going about The Wild West getting into and out of various scrapes. Very stylish and very dark.
Yep, Tom Waits was perfect casting. His little vignette was the only one that turned out well. " You let me do all the work and ya shot me in the back......" I just loved that one.
One of the best movies I’ve ever seen.
I saw this movie just few minutes ago and oh god it surprised me by how fun it started and how ended up...
My grandparents (mom's parents) both moved from Kansas City to Yakima when they were 5 and 6 years old! 1890s, wagontrain. I got firsthand accounts growing up.
Hello... Mr pocket!!!!
One of the coolest movies I’ve ever seen
Same
Yeah the one with the girl was mad fucked. I was hoping if there was at least one happy ending in the movie, she would have gotten it.
Just now seeing this heart shaped box…
“PAN SHOT!” -the bank teller
Stephen Root as the cashier, surprised Rogan didn't mention him since they worked together on Newsradio. Funny stuff.
They're vignettes, Joe
Wtf did I just watch, summed up exactly how I felt by the end of it.
It lulls you into a false sense of security with the opener. The one with the wagon train broke my goddamn heart.
I went to see Ang Lee accept a Director's award at an independent film festival near me and small town, and someone asked "Are you staying to see Ethan Coen later?" It was one of the best surprises because I loved Fargo around 10 years old when I saw it on HBO in the 90's, and then saw No Country for Old Men 5 times at the theater. So instead of driving home early, I stuck around for another 5 hours just to meet Ethan Coen.
Bone tomahawk is pretty good too, very unique story
I thought it was gratuitous. Maybe I didn't understand it, but thought that was in my top 3 worst movies I've ever seen.
@@spinnetti it goes into exploitation territory, that's for sure.
It’s probably the hardest I laughed out loud when Buster Scruggs cost squarely Joe to commit suicide LOL I was not expecting that
"cost squarely Joe to commit suicide"? What does that even mean?
@@fnchrstphr was in the song he buster sang after killing Joe.
It's "surly Joe" where surly is another word for mean or angry.
I know what you meant don't sweat the typo . Yeah it was awesome I agree
The dude with no arms or legs, I was like damn, that’s cold lol
I love the last one, it was sooo spoookyyy! I love it!
Trippy and funny
It ye olde Black Mirror XD
Thomas Wehrmann thats exactly how I would describe it!
LMFAO
OMG true!!
Black mirror is fucking garbage
Music was great too. Keep coming back to it.
Every story besides the last one was amazing the poker scene at the start with the table kick was awesome.