Favorite / Best: The Coen Brothers

[Gareth]

The Coen Brothers are two of my favorite filmmakers in the business today. While far from the best, Raising Arizona will always be my favorite Coen Brothers movie, and one of my favorites period. My extended family quotes the movie so often, I may have the whole thing memorized.

Unfortunately, I have never actually watched The Big Lebowski, but it's on my queue. Best is probably, No Country for Old Men, but I'll hold off for a bit.

[dc20willsave]

Fargo on both counts. Fargo is just that fucking good.

[Gareth]

I saw Fargo a long time ago and I don't really remember it, I really need to re-watch it.

[Dan]

Best is Fargo, no doubt in my mind. My favorite is O Brother, but it's JUST BARELY ahead of about four others. Love these guys.

[Professor]

I've only seen two films on that list and I will say one thing...

If anyone, ANYONE, says Burn After Reading I will punt a box full of kittens into a volcano. I was dragged to that piece of shit, all the time being told "It is the Coen Brothers. It's cannot be bad." I have to say, that kinda put me off from checking out any of their other films.

[Dread]

Fargo's their best. Easy.

O Brother is probably my favorite. Though that vacillates between it, No Country and Fargo.

Intolerable Cruelty gets a runner-up award for me. Underrated film.

[Molly]

Eff, I dunno. Favorite? Probably The Big Lebowski, it's shallow, but it's one of my favorite films of all time.

Best? That's hard, Fargo is up there. No Country for Old Men, too. I'm gonna go with True Grit, for the scenery porn and the work of Hailey Steinfeld.

[SuaveStar]

My favourite is the Big Lebowski. The best to me, is No Country for Old Men.

[Stavros]

No Country is dramatically brilliant, so I checked it for best. However if there's a film I can watch anytime anywhere with anyone its O Brother. Its probably in my personal top film films of all time.

[You Know Who]

At the risk of making enemies, I have to admit that I'm not too keen on the Coen Brothers from what I've seen by them.

I still need to see The Big Lebowski, but for now I have to give Fargo the nod for favorite and best. I sorta liked Miller's Crossing, was ho-hum about True Grit, dislike No Country for its ending (though that's probably Cormac McCarthy's fault more than the Coen Brothers'), and though it has some good performances, I think O Brother is a fucking mess.

[Stavros]

A mess? It's the Odyssey!

An enemy you have made sir. For shame!

[You Know Who]

O Brother is about as faithful to the story and tone of the Odyssey as Disney's Hercules is to Greek mythology.

And I know where you're coming from since I used to really like it, but it hasn't held up for me on more recent viewings.

[Aaron Robinson]

Y'know, I really thought I was going to love Fargo. I liked it, but I kind of wish I didn't come into it with such huge expectations.

[Venneh]

Of these so far, I've only seen True Grit and Lebowski, but I've got a bunch coming during my free Netflix month, so will probably share my opinion later this month.

[Koete]

Speaking of the Coens, Warner Archive's Blu-ray of The Hudsucker Proxy comes out on the 24th.