Mars1107
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A.Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
B.Snatch
C.Burn After Reading
B.Snatch
C.Burn After Reading
Agreed...Although I still think In Bruges tramples Fargo, even though Fargo was great.BAR was quite possibly one of the most terrible movies I had seen in 2008- horrendous, IMO. The Cohen brothers are phenomenal filmmakers, but BAR's shambolic plot severely clouded the well-constructed performances of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. I would forget BAR ever existed, and substitute Fargo there instead!
The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where For Art Thou?, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Man Who Wasn't There are all great films. IMO, they have a great genre-range, amazing grasp on lighting/cinematography, and are amazing storytellers [aside from that piece of crap, BAR].Agreed...Although I still think In Bruges tramples Fargo, even though Fargo was great.
But I'm glad someone agrees with me. I really thought Burn After Reading sucked. I couldn't wait to leave the theater. I was extremely disappointed.
I can't agree that the Cohen brothers are phenomenal. I've seen some other crappy flicks by them...Ladykillers was stupid too...but The Big Lebowski makes up for it.
I loved Life Aquatic, but really wasn't much of a fan of Broken Flowers. Maybe I need to watch it again. - How did you like Lost in Translation?The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where For Art Thou?, Fargo, No Country for Old Men, and The Man Who Wasn't There are all great films. IMO, they have a great genre-range, amazing grasp on lighting/cinematography, and are amazing storytellers [aside from that piece of crap, BAR].
I agree, though: I wanted to leave during BAR so bad, and was completely amazed by its critical acclaim. It was a movie whose plot was nonsensical, erratic and flustered, which considerably muttered some decent performances turned in by its actors. You keep waiting for a crescendo moment which will make up for the rest of the movie, but it never comes. Very terribly made, and the art-house film-critic crowd loves it because the general population does not understand it - because, it sucks as a film.
Anyway, my favorite dark/non-traditional comedies have to be A Life Aquatic, and Broken Flowers - I <3 Bill Murray.
Broken Flowers is in that mid-range of dark comedies, and it is really subtle. I found it to be great, though.I loved Life Aquatic, but really wasn't much of a fan of Broken Flowers. Maybe I need to watch it again. - How did you like Lost in Translation?
:lol:Broken Flowers is in that mid-range of dark comedies, and it is really subtle. I found it to be great, though.
Like prl, I thought that LIT was a bit slow, but Bill Murray is one of my favorite actors of all time.
So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald... striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevasse, right at the base of this glacier. Do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... gunga, gunga-galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. "
Depp's another one of my favorite actors. I rarely see a movie with him in it that I don't like...Secret Window, anyone? That movie is rarely talked about but I really enjoyed it.I freakin' love Caddyshack! Bill Murray, despite the hideous disfigurement in place of his face, has that confident air about him that translates amazingly onto film. I also think he captured another side of Hunter S. Thompson in "Where the Buffalo Roam" that nicely predates Depp's version.
I saw Secret Window, but was a bit more drawn to John Turturro. For random, none-too-often-spoken-about Depp movies, I think "Ed Wood" and "Don Juan Demarco" are interesting. Brando and Depp sharing the same screen would have been better, though, had Brando not already been bloated and disinterested by that point!Depp's another one of my favorite actors. I rarely see a movie with him in it that I don't like...Secret Window, anyone? That movie is rarely talked about but I really enjoyed it.
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