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Definitely Friday and Next Friday.
Rush Hour is a favourite of mine, love some earlier Sandler movies too like Waterboy and Happy Gilmore.
Ace Ventura is funny too.
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| The Grind wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: | | 4stargeneralbulldog wrote: | | Fargo |
That was a Cohenmedy. Not quite a drama, not quite a comedy. Buscemi's leg sticking out of a wood chipper while his blood sprays all over the snow from the other end is horrific, yet still, kind of cohenmedic. |
A little bit like Pulp Fiction, you kind of chuckle at the ridiculousness of the suggested scenario, even tho you know you probably shouldn't. I will say Cohen's are a little more "grounded" than QT as weird as that may sound. |
Or in Fargo, the spaz wife's behavior. She's being abused, abducted, and is eventually strangled and yet the script and acting makes the whole affair seem bleakly/blackly amusing even though you know it's wrong. That kind of rooting-for-the-horrible-degenerate-murderers humor probably wasn't as prevalent before The Sopranos as it is today. The big guy with white hair shoots a father and daughter on the road and you don't remember that so much as you remember "Where's pancakes house?!...". You don't think of them kidnapping the wife, you think, "Unnn-guent!"
I've watched Miller's Crossing at least 6x in less than a year (movie channels play it a lot). A movie I didn't care for when I first saw it many years ago, around the time it was still new. I didn't get it back then, didn't know the Cohens or their style. I remember not understanding why certain parts were so campy and silly. Now I like it. Makes perfect sense to me. Knowing it was a Cohen Bros movie before the 2nd view 20 yrs later, there was no longer a conceptual barrier there. Loved No Country and the True Grit remake. Hope they have another of that ilk up their sleeves. It's what they're best at. They won their Oscar for No Country. I'm still not a fan of their intentional comedies.
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What About Bob |
Huh. Thought this was late '80s. Great film. As was Groundhog Day.
Personal favorite: The Big Lebowski. |
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| non-player zealot wrote: | | The Grind wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: | | 4stargeneralbulldog wrote: | | Fargo |
That was a Cohenmedy. Not quite a drama, not quite a comedy. Buscemi's leg sticking out of a wood chipper while his blood sprays all over the snow from the other end is horrific, yet still, kind of cohenmedic. |
A little bit like Pulp Fiction, you kind of chuckle at the ridiculousness of the suggested scenario, even tho you know you probably shouldn't. I will say Cohen's are a little more "grounded" than QT as weird as that may sound. |
Or in Fargo, the spaz wife's behavior. She's being abused, abducted, and is eventually strangled and yet the script and acting makes the whole affair seem bleakly/blackly amusing even though you know it's wrong. That kind of rooting-for-the-horrible-degenerate-murderers humor probably wasn't as prevalent before The Sopranos as it is today. The big guy with white hair shoots a father and daughter on the road and you don't remember that so much as you remember "Where's pancakes house?!...". You don't think of them kidnapping the wife, you think, "Unnn-guent!"
I've watched Miller's Crossing at least 6x in less than a year (movie channels play it a lot). A movie I didn't care for when I first saw it many years ago, around the time it was still new. I didn't get it back then, didn't know the Cohens or their style. I remember not understanding why certain parts were so campy and silly. Now I like it. Makes perfect sense to me. Knowing it was a Cohen Bros movie before the 2nd view 20 yrs later, there was no longer a conceptual barrier there. Loved No Country and the True Grit remake. Hope they have another of that ilk up their sleeves. It's what they're best at. They won their Oscar for No Country. I'm still not a fan of their intentional comedies. |
Miller's Crossing is their 2nd best film, imo (after Lebowski). |
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I love this movie so much.
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| non-player zealot wrote: | | The Grind wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: | | 4stargeneralbulldog wrote: | | Fargo |
That was a Cohenmedy. Not quite a drama, not quite a comedy. Buscemi's leg sticking out of a wood chipper while his blood sprays all over the snow from the other end is horrific, yet still, kind of cohenmedic. |
A little bit like Pulp Fiction, you kind of chuckle at the ridiculousness of the suggested scenario, even tho you know you probably shouldn't. I will say Cohen's are a little more "grounded" than QT as weird as that may sound. |
Or in Fargo, the spaz wife's behavior. She's being abused, abducted, and is eventually strangled and yet the script and acting makes the whole affair seem bleakly/blackly amusing even though you know it's wrong. That kind of rooting-for-the-horrible-degenerate-murderers humor probably wasn't as prevalent before The Sopranos as it is today. The big guy with white hair shoots a father and daughter on the road and you don't remember that so much as you remember "Where's pancakes house?!...". You don't think of them kidnapping the wife, you think, "Unnn-guent!"
I've watched Miller's Crossing at least 6x in less than a year (movie channels play it a lot). A movie I didn't care for when I first saw it many years ago, around the time it was still new. I didn't get it back then, didn't know the Cohens or their style. I remember not understanding why certain parts were so campy and silly. Now I like it. Makes perfect sense to me. Knowing it was a Cohen Bros movie before the 2nd view 20 yrs later, there was no longer a conceptual barrier there. Loved No Country and the True Grit remake. Hope they have another of that ilk up their sleeves. It's what they're best at. They won their Oscar for No Country. I'm still not a fan of their intentional comedies. |
C'mon man Raising Arizona is pretty rad, no? |
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| The life of Brian (was it in the 90s?) |
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| Lowest Merion wrote: | | Aussiesuede wrote: |
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Huh. Thought this was late '80s. Great film. As was Groundhog Day.
Personal favorite: The Big Lebowski. |
Nope. 1991 What About Bob
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| vanexelent wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: | | The Grind wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: | | 4stargeneralbulldog wrote: | | Fargo |
That was a Cohenmedy. Not quite a drama, not quite a comedy. Buscemi's leg sticking out of a wood chipper while his blood sprays all over the snow from the other end is horrific, yet still, kind of cohenmedic. |
A little bit like Pulp Fiction, you kind of chuckle at the ridiculousness of the suggested scenario, even tho you know you probably shouldn't. I will say Cohen's are a little more "grounded" than QT as weird as that may sound. |
Or in Fargo, the spaz wife's behavior. She's being abused, abducted, and is eventually strangled and yet the script and acting makes the whole affair seem bleakly/blackly amusing even though you know it's wrong. That kind of rooting-for-the-horrible-degenerate-murderers humor probably wasn't as prevalent before The Sopranos as it is today. The big guy with white hair shoots a father and daughter on the road and you don't remember that so much as you remember "Where's pancakes house?!...". You don't think of them kidnapping the wife, you think, "Unnn-guent!"
I've watched Miller's Crossing at least 6x in less than a year (movie channels play it a lot). A movie I didn't care for when I first saw it many years ago, around the time it was still new. I didn't get it back then, didn't know the Cohens or their style. I remember not understanding why certain parts were so campy and silly. Now I like it. Makes perfect sense to me. Knowing it was a Cohen Bros movie before the 2nd view 20 yrs later, there was no longer a conceptual barrier there. Loved No Country and the True Grit remake. Hope they have another of that ilk up their sleeves. It's what they're best at. They won their Oscar for No Country. I'm still not a fan of their intentional comedies. |
Miller's Crossing is their 2nd best film, imo (after Lebowski). |
Miller's Crossing is genius to me. Definitely funny at points, but not a comedy. |
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| governator wrote: | | The life of Brian (was it in the 90s?) |
Not even CLOSE.
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This is an obscure one, but I always loved this movie called Freeway.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116361/
Of course, Stuart Saves His Family!
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C'mon man Raising Arizona is pretty rad, no? |
I thought about that one. I saw it once...........once. It was cute, I understood that they were intentionally trying to make it so. I remember laughing hard at the scene where Goodman came thru a pile of mud or manure yelling "AAHHHH!!" It's been so long that I saw it that it's hazy. However, here's a tangent for you, homie. I saw Something Wild last year for the first time, and it reminded me of my hazy recollection of Raising Arizona among others. There were a lot of movies back then that vaguely remind me of each other in style and in some of the plot lines (i.e. being on the run in some way, driving scenes, some kind of illicit behavior going on). The Grifters and Miami Blues were like that. Leaving Las Vegas was an extremely bleak example to me as well. That one was on the other polar extreme of Raising Arizona as far as genre, yet there was still a vague similarity in my disturbed mind. I can't put my finger on what that early 90s style exactly was, but for example, it was like when that INXS video for "I Need You Tonight" was new, a bunch of other videos that looked like it cropped up immediately because the style of that video was new/fresh and trendsetting.
I haven't seen Lebowski yet, believe it or not. I will eventually give all their material a whirl at least once out of respect, but that new Caeser one looks like death. If I had to sit thru that sh, by the end of it, I'd be hanging from the ceiling of the theater. You'd see my feet dangling at eye level like that scene in Airplane! where he's telling that lady his life story.
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I haven't seen Lebowski yet, believe it or not. |
WHAAAAAAT THE EFF!!???
Fix that, and soon.
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Yeah, you can skip that one. As an Editor, I liked it from a technical standpoint and the McCarthy period/Movie Studio references resonated (the Frances McDormand scene as the Editor who gets her scarf stuck in the Moviola was an awesome analogy). But outside of that it was a major yawner.
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Boogie Nights
Not a traditional comedy by any means, more of a dramedy. |
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| DaMuleRules wrote: | | non-player zealot wrote: |
I haven't seen Lebowski yet, believe it or not. |
WHAAAAAAT THE EFF!!???
Fix that, and soon. |
I know, it's a cult classic according to the internets. Reminds me of that Fight Club movie that a lot of internet br0z talk about. I didn't want to see that flick, but I finally must've found an unedited movie channel airing and rolled with it. I promise to Netflix Lebowski, but no matter what, you'll always be "The Dude" at LG. I just saw Close Encounters for the first time in full a few weeks ago. That's 40 yrs old next year and there were scenes that I had never seen even by accident (via channel surfing). Never saw the part in the middle where he was throwing building materials into his kitchen window to construct the mound. I personally wouldn't have left a 1977 Teri Garr on Earth, but that's me.
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