Latest Coen brother project

The trailer looks great, but in the 18 movies done by the Coen brothers over 30 years, only True Grit: 12/22/10 made serious money. They are brilliant filmmakers, but their forte has always been small budget films that grew in the public perception for years after their release.

I am a little nervous about all these big time movie stars.

Anybody can make a big budget movie, small indies impress me more.

coen brothers sell foreign rights to guarantee a break even in the USA then they do low budget schlock and squeeze the budget and the actors. No script changes. None. Well, okay I do understand that in one movie they let an actor emit a low whistle at opening a bag containing a large sum of money, but everything else has to be scripted. When Charlie Chan went to The Tong the scene was filmed once a few years later the same scene was simply reused for Charlie Chan visiting the Tong on a different case. This would make the Coen Brothers salivate. In Four Feathers half the footage was from a different film, Coen Brothers salivate for sure.

Use has been actors and actors on their way down.

Use on camera.

Squeeze the budget

Coen Brothers make money, but I don't think any of the actors or directors gain nuttin'.

In DDay the "stars" were on film for seven and a half minutes total.

Quote: Pacomartin

The trailer looks great,.

I'll like it but it'll be a BO flop. Too
clever for most audiences and they
don't like movies where Cloony
acts like a goofball. The goat movie
and O Brother come to mind. Weren't
they both Cohn movies?

I was shocked to see how much weight
Jonah Hill has gained. He was so slim
just a couple years ago. His friends say
he's over 300 pounds now.

Quote: Evenbob

Too clever for most audiences and they don't like movies where Clooney acts like a goofball.

The goat movie and O Brother come to mind. Weren't they both Coen movies?

No, Clooney has several collaborators that he works with. The Coen brothers, Grant Heslov, and Steven Soderbergh are among them

George Clooney and the Coen Brothers "the idiot trilogy."
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2008 Burn After Reading

George Clooney and Grant Heslov films
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck
2008 Leatherheads
2009 The Men Who Stare at Goats
2010 The American
2011 The Ides of March

George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh
2007 Michael Clayton
2005 Syriana
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck.
2002 Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

Jacob Hall is clearly a major Coen brothers fan who believes that even a less than stellar CB film is better than most offerings. But he offers this ranking.
16 'Intolerable Cruelty'
15 'The Ladykillers'
14 'The Hudsucker Proxy'
13 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'
12 'The Man Who Wasn't There'
11 'Blood Simple'
10 'Burn After Reading'
9 'Miller's Crossing'
8 'The Big Lebowski'
7 'Inside Llewyn Davis'
6 'Raising Arizona'
5 'Barton Fink'
4 'True Grit'
3 'Fargo'
2 'No Country For Old Men'
1 'A Serious Man'
http://screencrush.com/coen-brothers-ranking/?trackback=tsmclip

Personally, I am a big fan of Coen brothers and have seen most of their films multiple times. I do have a vivid memory of showing the first film, "Blood Simple" to my wife and her girlfriend. They hated it so much, they jeered at me and turned it off.

Quote: Pacomartin

Personally, I am a big fan of Coen brothers and have seen most of their films multiple times. I do have a vivid memory of showing the first film, "Blood Simple" to my wife and her girlfriend. They hated it so much, they jeered at me and turned it off.

I am also big fan
My rankings
1 Big Lebowski
2 Raising Arizona
3 Fargo
4 O Brother
5 No Country
6 True Grit
7 Blood Simple
8 Millers Crossing

The rest I did not see or was not impressed

Quote: terapined

The rest I did not see or was not impressed

I am hoping that "A Serious Man" was one of the films you did not see.

Quote: Pacomartin

I am hoping that "A Serious Man" was one of the films you did not see.

I wasn't even aware of this movie.
Looked it up on IMDB. People either loved it or hated it
Just watched the trailer
Actually looks interesting
toying with the idea of watching it

Quote: terapined

People either loved it or hated it

Successful comedies are very difficult to predict. Probably Bruce Almighty (40 million domestic tickets) and The Hangover (37 million tickets) are the two most successful film comedies of the last 40 years.

But Dark Comedy is one of the strangest genres. I think " The War of the Roses " about a marriage which began passionately and disintegrates into pure hatred is the most popular "dark comedy" film of all time. But "A Serious Man" is a dark comedy about the disintegration of a man's relationship with god and family. The audience was small, but very loyal.

Quote: Pacomartin

But Dark Comedy is one of the strangest genres.

Did you see "Being John Malkovich"?

I thought the idea, and the way it was developed, was clever. But many of the developments were mean. I probably wouldn't watch it again, but I liked it. My dad hated it, and I mean HATED, because of the scenes in the half-floor where everyone must crouch about.