Intolerable Cruelty

[squian]

I'm still waiting for the latest Coen and Coen flick, The Ladykillers; in the meantime, the next latest, Intolerable Cruelty came via Netflix so I watched it today. It was incredible.

Of course there's the sappy romantic side with a twist of Coen irony. But it also satisfies the need for knee-slapping, belly-aching laughter. As an addict of Law & Order, I found the legal mockery just hilarious.

Plus, who can complain about Catherine Zeta-Jones. :love:

[Dingfod]

Intolerable Cruelty is made even more interesting by the fact that Zeta-Jones was way pregnant during filming. Watch it again with that in mind. It is interesting that they could hide it as well as they did with camera angles, but I suspect some CGI manipulation was used as well.

BTW, I loved Ladykillers, I laughed my ass off.


Warren

[livius drusus]

I can't say I'm all that crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm afraid. I loved The Hudsucker Proxy and Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and I liked Lebowski (Goodman bums me out a little; he ruined Raising Arizona for me), but I hated Fargo with such a furious passion that I just can't call myself a Coen fan.

P.S. - Law & Order rules!

[viscousmemories]

I've loved every Coen Brothers flick, and I'm disappointed that I didn't venture downstairs while squian was watching this one. I'll catch it soon enough I'm sure. :)

[Adora]

I loved this movie. In fact, I pretty much love everything the Coen bros do. Lebowski was a bit of a push, but after the second watching I was into it as much as the others.

I'll be interested to see their take on Ladykillers.

[freemonkey]

I liked Intolerable Cruelty well enough, but it wasn't my favorite Coen bros. movie.

but I hated Fargo with such a furious passion that I just can't call myself a Coen fan.
Whyzzat?



The Hudsucker Proxy

My favorite line from that movie: "Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about."

:bee: :bee: just wanted to see how the bees looked.

[livius drusus]

Whyzzat?

It featured a long list of annoyances for me: Frances McDormand's accent grating more than my Microplane; William H. Macy in constant torture furrowed brow pussy mode; everything starting off bad and getting worse; all that fucking snow.

My favorite line from that movie: "Only a numbskull thinks he knows things about things he knows nothing about."

My favorite bit is the mail room guy's "and they DOCK ya" speech.

:bee: :bee: just wanted to see how the bees looked.

Quite cute, aren't they? Like the Barberini coat of arms. Um. Did I say that out loud? Damn internal monologue history nerd factoid deflector must be malfunctioning again.

[Clutch Munny]

Law & Order rules!


Mmm... Claire...

If only she'd left Jack -- great prosecutor, but did he ever really love her? -- and come to me while there was time.

She was reincarnated as a pathologist, of course, but now she's too skinny. Trauma of death and rebirth, I put it down to.

[livius drusus]

Mmm... Claire...

If only she'd left Jack -- great prosecutor, but did he ever really love her? -- and come to me while there was time.

I think he loved her, but I always suspected she was just warm for his form.

She was reincarnated as a pathologist, of course, but now she's too skinny. Trauma of death and rebirth, I put it down to.

That actually makes a lot of sense. It explains the excessive hair growth anyway.

[pescifish]

Ok, this movie better be good 'cuz I just purchased it at Costco from this FF recommendation. Granted, it was in a 2 DVD set for only $16.99 with Lost in Translation. I suppose you guys are off the hook, since I adored Lost in Translation when I Netflixed it and am happy to own it for the full $16.99.

Still, you guys will be hearing from me whenever I finally get around to watching Intolerable Cruelty. That'll probably be sometime next spring, I imagine.

[pzmyers]

It featured a long list of annoyances for me: Frances McDormand's accent grating more than my Microplane; William H. Macy in constant torture furrowed brow pussy mode; everything starting off bad and getting worse; all that fucking snow.

That's called verisimilitude. I saw the movie before I moved out here between Minneapolis and Fargo, and the snow, the lack of affect, the accents -- they're all here. And every spring, the yards sprout woodchippers as they cope with the fallen branches of the winter.

McDormand had a mild version of the Minnesota accent. I've run into a few whose voices are so sing-song, you'd think they were yodeling Puccini when they're talking about the weather. Which they do, all the time.

Pay a visit this January. Be sure to drive up one of our rural county roads late at night, when the wind is wisping snow ghosts across your headlights and there's nothing to see for miles but fenceposts. Stop in for gas at some lonely station in the middle of nowhere, where a busty blonde teenager with the face of Ingrid Bergman will say a few words of conversation, and the vowels will swoop and dive all around you like musical hellbats.

We'll probably hear your scream all the way down at the Iowa border, and will know you've turned and fled south.

[Dingfod]

Fargo was great.

My daughter Roxy and I went camping at Grand Teton National Park. During our stay we went on a chuckwagon breakfast ride, riding in a wagon with a family from Fargo, ND in the wagon. They were talking about the movie Fargo, while sounding pretty much like characters from the movie, but saying that it wasn't about Fargo at all; "Plus, we don't sound like that at all."

"Well, no, it wasn't about Fargo, ND at all, but yeah, you really do sound like that." I replied with a laugh. They did sound like that too, just aboot like that. Ya, shur, you betcha, by golly, they did.


Warren

[MinorityReport]

Now I'm convinced, pzmyers is just a pseudonym for Garrison Keillor.

All those years pretending to live up in Philadelphia, you don't fool me that easy.

[pzmyers]

You've got a good imagination if you can picture me singing hymns on the radio.

[livius drusus]

We'll probably hear your scream all the way down at the Iowa border, and will know you've turned and fled south.

Just reading your description from the safety of civilization was more than sufficient, thank you. You'll have to make do with the bloodcurdling holler that tore out of my belly at the mere thought of driving through that nightmare in white to the accompaniment of Puccini yodellers.

[MinorityReport]

You've got a good imagination if you can picture me singing hymns on the radio.

I do listen to your radio show occasionally. It's on now. I'm practically melting here in London, thinking about the folks up at Saint Olafs who are just now considering taking their mittens off for summer, and listening to the ads from the Ketchup Advisory Board.

[viscousmemories]

I finally saw this film the other night. It was goofy and fairly predictable, but laugh-out-loud funny in parts and as engaging as every other Coen Brother's flick. So far I've loved every one of them, and I'm sure Ladykillers won't disappoint me either. Lemme see if I can do a list from memory:

Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Hmm... am I missing any?

[viscousmemories]

I finally saw this film the other night. It was goofy and fairly predictable, but laugh-out-loud funny in parts and as engaging as every other Coen Brother's flick. So far I've loved every one of them, and I'm sure Ladykillers won't disappoint me either. Lemme see if I can do a list from memory:

Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
The Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Hmm... am I missing any?
Yup. You forgot the inimitable The Hudsucker Proxy, and there's The Man Who Wasn't There. You didn't technically forget the latter, though, as you'd never even heard of it until tonight.

[viscousmemories]

So far I've loved every one of them, and I'm sure Ladykillers won't disappoint me either.
I was right! :popcorn:

[beyelzu]

I can't say I'm all that crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm afraid. I loved The Hudsucker Proxy and Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and I liked Lebowski (Goodman bums me out a little; he ruined Raising Arizona for me), but I hated Fargo with such a furious passion that I just can't call myself a Coen fan.

P.S. - Law & Order rules!
what made fargo worse was having to hear dipshits say, "Oh, you didnt like it, well its a dark comedy, not everyone gets those"

I must have heard that a thousand fucking times.

[viscousmemories]

I can't say I'm all that crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm afraid. I loved The Hudsucker Proxy and Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and I liked Lebowski (Goodman bums me out a little; he ruined Raising Arizona for me), but I hated Fargo with such a furious passion that I just can't call myself a Coen fan.

P.S. - Law & Order rules!
what made fargo worse was having to hear dipshits say, "Oh, you didnt like it, well its a dark comedy, not everyone gets those"

I must have heard that a thousand fucking times.
Huh. I wouldn't call it a dark comedy. Heathers was a dark comedy. Harold and Maude was a dark comedy. (And both classics.) Fargo had some funny parts but overall I thought it was more suspense/drama than comedy. Then again I haven't seen it in many years so I don't really remember.

Anyway it's not hard for me to imagine someone not liking it even though I did.

[beyelzu]

I can't say I'm all that crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm afraid. I loved The Hudsucker Proxy and Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and I liked Lebowski (Goodman bums me out a little; he ruined Raising Arizona for me), but I hated Fargo with such a furious passion that I just can't call myself a Coen fan.

P.S. - Law & Order rules!
what made fargo worse was having to hear dipshits say, "Oh, you didnt like it, well its a dark comedy, not everyone gets those"

I must have heard that a thousand fucking times.
Huh. I wouldn't call it a dark comedy. Heathers was a dark comedy. Harold and Maude was a dark comedy. (And both classics.) Fargo had some funny parts but overall I thought it was more suspense/drama than comedy. Then again I haven't seen it in many years so I don't really remember.

Anyway it's not hard for me to imagine someone not liking it even though I did.
I know, american psycho, heathers are both dark comedies imho.

I like both of them. I didnt find fargo funny, I found it irritating when it was trying to be funny.

except for the woodchipper that was funny as hell, but on the whole I just didnt like the movie.

[livius drusus]

I didnt find fargo funny, I found it irritating when it was trying to be funny.

except for the woodchipper that was funny as hell, but on the whole I just didnt like the movie.

My thoughts exactly, beyelzu.

[Godless Dave]

Interesting how much variation there is here among Coen brothers likes and dislikes.

I loved Raising Arizona, including John Goodman.

I hated the Hudsucker Proxy, and didn't realize until today it was a Coen brothers film.

I didn't know Intolerable Cruelty was Coen brothers either. Maybe I'll see it.

I liked Fargo OK, didn't love it.

I loved O Brother Where Art Thou?

I hated the Man Who Wasn't There.

I haven't seen The Big Lebowski or Millers Crossing yet. I wasn't planning on seeing the Ladykillers because it got bad reviews, but I may check it out since it's been recommended here.

It featured a long list of annoyances for me: Frances McDormand's accent grating more than my Microplane...
What accent?

[viscousmemories]

I haven't seen The Big Lebowski
Damn funny, IMHO. Very Raising Arizonaesque.

or Millers Crossing
Classic gangster flick. A must see if you like gangster flicks.

I wasn't planning on seeing the Ladykillers because it got bad reviews, but I may check it out since it's been recommended here.
In my opinion if you loved O' Brother... you'll love this too. Very similar feel.