MOVIE RATING THREAD 1998

[Strang]

Does that mean BURN AFTER READING is due for a cult following?

If Jordy has his idiotic way, it will be Ladykillers.

I didn't realize Run Lola Run came out stateside in '99. After reviewing I also see The Boxer came out in the states on December 31st, 1997. I was trying to go by US release dates only.

Why? Were you already here by then?

Fargo was the first of their movies I saw, so when Lebowski came out I was like "what was that shit?"

I forget to consider that no one saw The Hudsucker Proxy before The Big Lebowski. Never mind before Fargo. Until Ladykillers, I thought Fargo was their worst. Of course, that's like saying milk chocolate is the worst chocolate.

[ExpendablesFan]

Brilliant. http://youtu.be/d8lUY9jS8oQ

What was he supposed to do Derick? Not rap? It was the 90s.

[ExpendablesFan]

If Jordy has his idiotic way, it will be Ladykillers.

It's definitely their worst but it's still not bad. And cults have formed for lesser movies that don't have a moment that made me laugh the hardest I've ever laughed in my life. "...if I may offer a riddle"

[Dobbin]

Are you guys counting BLOOD SIMPLE? That's always been at the bottom of my list of theirs.

[Dalton]

Brilliant. http://youtu.be/d8lUY9jS8oQ

There's more to the movie than that.  I think it's one of the best political satires ever made.  Up there with NETWORK and DR. STRANGELOVE.

[Dan]

I'm still not convinced this isn't one of those things where you guys all sarcastically praise a movie and I think you're being sincere.

[Dalton]

http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C02EFDE1330F936A25756C0A96E958260&partner=Rotten%20Tomatoes

Janet Maslin is in on it too.

[Dan]

Except MARY. Still only makes me laugh once.

What's the one laugh you get? I still like the movie, but I've seen it so much I can't really laugh at it that much anymore. My favorite part now is probably when Matt Dillon stands up from behind his desk and his pants are unbuttoned.

[Wolfe]

I don't know about him, but "I work with retards" was the one thing in MARY that really made me laugh.

[Dobbin]

BULWORTH was amazing.

[Amusing Pseudonym]

I forget to consider that no one saw The Hudsucker Proxy before The Big Lebowski. Never mind before Fargo.

I had seen Arizona (loved) and Hudsucker (hated) before Lebowski, though I didn't know what a "Coen Brother" was at the time and didn't connect that they were all made by the same people until O Brother.  Still haven't seen Fargo.

What's the one laugh you get?

The look on his face when he commits to fighting the dog and does the elbow drop.


edit:  I seem to have misremembered there being a great shot of his facial expression at that moment, cuz I checked the clip on line and there sure ain't one now.  Without it, I didn't laugh at all.   Maybe I memory-merged that scene with some other Stiller movie.

[Dobbin]

No love for MILLER'S CROSSING? That was and remains my favorite thing they've ever done.

[Steve B]

No love for MILLER'S CROSSING? That was and remains my favorite thing they've ever done.

I hated that when I first saw it.  But I was young and probably didn't appreciate it.  I still haven't gotten around to revisiting it.

[nate.3.0]

HUDSUCKER might be my favorite Coen movie.

[DerickA]

There's more to the movie than that.  I think it's one of the best political satires ever made.  Up there with NETWORK and DR. STRANGELOVE.

It's awkward rapping with vague politics from a guy that magically becomes black. Literally the whole thing is this. Are white people afraid to say this is terrible or something?