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Summary: Quite possibly the most overrated of all time
Review: OK, so you're making a movie ... and you stick your wife in the leading role ... But, there's a problem: She's a dreadful actress ... Solution ? Convince the starved American audience the entire thing is "quirky" .... And try to force her into being "funny", while attemping to make things interesting with "little touches" .... There are so many forced scenes here, I don't know where to begin ... It's really pretty scary how the movie audiences here are stricken with "The Lemming Syndrome" ... Don't believe the hype ....
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Summary: Should have been Best Picture! "Prowler needs a jump."
Review: The Coen brothers have brought us some really great films. Barton Fink, Miller's Crossing, Raising Arizona, Blood Simple. But their masterpiece is Fargo. This story of a kidnapping scheme gone terribly wrong is both superbly acted and ingeniously scripted. Frances McDormand more than deserved her Best Actress Academy Award. Having family from Minnesota I can attest that yes, the people up there do talk like that. The scene with the cop and the unlucky couple on a deserted stretch of highway is truly haunting, even more so in the realistic filming of the sequential shootings. Truly a lesson in Murphy's Law, everything that can go wrong for the kidnappers does! The slow pacing of this film might turn off younger viewers looking for slam-bang action but if you aren't beyond a little thinking with your popcorn this movie should be perfect for you. The Best Film of 1996, timeless and original, Fargo is a necessary film for your home video library. And forget what the AFI said, this is in no way a comedy!
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Summary: MY FAVORITE MOVIE
Review: Hands down. There is not a scene in this film that isn't crucial. Some scenes are so extreme (the confrontation between Shep and Buscemi) that you are not sure whether to laugh or be horrified. This movie is funny, disarming, affectionate, shocking, and, in the very end, extremely sad. The best I've ever seen.
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Summary: A Waste Of Time and Money
Review: One of the least interesting movies ever to win acclaim as some sort of classic. The acting is serviceable, with William H. Macy turning in especially good work. Macy is the only cast member able to transcend the snickering juvenility of the Coen Brothers' script. Boring boring boring. A film best played as a way to induce slumber.
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Summary: a surprising and aggravating bore
Review: With all the hooplah about this film, you may be surprised to discover how mannered, self-conscious and even mean-spirited it is. Cute dolts bundled up to look like Michelin men in the midwest solve a murder mystery amid miles and miles and more miles of snow. The audience is invited to laugh at working class people and feel superior, while at the same feeling a cozy nostalgia for American homespun values, represented by an ambitious but pregnant cop and her toy teddy bear husband. Yuck! As usual, the Coen Brothers think making their actors expressionless is artsy, but somehow William H. Macy springs the trap and goes his own way. He gives a marvelous performance (although he gives a better one in "Boogie Nights") so he rates a star. The other star goes to the two terrifying murderers (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare) who, by being simply terrifying, manage at times to get the blood flowing in this otherwise overly precious, cold-hearted and negligible film.
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Summary: I'd give it four and a half stars, but I can't do that.
Review: Leave it to the genius minds of Joel and Ethan Coen to write a movie that is at the same time horrific and hilarious. Black humour is betwixt dark thriller in this true story of a weak salesman, two criminals, and a cop with an appetite, literally! Starring William H. Macy as a car salesman who in a wee spot of trouble, financial trouble. So he hires crooks for hire talkative "funny lookin'" shorty Steve Buscemi and "big guy" Peter Stormare, who has about twenty or less lines in the film, but he doesn't need to speak. His plan is for them to kidnap his wife and get his father to pay the ransom, which Macy would deliver, but only giving them a fraction of it. The plan seems foolproof, but the criminals are forced to muder in order to save their skin, and pregnant police officer Frances McDormand (I don't think that's how you spell it) is hot on their trail. The plotline and charcters could have made this movie go either way, but the smart Coens decided to make it a comedy thriller. The result: best picture nomination and a great motion picture.
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Summary: In the Eccentric tradition of the Cohen Brothers, Fargo has
Review: Become one of the most Different movies of all time. While I personaly dont think that it was as good as Blood Simple, or as funny as Raising Arizona or The Big Lebowski, It is still one of the greatest movies of the decade. William H. Macy excelled as an actor while portraying the disgruntled Car Salesman, while Steve Buschimi was hillarius as a murderer for hire. Although this movie could be summed up by my usual 5 word review, I think it deserved a little more of a discrpition than, "This Movie Is Extremely Good"
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Summary: Second hand smoke is the CARCINOGENIC!
Review: FARGO
Frances McDermond, William H. Macy 1996
Synopsis
A true story of a 1987 case in Minnesota, where a man (Macy) plans to have his wife kidnapped and then have the woman's rich father pay the ransom only to split it with the kidnappers. Well, the plan goes terribly wrong. A 7 month pregnant police officer (McDermond) is assigned to the case. My Review
I could almost give this 5 stars. Man does this movie work. When McDermond goes to talk to Macy, and Macy sneaks out while her back is turned she goes "He's fleeing the interview! He's fleeing the interview!". That was classic. She got the statue for her role.
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Summary: From a true North Dakotan
Review: This film is truly amazing! I was a bit nervous to see it since I remember when the murders happened and also I'm from ND and lived in Minnesota. The accents were great except we say oofta, ya, ya betcha and doncha know more than ya darn tootin'. Overall it was really fabulous and I was happy to see familar places I grew up around. Frances McDormand and William H Macy were fabulous...
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Summary: Stunning!
Review: Fargo truly is one of the best movies I have ever seen. You really have to be a 'in-tune' person to get this movie. The humor is very dark, but absolutely funny as hell. After the final scene where the film blacks out, I just sit there and while the Fargo score is playing say to myself, "Wow. Incredible." Everytime.....this is a classic that deserves a definite place in your library. BUY THIS MOVIE!
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