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Summary: Funny!!!!
Review: The funniest movie i have seen in years.THE MUSIC WAS GREAT!!!
I went out and bought the CD the next day. You dont want to miss this one.
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Summary: Shucks, y'all gotta see this one
Review: This movie is now one of my top two favorites of all time. Offbeat (the story, not the music) and quirky, this movie is not much like anything you may have seen, and that is what makes it a real treasure. A great cast, a soundtrack that stays in your mind and keeps your toes tapping, and a fun 'old-timey' feel to it, it's one to see more than once, if for no other reason than to listen to George Clooney rattle off his multi-syllabic nonsense. The reviewers may have trashed it, but who listens to them anyway?
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Summary: Quirky and Uplifting!
Review: I had to watch this movie several times, to re-experience the joy and nuttiness some scenes gave me!I would agree with the last reviewer who loved the strange humor and excellent acting. I loved the story and the music that carried it along. Not true that the Coen Brothers never read the Odyssey...that was a bit of a joke...they said in another interview that that is their favorite book, and they read it quite often. Loved the characters, but everyone seems to have the impression that it starred Clooney, Turturro, and Goodman, in that order. They forget Tim Blake Nelson, who had most of lines -- if you don't count Everett's loquacious yammering. In fact, Blake's character Delmar ("dumber than a bag of hammers") had the best, funniest, and most provocative lines in the movie. He also had the right accent, something most of the supposedly Mississipian characters did not. George Cloony's was on and off, mostly off, although the actor is originally from Kentucky. (Blake is from Oklahoma and sounded dead-on just like my southern relatives.) The jacket hints that Pete (Turturro) is bad-tempered, but nothing would seem to indicate that he was. He wasn't as adorable and innocent as Delmar, but he wasn't much brighter. This movie sings! :)
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Summary: Best I've Seen In A While
Review: I don't enjoy most current movies. Some movies just hit you right. This one did it for me. The "Man of Constant Sorrow" song was great, as was the melancholy guitar tune by the campfire. I initially missed a couple of the movie's references, such as Robert Johnson's alleged sale of his soul to the devil at the crossroads. This is a quirky, funny and thoroughly enjoyable movie.
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Summary: An oddball, but good!
Review: If you want to see something out of the ordinary, something which will take your mind off of the atrocities of today, watch this movie. George Clooney proved that he is not just a pretty face. He can act and act well. Even his country accent is on the mark. He reflects a boyish wonder throughout the whole movie. Yet, you know that he is in charge all the time. John Goodman has a colorful part in this movie, too. He is a bible salesman who is anything but christian. He plays his part very well. He was a good choice. Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou is a wonderful movie. It keeps you watching and wondering what these three fools will do next. The music is very good, too. Especially, the song that Clooney's character becomes famous for. I really like that song and it's not my kind of music. Watch this movie. It won't be a waste of time! You will have a BONAFIDE good time.
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Summary: Interesting...
Review: Fans of the Coen brothers are sure to enjoy this offbeat movie, which tells the tale of three escaped cons in the south during the depression who somehow get mixed up with Missippi politics, the Klan, popular music, con men, and many other strange comic adventures. George Clooney is good as the calm, conniving leader of the escapees, and his dirty sidekicks are hilarious. John Goodman has a notable appearance as a smooth-talking cyclops, and the man who plays the governor (whose name alas eludes me) is absoloutely superb in his role as corrupt politician. The film is visually beautiful, shot entirely through some kind of yellow filter that gives it a bleached appearance that feels very appropriate both to the American south of the period in which it is set, and to the ancient Greek world of Homer's Odyssey on which the story is based. The old-timey music that the convicts perform (at one point they become a singing trio called "The Soggy Bottom Boys!") is appealing as well. You will enjoy watching this odd and unpredicatble effort, but I must say that it is not perfect. I have a problem with the way the Odyssey parallels are handled. Simply put, they don't make much sense in the modern setting unless you know that they are meant to be from the Odyssey. There is no subtlety in the parallels, so that basically what we are given is the Odyssey set in 1930s Missippi, for no apparent reason. I wish they could have done a better job of making events ring true in the modern setting - so that if you watched the movie and didn't know the Odyssey, it would all still make some kind of sense, however odd. But this is not the case, and I feel disappointed, in that they could have made it into a truly great movie this way instead of merely an interesting and good one. It works on some levels, but not on others.
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Summary: Neutral best describes this Movie
Review: This movie is loosely based on the Homer Odyssey and centers around three escaped convicts in the south during the depression. One of the convicts (George Clooney) has escaped to stop his wife from marrying another man. He persuaded the other two convicts to follow along with him promising them hidden loot from a heist. The movie has its high and low points but never fully engages the audience. There are a few memorable scenes such as the Sirens and the flood scene. The music really is a big part of this movie and sets the tone. It is an older style Deep South country style that will not appeal to all and if you do not like the music you will not like the movie since the music is an integral part of the movie. After viewing this movie it left me with a neutral feeling. I did not despise it nor was I crazy about it. The video transfer is an excellent 2:35 Anamorphic transfer that shows no signs of edge enhancement. The colors are clean and crisp even in the darker scenes. The Audio track options are DTS 5.1, Dolby 5.1, and Dolby 2.0. The DTS track being the best with good channel separation and dialog focused on the center channel.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I am 15 years old but I think that this movie thought me alot, it was very well written and the actors played there parts so well I felt that I was there. I believe that this movie taught me alot on religion( the devil) and on life in general . If anything I would recommend this movie to many people especially to my age groupe because it makes you think about different things that most of us don`t talk about . Whatch this movie once and you will like it so much you will alomost know the lines bu heart !!
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Summary: Another Fabulously Crazy Coen Comedy
Review: O Brother where art thou comes courtesy of Joel and Ethan Coen who do nothing to break their reputation of making quirky and ultra-stylish films that end up magnificent. Following their tales of the upper Midwest (Fargo) and a bowler from LA (The Big Lebowski) comes a take on Homer's Odyssey in the dirty 30s. George Clooney stars as our traveling hero Ulysses Everett McGill a man obsessed with his image and his special hair treatment. McGill convinces his jail buddies Pete (John Turturro) and Delmer (Tim Black Nelson) to escape alongside him with promise of a million dollar treasure awaiting them at the end of the trip. The trip really is all about him trying to re-unite with his wife in time before she gets remarried. Right away they run into a prophetic blind man on a railroad cart who warns them of their fate and then the standard Coen craziness begins. Among the things our trio of runaways encounters are one-eyed bulky bible salesman, 3 sirens who seduce them, the Klan, and a manic depressive bank robber amongst other things. Joining them off and on through their journey is Tommy, a black man who tells them he sold his soul to the devil so he could play the guitar, which does come in handy when the pop into a recording studio and make some easy money singing what becomes a smash hit for the movie world and in reality with "Man of Constant Sorrow". I will admit to having to see this film 3 or 4 times before it really clicked with me, but Coen fans in the end will absolutely adore this picture. The film is highlighted by solid acting performances and some great cinematography and the roots soundtrack, which brought as much attention to the picture as anything. So another solid fare from the Coens would have firmly rooted themselves as consistent filmmakers who can still make original films when they're most needed.
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Summary: Fargo - this isn't
Review: Another reviewer mentioned that he was lost in the first 20 minutes. I wasn't lost but I kept asking myself -- O Brother why did I waste my money on this? Sure the characters were witty at times and the plot definitely abstract -- but does that make a good overall movie. Not in my opinion.
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