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Summary: "Fargo" in the depression era deep South
Review: If you liked that quirky movie "Fargo" (I did) then your going to Love "Brother". George Clooney plays a wonderful "good ole' boy" with a hair fixation. Lines like "We thought they done luved you up and turned yall into a toad!" or "Daddy, Momma said you got hit by a train", when taken in context will make you roar. It a delightful comedy with a bit of "Cool Hand Luke" thrown in for good measure (chain gang, "man with no eyes" sunglass wearing guard, bungling fellow escapees). There's even a bit of the "Wizard of Oz" at a KKK meeting. Remember the evil witches guards marching and singing. Well it's here too! See this movie, you'll love it, or at the very least be entertained. Isn't that what it's all about?
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Summary: Big Dissapointment, Did not Laugh out loud once.
Review: I really like The Cohen brothers movies but I did not laugh out loud once during this movie.One of their least impressive works.I really wanted to like this movie but I was not inspired at all. One of those movies you neither love nor hate,which I hate! Get The Big Lebowski instead.Now that is a funny movie!
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Summary: Not quite "Barton"... Not quite "Fargo".
Review: This is a rental. Clooney and the rest of the cast turn in fine performances, and the writing is quite good. But this movie doesn't stick in your mind like the Coens' better efforts.Great movies have moments that stick with you long after the movie is done. In "Barton", it's the flaming hotel hallway with John Goodman on a murderous rampage walking through it. In "Fargo", it's a pregnant policewoman walking through snow drifts; a desperate woman trying to escape from kidnappers while wrapped in a shower curtain; a man being fed into a woodchipper. This movie, while fun, and at some points quite funny, just comes up short on those kind of moments. Pretty good, just not great.
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Summary: Is it really that funny?
Review: Tagged as the team of the consummate quirky movie, the Coen brothers' newest release, Oh Brother Where Art Though, is one supposes their clever reconstruction of Homer's Odyssey with a heavy sprinkling of blue grass music. In it three connected members of a chain gang go on a journey for treasure that George Clooney's character, Ulysses Everett McGill, says he has hidden. His partners played by John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson complete the ensemble of misfits. There are some readily recognizable episodes from the Odyssey imaginatively set in the 1930's South. The most pleasing is John Goodman as the Cyclops. The music is placed throughout the movie and seems a natural counterpart to the performance. The movie is well acted and constructed. However, as with all the Coen films, their humour is inevitably at the expense of a disadvantaged demographic. Their films habitually exploit the setting and people in rural, geographically depressed areas. What is funny about this? It is pity that they feel they have the right to mine this material in the first place, and it is a pity that their imaginations cannot extend beyond it. There is a limited appeal to the Coen films which I'm sure they rationalize as being misunderstood by the wider audience. In plain fact the audience recognizes the films as meanly comical and wildly stereotypic and chooses not to go. Oh Brother, Where Art Thou is only another sugar-coated extension of this meanness.
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Summary: Did anyone mention the other famous movie sequence?
Review: I want to add the other famous movie sequence which occurs at the KKK rally. The Wizard of Oz. Notice that the three overtake three guards (aka monkeymen) and are on a quest to save a decent person (blues singer - Dorothy). The fire is a predominant factor in hurting the singer (Witch's broom on fire). My first thought was that this scene was lifted from the Wizard of Oz rather than the Busby Berkeley aspects, the later of which are apparent in the choreography of the march scene. Otherwise, there are many layers of tributes to old films which added to my enjoyment - my family's film of 2000.
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Summary: Damn Good Film
Review: When O Brother came into theaters last year I thought it looked pretty cool. But when the critics started trashing it, I decided that I was going to wait untill it came to DVD.This Friday while at work,I got pretty interested in the film when I saw that the DVD's were selling like hotcakes. So I said what the heck and bought the last one. Boy were the critics wrong! This is a superb movie. It is rich and vibrant with color along with humor and a great story. Since it was based on the Odyssey by Homer, (which we read in Englis class), I found it fun figuring out who all the charachters were. Not only is this film fun, clever, and exciting, but it also has a deeper, less notable undelaying theme mocking todays society. I hope you go out and buy this movie no matter what anybody says. The only problem with this film is some of the charachtor's southern accents are hard to understand (me being from connecticut and all) so I had to turn on the sub-titles one in a while. But otherwise A damn good movie. I learned only one thing out of all of this. Screw the critics, just go with your gut feeling.
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Summary: [Crud]
Review: The only good thing about this entire movie is the song by the Soggy Bottom Boys called Sorrow.. Don't rent it...dont' watch it at a friends house
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Summary: The "Oddyssey" meets "Cool Hand Luke"
Review: Three prisoners escape from a Mississippi chain gang and hurry toward a buried treasure. They must reach the treasure before a dam is completed and the treasure further buried beneath a man-made lake. Thus begins an episodic quest in which the trio confronts numerous odd and interesting characters and situations before they find a treasure more valuable than the millions they seek. The Cyclops, the Sirens, the fight with Penelope's suitors: all these adventures and more from the Oddyssey are recreated in offbeat style. The songs and music are dead on, and the movie's evocation of the rural South is realistic and idyllic at the same time. One scene where a speaker truck drove the backroads blaring out country music and political solicitations struck home to me. Riding as a child in just such a truck is my earliest remembrance of Southern politics. Graphic violence, graphic sex, surreal computer generated special effects, potty mouth dialog, heavy-handed messages on "politically correct" issues, commercials interwoven into the plot. A little of the foregoing can be tolerated, but in much of modern moviedom these features overpower the plot. "O Brother" is definitely out of step with the trends of modern film making. I understand that the critics trashed this movie. The critics cannot have been raised in the rural South.
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Summary: ENORMOUS DISAPPOINTMENT
Review: Are people kidding? After the tremendous reviews this film received I still cannot believe how awful it is. I am normally a fan of the Coen Bros. films, but this is far below their usual quality. Instead of genuine wit and the intelligent dark humor associated with their earlier works, this film relies instead on juvenile humor and "jokes" even most sitcom writers would find beneath them to pen. This film pretends to be witty, pretends to be satire, but instead relies on lines one might expect to find in a Jeff Foxworthy routine--which is all fine and good if you like that kind of thing--but one tends to expect something of far greater significance from the Coen Brothers. But for a handful of scenes the acting borders on embarrassing, the humor (particularly the nearly constant violence leveled on animals in this film attempting to pass itself off as humor) is nonexistant, and the plot about as riveting as a Hee-Haw rerun. Very disappointing. Do yourself a favor and forget this mess. Watch Blood Simple or Fargo instead. As good as those are...that's how bad this train wreck is. O Brothers What Were Thou Thinking?
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Summary: Great Film!
Review: I am writing this review to counterbalance the review entitled "Stupid! What was funny? A waste of film". If your 5 year old could write a better screenplay... well you either have a genius on your hands or the rest of the world should be frightened that you are breeding. This film is written for intelligent people. If you are not capable of "abstract thought" you probably have strayed from your element somewhat by viewing this film. You have your place. It's the isle with the Steven Segal movies on it. Please don't come into my isle again, let alone pretend you have the qualifications necessary to review a film. With that said, O Brother Where Art Thou? is definately an underrated movie as some of the other reviewers have stated. Have you ever put off seeing a movie until you really had no choice (the last of the new releases in the video store) only to be blown away when you actually saw the film? This is definately the case for me regarding this film. I am still saying "I can't believe I put this off". I had to watch the film twice in two days.
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