Movies

I'm a little late to the Coen convo, but here's my ranking.
I think Fargo is almost always going to be parked at the top, but the top five are all amazing movies imo.


01. Fargo
02. No Country For Old Men
03. The Big Lebowski
04. O Brother Where Art Thou?
05. Raising Arizona
06. Barton Fink
07. Miller’s Crossing
08. Blood Simple
09. Burn After Reading
10. A Serious Man
11. The Man Who Wasn’t There
12. Inside Llewelyn Davis
13. The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
14. True Grit
15. The Hudsucker Proxy
16. Intolerable Cruelty
17. Ladykillers
18. Hail Caesar!
 
Really magical. Expands upon the musical and both leads were pretty fantastic. Ariana Grande exceeded my expectations. It will be interesting to see how they stretch the 2nd act into a 2 hour movie but I have faith they'll do a great job.

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Never seen the musical and I bet the movie is good within the context of its source material but I have a question about the source material in general.

In The Wizard of Oz and In the much Darker sequel A Return To Oz, the land of Oz can be seen as something occurring within the mind of Dorothy Gale. An imaginary world helping her cope with her loneliness.

To me, whether Oz is a magical world or an imaginary world doesn’t matter all that much but I think what makes the story interesting is that it’s open for interpretation it could be either. It’s my understanding that Wicked is a prequel of sorts, telling the story of the witches of Oz, My question is this, does the new story keep the possibility that the whole world of Oz might all just be an an imaginary world in Dorothy’s head alive or does it abandon that possibility to dive into the Villains backstory?
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Never seen the musical and I bet the movie is good within the context of its source material but I have a question about the source material in general.

In The Wizard of Oz and In the much Darker sequel A Return To Oz, the land of Oz can be seen as something occurring within the mind of Dorothy Gale. An imaginary world helping her cope with her loneliness.

To me, whether Oz is a magical world or an imaginary world doesn’t matter all that much but I think what makes the story interesting is that it’s open for interpretation it could be either. It’s my understanding that Wicked is a prequel of sorts, telling the story of the witches of Oz, My question is this, does the new story keep the possibility that the whole world of Oz might all just be an an imaginary world in Dorothy’s head alive or does it abandon that possibility to dive into the Villains backstory?
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That’s a construct of the 1939 movie and not the Baum books.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Ah, So in the book, Oz just a magical world then? So Wicked is more in line with the novel than the movies.
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I would assume the musical and movie take the route of playing to the ‘39 movie (the original story is one of the most filmed properties of all time with the Garland film being the most famous but like the tenth version or something). I’ve not read Wicked or seen the movie so I can’t really speak to it.

In the Baum book, there is no placement of characters in Kansas as characters in Oz to lead to doubt Dorothy’s perspective (much less the fact that she actually lands in front of Aunt Em as opposed to wakes up from what may be a dream).

I was a bit fascinated by the books in my youth.
 
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Also known as The Evil Cult

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I saw this almost 30 years ago on VHS. Don't know how it got in our household, if my brother borrowed it or something. I never remembered the title or who was in it, only thing i could remember was this guy...

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Randomly over the past 25 years that guy would pop up and annoy me for not remembering what the movie was. Then 2 or 3 years ago, Eureka Entertainment (i think) released a kung fu movie featuring a guy in a boulder. I bought it, watched it but not it. Then at the start of the year, they announced some new titles and the trailer featured for this one looked very familiar. I bought it (duh) and the cover with the original poster art had an old man in a boulder and thought "this has to be the one" and sure enough, it is! The search is over! lol
 
Hemotep said:
I didn't chime in earlier, but when it came out I probably watched The Hudsucker Proxy at least a dozen times. Obviously they've done so much great (and certainly better) work since then, but it holds a nostalgic place for me and I wouldn't change the channel if it was on.
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"You know, for kids!" has been a go-to line in my house for forever.
 
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