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[PujolJunkie]

Watched Fargo last night. I don't see the big hooplah about it. It's just a really milque toast movie with a bunch of annoying passive aggressive characters with even more annoying accents. Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy were awesome. The rest of the movie was just.. bleh.

[The Third Man]

Watched Fargo last night. I don't see the big hooplah about it. It's just a really milque toast movie with a bunch of annoying passive aggressive characters with even more annoying accents. Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy were awesome. The rest of the movie was just.. bleh.

Maybe you'll appreciate it when you hit high school.

[PujolJunkie]

Watched Fargo last night. I don't see the big hooplah about it. It's just a really milque toast movie with a bunch of annoying passive aggressive characters with even more annoying accents. Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy were awesome. The rest of the movie was just.. bleh.

Maybe you'll appreciate it when you hit high school.

Maybe you'll shut up.

what now?

[JL21]

[PujolJunkie]

I did laugh my ass off at that, I will admit.

[JL21]

I think a big part of the significance of Fargo is that they managed to take a very classic genre- film noir- and put it somewhere that it doesn't belong. Instead of big cities and rainy, darkened streets and dames and broads and gents, you get dopey William H. Macy and Chef Proudfoot and 25 inches of snow and you-betcha's. I won't say that they reinvented the noir genre- that'd be insanely over the top- but they definitely gave it a really neat new twist.

They've done it before and since, with both "Blood Simple" and "No Country for Old Men".

[PujolJunkie]

I think a big part of the significance of Fargo is that they managed to take a very classic genre- film noir- and put it somewhere that it doesn't belong. Instead of big cities and rainy, darkened streets and dames and broads and gents, you get dopey William H. Macy and Chef Proudfoot and 25 inches of snow and you-betcha's. I won't say that they reinvented the noir genre- that'd be insanely over the top- but they definitely gave it a really neat new twist.

They've done it before and since, with both "Blood Simple" and "No Country for Old Men".

The thing is, I've not seen a Coen brothers movie I've disliked. That's why I was kind of intrigued about Fargo. I mean, don't get me wrong, it wasn't a terrible movie by any means but I had just heard people rave about it and thought it was going to be a little better than it was. In No Country, I feel like they really hit the nail on the head as far as trying to give a little bit of freshness to the Film Noir genre but for whatever reason, it didn't work as well with Fargo for me. I guess maybe personal preference plays a role.

I think there were plenty of strong individual performances like Macy, Buscemi and even Frances McDormand. The plot was strong, as well. But it just came off to me as people walking around talking to each other and saying "ya'know" and "yaaaaaah" over and over again. Everything started being repetitive after a moment. Like I said, the movie wasn't bad. It was an okay movie. But from what I've heard of it and the comparisons it did get to No Country (or vice versa, actually) I thought I was going to love it. Maybe it's an expectation thing.

[JL21]

That very well may be. Expectations can take a big steaming dump all over a movie. I'm positive that's part of why I was underwhelmed with "District 9".

Which Coen movies have you seen?

[pujols005]

Has anybody else seen The Final Destination? I thought it was a pretty cool movie. The black guy is the funniest person in the movie.

[PujolJunkie]

That very well may be. Expectations can take a big steaming dump all over a movie. I'm positive that's part of why I was underwhelmed with "District 9".

Which Coen movies have you seen?

Lebowski, Fargo, Ladykillers, No Country and Burn After Reading. I haven't seen Raising Arizona because I'm afraid it might change my opinion of Nick Cage, which is somewhere along the lines of "I think he sucks teet."