Today's Movie

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Originally Posted by Stolly

But let me AHA that! The 'true story' that a japanese woman died looking for the money buried in the 'true story' of fargo is equally untrue. She actually was depressed and committed suicide. Fargo though is a brilliant film, especially all the american, with dutch overtones, accents which by rights should have been really really annoying

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Well there you go - never believe anything you read.....anywhere

Totally agree re Fargo - the Frances McDormand character (Marg?) is a classic. Know a guy who grew up in that area - quite near 'Brainerd' in fact - he said it was a pretty accurate depiction of what people are like there. Probably my fave Coens film, closely followed by No Country, Lebowski, Oh Brother, Man Who Wasn't There etc.. Must watch Barton Fink again soon.

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Originally Posted by Skids

Totally agree re Fargo...Probably my fave Coens film, closely followed by No Country, Lebowski, Oh Brother, Man Who Wasn't There etc.. Must watch Barton Fink again soon.

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Only a few posts back I'd said how the Hudsucker Proxy had turned into one of my favourite ever films. I'll stick with that, and so it gets my Coen brothers vote.:cool:

There's a game you can play with Coen Brothers films - for some reason they really like the image of a rolling object, and many of their films contain this 'motif' at some point

For instance:
Hudsucker Proxy - Hula Hoop
Big Lebowski - Bowling Ball/Tumbleweed
Man Who Wasn't Their - Hub Cap (after the car crash)
Miller's Crossing - Hat

feel free to continue the list...

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Originally Posted by mr brightside

Got District 9 on DVD last weekend, it has to be one of the best movies i've ever seen, you think it's going to be another run of the mill affair but it keeps surprising you.

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finally got round to watching District 9 last night - Excellent!
also saw Cloverfield recently - that was good too
best film I've seen recently though must be Let The Right One In - AWESOME!

watched mean streets again the other night - what a fantastic film, bobby de niro at his best

Watched Choke, with Sam Rockwell last night. Some seriously freaky sh*t going on!

Texas Chainsaw Massacre.......wish my chainsaw started first time like his........pull,pull,pull,bloody pull..........

I watched 'Burn after Reading' last night from the Coen brothers. I missed it completely when it first came out and just stumbled on it accidentally the other day while I was looking for something else. Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt are excellent in it http://i592.photobucket.com/albums/t...ebit/Cool2.gif

Had a lot of ironing to do at the weekend so watched the French film (with subtitles, not good for ironing) Princinct 13 Ultimatum. A mixture of Coen Bros, Jackie Chan and 1980's 'thrillers'. BUT the freerunning sequences were amazing. I know this type of running is quintisentially (oh bo**ocks, my spelling is crap) French but it was extremely well filmed and spectacular to watch.

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Originally Posted by Lola

Had a lot of ironing to do at the weekend so watched the French film (with subtitles, not good for ironing) Princinct 13 Ultimatum. A mixture of Coen Bros, Jackie Chan and 1980's 'thrillers'. BUT the freerunning sequences were amazing. I know this type of running is quintisentially (oh bo**ocks, my spelling is crap) French but it was extremely well filmed and spectacular to watch.

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Founded by that chap who was in Casino Royale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9bastien_Foucan