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Hola all. Massawyrm here.

Sigh. This is one of those talkbacks I just won’t be reading. It’s no secret that I’m not the world’s biggest fan of the Coen brothers. It’s not that I have anything against them, I just tend not to like what they do. I dig the hell out of a few of their films – Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, O Brother, Where Art Thou. You know, the ones everyone loves. And while I can appreciate entire chunks of some of their other films Fargo, The Big Lebowski and No Country for Old Men, I dislike the endings to all of them. More importantly, I dislike the experimental storytelling techniques they often employ that have become their stock and trade. But even more importantly than that, I dislike the Coen fanbase that I have to interact with after I’ve seen their films.

It’s that look they give you. They way they begin to explain what the Coen’s were doing as if to a child, as if you didn’t understand it. Because clearly, once you understand what they are doing, you’ll have to like it. But when you explain to them that you do in fact understand it and simply do not like it, they look at you with this befuddled expression, completely confused as if you’ve just spoken in some form of ancient Sanskrit. And then they try to explain it again.

”You don’t understand. It’s like a Raymond Chandler novel, except that NOTHING ties together rather than everything tying together. Isn’t that great?” No. When someone gives me information to process and hints that it means something, only to later tell me that everything I just saw meant nothing, then I don’t think it is all that great. I think they were jerking me off. ”Okay, have you ever read a Raymond Chandler novel?” Yes. ”Well, it’s like that, only you know how there are always two unrelated cases that are really related? Well here, they’re actually completely unrelated. Nothing’s related! Get it?” Yes. So why don’t you like it? Because that is just jerking off. Okay let me try this again…

And in what appears to be an effort to repeat the success of The Big Lebowski they copied much, but not all, of that original formula. This time in place of the Chandler novel they’ve taken the notion of the convoluted spy thriller, populated it entirely with a cast of completely unlikable characters and then once again offer up a story that doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. It is a story about nothing. There is a plot and there are characters and things do in fact happen. But they never lead anywhere. There’s no hero, no true main character, no one you give so much as one Iota about. Only a troupe of lecherous, lying, cheating, arrogant, cardboard cutout high society lowlifes who we are never offered a single reason to care about who fuck with, fuck over and just plain fuck each other in what becomes a nightmarish web of repugnant interpersonal behavior. Which is the point. Get it?

The main problem here is that once again the Coen’s have offered up a film in which they have no love for any of their characters. Sure, the Coen’s occasionally love some of their characters - No Country for Old Men is a perfect example of that. They LOVE Llewelyn Moss, his wife, Tommy Lee, hell, they even love the hell out of Chigurh. But this isn’t that kind of movie. I know I mentioned Lebowski, but even then this isn’t that kind of movie either. The Coen’s love The Dude. And everyone around him skirts the shores of actually being cartoon characters rather than real people. That movie isn’t reality – it’s a warped alternaverse where few listen to reason. The Dude keeps trying to explain that he has nothing, and wants nothing, to do with what’s going on around him and no one will have it. He just wants his rug taken care of. Because it really brought the room together.

Burn After Reading is very much set in the real world. There are no cartoons here, although a few of the characters come close to being stupid enough to qualify for animated status. They are all ugly, shallow, self-absorbed, insipid wastes of flesh, most of whom manage to find their way to terrible ends at the hands of their own greed, ego or lust. While the film occasionally lingers on Frances McDormand, it really is an ensemble film. You’re following a tangled knot of relationships that leads to the overarching story – the acquisition of a mysterious disk – that ultimately pans out to mean nothing at all. Like a child in the sandbox slamming trucks together for endless, violent amusement, so do the Coen brothers slam degenerate buffoons together to watch them interact and ultimately do one another in, one way or another. But there’s no point to it…other than the fact that there is no point.

In fact, the only likable characters are the CIA agents (played hilariously by J.K. Simmons and David “Sledge Hammer” Rasch) who act as a mostly truant Greek Chorus who only occasionally show up to scratch their heads and ponder the meaning of all the stupid mistakes and unnecessary violence that occurs during the film. In fact, the main reason I liked them was that they mirrored my own thoughts about the film and its characters, only seeming satisfied when we weren’t ever going to be troubled by one or more of them again. But you don’t care about these guys either– you just feel for their having to even commit brain cells to unraveling something that will never amount to anything. Because that’s exactly what you spend the film doing.

This film isn’t about telling a story, it is an exercise in developing characters we’re not supposed to care about. It is an exercise in developing plot threads whose ends we aren’t supposed to unravel. It is an exercise in putting some of the most talented actors in the world into one film and not doing their performances justice. On the positive side, everyone here immerses themselves in their characters. The only person whose performance actually grated on my nerves was Brad Pitt, who plays his ignorant gym rat character so far over the edge that it becomes sheer lunacy. He’s not just stupid, it is a wonder he can actually lace his shoes in the morning and operate a motor vehicle. I’m a huge fan of Pitt’s work and have never in my life breathed a sigh of relief when he has exited a film for good, but when I discovered that it was unlikely that he was going to reappear, I did in fact breathe easy. At least in the cases of Swinson and Clooney and McDormand and Malkovich, I hated them for who they were as characters - what they actively did to the people around them and how exactly they went about doing it. With Pitt, I just wanted to smack the shit out of him. And yes, I get that this is the point. But then again, I’m also not a fan of characters that deliberately exist to annoy the audience.

I just didn’t like it. While it shares the same kind of storytelling technique of Lebowski, this bears little resemblance to it. It feels more like Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. This had the same lack of love for its characters and the same level of humor to its jokes. But at least there I felt like I was watching something with a beginning, middle and an end. Here the end is SURPRISE! There is no end! And yeah, I get it. Life is messy and complicated and sometimes it doesn’t all tie up nice and neatly together. So in case that doesn’t happen to be a lesson you learn every day of your life that you wake up and poke your head out into the world, then perhaps this has a lesson for you. But as I happen to be a person that goes into movies because I want, for two hours, to exist in a world where it does all tie together and nothing is supposed to be superfluous…well, this just doesn’t cut it for me.

Until next time friends, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.

Massawyrm

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First Ultron!
by Braffed
Sep 12th, 2008
09:44:48 AM
I thought he was talking about Obama supporters for a second
by Mgmax
Sep 12th, 2008
09:46:14 AM
Braffed likes inhaling the pole
by Ultron ver 2.0
Sep 12th, 2008
09:49:16 AM
Fourth!!!!!!!!!!!!
by dreamwriter1888
Sep 12th, 2008
09:52:59 AM
Political Pot Shot!
by What The Duck
Sep 12th, 2008
09:53:18 AM
I Guess I am first
by Samus Aran
Sep 12th, 2008
09:55:24 AM
Never Mind
by Samus Aran
Sep 12th, 2008
09:55:57 AM
good....fuck the Coens
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
09:57:35 AM
So it's a Wes Anderson movie then?
by Spandau Belly
Sep 12th, 2008
10:00:15 AM
I reiterate that Massawyrm's reviewing is abhorrent.
by MMacKK
Sep 12th, 2008
10:00:46 AM
I've never been a big Coen Bros fan either, Massa
by chrth
Sep 12th, 2008
10:01:48 AM
I was a fan of the Coen's
by Ultron ver 2.0
Sep 12th, 2008
10:03:55 AM
Way to insert a political commentary into a non-political movie
by Animorganimate
Sep 12th, 2008
10:04:23 AM
I have a lot of friends who don't like the Coens.
by beastie
Sep 12th, 2008
10:06:51 AM
Coens
by PlanetOfTheRapes
Sep 12th, 2008
10:07:31 AM
Whta's wrong with Fargo's ending?
by HoboCode
Sep 12th, 2008
10:08:36 AM
You're far more pretentious than the fans you mention
by TheLastCleric
Sep 12th, 2008
10:09:41 AM
Not liking artists because you dislike their fanbase is weak.
by Stereotypical Evil Archer
Sep 12th, 2008
10:10:26 AM
I love the Coens for offering something different
by The Gospel According to Bastardface
Sep 12th, 2008
10:11:41 AM
Wow, those were the worst explanations...
by rbatty024
Sep 12th, 2008
10:13:40 AM
You said exactly what I've been feeling about their films
by Zombieflicker
Sep 12th, 2008
10:14:23 AM
TheLastCleric, re-read his review
by Spandau Belly
Sep 12th, 2008
10:17:50 AM
the reason he don't like 'em
by thinboyslim.
Sep 12th, 2008
10:18:11 AM
new animation!
by ironic_name
Sep 12th, 2008
10:22:44 AM
Everything does tie together in Lebowski
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
10:28:08 AM
Nice writing there, Mori... I mean Massa
by Iowa Snot Client
Sep 12th, 2008
10:29:11 AM
This is exactly what I feared.
by Mosquito March
Sep 12th, 2008
10:29:19 AM
Massa is as pretentious as the 'fans' he cites
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
10:30:24 AM
He still sounds like a child
by TheLastCleric
Sep 12th, 2008
10:30:36 AM
Finally, someone calls out the Coen brothers.
by Fa Fa Fooey
Sep 12th, 2008
10:31:56 AM
No Country was one of their weaker efforts, IMO
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
10:32:00 AM
I love the Coens...BUT
by JIMBOCOP
Sep 12th, 2008
10:32:19 AM
Thanks for ruining the plot...
by Greenleaf1
Sep 12th, 2008
10:34:39 AM
BTW "Miller's Crossing"
by JIMBOCOP
Sep 12th, 2008
10:34:41 AM
Made it to the second paragraph at least
by Heckles
Sep 12th, 2008
10:34:43 AM
The Dude never did get his rug back
by BobParr
Sep 12th, 2008
10:34:50 AM
Am I the only one that liked THE LADYKILLERS
by BobParr
Sep 12th, 2008
10:35:36 AM
Good God
by Grayskull
Sep 12th, 2008
10:35:39 AM
JIMBOCOP
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
10:36:25 AM
Correction
by Mgmax
Sep 12th, 2008
10:36:38 AM
The rug tied the room together, not brought the room together
by Savage Lucy
Sep 12th, 2008
10:37:08 AM
Mass is my favorite AICN reviewer
by BobParr
Sep 12th, 2008
10:38:42 AM
No Country couldn't have ended any other way.
by TheLastCleric
Sep 12th, 2008
10:39:36 AM
I support you, Massa!
by r_number6
Sep 12th, 2008
10:40:08 AM
Nice Comeback Mgmax!
by What The Duck
Sep 12th, 2008
10:40:54 AM
Now I want somebody here to call out David Lynch.
by Mosquito March
Sep 12th, 2008
10:42:21 AM
Mulholland Drive is his best movie
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
10:44:11 AM
laserhead/coen brothers/big lebowski
by brandon11
Sep 12th, 2008
10:44:30 AM
number 6!
by What The Duck
Sep 12th, 2008
10:45:04 AM
MULHOLLAND DRIVE? Fuck that shit!
by Mosquito March
Sep 12th, 2008
10:45:43 AM
Maybe my extremely low expectations for LadyKillers...
by beastie
Sep 12th, 2008
10:46:37 AM
I totally disagree about MULHOLLAND DRIVE
by BobParr
Sep 12th, 2008
10:46:51 AM
Coen films don't make me feel smart.
by TheLastCleric
Sep 12th, 2008
10:47:05 AM
Nossir.
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
10:48:23 AM
bobparr/david lynch
by brandon11
Sep 12th, 2008
10:53:56 AM
Good, I didn't read all your review either...Massa
by quantize
Sep 12th, 2008
10:55:08 AM
Mulholland Drive was awesome...
by Ultron ver 2.0
Sep 12th, 2008
10:57:04 AM
Massawyrm, I'm with you!
by Aeghast
Sep 12th, 2008
10:57:29 AM
MULHOLLAND
by Mosquito March
Sep 12th, 2008
10:59:06 AM
Anybody else think it invalidates criticism
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
11:00:29 AM
While I disagree with Massa about ALL Coen films...
by shitstorm23
Sep 12th, 2008
11:01:24 AM
I'm not a huge fan of the Coens
by nyj_et
Sep 12th, 2008
11:01:35 AM
Mosquito
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
11:01:42 AM
Lebowski is a top notch comedy. Ladykillers is pure rubbish.
by Stuntcock Mike
Sep 12th, 2008
11:02:49 AM
Raising Arizona
by Guy Gaduois
Sep 12th, 2008
11:03:28 AM
Interesting...
by oaser
Sep 12th, 2008
11:03:42 AM
In general, though...
by Laserhead
Sep 12th, 2008
11:05:27 AM
shitstorm23
by brandon11
Sep 12th, 2008
11:08:03 AM
I also dislike most of the Coen stuff ...
by Animation
Sep 12th, 2008
11:09:45 AM
Fireproof
by oaser
Sep 12th, 2008
11:14:29 AM
Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers
by HoboCode
Sep 12th, 2008
11:23:26 AM
This from the guy who hated No Country For Old Men....
by Lashlarue
Sep 12th, 2008
11:32:04 AM
How come no one ever mentions the Cohen's best film?
by HoboCode
Sep 12th, 2008
11:35:42 AM
when you said you wouoldn't be reading the talkback
by omarthesnake
Sep 12th, 2008
11:37:30 AM
I agree with Massa on one point...
by Cartagia
Sep 12th, 2008
11:41:40 AM
Can't understand why Massa doesn't like Fargo
by Subtlety
Sep 12th, 2008
11:43:27 AM
not a big Coen Bros fan either
by Cedar_Room
Sep 12th, 2008
11:53:40 AM
GREAT FLICK! SAW IT DAYS AGO!
by Flaggg
Sep 12th, 2008
11:54:04 AM
My Review
by Flaggg
Sep 12th, 2008
11:54:49 AM
that's why it's called 'BURN AFTER READING'
by Reynard Muldrake
Sep 12th, 2008
11:57:53 AM
You just don't get it. Let me explain it to you---
by The Reluctant Austinite
Sep 12th, 2008
12:10:48 PM
I'll bet my Pulitzer on it!
by kwisatzhaderach
Sep 12th, 2008
12:13:57 PM
I have to agree that I'm like that about Cohen movies
by dr sauch
Sep 12th, 2008
12:17:33 PM
Dont understand all the Coen Bros Hate
by crazybubba
Sep 12th, 2008
12:18:04 PM
Which characters don't the Coens love?
by the beef
Sep 12th, 2008
12:33:38 PM
BEST REVIEW EVER!
by Raymar
Sep 12th, 2008
12:41:58 PM
THE COENS' CINEMATIC MASTURBATION
by Mullah Omar
Sep 12th, 2008
12:46:13 PM
A Review About Coen Fans?
by ArcadianDS
Sep 12th, 2008
12:46:32 PM
it's a crappy massawyrm review
by Jed
Sep 12th, 2008
12:51:11 PM
Question for the Coen apologists.
by greyspecter
Sep 12th, 2008
12:53:07 PM
mullah omar
by brandon11
Sep 12th, 2008
01:13:00 PM
huh.
by Dollar Bird
Sep 12th, 2008
01:13:02 PM
!
by Dollar Bird
Sep 12th, 2008
01:14:04 PM
You Can Argue With The Man...
by Rebeck2
Sep 12th, 2008
01:21:53 PM
Damn it Capone
by Luscious.868
Sep 12th, 2008
01:22:43 PM
Another correction
by Mgmax
Sep 12th, 2008
01:31:19 PM
hell fuckin yeah! the Dude will prevail!
by brandon11
Sep 12th, 2008
01:32:35 PM
Oh, fuck you Massa.
by Pompoulus
Sep 12th, 2008
01:34:33 PM
Hate on the mainstream not the Coens
by FILMFUNK
Sep 12th, 2008
01:39:01 PM
I LOVE THE COEN BROTHERS!
by Cory849
Sep 12th, 2008
01:39:45 PM
no way in hell Hobo....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
01:47:10 PM
No worries Massawyrm.
by Skyway Moaters
Sep 12th, 2008
01:55:54 PM
DGDB.
by HoboCode
Sep 12th, 2008
01:56:08 PM
"I dislike the Coen fanbase that I have to interact with"
by Meglos
Sep 12th, 2008
01:59:20 PM
leobloom
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
02:01:50 PM
it's a review, people...
by elkylos
Sep 12th, 2008
02:09:29 PM
It's true though DGDB.
by HoboCode
Sep 12th, 2008
02:09:32 PM
Speak For Yourself, Hobocode
by Rebeck2
Sep 12th, 2008
02:30:09 PM
Don't LET History Hit Your Ass...
by Rebeck2
Sep 12th, 2008
02:31:23 PM
Coen Bros. films
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
02:35:50 PM
Um...Have you watched the Coens Work?
by Adrian Marcato
Sep 12th, 2008
02:40:15 PM
JRKerr
by Yeah I Wrote That
Sep 12th, 2008
02:44:57 PM
Coen apologists? Oh. You mean , like, The Academy?
by www.valiens.com
Sep 12th, 2008
02:49:00 PM
careful Yeah I Wrote That
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
02:51:42 PM
Coen Bros.
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
02:59:38 PM
Yeah I Wrote That:
by Dollar Bird
Sep 12th, 2008
03:14:54 PM
Hobo
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
03:15:21 PM
So...
by jefflebowski
Sep 12th, 2008
03:27:18 PM
jefflebowski
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
03:28:10 PM

by WealthyPeasant
Sep 12th, 2008
03:29:26 PM
Massa's usual agenda
by ghostlight72
Sep 12th, 2008
03:31:14 PM
WealthyPeasant
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
03:33:58 PM
The Coens are weird
by PorkChopXpress
Sep 12th, 2008
03:37:15 PM
please go see this movie people!!
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
03:43:10 PM
B and G
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
03:50:26 PM
Best comment ever
by frozen01
Sep 12th, 2008
03:52:48 PM
Massawyrm....
by Rick Flemming
Sep 12th, 2008
04:07:42 PM
Massa
by Jaws Wayne
Sep 12th, 2008
04:12:15 PM
Massa aint the only one - CNN savaged it
by JackRabbitSlim
Sep 12th, 2008
04:17:11 PM
this TB disgusts me....
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
04:19:41 PM
opinions and assholes gentlemen
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
04:20:13 PM
Massawyrm badmouths Lebowski??
by p0llk4t
Sep 12th, 2008
04:21:58 PM
besides....
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
04:22:15 PM
UnknownUser --- ok ok
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
04:26:15 PM
hmmm....
by fartedinthefaceofhollywood
Sep 12th, 2008
04:27:38 PM
here's what you guys gotta do...
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
04:29:00 PM
UnknownUser
by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD
Sep 12th, 2008
04:37:50 PM
I Love The Way You Guys...
by Rebeck2
Sep 12th, 2008
04:55:33 PM
Bob Parr...
by TheRealMoriarty
Sep 12th, 2008
05:31:42 PM
So yeah...
by Tipsy McStagger
Sep 12th, 2008
05:37:15 PM
Massawyrm, Your Stock Is Rising
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
05:39:03 PM
But I must say...
by Tipsy McStagger
Sep 12th, 2008
05:40:06 PM
Awful preview
by Pomona88
Sep 12th, 2008
05:42:00 PM
a comedy makes you laugh or it doesnt
by Larry of Arabia
Sep 12th, 2008
05:54:48 PM
Fargo has one of the most perfect endings on film
by Larry of Arabia
Sep 12th, 2008
06:02:07 PM
Oh the irony!
by Darth Banga
Sep 12th, 2008
06:27:52 PM
Larry...
by TheRealMoriarty
Sep 12th, 2008
06:44:18 PM
Darth Banga...
by TheRealMoriarty
Sep 12th, 2008
06:45:08 PM
leobloom
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
06:54:07 PM
it's spelled COWAN
by Vern
Sep 12th, 2008
07:34:24 PM
Yes, the Coen brothers are overrated
by BadMrWonka
Sep 12th, 2008
07:36:24 PM
Coen Bros Responsible for Islamic Extremism
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
07:41:02 PM
Mr. Leo Bloom, Producer
by Adrian Marcato
Sep 12th, 2008
07:46:20 PM
Mori, isn't it funny?
by BadMrWonka
Sep 12th, 2008
07:51:00 PM
Yo, Adrian!
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
07:51:06 PM
Universal and Focus Features Co-Producing Park Chan-Wook’s Thirs
by Filmoholic
Sep 12th, 2008
08:03:39 PM
BRAVO MASSA
by mynemaborat
Sep 12th, 2008
08:51:54 PM
ultron ver 2
by mynemaborat
Sep 12th, 2008
08:54:14 PM
Neckhair
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
08:55:33 PM
TheLastCleric
by mynemaborat
Sep 12th, 2008
09:02:46 PM
leobloom
by mynemaborat
Sep 12th, 2008
09:13:26 PM
Wes Anderson
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
09:23:49 PM
dont like no durned experimentationing in ma' films
by ragingdrunklove
Sep 12th, 2008
09:50:51 PM
No Country was the Consider Phlebas of our time
by 'Cholera's Ghost
Sep 12th, 2008
10:02:41 PM
Why go?
by Billyeveryteen
Sep 12th, 2008
10:03:29 PM
And yes
by 'Cholera's Ghost
Sep 12th, 2008
10:04:20 PM
Tenenbaums Is A Modern Classic
by Rebeck2
Sep 12th, 2008
10:06:54 PM
We are the Coen Brothers
by Dark Knight Lite
Sep 12th, 2008
10:19:21 PM
Taste
by skani
Sep 12th, 2008
10:30:31 PM
love the cone brothers...
by irrelevntelefant
Sep 12th, 2008
10:34:46 PM
Good review
by DoctorStopMo
Sep 12th, 2008
10:44:32 PM
"The Coen’s love The Dude."
by Mose Schrute
Sep 12th, 2008
10:51:13 PM
Word Skani
by Adrian Marcato
Sep 12th, 2008
11:08:02 PM
Leobloom
by DoctorStopMo
Sep 12th, 2008
11:44:47 PM
Coen fanbase says, "F@CK YOU MASSA"
by mistergreen
Sep 12th, 2008
11:53:40 PM
leobloom
by mynemaborat
Sep 12th, 2008
11:55:00 PM
and...
by mynemaborat
Sep 13th, 2008
12:05:42 AM
Most of these complaints fit Blood Simple too
by Vern
Sep 13th, 2008
12:58:43 AM
first after a vern post!!
by VegasRon
Sep 13th, 2008
04:37:58 AM
Thank you for that Massy
by Mr Gorilla
Sep 13th, 2008
06:24:45 AM
As time goes by, my dislike for Wes Anderson multiplies.
by Stuntcock Mike
Sep 13th, 2008
06:33:19 AM
But I really liked STEALTH
by BrandLoyalist
Sep 13th, 2008
07:34:11 AM
Adrian, we did it!!!
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
07:54:45 AM
I Care. I Really do.
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
08:04:59 AM
A Modest Proposal
by Aquatarkusman
Sep 13th, 2008
08:12:18 AM
Burn After...Voting McCain 2008
by Iowa Snot Client
Sep 13th, 2008
08:21:51 AM
Calling out David Lynch
by Iowa Snot Client
Sep 13th, 2008
08:27:22 AM
Calling out Michael Bay
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
09:04:55 AM
He's right about the Coens
by reflecto
Sep 13th, 2008
10:02:36 AM
it's a taste thing -- they should do a hiaasen book
by Bibliographer
Sep 13th, 2008
10:30:02 AM
You guys are absolutely right.
by OfficerJunior
Sep 13th, 2008
10:40:15 AM
Wes Anderson's peak was 'Bottle Rocket'
by Laserhead
Sep 13th, 2008
10:50:28 AM
Big Momma Who Wasn't There
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
10:51:30 AM
Frickin Laserhead
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
10:54:03 AM
Yeah... but no
by Laserhead
Sep 13th, 2008
11:01:23 AM
Another thing about Tennenbaums...
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
11:03:24 AM
in a "diner"
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
11:04:21 AM
LaserTag
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
11:07:43 AM
wow
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
11:08:47 AM
Curly Sue
by skani
Sep 13th, 2008
11:37:31 AM
So the Coen brothers are polarizing?
by ebonic_plague
Sep 13th, 2008
01:00:28 PM
Anyone would try to express the Joy
by bottombrick
Sep 13th, 2008
02:50:59 PM
And by the way...
by bottombrick
Sep 13th, 2008
02:56:51 PM
we believe in nussing lebowski
by joet88
Sep 13th, 2008
03:42:46 PM
Life Aquatic was the real Anderson fuckup
by Spandau Belly
Sep 13th, 2008
04:16:52 PM
Here's my problem with what Massawyrm wrote...
by alynch3
Sep 13th, 2008
04:32:57 PM
Wild guess: massa dislikes Coen fans.
by Audio_of_Being
Sep 13th, 2008
08:10:06 PM
You don't like the ending to Big lebowski??
by jmyoung666
Sep 13th, 2008
10:34:29 PM
I agree completely, Massawyrm, except I liked Chad
by Drath
Sep 13th, 2008
10:42:15 PM
No talkback for ye olde men
by ElvisPresLeeHorsleyHarveyOswal dOprahWinFreeJackHorkheimer
Sep 14th, 2008
10:19:56 AM
The fanbase doesn't like you either, wyrm.
by neoroosta
Sep 14th, 2008
07:48:33 PM
I liked 95% of this film
by Teddy Artery
Sep 14th, 2008
09:32:05 PM
Spot On
by BuckNasty1138
Sep 14th, 2008
10:46:30 PM

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