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man oh man by haggardatbest	Oct 25th, 2007 08:25:23 AM
I am DESPERATE to see this film. DESPERATE I SAY!!!
First by RogueIntruder	Oct 25th, 2007 08:26:16 AM
First
But the ending, does it suck? by JoshtheCaptain	Oct 25th, 2007 08:30:16 AM
That is the question.
Yep, what about the ending? by rost	Oct 25th, 2007 08:40:10 AM
Does it manage to piss off everyone?
Looks like a thriller, eats like a meal by Lance Rocke	Oct 25th, 2007 08:49:00 AM
Actually, this almost qualifies as a good Halloween movie--it's that spooky.
"Bardem's Anton Chigurh is the epitome of pure screen terror." by haggardatbest	Oct 25th, 2007 08:51:25 AM
I thought Dane Cook was the epitome of pure screen terror. Oh wait, you mean it in a good way. Nevermind.
plant! by newc0253	Oct 25th, 2007 09:08:01 AM
heh, just kidding it's a relief to read a reasonable review after the imbecilic screed that massawyrm gave us.
Thank feck for that! by FILMFUNK	Oct 25th, 2007 09:11:37 AM
Thank fuck for that! Massa had me worried there til I remembered he sometimes goes off one, bigtime!
Had no idea the book was so popular... by www.revyou.tv	Oct 25th, 2007 09:20:16 AM
Perhaps the Coen Brothers will have another hit on their hands - they could certainly use one after the string of flops they've had. They should team-up with Nicolas Cage, everyone would go to see that. They work best when pushing a leading man in different directions, as they did so well with Clooney.
No the ending does not suck. To me anyway. by the beef	Oct 25th, 2007 09:41:07 AM
It's unconventional, but it doesn't suck. The ending's anti-climax (which is about 20 minutes before the credits roll) sort of brings the film down to earth out of the realm of a film, and makes it feel a bit more natural to real life. That's what Josh Brolin said anyway during the Q&A. I happened to agree. I didn't include it in the review because I didn't want it to seem as if I'm just pissing on Massawyrm's review. I can definitely see that a lot of people are going to feel cheated, as Wyrm did, by not getting what you hope to see. I didn't feel cheated. It leaves room for interpretation and I enjoy that in movies. I'm guessing that anyone who's read the book will know exactly what doesn't happen, and for those that go in blindly and expect the movie to end the way you want it to you may end up cursing the screen. I'm not saying their wrong, that's just not how I personally felt. I had a similar experience with LOTR. I read the books, but after seeing how Peter Jackson brought Sauron to life in the Fellowship prologue, I was kinda hoping that he might rewrite the ending to ROTK and bring Sauron back to form for a big showdown. It didn't happen, even though I wanted it to.
Can't wait by The Mothman	Oct 25th, 2007 09:47:43 AM
The trailer was a little overwrought but I knew I had to read the source material immediately after seeing it. Barring a few intentionally loose ends, twas a pretty good read...successfully put me into a 'ah, why even bother trying with life' mood. I had no problems with the 'shortcut' that the author took either...just makes what one character says to another soon after (something like "I don't know how the boy did that") hit even harder. Will be interesting to see how it works onscreen. Good to hear the Bardem performance isn't all scenery chewing either.
Last time i remember an ending getting so much AICN hate by JackRabbitSlim	Oct 25th, 2007 10:02:53 AM
was Harry going apoplectic over the Matchstick Men ending. Which, as it turned out, did pretty much fellate steamy globs.
www.revyou.tv - Coens and Cage... by Animorganimate	Oct 25th, 2007 10:19:18 AM
...they did this team-up and it's one of the greatest "comedies" in cinematic history.
I guess this is this year's "you have to see it for yourself" by Spandau Belly	Oct 25th, 2007 10:36:59 AM
For the most part reviews usually confirm my doubts or hopes, but I really have no instinctual feeling for this film. I don't feel any of the reviews are even describing the same movie. So Coens, you've got my money. I'll go see your new movie. With the most open mind I've probably had to a movie in years.
@by the beef by newc0253	Oct 25th, 2007 10:43:42 AM
dude, were you really hoping that Jackson might rewrite the ending to ROTK and bring Sauron back to form for a big showdown? holy frak, that's gotta be the worst idea i ever heard. That's like a nightmare scenario of some hollywood adaptation of ROTK...
BEEFORINI by THE KNIGHT	Oct 25th, 2007 10:45:30 AM
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BEEFORINI by THE KNIGHT	Oct 25th, 2007 10:45:41 AM
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newc0253 by the beef	Oct 25th, 2007 10:54:19 AM
Yep. After seeing Sauron in the opening minutes of Fellowship, I wanted to see more of him. I wanted Frodo to fail.
A Cohen Brother's "mis-step" by carpetofstars	Oct 25th, 2007 10:55:56 AM
is generally 10 times better than anything else playing at the same time. The Hudsucker Proxy remains one of my favourtite movies to date, warts and all.
I'm now kinda glad I got the end spoiled for me... by The Dum Guy	Oct 25th, 2007 10:59:01 AM
At least now I can just sit back and enjoy the movie, knowing what will happen. Although, I'm pretty sure I'm going to hear people grumble and complain leaving the theater.
Restatement newc0253 by the beef	Oct 25th, 2007 11:08:10 AM
It's not so much me wanting a different ending, as much as it is just me wanting more Sauron. When they dropped the ring in the lava at the end it was just my realizing that I'd have no shot at seeing more of him. I didn't need Sauron at the end, I just wanted him more at some point in the series, somehow, somewhere, some time, didn't matter to me. It could've been flashback for all I cared, so as not to rewrite the text (which they did anyway with a few things, such as the elves at Helm's Deep).
Hudsucker by greyspecter	Oct 25th, 2007 11:20:05 AM
I really enjoyed that movie, for some reason. All star cast, including the modern deity Bruce Campbell and Paul Newman, great dialogue, some interesting magical realism, and Tim Robbins in the bumbling naif role he does so well. A sweet little movie. What was wrong with it? Not edgy enuff? My main beef with LOTR remains the portrayal of Samwise, too weepy and emotional. He's a British batman (old meaning, google it), for crying out loud!
Hudsucker by the beef	Oct 25th, 2007 11:33:45 AM
I don't think it a mis-step, that's just what I've heard people consider it compared to the rest of their work. I don't really know why either, I love the movie.
Same here for Hudsucker by shitstorm23	Oct 25th, 2007 11:57:51 AM
That was good shit, it's a movie I can sit down and watch anytime. I don't get the whole mis-step thing either.
Hire this guy by Thunderbolt Ross	Oct 25th, 2007 12:08:05 PM
Great review
Long live the Hud! by Meglos	Oct 25th, 2007 12:17:03 PM
That is all.
Get Out Of Jail Free Card by gavdiggity	Oct 25th, 2007 12:37:31 PM
After watching Jennifer Jason-Leigh in Hudsucker Proxy, I went back a re-watched a few older screwball comedies, and it's pretty apparent that's that's the feel the Coens were going for. I skipped their last couple of efforts, but these guys have an eternal pass for giving us Lebowski. I re-watched Blood Simple a couple of weeks ago, and it still holds up better than 90% of the crap Hollywood produces. And the trailer for No Country has me very intrigued. I'll be going to see it. Hell, it can't possibly be worse than any of the Star Wars prequels, and I got duped into seeing all of those turds in the theater.
Tommy Lee Jones as a Texas Sheriff by rodnunley	Oct 25th, 2007 01:33:50 PM
It's like R. Lee Emery as a Drill Sgt, Humphrey Bogart as a P.I., or William Shatner as an over the top actor. It just feels right.
Finally by coldharbor	Oct 25th, 2007 05:27:21 PM
Is this the first ever grammatically correct review. And as a plus, this reviewer's skill at hyperbole is very subtle (hmmm, hyperbole/subtelty, mutually exclusive?).
Ladykillers sucked... by BrooseTheScharuk	Oct 25th, 2007 07:08:03 PM
...because of Tom Hanks giant fucking feet walking all over it. What a mismatch! What a big fat fucking star! His career should have consisted of a few more okay variations on Big and Splash type movies, a couple years after which people say "Hey, I haven't seen that Tom Hanks guy in anything lately. He was pretty funny, and kind of likeable, wasn't he", and then, after that, he shows up out of the blue in the pilot of some dark horse tv show that goes through the roof, and he just spends the rest of his life as a beloved tv star. His serious movies would have all been way better with someone else in them, and things like Band of Brothers would have probably happened in some way, shape, or form anyway with Spielberg still being, well, Speilberg. Of course this is going to be a good movie. It's the COEN BROTHERS. As long as they are fully in charge, they can't make bad movies. Too bad they need money to make the good ones. Oh, and Intolerable Cruelty takes a distant second in the worst Coen Bros film category.
err... by BrooseTheScharuk	Oct 25th, 2007 07:13:41 PM
...not that Ladykillers was a "serious" Tom Hanks movie...More just that it was clearly very much a "Tom Hanks Movie".
THANK YOU for that review! by Tal111	Oct 25th, 2007 07:20:33 PM
Light years above that pile that Massa unleashed on the internets. That's the last time I waste even a second reading his crap.
You know, for kids! by Osmosis Jones	Oct 25th, 2007 10:32:47 PM
Hudsucker is cool because it had JENNIFER JASON LEIGH'S SWEET ASS IN PERIOD COSTUME!
No!!! by Pompoulus	Oct 25th, 2007 11:08:21 PM
'Intolerable Cruelty' is not a Coen movie in the sense that every other Coen movie is. This is because the script was polluted by Matt Stone. Now, I like South Park, but Coens and Stone are oil and water, and it showed. Butt fat? Really? Thanks Matt.
So thankful I got into this... by TheRealSeveren	Oct 26th, 2007 12:11:25 AM
my date was impressed. Great flick but its got nothin on The Roommates!
Where're Massa and MiraJeff whining like a little bitch? by ImFixingtoDie	Oct 26th, 2007 02:51:33 AM
But the ending! Dropped the ball!

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