It’s a remake. Different from the original, but not as good IMHO (though I haven’t see the original in a long time). The original had that English comedy flavor to it. The new one, as you say, missed the mark as to tone.
Yeah, I’m a sucker for their more silly comedies (Hudsucker Proxy, Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, O Brother, etc…) , but Fargo wasn’t actually funny. More depressing than anything.
And that’s the big problem with their dramatic work; it’s usually too dark for me to enjoy.
Put me down for the dueling idiots of “Burn After Reading.” Plus, it gives J.K. Simmons some of the best final lines in cinema.
CIA Superior: What did we learn, Palmer?
CIA Officer: I don’t know, sir.
CIA Superior: I don’t fuckin’ know either. I guess we learned not to do it again.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir.
CIA Superior: I’m fucked if I know what we did.
CIA Officer: Yes, sir, it’s, uh, hard to say
CIA Superior: Jesus Fucking Christ.
To add, the only Coen Brothers I dislike is Raising Arizona. For years I thought I disagreed with the late, great Roger Ebert about Raising Arizona. He said he hated it and was told at least once a week that he was wrong. I thought him wrong too, as I remembered liking it when it first came out. But I must have been stoned or just a stupid punk back then, because a few years ago I found a copy in Thailand and watched it with my wife, who is also a big Coen Brothers fan (thanks to me). But watching it again, I was completely embarrassed by how juvenile it seemed. The wife thought it was rubbish too. Turns out that Ebert was right – Raising Arizona is the Coens’ only bad movie, a real sack of shit.
Fargo was funny as all get out.
You are both wrong. 
I voted that number one.
I voted for my favorite. I don’t think that is necessarily the best. The best might be Miller’s Crossing.
I think *Lebowski * is their best one but *Ladykillers * is my sentimental favorite.
I lean to the more humorous movies so I went The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona a close second.
I have only seen a bit over half of these (I lost track after “Burn After Reading,” and I missed “Ladykillers” and “Intolerable Cruelty”), but that seems about right to me. I’m surprised “Hudsucker Proxy” is getting as much love here as I see. It’s relatively low in the voting, but the comments show it to be one of their better movies. I definitely found it one of the worst. I voted “Fargo.”
You have a lot of kids. And you’ve given them unusual names.
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The ending of Raising Arizona never fails to jerk a tear from me, so I gotta vote for that.
I’m naming my kid Eraserhead if I ever have one.
I’m pleased to see Fargo has pulled into the lead, as it should be.
I think one of the reasons Hudsucker doesn’t work for me is the talent disparity between Tim Robbins and Paul Newman. Robbins is great in Bull Durham, but every scene with Paul Newman, it was like Jesse Owens running a race against Fatty Arbuckle.
Casablanca seems to be okay with her name. It’s her twin brothers, Godfather and Godfather Part II, that complain. And we won’t know what La Regle du Jeu thinks until she’s old enough to talk.
Fargo, for sure. I can’t think of anything that comes close, except maybe Miller’s Crossing.
I’ve only seen six of them, [del]and all six[/del] five of them are my favorite. There is only one line which raises itself above the others enough to earn the vote:
“Gimme that baby, you warthog from hay-ell!”
Edit: I really don’t get Lebowski at all. I can’t figure out what’s good about it.
I feel like the Trump Presidency will really raise the status of Burn After Reading, since it’s pretty much the perfect parable for the whole thing.
But I voted for Lebowski. It is not their finest technical work of cinema. But to me it’s like Mom’s home cooking.
We had a discussion a few years regarding the The Dude. 
Best three: ** No Country for Old Men**,** Fargo**, A Serious Man.
My favoring three: O Brother Where Art Thou, Miller’s Crossing, True Grit. Also love the Hud.
I guess I’m the only one who voted for Hail, Caesar. I’m a sucker for old time movies. I’m an aetheist and I liked it even with the religious theme, it was juxtaposed against the Communists and their theories. Hobie Doyle & Carlotta Valdez were adorable. The song and dance numbers were excellent. And AFAIK it’s the first time Christopher Lambert and Clancy Brown were in a movie together again since Highlander…so now you know my taste in movies…