# Down to one Coen Bros. movie left to see **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 22, 2009, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531 "2009-01-22T22:24:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![diku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@diku](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diku)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531/41 "2009-01-23T18:39:49Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > On this point, there is one scene in _Hudsucker Proxy_, specifically the bit where Tim Robbins’s children’s toy is released to the marketplace, a several minute scene with music only, no dialogue, that is one of the best things the Coens have ever done, and that’s all by itself worth the price of admission. My absolute favorite part of the movie. Second to that is his orientation. I’d still put it at number three, behind Miller’s Crossing and O Brother. Miller’s Crossing is just great in every way. Why O Brother? I live in Nashville. I’m from the south. While I’m not a big bluegrass fan, that’s the music that played all around my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2009, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531/42 "2009-01-23T18:58:32Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I don’t know how to discuss the Coens with anyone who would put _Blood Simple_ so low on the list. That is a great bit o’ film right there. > […] Love the Hud, “ehhhhh” the Blood. A lot of _Blood Simple_’s plot depended on people not talking to each other… and it seemed like the reason they weren’t talking was just to make the plot work. ## And it may have been the particular print I watched, but the film seemed low budget in a distracting way. The Boutham family (wife, teenage daughter and myself) all enjoyed Hudsucker. It’s one of the Coen’s more kid friendly films even with the… …very elaborate suicide scene early in the film. That left my delicate daughter distraught, but a few minutes she later was smiling and laughing as she started understanding that the film had a Warner Bros. element to it. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531/43 "2009-01-24T00:03:13Z")
I have Hud in my Netflix queue. Hey, they’ve got another one probably coming out later this year: **A Serious Man**. Check it out; it’s about a Jewish family in Minnesota in the 1960s. I’m sure they know a thing or two about that. ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 7:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531/44 "2009-01-24T07:32:07Z")
> [@Nom\_de\_Plume](#): > > Am I the ONLY one on the board who enjoys _Intolerable Cruelty_? George Clooney provided a wonderful comic performance, although the chemistry with Catherine Zeta Jones might be lacking. The Coens bring their own brand of twisted humor to an otherwise traditional romantic comedy. I see new things in it to enjoy with each viewing (as with any of the other Coen brothers movies.) I liked it. I liked it better than Hudsucker. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531/45 "2009-01-24T07:55:12Z")
> [@aldiboronti](#): > > The Coens needed the Clff notes too. They admitted that they’d never even read Homer’s Odyssey. Oh, and the word is parody not satire. It was a joke about high-toned “films” based on _ **Important Literature** _. See the prequel, _Sullivan’s Travels_, for clarification. ---
**Author:** ![MinniePurl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/cab0a1/32.png) [@MinniePurl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinniePurl)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531/46 "2009-01-24T13:11:38Z")
> [@Yookeroo](#): > > I liked it. I liked it better than Hudsucker. I liked Intolerable Cruelty as well. Not as much as O Brother, Hudsucker, Big Lebowski, or Fargo, but I did like it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-to-one-coen-bros-movie-left-to-see/482531.md?page=2)