# The Coen Brothers movies - How would you rank them? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799 "2003-06-27T17:42:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/41 "2010-03-01T23:13:41Z")
nm, OP mixup ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/42 "2010-03-01T23:25:39Z")
> [@Manduck](#): > > I can confirm that Lebowski is one of those movies that, for some reason, get better with repeat viewings. I don’t know why that is. To join the chorus, I, too, hated it the first time. This was probably exacerbated by the fact that my roommate at the time acted like it was the greatest movie ever made (this was when it came out, he was a film major, and liked the movie right off the bat.) I liked the other Coen movies up to that point and, perhaps, my expectations were just way too high, or different from what the movie delivered. I saw it a few years later and absolutely fell in love with it. I can no longer fathom why I didn’t like it the first time I saw it. It was a solid movie, one of their better ones. My rankings, of the ones I’ve, would be: 1. Fargo 2. Raising Arizona 3. Barton Fink 4. The Big Lebowski 5. Miller’s Crossing 6. Blood Simple 7. Oh Brother Where Art Thou 8. Burn After Reading 9. The Man That Wasn’t There The first five are set apart, because they’re really difficult for me to qualitatively rank. To me, they’re each as good as the other, but in different ways. The bottom four, I feel, are on a different tier than the first five. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/43 "2010-03-02T00:13:54Z")
Cool. Not a single vote yet for the overrated “No Country for Old Men.” ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/44 "2010-03-02T00:21:34Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Cool. Not a single vote yet for the overrated “No Country for Old Men.” Note that this thread is seven years old. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/45 "2010-03-02T00:22:28Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Cool. Not a single vote yet for the overrated “No Country for Old Men.” This thread is _ancient_ - check the start date ;). I’d certainly vote for it now - a superb film IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/46 "2010-03-02T00:27:40Z")
Whoa. Holy zombies. Missed that. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799/47 "2010-03-02T02:15:02Z")
Okay, we’re loose on the six-month rule in Cafe Society … but at six _years_, I think this is definitely a zombie. If anyone wants to discuss, feel free to start a new thread. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-coen-brothers-movies-how-would-you-rank-them/184799.md?page=2)