Originally published at: Coen Brothers reuniting on mystery film project after five years working apart | Boing Boing
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The Coen’s wrote the screenplay for To the White Sea back in 1998. Here we are 25 years later…probably not going to happen.
I found it online though…https://indiegroundfilms.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/to-the-white-sea-aug-13-98.pdf
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Honestly, I’ll watch any damn thing they make. They have remarkably few misfires and even those had their moments and were still better than 90% of the contemporaneous drivel.
ETA: Ok, upon review, they have exactly one misfire.
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I had to check IMDb to confirm that it really has been five years since The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. My how time flies.
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I really hope you don’t mean The Big Lebowski!
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I thought the Ladykillers was a dud. Not sure which one you had in mind
I’m happy for the Coen brother’s success, but
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It was Ladykillers, dude.
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Hey, I did say it had its moments!
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Hail, Caesar! was, by the standards the Coen Brothers set, a dud to me as well. But I wouldn’t call it a bad movie. Just weak compared to most of their work.
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Phew!
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I didn’t love Burn After Reading the first time but on subsequent viewings it really grew on me. I liked Blood Simple but I don’t really think it holds up.
Honestly it’s sort of unfathomable how prolific they have been and how strong their body of work is.
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I dunno, if anyone could do something interesting with a Disney remake I’d imagine the Coen brothers could. I’m not saying I want such a thing to be made, but I can envision a world in which such a thing would be watchable.
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Am embarrassment of riches really.
I took a screenwriting class/workshop thing in ‘00 and the instructor didn’t think much of them, screenplay-wise. They always end in a deus ex machina he would say. I could see his point but it doesn’t bother me much, because its usually in the comedies.
Personally I love the dark ones like Miller’s Crossing and Barton Fink.
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Forget about remaking a Disney classic that everyone loves already. They should give the Coen brothers a 200-million-dollar-budget to do a remake of The Million Dollar Duck or one of the lesser Herbie movies just to see what they come up with.
ETA: Now that I think of it I could honestly see the Coen Brothers doing an R-rated remake of The Apple Dumping Gang.
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Didn’t they do The Hudsucker Proxy? I thought that was a dud, couldn’t finish it.
I’m a big fan – Lebowski and Fargo would probably be on my top 25 film list – but I was also disappointed by A Serious Man and Inside Llewellyn Davis.
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They’ve had their share of hits and misses. Burn After Reading and The Man Who Wasn’t There are underrated gems, while The Ladykillers was a total dud.
I really liked A Serious Man, though. Then again, I love absurdist morality plays.
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