Coen Brothers reuniting on mystery film project after five years working apart

[robertmckenna]

@1000YearBan

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,

What did those old guys like Euripides know anyway? A modern script doctor would fix their scripts proper.

@milliefink

but I was also disappointed by A Serious Man and Inside Llewellyn Davis.

Inside Llewyn David? Blasphemer! That’s unfortunately so very very grim but it’s a better realised reminisce on the 60s Greenwich village folk scene than A Mighty Wind while being the saddest comedy of a doomed nebbish who deserves his misfortune. Basically a Coen brothers staple but ratcheted up to the max.

Growing up and learning to love cinema it felt like every year there would be either a new Coen brothers or a new Almadovar and everyone I knew would be excited by both. They are giants from my perspective.

[milliefink]

I think a lot of their movies are “Love it or hate it.” I do usually appreciate that they’re at least always striving to avoid lazy Hollywood formulas and cliches.