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The Coen Brothers
Posted on 8/23/25 at 7:42 am
Posted on 8/23/25 at 7:42 am
What an amazing run. They legitimately made 8 perfect movies and 6 really really good movies. Easily the best filmmakers of all time in my opinion.
Perfect tier:
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Fargo
Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou
True Grit
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Really really good tier:
Blood Simple
Hudsucker Proxy
Ladykillers
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
The rest I haven't seen. Tried to watch Inside Llewelyn Davis but I got bored.
Perfect tier:
Raising Arizona
Miller's Crossing
Barton Fink
Fargo
Big Lebowski
O Brother, Where Art Thou
True Grit
Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Really really good tier:
Blood Simple
Hudsucker Proxy
Ladykillers
No Country for Old Men
Burn After Reading
A Serious Man
The rest I haven't seen. Tried to watch Inside Llewelyn Davis but I got bored.
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Posted on 8/23/25 at 7:52 am to thenza
I would disagree with your tiers, to a degree.
I was not a fan of their True Grit, although Bridges was outstanding in it. So I would move True Grit and Buster Scruggs down and No Country (IMHO their best film and maybe the best film of the 21st Century,) and Burn After Reading up. Llewellyn Davis is a slow burn, but has some great acting which makes it worthwhile.
What about Intolerable Cruelty or The Man Who Wasn't There?
(ETA or Hail Caesar?)
I was not a fan of their True Grit, although Bridges was outstanding in it. So I would move True Grit and Buster Scruggs down and No Country (IMHO their best film and maybe the best film of the 21st Century,) and Burn After Reading up. Llewellyn Davis is a slow burn, but has some great acting which makes it worthwhile.
What about Intolerable Cruelty or The Man Who Wasn't There?
(ETA or Hail Caesar?)
This post was edited on 8/23/25 at 7:54 am
Posted on 8/23/25 at 7:52 am to thenza
quote:
Really really good tier:
quote:
No Country for Old Men
It’s their best film and one of the best of all time.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 7:58 am to thenza
Llewyn Davis and No Country go up a tier imo. Maybe a Serious Man too but I've only seen it once.
The Blank Check podcast is currently doing a series on the Coen brothers. It's one episode per movie and Lebowski drops this weekend.
The Blank Check podcast is currently doing a series on the Coen brothers. It's one episode per movie and Lebowski drops this weekend.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:08 am to TIGERSTORM
quote:
Llewyn Davis and No Country go up a tier imo. Maybe a Serious Man too but I've only seen it once.
You get it.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:18 am to Ace Midnight
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What about Intolerable Cruelty or The Man Who Wasn't There?
I’ve just never seen them so I couldn’t rank them.
No Country for Old Men was awesome. My really really good tier is still better than most director’s top tier. I just don’t ever rewatch it like I do the others.
I actually just finished Raising Arizona (which prompted this post) THAT is a perfect movie in every way.
I guess my personal top tier just includes a little zaniness.
And cowboys. Westerns get me every time.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:38 am to thenza
Burn After Reading is probably my 2nd favorite comedy all time (Dr Strangelove #1). I feel like it's routinely underrated. Malkovich drunk raging in a downward spiral for the 2nd half of the movie makes me laugh in every scene.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 8:47 am to thenza
Fargo
No Country
A Simple Man
My three favorites.
No Country
A Simple Man
My three favorites.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 10:14 am to thenza
How is No Country For Old Men not in the perfect tier?
Posted on 8/23/25 at 10:47 am to Nyquillus Dillwad
I’m not trying to dis that movie. I just don’t love it the way I do Raising Arizona, Big Lebowski, their other fun movies.
Sorry for the hot take.
Sorry for the hot take.
This post was edited on 8/23/25 at 10:50 am
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:34 am to Nyquillus Dillwad
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How is No Country For Old Men not in the perfect tier?
The ending could be considered disappointing to non film-nerds.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:47 am to thenza
Greater than John Ford? Please.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 11:51 am to Ace Midnight
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was not a fan of their True Grit
This post was edited on 8/23/25 at 11:53 am
Posted on 8/23/25 at 2:27 pm to thenza
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I just don’t love it the way
What you love is irrelevant. That’s not how this works
Posted on 8/23/25 at 2:32 pm to Fun Bunch
That’s exactly how this works. This is the internet, where my own personal opinions and musings carry the weight of the world.
If that’s not the case, we’re all just a bunch of old men yelling into the void…
If that’s not the case, we’re all just a bunch of old men yelling into the void…
Posted on 8/23/25 at 2:33 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:the former is a miss, the latter is a masterpiece
What about Intolerable Cruelty or The Man Who Wasn't There?
quote:not at all good and i'm pretty sure there's universal agreement on that
(ETA or Hail Caesar?)
Posted on 8/23/25 at 2:43 pm to cgrand
quote:
quote:
(ETA or Hail Caesar?)
not at all good and i'm pretty sure there's universal agreement on that
I actually really like Hail Caesar.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 3:11 pm to thenza
quote:
I actually just finished Raising Arizona (which prompted this post) THAT is a perfect movie in every way.
Greatest movie ever made.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 3:25 pm to Saint Alfonzo
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I actually really like Hail Caesar.
I don't know if I "really" like it, but I like it. I think that's the only Coen Brothers I ever watched in the cinema.
I mean, we almost certainly like it more than most folks.
I'm in the minority of preferring the classic True Grit with The Duke over The Dude, but it is what it is.
Posted on 8/23/25 at 7:12 pm to thenza
I can't disagree to much with your list, but I just wanted to say that I think Miller's Crossing is the most rewatchable. What a great flick. Jesus,Tom...
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