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Concerning "The Ballad of Buster Scruggs"
Posted on 11/18/18 at 8:01 pm
Posted on 11/18/18 at 8:01 pm
It's a damn shame the Coen Brothers didn't extend the first segment (the only one with Buster Scruggs) into a full movie and just skip all the others. The second with James Franco as a bank robber was decent, but all the rest were just numbingly boring and predictable. I used the last four on four consecutive nights to fall asleep.
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Posted on 11/18/18 at 8:02 pm to Rex
quote:dog fricking board is that way -->
Rex
Posted on 11/18/18 at 8:47 pm to Rex
Thought the entire movie was outstanding.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 8:53 pm to Rex
I thought the Scruggs bit was goofy. Liked Tom Waits as the grizzled old prospector the best. Thought overall the movie was pretty good depicting the rough, grim, and lawless times of the Old West.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 9:11 pm to Rex
I’ve only seen 3 of them so far. It’s fine, and I understand it’s supposed to be a comedy at times. But it’s a bit tooooooo cartoonish for me.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 9:30 pm to arkiebrian
Scruggs bit was fantastic if you ever watched old Westerns with your dad or grandpa. It was Singin’ Cowboy meets gritty modern Western.
Really liked the whole thing. Anthologies are tough to pull off, but they did it.
I have died of dysentery.
Really liked the whole thing. Anthologies are tough to pull off, but they did it.
I have died of dysentery.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 9:32 pm to athenslife101
For me, segment one worked because it was cartoonish and didn't need a compelling story to be entertaining. There was no real story line in any of them, except that each ending seemed designed merely to annoy you. The one with Liam Neeson was especially dreadful, contrived, and pointless.
I must say, though, that the scenery and direction was outstanding and the only thing that kept me watching each one to the end... even when I wasn't particularly attracted by the stories.
I must say, though, that the scenery and direction was outstanding and the only thing that kept me watching each one to the end... even when I wasn't particularly attracted by the stories.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 9:34 pm to PowerTool
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Anthologies are tough to pull off, but they did it.
The original plan was for a miniseries. I can see why they scrapped that idea.... because there wasn't enough story in any of them to pull it off. So, they just turned it into slices of Western life.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 9:40 pm to Rex
Sometimes less is more.
I’m fully on the bandwagon for this one. It just hit a lot of my interests though, I can see it might not be for everyone but it’s worth a watch for the cinematography alone.
I’m fully on the bandwagon for this one. It just hit a lot of my interests though, I can see it might not be for everyone but it’s worth a watch for the cinematography alone.
Posted on 11/18/18 at 9:51 pm to Rex
Posted on 11/19/18 at 5:12 am to Anonymous95
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Thought the entire movie was outstanding.
It was awesome. But then again, I love the Coens.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 5:17 am to Rex
I wish we could keep this in the other thread but it needs a standalone thread...
I liked the whole thing.
The story that rose to the top after thinking much about it is the wgon train one. It is perfect. I will break it down later.
This is their best work since A Serious Man.
I liked the whole thing.
The story that rose to the top after thinking much about it is the wgon train one. It is perfect. I will break it down later.
This is their best work since A Serious Man.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 7:56 am to Pectus
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The story that rose to the top after thinking much about it is the wgon train one.
I'm thinking about rewatching that one... probably will... didn't understand the point of giving the whole thing away from the get-go with the title of the segment... thinking I might have missed some things... for example, maybe there was some higher meaning in the trapper's nap.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 8:00 am to Rex
The wagon train definitely had a Canterbury Tales feel to it.
Posted on 11/19/18 at 8:46 am to arkiebrian
I loved all of them for one reason or another. The one with Tom Waits was the standout to me though.
I think overall it worked great as a whole. It depicted the grimness and ruthlessness of the old west.
Then the final story kind of ties it all together once you realize what's really going on in that story.
I think overall it worked great as a whole. It depicted the grimness and ruthlessness of the old west.
Then the final story kind of ties it all together once you realize what's really going on in that story.
This post was edited on 11/19/18 at 8:50 am
Posted on 11/19/18 at 8:48 am to NfamousPanda
Only was that missed for me was the Liam Neeson one. Just a bit of a bore
Posted on 11/19/18 at 8:51 am to wildtigercat93
The Neeson one was super dark and grim. It was maybe my least favorite, but also the one that elicited the most visceral reaction from me
Posted on 11/19/18 at 8:57 am to Rex
the prospector was my favorite, but i'm a sucker for tom waits. the traveling show one was my least favorite. the rest were alright.
i want to be disappointed about the project as a whole, but i really can't be too much. i could have watched a feature film on the story of the prospector, wagon train, and buster scruggs. probably the bank robber as well
i want to be disappointed about the project as a whole, but i really can't be too much. i could have watched a feature film on the story of the prospector, wagon train, and buster scruggs. probably the bank robber as well
Posted on 11/19/18 at 9:29 am to Flair Chops
The Coens like to "pair" their films and explore similar themes from different directions, and this is a nice companion to HAIL CAESAR. This is a full-throated defense of movie making (well, as full-throated as the ever ironic Coens can be). They draw you in with the signing cowboy in what is really a hyper-violent and grim tale lurking underneath, but then go on the attack of audiences unwilling to grapple with difficult themes.
Movie-makers are a step away from having a rock roped around them and being replaced by a chicken trained to amuse idiots. And movie makers themselves are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
And the Tom Waits prospecting short is one of the best things they've ever done. How high can a bird count anyway?
Movie-makers are a step away from having a rock roped around them and being replaced by a chicken trained to amuse idiots. And movie makers themselves are sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
And the Tom Waits prospecting short is one of the best things they've ever done. How high can a bird count anyway?
Posted on 11/19/18 at 4:57 pm to Baloo
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Movie-makers are a step away from having a rock roped around them and being replaced by a chicken trained to amuse idiots.
Inasmuch as finances is the rope, I gathered. Audiences are more entertained by a pecking chickens than by the works of brilliant poets and statesmen. A sad fact of life that makes the brilliance too difficult to financially sustain. Still it was grim and hard to watch.
"That pan-covered sonofabitch back at the bank don't hardly fight fair, in my opinion." --- that's the parts of the movie I liked.
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