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Hail, Caesar Discussion (NO SPOILERS)
Posted on 2/3/16 at 11:50 am
Posted on 2/3/16 at 11:50 am
78% (134 reviews counted)
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Alonso Duralde (The Wrap): The Coens revel in both the glamour and the squalor of post-war Hollywood with a film that more than makes up in wit and flash what it might lack in substance.
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Todd McCarthy (The Hollywood Reporter): The Coens' reimagining of a real Hollywood tough guy is interesting for insiders, but in their first order of business, that of making a rousing comedy about the Hollywood of 65 years ago, they've fallen rather short.
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Melissa Anderson (Village Voice): [It] has a certain buoyancy ... The fizziness, though, proves fleeting, and Hail, Caesar! too often goes flat.
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Justin Change (Variety): An inside-showbiz lark that regards the 1950s studio system with the utmost skepticism even as it becomes an expression of movie love at its purest.
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Brian Truitt (USA Today): The combination of the Coen brothers' filmmaking acumen and George Clooney in absolute buffoon mode is again Hollywood magic.
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Joshua Rothkopf (Time Out): Hail, Caesar! weds the backstage Hollywood shenanigans of Barton Fink to a more manic pace. It doesn't seem new for them, yet as super polished, mannered, slightly surreal comedies go, the movie feels as rare as a unicorn.
This post was edited on 2/6/16 at 7:11 pm
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Posted on 2/3/16 at 11:55 am to jackwoods4
Looks pretty silly, and not in a good way.
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 11:55 am
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:03 pm to jackwoods4
Big Lebowski - 80%
O Brother Where Art Thou- 77%
Burn after Reading 78%
Rotten Tomatoes doesn't care much for Coen Brothers comedies. OBWAT at a 77% is just retarded.
I'm excited about the movie.
O Brother Where Art Thou- 77%
Burn after Reading 78%
Rotten Tomatoes doesn't care much for Coen Brothers comedies. OBWAT at a 77% is just retarded.
I'm excited about the movie.
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 12:06 pm
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:16 pm to Breesus
It looks as much a silly big business spoof as Hudsucker Proxy.
That got a 58% on RT.
I loved Hudsucker's old days lampoon. This looks the same and will probably be great.
I stake my Pulitzer on it.
That got a 58% on RT.
I loved Hudsucker's old days lampoon. This looks the same and will probably be great.
I stake my Pulitzer on it.
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 12:17 pm
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:17 pm to jackwoods4
looks too Coen-y for me imo
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:18 pm to Carson123987
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looks too Coen-y for me imo
I'm VERY cautiously optimistic. February release is concerning to me.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:19 pm to Carson123987
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looks too Coen-y for me imo
Carson.... please
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:19 pm to jackwoods4
same
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:41 pm to jackwoods4
I'm not reading what these blowhards have to say. I'm interested in the movie and I'll see it. Clooney plays a great goofball.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 12:53 pm to The Sad Banana
Rotten Tomatoes doesn't care much for Coen Brothers comedies. OBWAT at a 77% is just retarded.
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ditto, somehow this type of movie doesn't excite me. For whatever genre it will be, the Coen's will do a damn fine job though.
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ditto, somehow this type of movie doesn't excite me. For whatever genre it will be, the Coen's will do a damn fine job though.
Posted on 2/3/16 at 1:23 pm to jackwoods4
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I'm VERY cautiously optimistic. February release is concerning to me.
I was thinking that too but when into imdb and several of their movies have 1 quarter releases. I just don't think they really care.
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (feb)
The Big Lebowski (early march)
Inside Llewyn Davis (jan)
Fargo (April)
This post was edited on 2/3/16 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 2/3/16 at 2:09 pm to The Sad Banana
Clooney is a terrible actor and the release day worries me, but I'll see for myself
Posted on 2/5/16 at 3:54 pm to wildtigercat93
I watched it earlier today.
As a HUGE Coen Bros fan who owns just about every one of their films, I was highly disappointed in this movie.
1. Didn't like the story. The premise didn't reveal a lot and the trailer was good, but once the story was revealed, I was instantly disappointed.
2. Too many cameos. Yeah the cast is great and all, but outside of two of them, the rest are just short appearances.
6/10
As a HUGE Coen Bros fan who owns just about every one of their films, I was highly disappointed in this movie.
1. Didn't like the story. The premise didn't reveal a lot and the trailer was good, but once the story was revealed, I was instantly disappointed.
2. Too many cameos. Yeah the cast is great and all, but outside of two of them, the rest are just short appearances.
6/10
Posted on 2/5/16 at 4:47 pm to Breesus
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Rotten Tomatoes doesn't care much for Coen Brothers comedies. OBWAT at a 77% is just retarded.
Why? Its not an average rating of 77 for the movie. It just indicates the percentage of reviews that are positive. I loved OBWAT but can totally understand how it would turn people off.
Posted on 2/5/16 at 5:22 pm to Breesus
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Big Lebowski - 80%
O Brother Where Art Thou- 77%
Burn after Reading 78%
Rotten Tomatoes doesn't care much for Coen Brothers comedies.
A Serious Man came in at 89% which baffles me relative to the three you listed. Burn after Reading at 78% seems surprisingly high as well, though it's one I've come to appreciate much more than after the first viewing and maybe I need to give A Serious Man another try.
The Rotten Tomato rating inconsistencies really are inconsistencies on the part of the critics. I think a good number of them really don't "get" the Coen Brothers but feel like they have to pretend to. So the reviews end up being posturing more than anything.
Posted on 2/5/16 at 9:18 pm to Tigris
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A Serious Man
I didn't "get it" the first time I saw it but after 3-4 viewings I've come to appreciate it. Real solid movie.
Posted on 2/5/16 at 9:59 pm to jackwoods4
It is a look at me movie.
Posted on 2/5/16 at 10:00 pm to Marciano1
Not a good movie. Way below par for a Cohen movie. Some funny moments, but not as funny as the trailer would lead you to believe.
Posted on 2/6/16 at 12:09 am to Marciano1
I also saw it earlier. It was ok. Some individual scenes were entertaining, but overall, it felt all over the place. Entertaining film but nothing more. No awards for this one.
Posted on 2/6/16 at 12:35 am to Indigold
Either I missed something or it wasn't explained. What was the whole thing with Channing Tatum's character? That movie just seemed like a jumbled mess and the ending was just kinda like "here, it's over"
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