This caught my attention and I've watched it numerous times. Again, I'm convinced of the Coen brother's brilliance and the fact that these were "short" stories (roughly twelve minutes long apiece) made for an excellent "cinema" experience. Five brilliant, and very large stars!
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It kind of strips away our bourgsvoir society and looks into
conditions under the surface. Not pretty but very original.
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Another meisterwerk from the Coens.
I loved the Tim Blake Nelson opener, the glorious lines his character delivers, and the rip-roaring song in the saloon.
The "Meal Ticket" episode simply stunned me. The Coens plumb the depths of human depravity as well as Dostoevsky ever did.
And just as another commentator says, that "first time?" question the James Franco character puts to the other guy about to be hanged with him is just priceless. In fact that one line may have been the whole point of including this episode in the collection.
The episode with Zoe Kagan was beautifully enacted -- perhaps the best in terms of performance. Ends too wistfully, but you know it can't be otherwise.
Absolutely marvelous. I feel like I got six movies for the price of one.
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I felt the same way, but also after the Zoe Kagan episode. You know it's not going to end happily--this is a Coen brothers movie-- but I found myself really rooting for the Zoe Kagan character and her prospective husband.
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Another masterpiece by the Coen Brothers.
Tim Blake Nelson got things off to a rousing start. Next up was the under-appreciated James Franco who, despite his questionable personal life, is really quite an artist.
I had to pause the film after the Liam Neeson/Harry Melling vignette. It was too sad to continue.
As with other Coen films, I’m sure I’ll be returning many times to this one.
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A fan since the classic "Blood Simple" and "Raising Arizona", I suspect the Coens care little for award shows or awards, but certainly a Kennedy Center Honors or Presidential Medal is in their future, for their body of work.
I think this anthology of the Old West, is an homage to their films of the past, and each story contains the pieces of the humor, irony, violence, pathos and the hilarious, pathetic and scary characters who occupy their universe.
Not their best film, but loved it for what it put forth for us to ponder and provoke feelings in all of us.
I've been a Corn brothers fan as long as they have been making movies. I watch them over and over , for the language the wit, the giddy humor, the sheer inventiveness of it all. But this one kills me. It's been weeks and I think of it every day. I laugh, I cry, I wonder about it all. Who cares what I think, you know? I'm old, I feel my mortality like a shroud some "thing" is sneaking around my shoulders. How did the Coen brothers become so wise? Thank you, all you comments people. For sharing your thoughts. It helps, a bit, with this acute emotion that wracks my soul!!! Geez let me watch the Marx brothers! Right quick, as grandma used to say!
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I thought the strongest story in the movie featured the girl who was traveling with her brother to meet her future husband out West. Reminded me of John Ford's The Searchers. Beautiful and bleak at the same time.
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I felt the same way about this episode. You know it's not going to end happily--this is a Coen brothers movie-- but I found myself really rooting for the Zoe Kagan character and her prospective husband. I couldn't continue watching for awhile after the ending.
The Oscar nominations are out and the Coen Brothers have been robbed!
There is simply no just universe in which Black Panther, A Star is Born or Bohemian Rhapsody is a better movie than The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.
Meanwhile, whoever is awarded the Best Actor Oscar needs to immediately head over the nearest FedEx and send it overnight to its true owner, Tim Blake Nelson.
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This is a wonderful movie that captures the never-ending American psychosis over The Frontier, and elevates it to a statement about the Human Condition.
Despair, deprivation, and loneliness stalked by death turn the long-term illusion of a financial release from one's problems into lives based on goofy delusions that fill one with immense pleasure.
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I loved everything about this show about the ballad of buster Scruggs. But the vignette entitled meal ticket was haunting and unforgettable. How can anyone forget that poor armless and legless being that has to try desperately to keep his audience producing so his keeper will keep him living. And finally that poor helpless being is replaced by the next being (a chicken) to continue to be a meal ticket for the user.
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Thank you for a wonderful review of an unforgettable film. The Coen Brothers' mastery is evident throughout, and a sumptuous feast of cinema to the smallest detail -- from goofy surprises like suddenly finding oneself inside Buster Scruggs' guitar while he's singing and strumming, to the attack of a Cheyenne war party that turns a screen cliche into something unimaginably terrifying, and a long sequence of a cowpoke in a noose at the end of his rope that you'd expect in a classic Warner Brother's cartoon, this series of vignettes is truly a wonder. Rarely have I wanted to watch a film again. I think I'll take this in several times, not just for its cinematic details and turns of phrase, but also for the its depth of metaphor on turns of fate on a journey that must end for all of us.
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The quadriplegic dude deserves an Oscar.
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@Jonathan
You mean Harry Melling, who played Dudley Dursley in the Harry Potter films?
Delightful to see how he has become a skilled adult actor.
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How do the Coen brothers pull it off again and again, in so many different ways?
Extraordinary film, shallow and deep at the same time. Excellent review.
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A new Coen Brothers is always a reason to celebrate. I enjoyed this one tremendously, though the six 'chapters' are a little uneven. The ones that really stood out was the story of the brother and sister on the wagon trail, the Jack London story with Tom Waits and the Liam Neeson piece (Meal Ticket). They were all simply tremendous and brilliantly executed. One could easily imagine John Wayne in the role that Bill Heck played. I believe this was originally intended to be a six part series for Netflix and its a real shame that it was whittled down to film-length. Given what a success the Fargo series has been, I feel the Coens are missing out on the extended canvas that a series offers, even one limited to six or eight episodes. Something like the recent superb limited series Trust (Donald Sutherland) comes to mind. The Coens could really make a meal of an incredible -- and true! -- story like that.
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@Mark Crozier
It may be better that it was presented this way instead of as a series. Series episodes generally have to be a certain length, and if the story doesn't fit that length, it's either cut down or padded, at the expense of the story. As an anthology movie, each story is as long as it wants to be without sacrificing anything. A best of both worlds would be to treat this and other genre anthologies as video short story magazines, sometimes with a particular them, and sometimes not. The Heavy Metal movie is a good example of the format. We would continue to get quality short story collections without timing restrictions or missing any that are aired individually or unpolished like Dust does.
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@Mark Crozier
It may be better that it was presented this way instead of as a series. Series episodes generally have to be a certain length, and if the story doesn't fit that length, it's either cut down or padded, at the expense of the story. As an anthology movie, each story is as long as it wants to be without sacrificing anything. A best of both worlds would be to treat this and other genre anthologies as video short story magazines, sometimes with a particular theme, and sometimes not. The Heavy Metal movie is a good example of the format. We would continue to get quality short story collections without timing restrictions or missing any that are aired individually or unpolished like Dust does.
A terrible beauty - difficult to look away, though you know that you should. The Coen brothers are true masters of film-making. They play with your heart-strings and force you to laugh when you should be crying, and vice-versa. They force you to judge when it is you who is being judged. There is a good reason why the Bible is often brought into conversations about Coen Brothers movies, but the Coen Bros. God is Spinoza's God, I figger (*wanders off into the Saskatchewan Prairie, jumping stubble...and you just know what the sound-track is...*)
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The funniest moment for me was when the montage of Hamilton the Wingless Thrush's oratorial performance includes Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Are we to expect that Hamilton is delivering that massive work to that passive, dwindling audience? In between the cuts, time expands and expands. That's the brilliance of the Coens, and it takes a vast knowledge of cultural forms to get it all. This is a marvelous homage to the Western genre going back to the dime novels, sweeping up its images, sounds, and plot devices in a meditation on Americana and its deeply held myths.
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@ALarabee Except that he was reading Shakespeare, whose sonnet forms the English title of Proust's work, which is from the 20th C.
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If you enjoy Westerns, you will like this movie. Knowing that it is an anthology going in helps. Count on laughing a lot -- and thinking about the film long after its done.
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Loved it. A little O’Henry, a little Tales from the Crypt.
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I was looking forward to the new Coen Brother's movie. It is beautifully shot with great sweeping shots of the Mid West and it is filled with wonderful actors like Liam Neeson. I found the stories to be so depressing though. I had to shut it off when the girl said to kill the dog. They were one big bummer after another. In these times, I want some escapism and some humanity. I don't need to be reminded how bad the human family can be to each other.
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@Ginas13
Concerning the dog: You shut it off too soon.
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@Ginas13
Mid West? The 'real' Mid West ends where these landscapes begin.
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@Ginas13 What exactly do you watch?
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I'm not seeing the greatness of this movie like the others here and frankly don't get a lot of it. Maybe that's the point - it's open to interpretation, which I don't need these days. It's already too challenging out there in reality thanks to the Trump debacle and the endless violent slaughter with guns. Real life makes the Wild West look like Bible study. Don't need or want more violence for entertainment. And I generally love the Coens stuff. But really - heard any good jokes lately?
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@sammy zoso - Please don't bring the debacle here
politics is just down the hall
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"Genre for the Coens is not a church or an archive; it’s a playroom."
Ever since "Miller's Crossing" the Coens are their own Genre.
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At the end, one of the bounty hunters tells how he distracts his targets with engaging stories while his partner dispatches them. And the targets don't know what's coming.
These are engaging stories. Mayhaps the last story is a commentary on how we are distracted from our eventual thumping.
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Hmmm. Just checked out the cast and it appears the Coen Bros. are content to continue the myth of an all-white west and only interested in presenting that point of view. Think I'll skip this.
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@GoldenLadySTL - This is a great website, with a little something for everyone. In fact they have a menu.
FYI - If you were looking for politics, you're in the wrong neighborhood.
Take a Left just before art and movie reviews.
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@GoldenLadySTL It's not all-white. There are some native Americans killing and scalping folks in one vignette. But seriously, it would be a shame if you skipped the film for racial and ethnic reasons. It's kind of like how I"m so glad I didn't skip "Precious" or "Moonlight" or dozens of other more racially diverse movies." We really need to RELAX and let art be art without judging it based on the current demand for everything to be racially equalized.
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@GoldenLadySTL What a shame to pull the affirmative action card when it comes to art. Just imagine all the great art you've missed over a basically reverse racism stance no matter what race you are. Kind of like saying "Hey I'm a racist and not going to eat collard greens" in reverse.
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is one of the most delightful and sometimes sobering homage to the arts of storytelling: the sung and printed words, illustrators, film, and all performers in and thereof. The arts lift our spirits as we shuffle around doing what we have to do on this mortal coil. Even the killers love to sing and find that in common with each other.
Did you notice the inversion of symbolism--for example: the amoral "hero" in the white hat vs the old Tom Mix movies? And I love the "bird" symbolism throughout--either through song, the women, the owl and chicken--made me think of McTeague and his canary.
I'm sure you can find your own clues to the this layered, artistic puzzle. Have fun doing so. For myself, I'm going to watch it again. Thank-you Netflix and Coen Brothers!
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@Mary Comfort - I did notice that Buster Scruggs questioned whether or not he wanted to wear a black suit.
As far as Tom Mix Movies are concerned, I was beginning to think they were just a figment of my imagination.
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@Mary Comfort "the amoral "hero" in the white hat"
The Buster Scruggs character wasn't even remotely "amoral". He was primarily motivated by a search for decent and honest folk, even if he appeared to not expect to find any. He also lived by a code, and never once instigated any violence.
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The winds of Philosophy are strong as a hurricane
Critical discussion is rambling like a train
The dialog is so thick it's boring
I came close but avoided snoring
Of course I am no fool
Tom Waits is always cool
I like the brothers but this is not their finest
At best this is a c minus
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@steve chase,
While for some reason philosophy leaves this viewer feeling cool, woke up on a bleak Monday humming to a tune of The Ballad.
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@steve chase - A great quote straight from the horses mouth -
I do not entertain hypotheticals. The world as it is is vexing enough.
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The winds of Philosophy are strong as a hurricane
Critical discussion is rambling like a train
The dialog is so thick it's boaring
I came close but avoided snoring
Watching Buster floating into heaven with his wings and harp immediately reminded me of Waring Hudsucker floating down from heaven near the end of "Hudsucker Proxy".
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@Rich Hadfield Their most underrated piece of genius to be sure.
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Fantastic film. Even though over 2 hours seemed much too short. Loved Tom Waits singing Mother Machree
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I have a query about the last story. Someone please help me with this. I did not take this literally as two bounty hunters and three passengers. The bounty hunters were too knowing and sly, and Tyne Daly's character let too much slip. I took this to be a sort of 'lifeboat' - where they are all being escorted off the mortal coil and do not yet understand that they are dead.
Any takers?
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@TenToes quite possible. Indeed, if the rest of the stories end in death, this one may not have, for the very reason you suggest. There are several clues to this ( the coach driver never stops, the riders never know it is their time ), and the more I think about it, the more I think you are right about it.
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@TenToes
Interesting theory - and would help explain why they are hesitant to exit the coach. I'll definitely go back and re-watch with that in mind.
I was too distracted trying to figure out if David Lee Roth had started up an acting career by playing the Trapper on the first pass through. :)
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@TenToes Did you notice the bronze plaques above the door knockers on the Big Blue double doors? On the left is a cherubim. On the right is a goat (the cloven hoof). These passengers are headed to their last judgement. The dark coachman, like Charon on the river Styx, is headed for his next pick-up--talk about job security!
Cheers!
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Dark comedic genius from the Coen brothers who take Hollywood's romanticized revisionist history of the Wild West and give it a revision that's starker, crueler, funnier and philosophically deeper. The six stories are various takes on human nature and the ambivalent vagaries of fate in absence of civilization, each featuring the beautiful, unspoiled landscape of the American west. It blew me away so much the first time I had to watch it again the next night with my boyfriend and plan to watch it with family over Thanksgiving. Thank you to Netflix and the Coen brothers for this quirky, lovable, heartbreaking and in the end sweet love song to the history, fables and landscape of the American west.
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@gw
Unspoiled until Tom Waits started digging it up.
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@Coyoty - I agree, it was my favorite story as well
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I should have mentioned another standout was the script - the beauty of language, the fine articulation, esp. the gentle humility and formality of conversations between the young woman and the wagonmaster. Also the gorgeous illustrations of the book, both blk+wht and full-color. The wonderful Tim Blake Nelson and Tom Waits characters......there's a lot to love in this movie.
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Watched it last night on Netflix. Profoundly disturbing, funny, engaging, and stunningly gorgeous. Pure genius.
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The portrayal of Native Americans in two of the stories was unwatchable. I’m still pondering that choice. Feel like I’m missing something. And we had to wait four stories for a woman protagonist so that’s pretty boring for half the population. I did love Tom Waits and the prospector story. And there’s a lot to love here in general - absurdist, campy, startling and creepy.
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@Sara Freedman I think this movie is more about Westerns as a genre than it is about the actual West. Maybe that explains the portrayal of Native Americans. Not sure.
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@Sara Freedman
Extremely insightful. I'm male so naturally I am unable to take any interest in stories revolving around a female protagonist but it seems almost an incremental approximation of fairness that I and the other half of the populace muddle our way through the "boring" story about the lady. I can only hope that you made it through the male protagonists by doing as I do with all gynocentric entertainments I encounter: skip past the stories that focus on people whose genitals do not match my own. As for the possible caricatures of the indigenous peoples portrayed here I myself at times have been a poor representative of the values I espouse and feel no small amount of relief when I encounter those who themselves embody stereotypes while bemoaning the stereotypical representation of others.
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@Sara Freedman
Yep. You've pretty much missed everything. When you view everything through the lens of trendy current buzzwords and pretentious cultural outrage, that can lead to tunnel vision which will inevitably cause you to miss the forest.
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Each of these stories, if written over 50 years ago, would have been presented in English literature class and I would have had to write reports on them.
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@Coyoty,
We will give you a grade 10, in hindsight and as an act of good faith, the latter much abused. The nuns in Catholic school would not have chosen this ballad of the West for American literature, but sent us off for a viewing of The Playboy of The Western World.
Hoping there's a next installment that picks up on the other side of that Hotel's threshold...
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With a great affinity for the work of the Coen Brothers, but having a warning from this reviewer that it might be wilder than The Wild West, I pulled on the reins and wedged in my heels.
And then came Netflix, with a broad panorama of Cowboy Land, rising to the surface of choices, with "Buster Scruggs" known as 'The Misantrope', quietly strumming his guitar, with an echoing ballad, as his horse carries him to a drink-hole in the desert.
A hand is seen opening an old illustrated book, with several stories, and after watching 'The Meal Ticket', where the life of a man is less valued than a chicken, it was time to call it a night. It brought to this viewer's mind, chilling memories of watching 'Freaks' in Paris many years ago.
Surrealism entwined with realism, generous in grotesque surprises, the Coen Brothers have done it again.
It has been recommended that short stories should not be read, or told as in a novel, and the cautionary note of 'Strong Violence' in the content is real and not for the faint of heart.
Magnificent cast and plenty of 'packed' action make for a memorable if haunting viewing of going West.
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@Miss Ley I, too, was horrified by "Meal Ticket." It is surely one of the saddest tales ever.
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@Keith Alt
The horror may be worse than you think. Miss Ley is right to think of "Freaks".
We suspect at first that the Impresario was the Orator's father, but they don't act like family. Then perhaps that he came across the Orator like he did the chicken, but the Orator would have had a history and been more noted, like the Elephant Man. He probably didn't grow up limbless. He wasn't found, he was made.
The true horror didn't come at the end. It was there from the beginning.
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Just watched it. The Coen Brothers have given us a gem of short stories. Just as I will reread a good short story, I will watch this again and again (as we do with their films). I thought that the brief story about the would-be bank robber was worth the entire thing just to see James Franco, about to be hung for the second time, say to a fellow hangee, "first time?"
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@TenToes - Yeah this one made my day as well.
"first time" was the best ever line.
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I enjoy their movies.
Anything that can mock and wring a low chuckle from death without making the viewer feel guilty considering the current world is welcome.
The Coens movies are like a visual minstrel show riding with a tent revival and girls that show some nekkid late at night. just two bits.
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Watched it last night and immediately began watching it again. It is a series of masterpieces by the ever-amazing Coen brothers.
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Watched it last night and dreamt about it all night. Really good, much better than "True Grit," their last Western. Like the best Coens films it mixes humor with intense violence and recognizes the world as an unfriendly, illogical place. I think I might have liked it a little better if the Tom Waits chapter had been the last, but I also understand why it wasn't...
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@BoulderEagle - I loved True Grit and still watch it from time to time, not to mention watching various clips of the movie repeatedly. However I could never compare these two movies, they seem as different as
Rooster Cogburn and Buster Scruggs.
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@BoulderEagle Oh I beg to differ... True Grit is a full-blown Coen Bros masterpiece. Right up there with Miller's Crossing, Big Lebowski, Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Burn After Reading and The Man Who Wasn't There.
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@BoulderEagle I don't see how Buster bests True Grit. TG had everything, including much more heart and straightforwardness than Buster. Not that I didn't enjoy Buster, and all of the stories, except perhaps Meal Ticket. I kept telling those folks to stay on the stagecoach. True Grit is a movie I watch over and over again. A proper beginning, predicate, and conclusion, which is something I never expect from the Coen Brothers, as one who screamed at the screen at the conclusion of No Country. Anything Tim Blake Nelson is in is a must see, and he did not disappoint, even as he exited stage ^.
Like “The Big Lebowski”, this movie will be berated and jeered at by the small minded; like that film, it will prove in time to be a little masterpiece.
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I saw the film on Netflix. It seemed too long. Some of the short stories have little development. At the end I felt underwhelmed. But long afterward, images from the film kept haunting me, powerful. Now I want to watch it again.
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This is a great movie. Who but the Coens can open a film like a Warner Brothers cartoon and turn it into a Chekov play?
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Looking forward to this. I'm enjoying the recent trend to bring back the Western, even a little bit. (It should be noted here that the Coen's True Grit was simply masterful.)
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So sorry to see the Coen brothers get sucked into the black hole that is Netflix. One week in select theaters. Thanks for nothing Netflix.
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Such a very unfair comment. Do you know expensive making movies is? If the Coens got a good deal with Netflix that allowed them to make this movie, what on earth are you complaining about?
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@Michael Judge
This is the internet. Since you're bewildered by the complaining I assume it's your first time here. Welcome!
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@Denise
Why is your local theater cold?
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Really, it's hard for any movie, even by the Coen Brothers themselves, to NOT be "more frolicsome than No Country for Old Men". Looking forward to this!
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A character named Alice Longabaugh—an homage to Harry Alonzo Longabaugh, better known as the Sundance Kid?
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@Anne I also liked how A.O. Scott mentioned "Meek's Cutoff" and then there's a photo of Zoe Kazan who was memorable in that movie and portrays Alice Longabaugh in this one!
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Really excellent review!
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"People tell stories and jokes and engage in mock-learned debates — not to arrive at any solutions but to pass the time between now and the grave." Reminds me of (modern text):
POLONIUS
What are you reading, your highness?
HAMLET
A lot of words.
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7 out of 10
Saw it with a friend last night- Big Coen fans since Blood Simple- We both felt a few of the episodes Left out crucial scenes, that were instead, left to our imagination..Ive got nothing against my imagination but having said that I could of watched the trailer and imagined the rest of the movie and saved $15...
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@marty1234
you may have missed a couple of layers, keep scraping and brushing.
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When the Coens hit, they hit for the cycle. This looks like a beauty.
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Unlike other Netflix movies that ration two hours worth of material over a 10-hour slog, the Coens have at least made a film that most people will finish. I say this after bailing just one episode into The Haunting of Hill House.
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I usually browse quickly through movie reviews. This one I read to the end; every sentence. I kind of hope that the movie is as good as the review...
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@Richard Ray It certainly is.
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Seems to me this film is the Coens winding up to take a stab at Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian." Talk about your "darkly west"!
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@Puny Earthling
I would love to see the Coen brothers take on Blood Meridian. I believe I read somewhere that James Franco has the rights to it. That he has a role in Ballad, may be a hopeful sign.
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Hope the film is shorter than the review.
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@inframan To me, the film seemed overly long. The James Franco "chapter" could have been scrapped.
This review should have begun with the words, "Spoiler Alert..."
Geez, Mr. Scott, leave us something to discover on our own. I really didn't want to know, for example, that the final chapter didn't end with a murder.
I also didn't want to know the chapters that came before it ended with a murder.
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@Hal
The final chapter didn't end with a murder THAT YOU KNOW OF. We know there were at least two murderers on the coach. And one of them tells distracting stories.
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@Hal
It's the Coen brothers. Violent deaths throughout are pretty much assured.
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These guys are geniuses. Homer would have welcomed them into his company, weaving song and myth and poetry into art.
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"Genre for the Coens is not a church or an archive; it’s a playroom."
"People tell stories and jokes and engage in mock-learned debates—not to arrive at any solutions but to pass the time between now and the grave."
Mr. Scott, thank you for this superbly written piece. Flannery O'Connor would have snickered while reading it—and throughout the movie, too.
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Not to mention "Death is a hilarious punch line until it happens to you....And sometimes even then."
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@SmilinSam - "I shoulda seen this comin"
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Summary at the end of the review...
"The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Rated R. A lot of killing. Running time: 2 hours 12 minutes."
Also, same summary at the end of every Coen Brothers movie or series. Can't wait!
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So on a scale of 1-10 did you enjoy it?
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As I age, Los Coens have enriched my life exponentially. They personify how art can serve both artist and consumer and I simply say "Thank You" ...
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What's the Coen's deal with Netflix? Why to that platform so quickly?
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@Tedd
I don't think there is anything quick about it, it is simply smart to go where the money and the audience is. Especially if there is more artistic freedom.
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@Tedd
But if you look for it on Netflix, it's not there.
Other Netflix-produced films are in the same state of limbo.
Even if Netflix wants to release a film to streaming first, it seems like it should be available to save to your queue as you can with most other films that are not yet released to DVD.
If their real goal is to incentivize subscribers to switch to streaming-only, they need to greatly improve their streaming selection first.
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@Wayne The reason it's not there now is that it will be on the 16th. You didn't read the review closely enough.
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Nice review. Looking forward to this series. I understood Dave Van Ronk to be the inspiration for the character Llewyn Davis. Poor guy can’t get any credit, even for a movie about how he didn’t get any credit.
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@Brandon Whightsel LLewyn Davis got to sing one Dave Van Ronk song, but that was about it. He didn't get to teach Dylan "House of the Rising Sun"... etc, etc
@Brandon Whightsel But that's what made it so perversely perfect. He was included on the soundtrack, with "Green, Green Rocky Road", and one of Dave's albums was titled "Inside Dave Van Ronk". I wish I'd made it to the Gaslight, but at least I've got the Gaslight Rag.
Add my kudos to the review as well.
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@Brandon Whightsel
NOT a series , but a stand-alone film, 2 hr. 13 min.
Cinema, not television...