What am I in for

MEMWAH

not even close

Like many of the other Coen movies, it’s about less than bright people getting in over their head and falling prey to exponentially increasing absurd situations

the worst Coen flick I've seen

don't lie

Guess you've never seen Hail Caesar then, thank fuck for you

pretty funny, but dont let their portrayal of the cia as lazy jaded assholes fool you - they are doing terrible and intentional things to the american populus

I loved it.

samefagging gotta stop

...

The movie which fucked up the Cohens near-perfect record

burn after watching

an extremely underrated comedy about paranoid idiots

Fuck if I know

it's kino
it has a literal chad on it

Be prepared for a sick movie, an abhorrent movie. The Coens attempt to pass it off even to the end as a humorous comedy, when in fact it's a grotesque spectacle where innocent people die, human decency is thrown away, and corruption reigns supreme over the populace. It wants you to laugh at what are otherwise horrific instances of malice. This film pretends you as the viewer are already too desensitized to be saved, and in the process ends up being the epitome of dishonest cinema. If you laughed at this instead of being horrified, there's something wrong with you.

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I felt a similar way, but not entirely as melodramatic as you're describing it. Like I was stressed out at parts that the movie was signaling as funny, and frustrated at the characters and their ilogical or amoral actions.

It's a weird film, and obviously the Coen brothers are aware of that, whether this was by design or accident.

It’s called black comedy

It's an acquired taste movie. It's hilarious and shocking and sad. I loved it.

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The thing is, the tone of the movie is weirder than black comedy. Take death at a funeral, for example. A black comedy with plenty of morally questionable and outrageous scenes, but the tone is different.

Cox? Osborne... Cox?
Are you... Osborne Cox?

>an extremely underrated comedy about paranoid idiots
isn't that all their movies?

Wannabe Fargo that brings all the characters together through entirely coincidental circumstances for the most part.

John Malkovich as the frustrated, angry at life, Princeton grad, who thinks everyone is a dumb fuck, is the best thing

The Coens are a one-trick-pony. Always have been.

MORON

Really goofy drama like all Cohen films

pure kino

one of the best comedies of this century, though that isn't saying too much

only coincidence that's a stretch is McDormand going with Clooney on a date and it's ultimately just the shoo-off for his character

>Hail Caesar

such fucking assholes for stealing that title from a future rome kino

This. the movie plays out in a very bleak way.

>YES I'm fucking Osborne Cox!

>people calling this a comedy
Shit is more depressing and sad than any "comedy" I know

that's objectively false

wow I've never seen someone take a movie with a dildo-cycle in it so seriously

I love this movie and I'm not desensitized or beyond help or any of that hyperbole you claimed bro

maybe you should watch your mental health if a black comedy gets to you this much

One of the funniest endings of any movie

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what is it about John malkovich saying fuck makes me laugh

>He shot Cox.
>...Good! Great! Is he dead?
goddammit I love JK

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>I work Tuchman Marsh

This movie has more in common with The Big Lebowski than Fargo or any other Coen Bros

It's a hollow mystery not even worth solving that's really just an excuse to showcase weird character moments like the "turtle drawing his feet into his shell" guy, the Russians, Tuckman Marsh, etc.

INTRUDER! STOP! INTRUDER!

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This movie is funny as fuck, I don't know why it's giving half this thread an existential crisis.
>... Osborne Cox?
>... uuuuuuum, is this Osborne Cox?
>I thought you might be worried....
>about the security...
>of your shit.

RAPPORT, YOU FUCKING MORON

Lmao

Just lying there

best part

YOU THINK THAT'S THE WORST

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Have you never heard the word "farse"?
Or a farse, like every other Cohen film.

And The Big Lebowski was based on what movie?

CTRL+F RAPP

BASED RAPPORT FUCKING MORON POSTER

I'M BACK
YOU FUCKERS
I'M BACK

Stupid characters acting dumb.
It's quite literally Dumb & Dumber but without the jokes.
I went into it expecting a less-than-hidden gem, seeing as its one of the more understated Coen productions, but if anything it's overrated. Real shitpile of a film.

When Linda Litzky tells the Russian director that she's going to be late for a date...

that look is my favorite part of the film

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The Russians?

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Pretty meh desu. It's definitely watchable though.

Have you seen Pain & Gain? It's basically that. The movie may as well have been directed by Michael Bay.

Pitt and Clooney's finest performances

One of the few times Clooney plays a piece of shit.

It's spelled "farce" you pseud

The Assassination(...) and O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Rather pharsikal isnt it?

Damn! I'm in a tight spot.

Lots of plebs in this thread. Burn After Reading is a solid movie.

It reminds me that I'm glad I'm divorced and will never remarry

have any other coen fans noticed uncanny similarities between the films Raising Arizona and No Country For Old Men? I picked up on it particularly in the scene where they investigate the empty trailer, but apparently there are a lot more echos

thecleverest.com/no-country-for-raising-arizona/

am I imagining something or is there a significant resonance between these two films for some strange reason?

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>O Brother, Where Art Thou?
CMON NOW, THATS OVER THE TOP CLOONEY

EASY TO BE A GOOFBALL, NOT A REAL TEST OF ACTING

HES GOOD IN THE AMERICAN

>I'm just being a good samaritan

No joke, my least favourite female character in any film, fuck that chick.

I doubt there's any significance, and if there is then so what?
This ain't fuckin' Star Wars. The two films don't need ambiguous correlation to somehow increase their significance or quality.
They're just damn good films unlike Star Wars

>... Osborne Cox?
OSBOURNE COX, YES!

PISSED OFF MALKOVICH IS HILARIOUS

wow star wars fans really are the worst

thanks though

He's not a goofball in that movie, though. That's the other two.
His is the personal and emotional and dramatic side to the story, which happens to be comedic in tone, did you watch it?

I think it's something about the way his lips move, it's comically exaggerated and it's hilarious

every single Coen Bros movie Clooney has been in he has played an over the top idiot though?

I DID AND HES MAKING WACKY FACES THE WHOLE TIME

ITS A GOOD MOVIE BUT NOT SOMETHING TO PUT UP FOR ACTING, NO COMEDIES ARE, ITS A PLEB GENRE BY DEFINITION

They destroyed Brad Pitt's body merely to keep the FBI from annoying them, they are pretty fucked up

clooney's basement chair

for what purpose

best examples of so.y comedy.

This guy uses fop.

He’s a sex addict

30 minutes of a seemingly depressing movie with unlikable people that changes to a hilarious movie with unlikable people after Brad Pitt gets involved

The whole movie had very little purpose, it makes about as much sense as Brad Pitt's chair when you know next to nothing or everything there is to know.

it basically encapsulates the film -- a bunch of build-up to nothing

I mean that in a good way but everything in this film is pointless, and like the CIA director says at the end they learned nothing

the soundtrack itself mirrors this, sounding like a political thriller or espionage score with the important-sounding percussion. It's all hot air

One of my favorites. Brad Pitt's best performance

a mediocre movie which tries too hard for shock value

Oh boy, you're in for a show tonight, son.

memWAH

a movie that dumb people don't appreciate. if you want a hint at how good the film is; pay attention to the music playing throughout the film as well as the editing techniques. idiots will think the film is supposed to be dramatic because it presents itself like one aesthetically.

So when George kills Brad Pitt in the closet, why does he act so scared and like he doesn't know how to kill anyone? And if he's scared, why did he get the gun out of the drawer? Doesn't make sense.

How retarded are you. You don’t shoot someone in the face who’s been hiding in your closet and then brush the blood off your shirt then go make toast.

How retarded are you? If he had a gun in his hand, he was going to kill the guy in his closet. After you kill him, you don't act like a sissy and like you just broke your mom's favorite vase.

this might be news to you but majority don't brush off killing as if it's nothing. That shit sticks with you and majority would have freaked the fuck out too

So he (1) knows a guy is in his closet and grabs his gun; (2) he's a trained security guard; (3) shoots the guy in his closet but then acts like he's done something wrong. Doesn't make sense. He was trained to kill people.

This is the film that caused my friends to question my taste in cinema. Plebs don't get it and fall for the tense soundtrack and build up, they don't get that it's a farce. It mocks political drama/espionage films and it does that very well.

big time cringe

>It mocks political drama/espionage films and it does that very well.
if only it was enjoyable or went somewhere

What is there to get? He's panicking because he thinks that there's actually people out there to get him and that he just killed a hitman in a life or death situation. Of course he's shitting his goddamn pants over it, thinking there's more to come. His whole arc is being a paranoid fucker and that scene ends his character arc. He has gone completely on red alert.

No, he freaked out because he just killed a guy, even though he is literally trained to kill people. Just show him going through Brad Pitt's wallet, etc., without freaking out. Would've made more sense.

Dumbass. Being a paranoid fuck no matter what your experience is will still scare you

>if only it went somewhere
that's the point

>even though he is literally trained to kill people
Which is why no soldier has PTSD, I mean being physically trained to kill is the same as being impervious to psychological trauma right?

Fucking retard.

You sure project a lot, having Down Syndrome and all. I'm sure the feds are on to you, already.

PTSD is for the mentally weak. And does George have any sings of PTSD in this movie? No. So fuck off, nigger.

To us he "just killed a guy". To him he killed a goddamn hitman interrogator motherfucker that tried to get a jump on him. Clooney being so paranoid that he may be mentally ill reinforces the panicky behavior. That's the whole point and makes the scene hilarious because they actually have nothing to do with each other.

kek based teenager
your first kill is always tough unless your a sociopath, it takes a few until your calm afterwards

Pitt and McDormand finding Malkovich's floppy was entirely coincidental. Clooney coming back into his house and shooting Pitt in the face was coincidental. Hell, Clooney and his wife were both seeing other people but didn't even know that the other was cheating on them. This movie just shows how far things will go downhill by pure coincidence, and how it can be easily solved afterwards. What is simply made, can be simply unmade.

>HURR I NEED EVERYTHING SPELLED OUT FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND THINGS
I think Marvel movies are more your speed

He didn't know who he killed, then went through Brad's things and only THEN arrived at a wrong conclusion, AFTER his freakout

>hurr durr I watch things and then project my own psychoses onto movies because I live in my mom's basement

Tell us what else you project onto this movie?

Have you ever picked up pieces of bodies that have been laying in the sun for two days and put them in body bags then drive them back to base with no AC for four hours? Have you ever had to shove your fingers down your friends wide open throat to try and stop the bleeding from a bullet wound? Have you ever watched a man’s upper torso turn into a red mist 20 feet in front of you and felt the blood splatter on your face? Have you ever had your transport blown up by an IED and have the guy to your right lose a leg and the driver die instantly then two days later you have to get back on the road and do it again while you wonder if it’s going to be you this time? Have you been sent on patrol never knowing if this is the day you randomly die in an explosion you never see coming? Have you ever had to get up in the humvee’s turret while taking enemy small arms fire knowing there’s a good chance your going to get hit? I’ve done all those things so don’t try and be the internet tough guy. I’ve seen and done shit that would make you try and crawl back up your mom’s vag.

Thanks, you just proved my point. People trained for this stuff wouldn't freak out like little pussies.

He ASSUMED that Pitt was out to get him because he's been on the edge the whole movie which is why he instantly blew Pitts brains out. Clooney's character is all about overreaction. He overreacts to literally everything because, as I said, he's paranoid to the point of being mentally ill. There's nothing else to explain about the character or his actions. He's a dangerous human as we saw but he himself doesn't know it.

>still can't read into things and need it spelled out
movies aren't meant for you

Dude you really are retarded. HE WAS PARANOID THE ENTIRE TIME. ALMOST every scene he's in shows him freaking out and thinking someone is watching him.

He didn't. He literally just said it'll fuck anyone up INCLUDING Clooneys character you thick skulled dumbass

Soccermom-esque as fuck

He ASSUMED that AFTER he shot Pitt and AFTER he went through his belongings, which had no I.D. That was also AFTER his freakout. Again, my original question: why is someone who is trained to KILL people freaking out after KILLING someone? Did he miss "kill people day" in class?

If you think we were trained for that shit you really are retarded. There was no training, all you could do was cope and try to normalize that shit. Now I have to go to therapy twice a week because I can’t go back to the way things used to be. You don’t experience those things and walk away clean on the other side.

Holy shit, retard, go watch the movie again. He totally freaked out.

I think you have autism or something cause you seem to not understand humans and emotional responses

If you say so, anonymous internet user, who knows nothing about me

He isn't trained to kill people, he's a treasury guard you fucking idiot. He has never used his gun on the job

>hurr durr poster, who adds nothing to the conversation

>I have to go to therapy twice a week because I can’t go back to the way things used to be
And you're telling me how to understand a movie? Thanks, lunatic, I'll pass.

you haven't either besides repeat the same dumb argument like a broken record when me and other anons have proven how retarded you are

wasn't he in treasury? if so he never did kill anyone

He's not trained to use his firearm in a deadly manner? Holy shit, dude, what world do you live in? He explained at the restaurant that he was.

I don’t remember it
I remember a closet and the Brad dancing gif

>And you're telling me how to understand a movie?
holy shit you do have autism wow. Yeah that dude understands it better than you do obviously cause he's an actual person with emotions who responds to traumatic shit like majority do

This movie completely made up for seven years in Tibet.

Seriously, you are either a troll or retarded. Either way it’s not worth responding to you anymore.

>*when I

You are clearly too dumb to engage in intelligent conversation

he's a liar dumbass. He would do or say whatever to get pussy how fucking stupid are you that you can't understand things unless it's basically written on paper and read out loud?

>cherry picking this badly
I haven't seen someone this BTFO this badly

Wasn't he trained to use a firearm to protect an important asset? And psychologically screened during the process? Applicants to be cops are even psychologically screened for Christ sake.

>someone this retarded to not understand subtly
damn man

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>hurr durr, I'm off to watch porn on Yea Forums because I'm not smart enough to participate in this conversation
>also, I love traps

Just cause that what the job COULD entail doesn't mean you will do it. Many security jobs do the same process and more than half don't even lift a finger to doing anything of the likes of killing someone.

A liar?
Wow, nice projection, Bernie supporter

>Bernie supporter
>doesn't have any rebuttal
yeah should have known you were just a troll. no one's this dumb

What the fuck did you just say about me you little bitch? [spoilet]im sorry you had to go through that shit user

Because (You)r argument wasn't worth rebutting because it was so dumb.
He lied about being a trained security agent because he wanted pussy is stupid. He's a trained, senior fed security agent. Do you have evidence to the contrary?

see

>dude firearms training means you can murder people no problem lmao
I honestly can’t tell if this is a troll, a 12 year old, or a legit sub 80 IQ retard.

I should also add that I love nigger dicks in my mouth and fantasize about being raped 10 times a day by niggers in prison

>>dude firearms training means you can murder people no problem lmao
You should be in another line of work if you can't perform the basic job functions

One of those trash movies that affirms the Coen Brothers as hacks

again emotions are high and pressure can do so much to you. Something that HUMANS do which you aren't

t.snowflake hippy from Brooklyn

Best summary I've seen so far. What a waste of my life watching this piece of shit. Fucking Hollywood is a God damn ponzi scheme

t. autistic neet you can't into basic human emotions

HARRY
Very amusing. The gun is actually no
big deal. Twenty years in the marshall’s service and I’ve never discharged my weapon.
OSBOURNE
Sounds like something you should be
telling your psychiatrist.
HARRY
What? I don’t have a psychiatrist.

He’s a person who has never had to use his gun and likely has a psychiatrist already

t.played vidya most of my life in my mom's apartment and don't know what human emotions are

He was never given a psychiatric evaluation, even though recruits to the NYPD are?

First of all user what you are engaged in is called shit posting which is a bannable offense. Secondly, the unauthorized attempt at thread derailment will cause a shitstorm of (you)s that will spin your autistic head around faster than that schwinn bicycle!

His psychological evaluation would not have found reacts to an intruder in the closet with surprise noteworthy. He technically did exactly what he was supposed to do. He fired upon threat instantly killing him, moved to take cover due to not being certain if everything is safe, did the body roll out of the area to keep his cover, and went back to make sure the threat was neustralized in a cautious manner. He was just confused and shocked like anyone would be

This reads like a typical Ebert-esque moralfag review.

That’s a very apt description of their filmmaking style. You should be proud

Also just to contribute to the conversation about the Coens, here’s a fun tangentially related piece of film trivia. Bill Murray famously doesn’t have an agent. Instead he fields film offers by sporadically checking his answering machine. When he got the call for Garfield he heard it would be written by Joel Cohen. Murray assumed it was Coen, and immediately signed on to one of his most regretful contracts.

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why are you talking about yourself?

see

You sound like somebody who has rotted his brains playing video games and watching youtube videos all day and due to that is totally detached from reality.

This is one of my favorite Coen bros movies and some of the responses in this thread are making me feel bad about that.

Don’t it’s a great film ignore the plebs

only one who should matter is you

A waste of talent. The Coen Bros get an all-star cast, and they made this?

LITERALLY FITS EVEN BETTER WITH THE THEME OF THE MOVIE

BRAINLESS CANT HANDLE THE META

AND ALL-STARS LINE UP AROUND THE BLOCK TO BE IN THEIR MOVIES, THEY ARE LUCKY TO GET PICKED

Video related
youtube.com/watch?v=XTLoOqEimd8

Good movie, but not as great as I expected it to be.

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yeah but life really is farsickle in every aspect anway

penis esque

a load of dribble

I'll show you dribble, Mr. Crapkin!

That's what Three Billboard Outside, Ebbing Missouri felt like as well.

>he's never seen The Hudsucker Proxy

Farsickle is when someone claims communism works.

confusing chance with coincidence

This.

That scene was pretty funny, you can't laugh at death?

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PAPER BIIITCH

Good for you GI-GOY. your friends died for Israel. Congrats.

A brief moment that will stick with you after the movie ends.

baby needs you

Clooney does a great job and im not a fan by any means

t. Mormon

This was the first movie I watched in the theatre by myself to try to combat my social anxiety.

This is the correct answer. I wasn't crazy about it the first time i saw it, but it gets better every viewing.

...

>make kino
>follow it up by forgettable garbage

They do this all the time

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The russians

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Him writing his "memoire", as if a mid-level Back Bay staffer's life is worth telling is great, too.

The reason the incels here don't like it, is probably because it's not quotable, like Fargo, or Lebowski, and no boobs. It's a character-driven piece. They all did a great fucking job playing mindless DC idiots and their lives. Middle aged dating, gym idiots, government drones, and a couple of people get killed because McDormand's character wanted a facelift and tit job.

Not their best work, but I like it, WAY better than Ladykillers. But I like everything they've done, even Intolerable Cruelty. I can see why BAR is low on people's list, but it's not a horrible movie. It's just not at Fargo/Lebowski level of good.

Farce. Jesus fuck, it's not that hard to spell.

I was all in with Brad when he was on the treadmill going "woo!" and punching the air. Everyone knows a guy like that. He nailed it.

Funny characters but a complete mess of a plot. Seems like huge chunks were lost in editing.

shit

Because he says, he's never used his gun in the line of duty. He carried it for years, acting tough, and when he had to use it, showed how much of a bullshitter he is.

>(2) he's a trained security guard;
Federal Marshall. 20 years. It's in the movie.

>Pitt and McDormand finding Malkovich's floppy was entirely coincidental.
They didn't find it. A guy cleaning the locker room did. Pitt was looking on it to find out who's it was, to give it back to them, McDormand was moaning at him about insurance not paying for her tit job.
Have a lot of you even seen the movie?

Ultra kino, especially dorment and clooney. The dildo machine kek

Federal Marshall.

his holster was right next to brad pitt in the closet do you have eyeballs /s

God bless you

I've only watched pic related and fargo, what should I watch next?

I haven't watched it since I was a teen and too dumb to "get it"
Is it on Netflix or Hulu?

YES HELLO THIS IS OSBORN COX WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU

No that's Fargo honey

A glib facsimile

It's brilliant. And nobody learns a thing

This is the best discussion about a non capeshit I’ve ever seen, something about Coens really brings out the best in you guys

You’ll find it’s very similar to NCFOM

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Watched it because of this thread. Great film, passed by in the blink of an eye. I like it when Clooney plays a buffoon instead of a charming ladies man.

I was wondering if you're aware of the secrecy of your shit.

If you loved Fargo, you'll really like this movie.

/thread

Raising Arizona. Cagekino and Cohenkino rolled into one.

Fucking spooks and Tilda Swinton being hot

The only movie tiles swinton has ever been hot in was Constantine when she finally shows her true angel form. Underrated movie.

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based dapper dan poster

Pretentious garbage

If you'd change Marlon Wayans to almost anyone else, you'd improve the movie immensely.

That would have been Intolerable Cruelty.

top tier super duper kino