So I've long been obsessed with the Coens, and now I'd like to see what other people think of their work...

Don't feel like you have to not vote if you haven't seen all 9 of em either... I guess just make sure you've seen more than the one you're voting for.

Will
placing this on the mb so he can have something to look forward to when he returns from his spirit-crushing second day of work tommorrow.... never work in a factory.

too many good ones up there to just pick one. i like lots of them my favs being fargo and the big lebowski. but i had to go with the big lebowski.

still haven't seen the man who wasn't there.

I voted for The Man Who Wasn't There. My brother got it on DVD, and we watched it together. I really enjoyed it.

I cut the hair.

Too bad we can't vote by proxy... I'd cast blightman's vote for Lebowski.

The Big Lebowski is an awesome movie. I watched it repeatedly while I was sick this past winter, and it could still cheer me up. I need to just go ahead and buy it. My late fees to Blockbuster were insane.

OK. Of the Coen Brothers movies that I have seen (I didn't know they had done so many, I know what I'll be renting next!), this is how I rank them:

01 The Big Lebowski
02 Fargo
03 O Brother Where Art Thou
04 The Man Who Wasn't There
05 Raising Arizona

I really do like them all, but the Big Lebowski is in the very top echelon of my favorite movies. It is one of the few movies that I can watch over and over and over. There's no telling how many times I've seen it.

i guess i'm the only hudsucker fan.

we're nihilists lebowski. we believe in nothing...

I like the ranking idea...

But I have to say that I like all of these movies more than most movies, so when I rank it low, I'm not knocking it...

1 - Barton Fink
2 - Miller's Crossing
3 - The Man Who Wasn't There
4 - O Brother Where Art Thou
5 - The Hudsucker Proxy
6 - The Big Lebowski
7 - Fargo
8 - Blood Simple
9 - Raising Arizona

And that's all I wrote.

Lebowski definitely being the most quotable...

Will
"It's like Lenin said, uhhh... look to the person that will beneit and uhhh..."
"I am the walrus."

I didn't know that Hudsucker was a Coen movie, I watched it in a business class in highschool.

yeah whatever happened to him? and what about freezetag? i miss those kiddos.

They made a decision (as a couple) to retire from the MB.

does blightman still do that B&P thing?

This prompts me to ask three questions:

1. blightman and freezetag were a couple? (Maybe I shouldn't be surprised... I'm very bad at reading hints on stuff like that.)

2. Why didn't they announce their retirement insted of just dropping out?

3. Why do people feel the need to completely retire? I can understand if someone gets really busy (or bored) and decides to cut way back... but why cut all ties?

Yes, TF, they are a couple, but "became" one after they started posting here (but knew each other before). As for questions 2 and 3, I can't really speak for them. Maybe one or both of them still reads the MB (and could answer), but I highly doubt it.

is it customary for people to pair up and retire? this concept is lost on me...

i guess it's kind of like a suicide pact. strength in numbers and all that.

I'm the weirdo who thinks Blood Simple is their best. Ultimately I know they've become better filmmakers many times over since their debut (though they've yet to eclipse that sequence near the end of Blood Simple involving a knife, a hand, and a window). After I first watched it I knew I wanted to make films.

With that said I've grown to appreciate the Big Lebowski more and more. It is definitely the most quotable of their films. Second would be Raising Arizona ("It had Yodas an' shit on em!"... or something like that).

that sucks. i wish they would come back.

you're out of your element donnie...

True that. That sequence really hasn't been topped by anyone at any time.

Was Blood Simple really the film that inspired you to walk the path (making some sort of nonexistant connection between the priesthood and filmmaking)? Its definitely a classic.

And here's some more Lebowski quotes that struck me at work today...

"He's a good doctor Jeffery. And thorough."
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"I'm sure you can guess what happens next..."
"He fixes the cable?"
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"Oh, and Dude, chinaman is not the preferrednomenclature. Asian-American, please."

Will
Takin' 'er easy there, for all us sinners.

Yeah, BS was the film that just seemed to make me recognize how awesome storytelling and filmmaking could be. I've had other such experiences since, but that'll be the first.