Pretty sure they're the only two I've intentionally dodged. How bad is The Ladykillers? Always avoided it as I can't remember reading/hearing any positive opinions, but is it truly crap or just pointless? I can't see them fucking it up.

I feel like I've seen Intolerable Cruelty, but the synopsis means absolutely nothing to me.

Have Clooney and Thornton been in another film together that I might be mixing it up with?

Loved the original.

Diluted Dante wrote:

I feel like I've seen Intolerable Cruelty, but the synopsis means absolutely nothing to me. Have Clooney and Thornton been in another film together that I might be mixing it up with?

Clooney / Massey had an unbreakable pre-nup he used with his famous clients.

Clooney and whatshername fall for each other after various manoevures and want to get married - but the Massey pre-nup comes up.  There's a scene near the end where He gets turned on when she signs it, she gets turned on when he rips it up etc.  And they go through that dance over and over...or something like that.

That's all I remember. It was OK but it was lightweight. Sharply made as expected.

You'd think they would have been a good fit for a re-make, but fuck me, it's really terrible.

I mean, come on - it gave us this scene:

g.man wrote:

I don't think I've seen Intolerable Cruelty tbh.

It's a very safe rom com with a slight edge and some Coen irreverence. I'm sure the backlash against it at the time was mainly a result of the massive number of absolute belters in a row they had chucked out just prior.

Anyhoo, I watched that there Netflix thing The Gray Man last night.
Hmmmmmmm...
I suppose this was fine in a disengage your brain, B-Movie actionfest for a couple of hours, sort of way, but it's not great.
It's very much in the vein of Marvel action stuff, bloodless and highly choreographed, so I wasn't particularly surprised to discover when the end credits rolled, that it had been made by The Russo Brothers.
Big budget, good cast (somewhat squandered), decent action, but it's a soulless affair, largely devoid of any style or wit, and the screenplay really is non-existent, serving only to connect the dots between the action set-pieces.
Really needed a young Nic Cage chewing the scenery as the villain, but fair play to Chris Evans for giving it a decent stab.
I gather it's adapted from the first in a series of books, so presumably they intend to inflict more of them on us.
Still, it passed a couple of hours without actually offending me, so there's that.

Hey Uncle, what was the wilderness survival movie you liked recently?

g.man wrote:

Anyhoo, I watched that there Netflix thing The Gray Man last night. Hmmmmmmm... I suppose this was fine in a disengage your brain, B-Movie actionfest for a couple of hours, sort of way, but it's not great. It's very much in the vein of Marvel action stuff, bloodless and highly choreographed, so I wasn't particularly surprised to discover when the end credits rolled, that it had been made by The Russo Brothers. Big budget, good cast (somewhat squandered), decent action, but it's a soulless affair, largely devoid of any style or wit, and the screenplay really is non-existent, serving only to connect the dots between the action set-pieces. Really needed a young Nic Cage chewing the scenery as the villain, but fair play to Chris Evans for giving it a decent stab. I gather it's adapted from the first in a series of books, so presumably they intend to inflict more of them on us. Still, it passed a couple of hours without actually offending me, so there's that.

Spoiler:

In Vienna when Gosling first encounters Evans, and Armas shoots Evans with the tranq dart, they make the inexplicable decision to just leave him rather than shooting him in the fucking head or taking him captive. I frowned at that point.

That spoilered bit was odd, but not half as stupid as the finale...

tin_robot wrote:

g.man wrote:

Anyhoo, I watched that there Netflix thing The Gray Man last night. Hmmmmmmm... I suppose this was fine in a disengage your brain, B-Movie actionfest for a couple of hours, sort of way, but it's not great. It's very much in the vein of Marvel action stuff, bloodless and highly choreographed, so I wasn't particularly surprised to discover when the end credits rolled, that it had been made by The Russo Brothers. Big budget, good cast (somewhat squandered), decent action, but it's a soulless affair, largely devoid of any style or wit, and the screenplay really is non-existent, serving only to connect the dots between the action set-pieces. Really needed a young Nic Cage chewing the scenery as the villain, but fair play to Chris Evans for giving it a decent stab. I gather it's adapted from the first in a series of books, so presumably they intend to inflict more of them on us. Still, it passed a couple of hours without actually offending me, so there's that.

Spoiler:

In Vienna when Gosling first encounters Evans, and Armas shoots Evans with the tranq dart, they make the inexplicable decision to just leave him rather than shooting him in the fucking head or taking him captive. I frowned at that point.

That spoilered bit was odd, but not half as stupid as the finale...

Spoiler:

...Where she has him in her sights, but instead gets stood down just so that they can have a pointless fight mano a mano.  And then there's the final realisation that having spent the whole film protecting the McGuffin it ultimately just gets handed over, so they could have had the same outcome if he'd just given it to his bosses at the start, only a lot more people would still be alive, and the girl would still be happily living with her uncle.  So it's all rather pointless.

Indeed.

Yossarian wrote:

Not seen Intolerable Cruelty or the Ladykillers. The worst Coens film I’ve seen was Hail Caesar, although I didn’t get on with a Serious Man either.

Hail, Caesar is for sure one of the weaker efforts. A Serious Man was an odd one, I didn't particularly like it but found something about it quite fascinating.

I remember Jim used to tell us all to watch Intolerable Cruelty whenever Coens came up on oldrum. I never did.

As someone highly critical of Get Out and Us, by fuck did I love Nope.

Will be disliked by a lot but easily his strongest film.

Unlikely wrote:

In other news, Spiderhead is not good. I think it's meant to be funny. It isn't.

Yeah, it's a mess.  I actually quite like the short story it's based on, which made it all the more disappointing. They took the premise, but utterly missed the point.