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The Serious Coens 03:01am on 25 Nov 2009 Mars Attacks! is fun.
The Serious Coens 2:34pm on 24 Nov 2009 oh and special nod to "The Hudsucker Proxy", very underrated flick.
The Serious Coens 2:34pm on 24 Nov 2009 "Fargo" is by far the best film they will ever do, it's pure genius, absolutely flawless, everything in that films is perfect.

"The Big Lebowski" I don't find to be super "quirky" it's just a really funny film noir film, it's just Phillip Marlowe as a burnt out hippie trying to solve a mystery, I love it.

In my humble opinion I found "Burn after Reading" absolutely hilarious, it's just a fun flick.

Top 5 Coen Brothers film...
1. Fargo
2. The Big Lebowski
3. The Man who Wasn't There
4. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
5. No Country for Old Men

I've never been able to understand the greatness of "Blood Simple", it's good but it's not great.
Call of Civic Duty 2 8:47pm on 21 Nov 2009 This has been happening to Video games for a long time, happened to Doom almost 20 years ago and some before that.
Screening Room: Animation & Aardman 8:32pm on 21 Nov 2009 They did a rather shameful animated version of "Return of the King" as well....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_King_(1980_film)#Plot

I will never forget the song "FRODO OF THE 9 FINGERS".

My personal favourite animated film is Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece "Wizards", blew my mind as a kid and still does, kids with naked prostitutes and a dope smoking wizard and a bad word at the end, awesome!
Screening Room: Animation & Aardman 8:30pm on 21 Nov 2009 Here is what happened to Ralph Bakshi's second part of Lord of The rings..
The film was originally intended to be distributed as The Lord of the Rings Part One. According to Bakshi, when he completed the film, United Artists executives told him that they were planning to release the film without indicating that a sequel would follow, because they felt that audiences would not pay to see half of a film.
"I told them they can't drop the Part One, because people are going to come in thinking they'll see the whole film, and it's not there. We had a huge fight, and they released it as Lord Of The Rings. So when it came to the end, people were stunned in the theater, even worse than I ever realized they would be, because they were expecting to see the whole film. People keep telling me I never finished the film. And I keep saying, 'That's right!'"
"Had it said 'Part One,' I think everyone would have respected it. But because it didn't say 'Part One,' everyone came in expecting to see the entire three books, and that's where the confusion comes in."
The Film Book of J.R.R. Tolkien's the Lord of the Rings, published by Ballantine Books on October 12, 1978, still referred to the sequel in the book's inside cover jacket. Bakshi states that he would never have made the film if he had known what would happen during the production. He is quoted as saying that the reason he made the film was "to save it for Tolkien, because I loved the Rings very much."
Bakshi also stated that he felt that the film "took more out of me than I got back."
"[The film] made me realize that I'm not interested in [adapting another writer's story]. That the thing that seemed to interest me the most was shooting off my big mouth, or sitting in a room and thinking about how do you feel about this issue or that issue and how do you get that over to an audience, was the most exciting part of my life."

My personal favourite animated film is Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece "Wizards", blew my mind as a kid and still does, kids with naked prostitutes and a dope smoking wizard and a bad word at the end, awesome!
The Best Christmas Movie Ever 8:22pm on 13 Nov 2009 Brazil
It's a Wonderful Life
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
Die Hard
Bad Santa
Gremlins
The Godfather
Millions
Less Than Zero
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Bride Wars Revisited 2:44pm on 10 Nov 2009 Hugh Hefner wanted to be a cartoonist before he started Playboy.
5 live review: The Men Who Stare At Goats 02:33am on 10 Nov 2009 Mark, watch "The Big Lebowski" again you are just wrong.
The ten-second vampire movie 11:37pm on 30 Oct 2009 Mark, I have a few dvd questions that could you please answer it....

do you buy imported region 1 dvds for films not out over yet so you can see them before they are released in the theatres?

do you ever buy special editions of films you love that over here have a poor dvd for? example Silent Running

do you buy Criterions?

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