Should be retitled A Serious Waste of Time.
This is the Coen Brothers in their Barton Fink mode. This is the mode where they take a main character that we don't really care about and then find all kinds of bleak, anti-climactic, dead-pan, shaggy dog ways to make his life miserable under the notion that this will be funny, if you know what they mean.
Critics, for the most part, seem hell bent on knowing what they mean. This pile got something like a 150% on the Tomato Meter. It was actually nominated for Best Picture. The reviews are more funny than the movie.
If you read them, it's clear the reviewers have no idea what this movie is trying to accomplish. I think the Coens have simply entered the realm that some artists reach where critics are afraid to stand up and say, "I didn't get it."
I have loved the Coen Brothers' films for a long time, starting with Blood Simple, but not all of their films.
Every once in awhile they make a real clinker.
On this one, it's time to say the emperor ain't wearing any skivvies.
This is the Coen Brothers in their Barton Fink mode. This is the mode where they take a main character that we don't really care about and then find all kinds of bleak, anti-climactic, dead-pan, shaggy dog ways to make his life miserable under the notion that this will be funny, if you know what they mean.
Critics, for the most part, seem hell bent on knowing what they mean. This pile got something like a 150% on the Tomato Meter. It was actually nominated for Best Picture. The reviews are more funny than the movie.
If you read them, it's clear the reviewers have no idea what this movie is trying to accomplish. I think the Coens have simply entered the realm that some artists reach where critics are afraid to stand up and say, "I didn't get it."
I have loved the Coen Brothers' films for a long time, starting with Blood Simple, but not all of their films.
Every once in awhile they make a real clinker.
On this one, it's time to say the emperor ain't wearing any skivvies.