Give us your top-5 Coen Brothers films…

[GatorAZ]

For reference:

84’ - Blood Simple
87’ - Raising Arizona
90’ - Miller’s Crossing
91’ - Barton Fink
94’ - The Hudsucker Proxy
96’ - Fargo
98’ - The Big Lebowski
00’ - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
01’ - The Man Who Wasn’t There
03’ - Intolerable Cruelty
04’ - The Lady Killers
07’ - No Country For Old Men
08’ - Burn After Reading
09’ - A Serious Man
10’ - True Grit
13’ - Inside Llewyn Davis
16’ - Hail, Caesar!
18’ - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

 

[Devilmaycare]

I liked their early work a lot more than their later work. For me it's:

Fargo
Big Lebowski
Miller's Crossing
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Hudsucker Proxy

 

[elindholm]

I've seen only five of them, which I would rank like this:

No Country for Old Men
Fargo
Raising Arizona
Burn After Reading
The Big Lebowski

I didn't find Lebowski all that good. John Goodman's character got very tiring very quickly, and there wasn't enough variety in Bridges's character to make me interested in what was happening to him. I felt like the film had only one or two jokes and just ran them into the ground.

 

[Shane]

Fargo
No Country For Old Men
Burn After Reading
The Big Lebowski
Raising AZ

 

[AzStevenCal]

Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Hudsucker Proxy
Big Lebowski
Burn After Reading

 

[Cheesebeef]

I thought this was going to be tougher but these 5 clearly stand above the rest:

Raising Arizona
Fargo
A Serious Man
No Country For Old Men
Barton Fink

Runners Up: Hudsucker Proxy, Burn After Reading, the first hour of Lebowski.

 

[oaken1]

Hudsucker
Lebowski
Grit

There don't be 5

 

[Stout]

For reference:

84’ - Blood Simple
87’ - Raising Arizona
90’ - Miller’s Crossing
91’ - Barton Fink
94’ - The Hudsucker Proxy
96’ - Fargo
98’ - The Big Lebowski
00’ - O Brother, Where Art Thou?
01’ - The Man Who Wasn’t There
03’ - Intolerable Cruelty
04’ - The Lady Killers
07’ - No Country For Old Men
08’ - Burn After Reading
09’ - A Serious Man
10’ - True Grit
13’ - Inside Llewyn Davis
16’ - Hail, Caesar!
18’ - The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

Lebowski
O Brother
Hail Caesar
Raising Arizona
True Grit

To be fair, I haven't seen a lot of them.

 

[oaken1]

Lebowski
O Brother
Hail Caesar
Raising Arizona
True Grit

To be fair, I haven't seen a lot of them.

I think we are in a minority on True Grit.
I know among many its a sin but, (whispers...) I like it better than the John Wayne version.

The original True Grit got caught up in the hype and was just another John Wayne movie...nary a difference between it and the sons of katy elder....I like John Wayne movies...but all his westerns just had a certain feel...and that bled into True Grit and eclipsed the quality of the source material..the Coen version had more "Grit"

 

[ASUCHRIS]

I'm stunned people don't have O Brother Where Art Thou? at the top of their lists...one of the best films of all time.

 

[Stout]

I'm stunned people don't have O Brother Where Art Thou? at the top of their lists...one of the best films of all time.

It's my #2. Great flick.

"I'm the paterfamilias!"

"I seen 'em first!"

"They turned poor Pete into a horny toad!"

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Hudsucker
Lebowski
Grit

There don't be 5

No love for Raising Arizona?

 

[ASUCHRIS]

It's my #2. Great flick.

"I'm the paterfamilias!"

"I seen 'em first!"

"They turned poor Pete into a horny toad!"

"What you got there big Dan?"

One of the most quotable movies I can remember.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I'm stunned people don't have O Brother Where Art Thou? at the top of their lists...one of the best films of all time.

George Clooney’s camera mugging just absolutely kills that entire movie for me.

Does a little the same in Burn After Reading, but he’s the fourth lead there so he doesn’t sink the ship. He’s numero uno on the call sheet in Brother and the movie suffers greatly for it.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

George Clooney’s camera mugging just absolutely kills that entire movie for me.

Does a little the same in Burn After Reading, but he’s the fourth lead there so he doesn’t sink the ship. He’s numero uno on the call sheet in Brother and the movie suffers greatly for it.

See I think the over the top persona/character fit the film, and that Clooney nailed it. I'm no big Clooney fan but I loved him in this role.

 

[Chaplin]

1 Hudsucker
2 Raising Arizona
3 Milers Crossing
4 Fargo
5 The Man Who Wasn't There

 

[Devilmaycare]

See I think the over the top persona/character fit the film, and that Clooney nailed it. I'm no big Clooney fan but I loved him in this role.

I'm not a Clooney fan either but agree that that role needed to be over the top to fit the movie.

 

[Cheesebeef]

See I think the over the top persona/character fit the film, and that Clooney nailed it. I'm no big Clooney fan but I loved him in this role.

See… I thought everyone else in the movie was great while playing over the top. But for me, he was just bad.

 

[ASUCHRIS]

See… I thought everyone else in the movie was great while playing over the top. But for me, he was just bad.

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[Mainstreet]

I'm only giving a top three because I have not seen all the films, or some, not in their entirety.

1. Fargo
2. No Country for Old Men
3. O Brother Where Art Thou?

 

[oaken1]

No love for Raising Arizona?

Ya know... I'd have to put Interstellar on the top of that list. Love that flick. Don't know how I missed it

 

[Cheesebeef]

Ya know... I'd have to put Interstellar on the top of that list. Love that flick. Don't know how I missed it

That’s not a Coen Brothers movie.

 

[oaken1]

That’s not a Coen Brothers movie.

Guess that explains why it wasnt on my list

 

[Cheesebeef]

Watched No Country last night from start to finish for first time in years. That movie is an absolute masterpiece. The performances, tone and writing all stood up to precious praise but what surprisingly stood out was the amount of winks/nods the Coen’s made to to their previous movies that I never noticed before.

 

[AzStevenCal]

Watched No Country last night from start to finish for first time in years. That movie is an absolute masterpiece, with a lot of winks/nods to previous movies in Coen’s cannon I never noticed before.

We rewatched Interstellar last night in honor of this thread.