Latest Updates - Carter Burwell

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Comment by Magic Marmalade🍰:

I think the only way to review this properly is to state the basic premise:

Fish out of water "big city type" doc gets stuck in smalltown USA for life re-evaluation experience...

(Not new, or original, perhaps, but perfectly executed)

....And then, perhaps, offer some words, with which an informative word-cloud can be composed:


Wholesome, warm, charming, fun, funny, sweet, witty, 90s, Michael J. Fox, Chesney Hawkes (You know the one! :), Woody Harrelson, Bridget Fonda, Julie Warner, The dude from M.A.S.H, The grandpa from The Lost Boys, Summer Squash, Car, Fence, Judge, Smalltown, quilt.

...Or just watch it, it's awesome :)

(Having now seen: Local Hero, there are striking similarities in plot - but even that is nothing really new - just great).

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Comment by Magic Marmalade🍰:

- And let's not linger too long on: Burn After Reading...(yikes!)

I think the problem with this one is they've struck gold in capturing that quirky, odd tone in Fargo, and tried to replicate it here without success.

Difficult to do, as the quality that makes Fargo so brilliant is created through the sum of it's parts, with no individual element - script, performances, aesthetic etc. being the sole essence of it.... It's movie making alchemy, magic that you feel perhaps they wouldn't know if they'd achieved it until they saw what came out the other end, and while you're doing it it, there's no way to know if you have it or not.

Very fine line between brilliance and boredom.

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Comment by alexlincs:

@Magic Marmalade I agree it is one of their weaker movies, but they did raise the bar incredibly high with Fargo, Barton Fink and The Big Lewbowski. I think their worst are Intolerable Cruelty and the remake of The Ladykillers.

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Comment by Magic Marmalade🍰:

Only mildly amusing, and mildly interesting from Coens, and probably one of their weakest movies.