Beetlejuice - I have not seen this since I was a teenager. I saw it multiple times in my tween youth. Burton's aesthetic really appealed to me, it probably still does. I did a hard tap-out on him though after Planet of the Apes. Partly because of the debacle of Planet of the Apes and that word of mouth on nearly everything else had a word of mouth that made me think things weren't returning back to the whatever it-factor it was that I loved about his movies up until that point (I tapped back in briefly for Big Fish). In the past year or so, I've gotten an inkling to revisit some of those old Burtons. Outside of Edward Scissorhands (I'm not sure how I came across it playing), I haven't done so though. I think Beetlejuice is the one that I'm most interested in revisiting, and for whatever reason, Batman Returns. I'm almost positive this was the movie that gave me a massive crush on Winona Ryder growing up...
O' Brother Where Art Thou - For me this is a lower tier Coens. I've watched it a couple of times, including once in the past 5-7 years just to see if it'd click better this time, and it just kind of didn't. It's probably a better movie than Hail, Caesar!, but I prefer the latter, and they're probably roughly in the same neck of the woods for me when I tier their movies. As stated before, weirdly, the much dismissed Hudsucker Proxy is one that I kind of really groove with (in terms of their more light-hearted fare), though that's still well in the middle of the pack overall (I think it was at least considered for my short list, but didn't make that). Naturally I find out off-hand some odd years after seeing O' Brother, I find out it's one of their really big hits. I'm just continuing my trend of being in line with the general public there.
But hey, it's still above Intolerable Cruelty or my still only unwatched Coens full motion picture, The Lady Killers. I'm not that counter-normal.
Needless to say, O'Brother wasn't on my short list, nor my ballot. Weirdly, I think it did prime me to enjoy Sullivan's Travels a lot more when I did finally watch that movie (I did go in unknowingly about the O' Brother connection). That said, a lower tier Coens is still not terrible and is at least watchable and enjoyable.
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O' Brother Where Art Thou - For me this is a lower tier Coens. I've watched it a couple of times, including once in the past 5-7 years just to see if it'd click better this time, and it just kind of didn't. It's probably a better movie than Hail, Caesar!, but I prefer the latter, and they're probably roughly in the same neck of the woods for me when I tier their movies. As stated before, weirdly, the much dismissed Hudsucker Proxy is one that I kind of really groove with (in terms of their more light-hearted fare), though that's still well in the middle of the pack overall (I think it was at least considered for my short list, but didn't make that). Naturally I find out off-hand some odd years after seeing O' Brother, I find out it's one of their really big hits. I'm just continuing my trend of being in line with the general public there.
But hey, it's still above Intolerable Cruelty or my still only unwatched Coens full motion picture, The Lady Killers. I'm not that counter-normal.
Needless to say, O'Brother wasn't on my short list, nor my ballot. Weirdly, I think it did prime me to enjoy Sullivan's Travels a lot more when I did finally watch that movie (I did go in unknowingly about the O' Brother connection). That said, a lower tier Coens is still not terrible and is at least watchable and enjoyable.
Seen 19/24
Last edited by Little Ash; 07-01-22 at 02:59 PM.