Okay, let’s try and get through all of these before Christmas and the New Year proceedings begin proper, hehe …

This is one of those movies where I only realised just how conflicted I was approaching it as the opening credits rolled. On the one hand, the movie looked plain hideous to me and the reviews only confirmed it. Though Ocean’s Thirteen won me over to these kinds of ensemble comedies it wasn’t to the greatest extent, and with the Coens at the helm it seemed like however good it could be, it’d still be a monumental waste of time and talent. On the other hand, I too quickly forget how it’s often been their wackier projects, like Hudsucker and The Big Lebowski, that I’ve loved the most (I even quicker forget how much I liked Intolerable Cruelty).

Ultimately it’s neither here nor there. I’m not going to be one of those who says, “following No Country for Old Men, what do you expect?” because frankly, I’ve yet to give that movie the second viewing that will or won’t make it the masterpiece to me that it is to everyone else. Much as I appreciated the quality of No Country and loved it winning Best Picture, etc, I’d sooner watch Lebowski or Fargo yet again. This movie isn’t up there with any of those movies, I’m quick to add … but it made me laugh a hell of a lot more than expected and at no point even threatened to annoy me; which, given the way I feel about Brad Pitt lately, is kind of amazing.

Tags: comedy, conspiracy, ensemble

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