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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 8, 2021 4:35:09 GMT
What are your thoughts on this movie? I love it. It seems sort of like a dry-run for Fargo to me.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 8, 2021 4:37:51 GMT
One of the Coens' best and one of the greatest film debuts I have seen.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 8, 2021 4:41:32 GMT
One of the Coens' best and one of the greatest film debuts I have seen. It's also really their darkest film I think, maybe with the exception of No Country.
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Post by moviemouth on Jul 8, 2021 4:44:50 GMT
One of the Coens' best and one of the greatest film debuts I have seen. Tough call between those 2.
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jul 8, 2021 5:12:52 GMT
I like it quite a bit. I’ve only seen it once and it was one of those movies where you can tell it only gets better as you watch it more and more.
Really impressive debut for the Coen’s.
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Post by jcush on Jul 8, 2021 5:22:16 GMT
Damn good debut. Well written, well acted, and well directed. It has some great tension and I'm a big fan of Carter Burwell's score and Barry Sonnenfeld's cinematography.
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Post by mgmarshall on Jul 8, 2021 5:52:02 GMT
I do love this movie. I think you're right that it is a dry run, though- in the fact that the Coens now and again need a character who is just pure evil. M. Emmet Walsh in this, the biker in Raising Arizona, the Dane in Miller's Crossing, Charlie in Barton Fink, Aloysius in The Hudsucker Proxy, the Swede in Fargo, Anton Chigurh in No Country for Old Men, etc...
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jul 8, 2021 6:55:24 GMT
7/10 Solid thriller.
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Post by wmcclain on Jul 8, 2021 11:33:51 GMT
Blood Simple (1984), written, produced and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. A cheating wife, a murderously jealous husband, a big-hat-no-cattle cowboy private investigator who will do anything. Texas. A plot like nightmares you've had, where you've done something terrible and there is no going back. A nylon jacket won't mop up that blood. How to get the stains out of the back seat? Driving at night, sounds from the back of the car. "Truth is...he was alive when I buried him." The Coen's first film made a big splash. It's a fine, atmospheric little thriller with unexpected twists. No one sees everything that is happening and they are not people who communicate very well. The boyfriend is just starting to figure it out when he stands in front of the wrong window. Two of my favorite "ugly" guys -- Dan Hedaya and M. Emmet Walsh -- together! Bleak, autumnal little score by Carter Burwell. It doesn't match the landscape, but suits the mood. The title refers to the unreliable mental state people have when it gets bloody. "Don't go simple on me." Long after seeing the film I saw the phrase in Dashiell Hammett, Red Harvest: “This damned burg's getting me. If I don't get away soon I'll be going blood-simple like the natives.” Available on Blu-ray, only fair quality. This is the director's cut which trimmed a few scenes, unnecessarily I thought when I first saw it. The intro and commentary track are both spoofs. The commentary is funny but a little goes a long way. 
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Post by politicidal on Jul 8, 2021 13:49:19 GMT
I liked it and revisited it a couple times.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 8, 2021 14:36:33 GMT
It was just on TCM.. I recorded it, but after 30 minutes, I turned it off.
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 8, 2021 14:53:21 GMT
It was just on TCM.. I recorded it, but after 30 minutes, I turned it off. Why, was the quality no good?
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Post by Dramatic Look Gopher on Jul 8, 2021 19:42:54 GMT
This was one helluva debut for the Coens. Their knack for quirkiness, great dialogue and visual style was automatically present. Fine performances all around, but I would say M. Emmet Walsh steals the show as the slimball PI. Loved the last couple of lines at the end!
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Post by dirtypillows on Jul 8, 2021 19:43:37 GMT
It wouldn't be appropriate for me to say that BS is a bad movie, but I personally hated it. Pretentious and cold-blooded and not even entertaining to me. Tarantino maybe be pretentious as well, but at least he doesn't have ice water in his veins. There is something distinctly unlikable about the Coen brothers.
I hated Fargo even more. Raising Arizona is the only of theirs that I have seen that I didn't hate, but I didn't exactly like it, either.
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Post by mortsahlfan on Jul 8, 2021 20:57:07 GMT
It was just on TCM.. I recorded it, but after 30 minutes, I turned it off. Why, was the quality no good?
I guess not.. I must say the story itself wasn't that appealing to me, a woman cheating on her husband, him finding out, but I gave it a chance because TCM put it on, since only about 5-10% of their stuff is from the last 40 years.
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Post by Archelaus on Jul 28, 2021 5:23:12 GMT
I watched this for the first time last year and thought it was a fine debut from the Coen brothers.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Jul 29, 2021 3:10:46 GMT
Admirable debut but it's far from my favorite film of theirs. One thing this lacks that'd become a staple of their work: likable, if not only entertaining characters. I hated everyone in this.
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Post by Vits on Jul 29, 2021 6:43:54 GMT
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Post by Spike Del Rey on Jul 29, 2021 15:42:14 GMT
What does this have to do with the thread subject?
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Post by kolchak92 on Jul 29, 2021 16:03:50 GMT
What does this have to do with the thread subject? I imagine he must talk about Blood Simple somewhere in the video.
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