Sorry, I meant the long gun with the silencer, which delivered that distinctive shot-pattern.
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A shot gun?
Quote: Timbo @ October 26 2010, 10:48 PM BSTReally? I can think of half a dozen I prefer: Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Big Liebowski, Oh Brother Where Art Thou?
But yes in recent years they seem to have lost the art of story telling.
I like those too. I love Lebowski, but it's not a movie, it's a series of set pieces joined together and sown up at the end with a cowboy voice-over attempting to justify it as a series of vignettes from someone's life. Like presenting a plate of 35 exquisite vol-au-vents as a main course in a restaurant.
You think Raizing Arizona is a great film - watch again. The pre-credit sequence is a work of stylistic genius - the film crawls after that until the confrontation with the lone biker of the apocalypse.
Quote: Alfred J Kipper @ October 27 2010, 4:56 PM BSTit made me think of Butch and Sundance and the typical heroic movie ending of going out with all guns blazing, when in real life they died peacefully,
Did they?
Watched Barton Fink again last night. Confirmed my suspicions that this is the Coens' best film.
Glad to have cleared that one up for those of you who were unsure. 
Quote: Tim Walker @ November 15 2010, 4:10 PM GMTWatched Barton Fink again last night. Confirmed my suspicions that this is the Coens' best film.
Glad to have cleared that one up for those of you who were unsure.
One of my personal favourites too. Tony Shalhoub's phone conversation always makes me smile, as does nearly any scene with Michael Lerner in.
"How does Lipnick's ass smell this morning?"
"Sure, Jack forgot about it before your ass left his sofa..."
The performances are astonishingly good right across the board. Definitely think John Goodman's performance was the best of his career.
"well tell Lipnik he can kiss my dimpled ass... Shit! No, alright...
No, no, all right."