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04-02-2010 07:49 PM |
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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
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Serious question. How many times have you seen it?
TBL is a movie you have to become acclimatized to. I went into it expecting Raising Arizona II and almost swore off the Coen Brothers after the first viewing. But then, I WATCHED IT AGAIN. I don't know what exactly is going on with it, but it's the rare movie that gets funnier the more acquainted with it, as you anticipate what's coming next and it's delivered brilliantly each and every time.
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I love "Lebowski". But I don't think it's that funny, in a cheap-laugh ha-ha way. But the film does have style, in spades. It's subdued and laid-back, like The Dude. The music is phenomenal, as is the cinematography. I mean, c'mon, a topless chick being thrown from a beach blanket in slow motion? Julianne Moore naked flying through the air flinging paint? John Turturro dressed in purple with a hairnet, licking a bowling ball? The quest for a pissed-on rug to be cleaned? Nihilists, fer crissake, the film has Nihilists! It even has a fantasy bowling scene! The movie rocks. It's like a complicated painting, and it's the type of movie that really can't be described.
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It could be the only movie I can think of that gets funnier and funnier with each viewing, quite the opposite of most every other comedy, which depends on surprising you into laughter.
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Mel Brooks holds up well. "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein" are classics, and "The History Of The World Part 1" gets better with time. |
