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It's a remake of the Alec Guiness movie "The Ladykillers" and it stars Tom Hanks in a beard. It opens this Spring. It's about a gang posing as musicians in a roioming house in the South who are secretly tunneling underground to effect a robbery.
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That showed Hanks not as a ridiculous goon but a slick criminal. The first theatre trailer may have sent the wrong message as it was a complete turn off.
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I disagree. I've been wanting Hanks to make a return to comedy for some time now. I'm hopeful.
Dude, have you seen the previews? It's like fuggin House Party 3 or something. Marlon Wayans is in it. And the Coen bros. decided to rip off 'Nothing to Lose' (Tim Robbins/Martin Lawrence turkey) for the penultimate gag in the trailer, where--oh man, have that needle and thread ready, 'cause your sides are about to split!--wherein an old black mom repeatedly slaps Marlon Wayans, saying something like "I don't want you using that hippedy-hoppedy language in my house".HA! "Hippedy-hoppedy"!
For the entire preview I felt exactly nothing but irritation at the fact that the trailer for what looked like a straight-to-video film was complicating my line of sight, and then when, at the end, it said 'A Film by Joel and Ethan Coen,' I experienced an outrage more intense than was warranted, seeing as the Coens have been succumbing to Hollywood cynicism steadily since (and inclusive of) 'Fargo.' This, however, is a shameless piece of crap, a dictionary-definition 'new low,' unless their grand scheme is to give you the impression of a brick-dumb, broad-as-a-barnwall comedy when in fact it is whipsmart, sniper-accurate existential satire.
Oh, and Tom Hanks looks and sounds ridiculous.
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. . . otherwise it looked pretty good then?I thought the previews for their last move "Intolerable Cruelty" looked awful too, but the movie was quite enjoyable. Canb't wait to see it again and see if it has any legs like so many of their other movies do.
Can't wait to see the preview.
you can see it here.I wasnt greatly impressed.
Thank you for the link..But this film look disastrous..Hanks imitating Guinness...This feels and sounds like " Sister Act " part one ..and two...
Thanks for the link.Gospel music makes me writhe with displeasure. But with a preview it's hard to judge the tone and sarcasm level involved. This is also true WRT the "Hippidy Hoppidy" stuff. I have to say that the musical part of "O Brother' is a large part of what I disliked about it, so the music in this does not bode well with me.
I have no stigma about this being a cover of the 50s british film. Let go of that baggage. I refuse to prejudge a movie because it's a remake even though most remakes are not as good as the original.
Hanks looks like he's having fun, something he sorely needs to do after a far too long run of straight roles.
Traditionally, Coens previews tend to suck. They key on, and bludgeon you with gag after gag when we all know that what makes their movies so good is that they are massively layered with subtlty and multiple meanings. Something that you can't even remotely brig to the audience in a 90 second preview.
The Coens get a free pass with me, regardless of WHAT the preview looks like.
I think Hanks is a good comic actor who needs to revisit his roots. I didn't think he looked or sounded so ridiculous, but then I've only seen the preview in passing.As for the Coen Brothers, you're right. They don't deserve their currency. Fargo broke them, and I suppose that was dererved, though their best films were already behind them. But everything after has seemed to me to be their selling out to the worst possible caricature of their former work, and it all begins with the writing. No film is so tight or well-conceived as Miller's Crossing (far and away their best film), Barton Fink , or the Hudsucker Proxy (though the latter suffers under some strained performaces if not just from the casting--hard to know exactly where to place the blame).
I gave up on them years ago.
I thought this one was VERY good, well written, well cast, and well acted. The black and white cinematography (it is a noir story but is shot in various grays instead of the typical noir high contrast) is stunning.
It was an unexpected gem.
Very moving.
It was a good film, but curiously I donīt have any demand to see it again?
The second time I saw it I thought it was even better than I remembered.
. . . with all their movies. By the third viewing, it all falls into place.I just don't know if I can make it through the 2nd time with "O Brother".
That's the one Coen Brothers film I want to give a second chance to. (Re-watched the Big Labowski again recently, and still don't get the cult following.) But I was disappointed when I saw it, and thought the B & W gimmicky. But it's been how many years since its release? I'm more than willing to be wrong about it.
It was released in late 2001.
and a work of Art. Tom Hanks ain't no Sir Alec, he needs a few more miles on the clock
I admire the Coens taking this project on tho', very quixotic
Every so often a cultural icon does get dusted off to great effect; Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich in Volker Whats-his-names "Death of a Salesman" was a pretty good charge at the Windmills...
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The Original with Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers is excellent. The trailers for this new version don't look too promising. I enjoy Coen Bros. movies quite a bit, so perhaps the trailers are simply misleading.
That is right! The new dvd transfer is a delight.
A must in all video collection.
Yes, i have that on DVD. But my favorite is the original film with Frederick March.
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