Dir. Joel Coen
42/300
So, I'll admit, I like Nic Cage in screwball hillbilly characters. He was pretty funny in this one for sure.
What I'm curious about after seeing this movie is how in the heck do the Coen Brothers come up with this stuff? It's all so calculated, but completely out there. They play on these key human elements, like the want to have a child, and somehow blow it completely into something completely beyond belief. And it's a common thread. In Burn After Reading, the woman just wants some money to loose some weight. Such a small motivating factor to start such a crazy chain of events. I would love to know their method. Seriously, who can start with a blank sheet of paper, and somehow end up with this movie?
Along with an amazing writing style, they always bring some amazing action to the screen that keeps you watching. Car chases, people busting out of prison, kidnapping, snappy one-liners and a polar opposites attract story. It's a movie that you can't get up to go to the restroom during, or your friends will leave you behind in some quote inside joke from there on out.
I'll end with a couple amazing quotes from the movie. and if you haven't seen it yet, get on it! Enjoy.
There's what's right and there's what's right and never the twain shall meet.
And this here's the TV. Two hours a day, either educational or football, so you don't ruin your appreciation of the finer things.
We figured there was too much happiness here for just the two of us, so we figured the next logical step was to have us a critter.
Rollie! You take that diaper off your head and you put it back on your sister!
94 min +4418 = 4512
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