I just watched the movie Fargo and thought it was good. I fail to see how it got so much hype. It was a nice story with some good dark comedy but nothing else
I just watched the movie Fargo and thought it was good. I fail to see how it got so much hype. It was a nice story with some good dark comedy but nothing else
Sometimes you have to let art flow over you.
Keith Stone wrote:
Sometimes you have to let art flow over you.
Keith, I hate most of what you post... but sometimes you throw something out there that I love.
Keith, I agree with you. Fargo, IMO, is a masterpiece.
love it
The pregnant cop is one of the greatest characters in the history of movies.
Not the greatest, but I've watched it more than once. Frances MacDormand (sp?) is great in it...and Steve Buschemi (sp?) is too....come to think of it, William H. Gacey is good as well.
Macy, not Gacy. And yeah, he's great. And the Asian guy with the crush on McDormand...I think his name is Steve Park....his scene is just perfect.
I don't remember a lot of "hype" around it as far as it being a great movie. I remember it being recognized as a really good movie with a lot of hype coming from feminists who loved the hero.
Wasn't bad. The movie says it's based on a true story but I've heard it's not. Yes the pregnant lady cop is funny "...And I suppose that's your friend there in the chipper..."
Yep~ wrote:
"...And I suppose that's your friend there in the chipper..."
He needs more than "Some Unn-Gwint."
Yep~ wrote:Wasn't bad. The movie says it's based on a true story but I've heard it's not. Yes the pregnant lady cop is funny "...And I suppose that's your friend there in the chipper..."
The Coen brothers had their fair share of inside jokes. The movie being based on a true story is almost one of them. It's supposedly based on two, the kidnapping part being that of Virginia Piper who oddly enough is my 2nd cousin. Unlike the movie, she survived.
YOUR'RE DARN TOOTIN! wrote:
Keith, I agree with you. Fargo, IMO, is a masterpiece.
Yep. Fargo is art. GREAT movie. The characters are terrific. The accents are great. Almost a perfect movie. Awesome.
Are you the same guy that thought No Country For Old Men was a bad movie?
Keith Stone wrote:
Yep~ wrote:Wasn't bad. The movie says it's based on a true story but I've heard it's not. Yes the pregnant lady cop is funny "...And I suppose that's your friend there in the chipper..."The Coen brothers had their fair share of inside jokes. The movie being based on a true story is almost one of them. It's supposedly based on two, the kidnapping part being that of Virginia Piper who oddly enough is my 2nd cousin. Unlike the movie, she survived.
So Keith, have you ever talked to your cousin about the movie. Was that money really stashed on the side of the road? Anyone recover it? Any other inside info would be great.
I recomended after seeing this to my cousin and his wife. I loved it and I see almost everything Buscemi does but watching Macy react to the declining situation is what makes it enjoyable. And yes that's how people talk in small towms in that area.
My cousin and his wife absolutely hated it, I mean, big time. They said the acting was "terrible".
I think some people should just stick to movies that were number one at the box office and they'll always be happy.
Not a movie guy wrote:
I just watched the movie Fargo and thought it was good. I fail to see how it got so much hype. It was a nice story with some good dark comedy but nothing else
I never saw it in the theater and rented it a few years later, as it was on the short list of movies people kept talking about that I hadn't seen. I too was underwhelmed. Then, a few days later, I watched it again and was hooked.
Part of it's greatness is the pace, slow, measured, with everything being just right, dialogue, setting, and music for so many individual scenes. I also came to like the understated ordinariness of remarkable actions and insights from otherwise unremarkable people. Each fits an archetype of a rural town person in some ways, but few live or think as expected.
Fargo was brilliant. The acting was brilliant. Eh Margie?
How can one not appreciate scenes like the end where Margie and her husband are in bed just talking like a content married older couple - her having just saved the day and he having just been awarded the 3 cent stamp picture for his duck photograph (or something like it). "It was just the 3 cent stamp, Margie" "Oh, but theyre important for those letters that need more postage..." - - all said in those north dakota accents. Priceless..
Just plucked this off another board, don't know how reliable it is:
The film is not actually "Based on a true story". The Coens later admitted that they added that disclaimer so the viewer would be more willing to suspend disbelief in the story. (An urban legend even says that people have gone to search Minnesota for the briefcase of money.) While the specific crimes in the movie didn't happen, the plot has elements of two well-known Minnesota crimes. In 1962, a St. Paul attorney named Eugene Thompson hired someone to kill his wife, Carol. Unbeknownst to Thompson, his man hired someone else to do the job. The second man fatally wounded Mrs. Thomspon in her house, but she managed to escape him. She went to a neighbor's house for help while her assailant fled the scene. The sloppiness and brutality of the crime attracted great attention. The murderers were quickly caught and gave up Thompson, who denied knowing anything about the crime for many years afterward. In 1972, Virginia Piper, the wife of a wealthy Orono banker, was kidnapped. A million-dollar ransom was paid, one of the largest in U.S. history. Mrs. Piper was found tied to a tree in a state park. Two men were convicted of the crime, but were acquitted after a re-trial. One of them later went on a shooting spree after his wife left him, killing her, their 5-year-old son, her son from a previous marriage, her new boyfriend, and one of his sons. Only $4,000 of the money was ever recovered.
Link this trivia
Dude, if you didn't like it don't worry. Just because a lot of people like some artwork doesn't mean that you have to. It doesn't mean that you don't have good taste or aren't a bright guy - it just means that you didn't like it. Shakespeare wasn't considered that great of a writer until the late eighteenth century. The great literary critic Edmund Wilson hated 19th century English literature. Virginia Woolf thought Ulysses was worthless. Tastes differ. However, just because you don't like something doesn't mean that other people don't love it or that it isn't "art." Don't be afraid to like what you like and not like what you don't like, and don't break people's balls for liking what they like and not liking what they don't like.
For what its worth, I'm generally a big Coen brothers fan, but I didn't much like Fargo either (I did like No Country for Old Men).