U Rank 'Em: Coen Brothers Films

[Monty]

Hmm. I don't want to get locked into a ranking, so I'll just say that I have Fargo lower than some people would like, and O Brother Where Art Thou a lot higher than the consensus. Everything else about where you'd expect, although I, um, haven't seen Blood Simple.

[seanlandis]

AST aggregate so far:

1. Raising Arizona (2.93)
2. Fargo (3.27)
3. The Big Lebowski (3.73)
4. Miller's Crossing (5.15)
5. No Country For Old Men (5.5)
6. Barton Fink (6.35)
7. The Hudsucker Proxy (7)
8. Blood Simple (7.06)
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (7.92)
10. A Serious Man (8.09)
11. True Grit (9.5)
12. The Man Who Wasn’t There (9.79)
13. Burn After Reading (11.27)
14. Intolerable Cruelty (12.25)
15. The Ladykillers (14.4)

If my personal rankings were factored into this aggregate, Fargo would be an even closer #2 to Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing and No Country For Old Men would swap places, and A Serious Man and O Brother, Where Art Thou? would swap.

[Jixby Phillips]

guys stop doing this

I HAVEN'T SEEN ALL THE COEN BROS MOVIES STOP RANKING THEM

[Aaron1933]

WARNING: Unlike everyone else in this thread, Burn After Reading is in my top five, so you may wish to disregard my ranking altogether.

1. Fargo
2. Raising Arizona
3. Barton Fink
4. A Serious Man
5. Burn After Reading
6. True Grit
7. The Man Who Wasn't There
8. The Hudsucker Proxy
9. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
10. No Country for Old Men
11. The Big Lebowski
12. Miller's Crossing
13. Blood Simple
14. Intolerable Cruelty
15. The Ladykillers

[aenemaTron]

guys stop doing this

I HAVEN'T SEEN ALL THE COEN BROS MOVIES STOP RANKING THEM

I have to agree with this guy, I missed one. No one knows which one but it's not something I can help, or fix.

OH ALL RIGHT

1. Fargeaux / Razing arizona (tied)
2. Miller's Xing
3. The Big Old Bowsky
4. O Brother Where Art You
5. everything but Jennifer Jason Leigh in Hudsux Prox
6. the first half of Ladykillers and/or just Tom Hanks and the lady and JK Simmons
7. Blood Simple with my hand over jon getz's dumb face the entire movie
8. No Country For Olds*
9. True Grits*
10. The Man Who Isn't Here*
11. Inexplicable Cruelty*
12. A Seriously Men*
13. Bart And Fink

*Only seen it once, must review for fair ranking

[pg13]

everything but Jennifer Jason Leigh

But...she's a Muncie girl!

[Weinerslave]

I think JJL's performance in Hudsucker was theoretically brilliant, but it just didn't work in practice. Like capitalism.

[Umlaut]

I'm just disappointed she doesn't show her titties. JJL always be showin' titties.

[aenemaTron]

Nobody sleeps naked in this house!

Seriously though, has there ever been nudity in their movies? Maybe Blood Simple? It seemed like there was going to be some in A Serious Man....

[Umlaut]

Off the top of my head, Buscemi and Stormare get laid in Fargo and I'm pretty sure there's nudity, and also both Julianne Moore and the lady being trampolined at Jackie Treehorn's house in Lebowski. Oh also there are boobs in Logjamming in Lebowski. Maybe that's why it's the most popular Coens film, it's got the most boobs per minute of any of their films.

[DiscoInferiorityComplex]

In no particular order...


Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
Raising Arizona
Barton Fink
Big Lebowski
No Country For Old Men
True Grit
A Serious Man
Burn After Reading
Miller's Crossing
Blood Simple
The Man Who Wasn't There
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Ladykillers
Intolerable Cruelty

[BillBrasky]

Nobody sleeps naked in this house!

Seriously though, has there ever been nudity in their movies? Maybe Blood Simple? It seemed like there was going to be some in A Serious Man....

Unless I'm remembering very incorrectly, there was definitely nudity in A Serious Man. In fact, not just top nudity, but...uhh...bottom nudity as well. It was viewed from quite a distance though.

[Itslikeimsayin]

I haven't seen enough of them to make a list, but I'm surprised no one has No Country for Old Men atop their list. I think it's the best movie of any genre I've seen since its release. Obviously AST probably skews toward the more comedic films, but still, No Country is tops in my book.

[MrDys]

My personal view is that No Country has a couple of really good sequences, but the rest of the film doesn't live up to those good chunks. I also remember when it came out that quite a large chunk of audiences were miffed with the ending (though, that didn't bother me so much).

[DiscoInferiorityComplex]

I haven't seen enough of them to make a list, but I'm surprised no one has No Country for Old Men atop their list. I think it's the best movie of any genre I've seen since its release. Obviously AST probably skews toward the more comedic films, but still, No Country is tops in my book.

This doesn't make any sense, but No Country is regarded as a better stand-alone film than it is as a great Coen Brothers movie. If I was ranking the best movies of the past 30 years, I'd definitely list it higher than Raising Arizona. But Raising Arizona is more definitively Coen-esque.

[Steven_M]

Unless I'm remembering very incorrectly, there was definitely nudity in A Serious Man. In fact, not just top nudity, but...uhh...bottom nudity as well. It was viewed from quite a distance though.

Big Lebowski has a hint of nudity too. Maude is nude whilst painting in a sky harness.

[ArchStanton]

You guys need to get out of the fucking house once in awhile

[Jixby Phillips]

In no particular order...

uh

[P-Dub]

Underrated: Hudsucker, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man

Overrated: Man Who Wasn't, O Brother, True Grit (at least by critics)

Serious Man is my favorite.

[Cameron]

1) Barton Fink
2) Fargo
3) Raising Arizona
4) A Serious Man
5) O Brother Where Art Thou
6) No Country For Old Men
7) The Hudsucker Proxy
8) The Big Lebowski
9) Blood Simple
10) True Grit
11) Miller's Crossing
12) The Man Who Wasn't There
13) Burn After Reading
14) Intolerable Cruelty
15) The Lady Killers