Synopsis
Lights. Camera. Abduction.
Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.
Hail, Caesar!
2016 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
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Josh Brolin George Clooney Alden Ehrenreich Ralph Fiennes Scarlett Johansson Tilda Swinton Channing Tatum Frances McDormand Jonah Hill Veronica Osorio Heather Goldenhersh Alison Pill Max Baker Fisher Stevens Patrick Fischler Tom Musgrave David Krumholtz Greg Baldwin Patrick Carroll Fred Melamed John Bluthal Alex Karpovsky Armazd Stepanian Allan Havey Robert Pike Daniel Robert Picardo Ian Blackman Geoffrey Cantor Christopher Lambert Show All…
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What is Hail, Caesar!? What isn’t Hail, Caesar!? It’s a comedy, a noir, a historical epic, a musical (of two different varieties), and a melodrama. It’s a movie about the glory days of the industry that churns them out, and how the system so often resembled 1,000 spinning plates wobbling in perfect harmony for a split second. It’s a film about faith, and the pivotal role that it plays in one man’s search for meaning amidst the chaos of existence. It’s a tale of the Christ, told by two Jews who wouldn’t trust Jesus to save a cat out of a tree, let alone someone’s mortal soul. That is to say: It’s a Coen brothers movie, and one of their…
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There was a point in time when I didn't like Channing Tatum; what a fucking idiot I was.
The film is very entertaining, but its kind of all over the place. There's A LOT of great scenes, but the movie itself didn't completely come together for me. Definitely enjoyed it overall though.
Like a good chunk of the Coen Brothers' filmography; this is definitely one I'm going to have to watch more than once to fully appreciate it. Heck, I didn't care much for The Big Lebowski after my first watch and now I've seen it 10+ times. That film is my Bible.
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92/100
"Would that it were so simple.”
Hail, Caesar! begins with the image of a crucifix as a solemn hymn silently sings within a quiet church, establishing an earnest degree of gravity in a surrounding world of profound, bewildering zaniness. It is in this opening image, soon dissolving into a close-up of Christ’s universal display of sacrifice, where we meet the Coens; not as filmmakers, but as autobiographers. That’s not to say that Hail, Caesar! is strictly about any specific experience, but it feels mined from within, a slapstick-y scream of annoyance and frustration that continuously trails back, wounded but energized, to the swelling love of cinema.
Much can be stated about the film’s pure aesthetic pleasures, evoking the classicism…
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49/100
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Not the Coens' worst (though it's close), but easily their laziest. Structurally, it's a disaster, continually and arbitrarily switching back and forth between puckish character study (of a surprisingly bland character) and goofy ensemble piece—it's as if (a blander) Llewyn Davis had wandered into Burn After Reading, which would do neither Llewyn nor BAR's clockwork plotting any favors. More than that, though, Hail, Caesar! plays like 21st-century Woody Allen, which is to say that it feels like they wrote exactly one draft and then immediately shot it. (Casting tons of recognizable faces in forgettable bit parts—did they really need Alex Karpovsky to walk around a room snapping photos?—heightens the resemblance.) So many potentially terrific ideas never amount…
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DIVINE PRESENCE TO BE SHOT
the coen's oeuvre is a varied one chalk full of different genres, ideas, characters etc, sometimes light & wacky, other times heavy & serious but there is a constant -- the coen's love to tell stories about individuals pointlessly (but endearingly) fighting the stupid, chaotic, contradictory systems that, for whatever reason, control human life. whether it be the existential grasping of A Serious Man or Barton Fink, or the straight-up moronic confusion of Burn After Reading ("all bureaucracy, no mission"), the coen's never fail to argue for the little guy's individualism in systems that see no value in them. they're just as humanistic as they are nihilistic. and in this regard Hail, Caesar is the coen brothers…
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Hail, Caesar! is many things: a rip-roaring ode to old-fashioned entertainment (dancing, swimming, lassoing and the like); a silly farce peppered with wordplay, innuendo and wit; and a chronicle of spiritual crisis, in which one man tries to find his ultimate purpose. But mostly it's a creative clarion call to celebrate the way cinema can be all of these things, sometimes even at once. This is the Coens’ Sullivan’s Travels, a meta comedy that wants to deflate the pretensions of Hollywood even as it’s giving the movies themselves a giant hug. As such, it might just be their magnum opus.
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Scavenger Hunt #43 (15/31)
Task: 8. Choose a movie in which Christopher Lambert stars.me, softly but with a lot of feeling: what the fuck
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My tenth Coen Brothers movie. I think I know the Coens' style fairly well at this point, so I liked this movie a lot, but on an objective level I can see this movie doesn't quite click as strongly as their best work. Definitely worth seeing for fans of classic films and for anyone who thinks the idea of seeing modern A-list actors who are usually in serious roles perform absolutely ridiculous ones sounds entertaining (it is!), but not what I'd call essential Coens. This is mid-tier Coens to me, but mid-tier Coens is still very good.
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It's good, but it would've worked best as a TV show. That way, all of the plots get fleshed out and be more memorable. As it, it's still very entertaining.
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eu tava amando sem entender pq eu tava amando dai acabou fiquei confuso mas gostei
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There are lots of amazing scenes, but it doesn't feel like they go together all that well. In some ways that is par for the course for the Coens, but I would say that this usually works for them much better than it does here. What often feels like controlled chaos is more scattered in Hail, Caesar! I was still thoroughly entertained and the runtime actually felt like it flew by. I really enjoyed Alden Ehrenreich's performance.
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As funny and enjoyable as this was, I think I found it more enjoyable for its parts rather than as a whole. I remained thoroughly entertained throughout the movie and loved a lot of the humor but I think that’s about the best I can say for it. I think the film just felt a little too disjointed for my liking. I thought George Clooney was very convincing with this role and I really enjoyed all the small cameos and big names with small roles.
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me partially through the movie: haha hobie is so funny
me, as soon as hobie said "skiddadle:" oh no I Am Hobie -
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