2004 Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
Tom Hanks Irma P. Hall Marlon Wayans J.K. Simmons Tzi Ma Ryan Hurst Diane Delano George Wallace John McConnell Jason Weaver Stephen Root Lyne Odums Walter K. Jordan George Anthony Bell Greg Grunberg Bruce Campbell Jennifer Echols Aldis Hodge Robert Baker Hallie Singleton Blake Clark Amad Jackson Freda Foh Shen Paula Martin Jeremy Suarez Te Te Benn Khalil East Nita Norris Vivian Smallwood Show All…
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The Coen Brothers are my favorite directors. I find their work endlessly inspiring, tightly constructed, and fascinating to watch even when I can’t entirely understand or appreciate it the first time around.
This is the last of their films I have to watch. This movie truly fucking sucks for several reasons and I am never going to finish it. I have made my peace with that fact. Life is too short and I’m stuck on a beach where it only gets shorter.
I just love it.
I don’t care what anybody thinks.
I love the gospel music performances and I love the idea that a little British fella shot it with some dorky film nerds directing.
Yeah so I like can’t hate a Coen brothers movie I guess?
Y’all said this was bad? I don’t get it. It’s nowhere near as profound as their other films but I was ROLLING LAUGHING! Tom Hanks slays it, it might be my favorite performance of his, so does JK Simmons. It reminds me a lot of O Brother. It had a lot of what I love about the original Ladykillers but with their own twist on the story.
It’s no Raising Arizona, it doesn’t have the same weight but this had me laughing hard. But I’m the biggest Stan for the Coen Brothers, take it as you will.
"You brought yo bitch...to the waffle hut."
The Ladykillers has been deemed by many to be The Coen Brothers' weakest film. And while it isn't there best work, it certainly isn't there worst either. It's funny throughout, Tom Hanks gives one hell of performance here, and I loved where the third act went. But I hated the last two minutes of the movie. A lot.
Definitely worth a look if you liked some of the brothers' previous comedic efforts. It's just odd to think that they followed this one up with No Country for Old Men.
I was both extremely bored by the film and extremely distracted by Hanks’ bad accent and the uncomfortably broad caricatures of black Southerners. Easily the worst Coen I’ve watched thus far.
Action!: Three Degrees Of Separation - Ethan and Coen's Ride Through The Highway Of Quirk
OK, so before I begin my review, I have to give credit where credit is due and apologize with plenty of people here that I almost thrashed for not liking this movie. I honestly thought this would be at the top of my ranking list, and I'm torn between a 3 and a 3.5. There's no doubt in my mind that, at least for me, this is still much more enjoyable and memorable than the original thouugh.
There is no real surprise that the Coen Brothers remade this film because it is right up their alley. There are many themes that underlie with previous work…
”Madam, we must have waffles!
We must all have waffles forthwith!”
Kentucky Fried Hanks!
Tom Hanks joins up with the Coens to channel his inner Colonel in this remake of the Alec Guinness film. Even though it pales in comparison to some of the other Coen films, I find myself liking it more every time I see it. Hanks swings for the fences and the way he “speaks in dead tongues” has grown on me over the years. I also love his facial expressions as he reacts to those around him.
Marlon Wayans and J.K. Simmons are the other Ladykiller standouts, and their interactions crack me up every time.
The Coens have such an unbelievable track…
Remaking 1955's Ealing Studios comedy of the same name, Joel and Ethan Coen's "The Ladkillers" is little more than an excuse for Tom Hanks, J.K. Simmons and the rest of the cast to mug under false teeth and fake mustaches for 104 minutes. Playing a gang of thieves working to knock off a casino under the guise of a group of musicians, the cast spouts accent-affected dialogue with no heavy pretensions. It is all a lot of fun, but it is forgettable and mostly meaningless.
Moving in as a tenant of Irma P. Hall's Southern gentlewoman, Tom Hanks stars as Professor G.H. Dorr, a man with more up his sleeve that appearances may predict. "The Ladykillers" revolves Dorr and his…
"I need unguent" - Steve G Does The Coens
I'm almost as baffled as most other people were.
If nothing else, The Ladykillers, along with Intolerable Cruelty, showed that the Coen brothers were human after all.
What interests me most about The Ladykillers is the way they took a film that really was, actually, ideal for their style and somehow cocked it up. The reason they don't get it right is perhaps because it was perfect for their style - the set-up, characters and outcome are all largely set in stone to the point where they don't actually have to transpose their quirks on it.
Yet having spent most of their career taking scripts and having to…
The British 1955 version of The Ladykillers gets an updated treatment by the Coen brothers with its setting changed to the American Deep South in this misplaced, incoherent and (expectedly) bizarre comedy.
As much as I love the Coen brothers' work, their usual reliability could not win me over with The Ladykillers, just like it could not with their previous, equally polarizing film, Intolerable Cruelty. Everything should have pointed to working in this film's favor, especially since the Coens usually have a wonderful ability to take relatable characters and throw them into highly unusual circumstances in a comical and often satirical environment, which is exactly what The Ladykillers does. Yet, even though it all comes together a little further towards…
I actually really like some scenes in this film!
The cast is electric as it's lead by Tom Hanks in possibly my favorite role of his ever. The story is wildly interesting and the ending is a classic ending for the Coens where they take a route you weren't expecting but it's even more satisfying.
What makes this film not work? The screenplay. The Coens always seem to write amazing dialogue for their characters but this film was the weakest in that aspect. There were lines where I cringed and lines where I rolled my eyes... a surprise from a Coen film but still a solid movie overall.
”Professor, I'm surprised!”
“Well... uh... properly speaking, madam, we are surprised. You are taken aback.”
Besides Crystal Pepsi one of the greatest soda disasters of all-time was when Coke tweaked the formula that people loved and released New Coke. Same ingredients made by the same people, but somehow a bit of the magic was missing.
Ladykillers is the New Coke of the Coen Brothers bottling company.
It’s a rare misfire that’s not awful, but sadly some of the Coen magic is missing.
BONUS POINTS for the Waffle Hut scene in which all of the magic is still very much intact..
”Madam, we must have waffles! We must all have waffles forthwith!”
