2004 Directed by Ethan Coen, Joel 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.
So........."The Ladykillers" is often regarded as The Coen Brothers weakest film, and I saw it was on Netflix so I figured I'd let curiosity get the better of me and give it a watch.
And, while I can't say I was bored watching it and found myself enjoying some aspects of it overall, I can't tell wether or not I liked it as a guilty pleasure or even if I liked it at all.
It's a remake/adaptation/whatever you want to call it of a film/novel of the same name following a low life professor and his gang using an old women's house as a means to dig a tunnel towards a local Casino and rob the place blind.
Okay! Good…
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…
"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 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…
What does it mean to be a "lesser Coen Brothers film"? Does that mean it lies at the bottom of a DVD pile gathering dust for years, or does it simply mean that if you're in the mood for one of their films it'll come after you've watched The Big Lebowski, Miller's Crossing, Inside Llewyn Davis, and O Brother, Where Art Thou? It's been a few years since my only viewing of The Ladykillers, but following my reintroduction to Fargo after a lengthy spell, I thought I'd give this another go.
The Ladykillers hits for the fences early on. Giving Tom Hanks the room to return to his comic roots he honed so well back in the eighties, that Southern…
Well, this left a really sour taste in my mouth. Easily the weakest I've seen from the Coens yet, which could be b/c this is the first movie they directed together (They collaborated before this but didn't direct together until this one).
La más floja de los Coen , octava que veo y aproveche que apareció en Netflix para tratar de completar su filmografía. No son mis preferidos de hecho no le puse buen puntaje a Fargo ni a No Country ( que quizás pronto las revisione ) pero por algún motivo me atrapa su forma y estilo para contar las películas.
En este caso es una remake donde todo está exagerado al extremo creo que más que de costumbre pero valió la pena por un Tom Hanks enérgico y verborragico y alguna escena que me saco una risa. El final es muy malo seguramente había otras formas pero por algún motivo debe ser así.
Thus concludes my project of watching all the Coen bros films I had not seen. I think this is appropriately remembered as their worst. For me, one full star has been awarded for Tom Hanks’s ridiculous SNL-type performance. There were a handful of defent laughs, but not enough to make up for the uncomfortable racial stereotypes.
'Ladykillers' Doesn't Slay 'Em Like It Should
A fitfully amusing misfire by the Coen brothers. Everyone tries their best in this movie, but something is missing when the elements are mixed together. Tom Hanks' deliberately affected performance and Marlon Wayans' over-the-top 'hoodness both run completely out-of-step with the rest of the cast. At least you can see how this movie might have succeeded, there are two outright hilarious moments along with some fairly consistent chuckles. But for classic material, stick with the masterful execution (pun intended) of the blackly comedic original - even Alec Guinness' teeth are funnier.
"We must all have waffles. We must all have waffles, forthwith!"
I'm back at my shit.
This marks the first movie in their filmography where both brothers are credited as director--eeeesh--and the last movie of theirs I haven't seen previously.
I have to admit, I know The Ladykillers is the least-loved of the Coen canon, even less so than the never remarked-upon Intolerable Cruelty, but it's not THAT bad. I mean, it's not a totally unsuccessful or miserable movie, but an unfunny comedy is the worst kind of movie.
I have to say, I think the movie's most obvious fault is that it feels like it was written by Coen imitators, particularly the character played by Tom Hanks. This period…
The first time I saw this, I think I liked it a lot more than the second time. It started out funny, but it got tiresome quickly. I felt that way about the original too, but that one was better overall.
"You, madam, are addressing a man, who is in fact quiet... and yet, not quiet, if I may offer to you a riddle."
Commonly regarded as the worst Coen Brothers film and I think that's a shame.
I feel the main aspect people tend to latch on to is that it's overall a bad remake of Alexander Mackendrick's 1955 version of the film, which it isn't. When you think about it, it's a really clever re-adaptation.
The Coens took the bold leap to completely redesign the story in every possible way so it bore no resemblence to the original story, which was always their first intention. The Coens would be the first to agree that if you're gonna do a…
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