The Coens’ film has had few, if any, actual stills from the film. But First Showing has some of them (via Oh No, They Didn’t). Tilda, George, John and Brad!
Here’s to hoping the Coen crowd doesn’t becoming like the Soderbergh crowd where all the cool kids hang together in every movie.
Sasha, not to be a jerk, but did someone piss in your cheerios this morning?
I only ask because whats with the hostility against a movie that none of us have seen yet?
Really, I hate to see people get pissy against a Coen follow-up after Oscar glory for no rational reason. Remember how BIG LEBOWSKI got the gutter ball treatment because it wasn’t as “serious” as FARGO?
I mean give me a fucking break guys.
Coens making another comedy?
Coens making another movie about people WAY WAY WAY over their heads?
Coens working with George Clooney again?
Part of Clooney’s “Metrosexual Pack” working with him in another movie again?
I’m shocked!
I mean, can’t we simply hope that BURN AFTER READING is simply a good movie, and not the messiah that’ll both wash your car and fuck your brains out?
Just think people, there will come a day when we won’t get anymore Coen movies. Appreciate these good days of cinema before the dark armies of Michael Bay finally prevail, and the apocalypse arises.
The only comedy they’ve been nominated for was “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (The other two were for Fargo and No Country).
And I don’t think the Coens will resort to having only “cool” casts, because they would’ve started doing that a long time ago. However, I’m always happy to see their “regulars” show up, like Frances McDormand, Richard Jenkins, and yes, George Clooney. Unfortunately, it’s greatly lacking in Steve Buscemi.
And to JJJ… this is the Coens bread and butter. Quirky characters. Odd situations. Wacky comedy. I mean, come on, these are the guys that made Raising Arizona. And they tend to follow up their serious films with something fun… after Barton Fink came The Hudsucker Proxy, after Fargo came The Big Lebowski, after The Man Who Wasn’t There came Intolerable Cruelty, and now… after No Country for Old Men comes Burn After Reading.
It’ll probably be nominated for its screenplay anyway, weren’t most of their less “serious” films?
I don’t think that’ll be a bad thing with the A-list cast in this one. I think Burning should be an good film. When Directors tease us with a masterpiece we get all out of wack when they go back to their roots. The films that made us love them in the first place.
This argument that great filmmakers have some sort of responsibility to keep producing serious, groundbreaking work has grown tired to me for a while now. I’m used to hearing it with people like Quentin Tarantino and Guillermo del Toro, it’s only since No Country won the Oscar that I’ve been hearing it about the Coens though (I think the argument is unjustified in all three cases, by the way). The Coens have no responsibility to anybody, they only have a responsibility to themselves. That’s where their art comes from, from making what they WANT to make. I would much rather see a movie like Burn After Reading or The Big Lebowski, which the Coens put their sweat and blood into because they truly loved it, than some supposedly deep film that they’re doing just because they supposedly have some responsibility to the world to fill it with meaningful movies.
It certainly does not look that great. No one really seems excited. Very tired of George and Brad and especially them together. Their jokes are really stale (the whole sexist man thing – always brought up etc.. We will just have to wait and see I guess.
Well, it does have more of a Coen Bros. LOOK to it than “No Country” did.
Shallow? Just because this movie will not be as “serious” doesn’t mean it will be shallow. And true artists do exactly what they feel like doing, which is what Coens are doing.
And stop critizcizing a movie you haven’t even seen.
So, you’ve seen it JJJ? Really?
That’s too bad, after making such an important and prestigious film the Coen’s make this shallow film. I don’t understand why artists with all the power in the world, and an audience of millions don’t try to hit it out of the ballpark every time. What’s the point of slacking off?