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<blockquote data-quote="Snarf Zagyg" data-source="post: 9243614" data-attributes="member: 7023840"><p>Not true! I love comedies, and I think I wrote that Hudsucker Proxy (for example) is a personal favorite of mine. Big Lebowski and Hail, Caesar! are both in the top 4. </p><p></p><p>I meant it when I said that for the top 15, a person can make good arguments for many different rankings. Even looking at the list now, I both have to think, "How could I rank Burn After Reading so low?" but also think, "But wait, what am I going to move to rank it higher?"</p><p></p><p>That said, I would raise two separate points-</p><p></p><p>1. When it comes to screwball comedies, the Coens have one bad movie that they've ever made (The Ladykillers). I would also argue that they have one mediocre movie (Intolerable Cruelty). Don't get be wrong- Intolerable Cruelty isn't bad in the same way that The Ladykillers is a bad movie, but it's certainly not great in the same way that their other movies are. Personal opinions are what they are, but I think you have to be a true contrarian to rank their other comedies (or comedy-adjacent films) lower than that one.</p><p></p><p>2. I don't "like" bleak movies; obviously, I ranked Inside Llewyn Davis much lower than most Coen fans would. That said, I think that No Country is a masterpiece, and Barton Fink (in the way that it examines the creative process, similar to Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream) has a special resonance with me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarf Zagyg, post: 9243614, member: 7023840"] Not true! I love comedies, and I think I wrote that Hudsucker Proxy (for example) is a personal favorite of mine. Big Lebowski and Hail, Caesar! are both in the top 4. I meant it when I said that for the top 15, a person can make good arguments for many different rankings. Even looking at the list now, I both have to think, "How could I rank Burn After Reading so low?" but also think, "But wait, what am I going to move to rank it higher?" That said, I would raise two separate points- 1. When it comes to screwball comedies, the Coens have one bad movie that they've ever made (The Ladykillers). I would also argue that they have one mediocre movie (Intolerable Cruelty). Don't get be wrong- Intolerable Cruelty isn't bad in the same way that The Ladykillers is a bad movie, but it's certainly not great in the same way that their other movies are. Personal opinions are what they are, but I think you have to be a true contrarian to rank their other comedies (or comedy-adjacent films) lower than that one. 2. I don't "like" bleak movies; obviously, I ranked Inside Llewyn Davis much lower than most Coen fans would. That said, I think that No Country is a masterpiece, and Barton Fink (in the way that it examines the creative process, similar to Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream) has a special resonance with me. [/QUOTE]
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