The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Coen Brothers Netflix series turned portmanteau movie

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I'm on team leprechaun, you guys don't deserve JF.

Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:26 (five years ago) link

rmde

Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:27 (five years ago) link

Leprechaun lies in the eyes of the beholder imo

Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:29 (five years ago) link

You can think any damn thing you like. Just don't pester me with your sad delusions.

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:34 (five years ago) link

^ not new board description

steven, soda jerk (sic), Wednesday, 20 February 2019 04:45 (five years ago) link

five years pass...

Coen Bros are not good with digital effects. You'd think those cottonfields in O Brother with the green desaturated out would've taught them something. Or at the very least, that technology would have improved in 20 years.

There's an evening scene in the Nebraska segment where Alice is interrupting Billy's dinner YET AGAIN, and his red kerchief is just all fuzzy. I don't mind getting set up for stuff like Buster patting himself and leaving a Buster-shaped cloud of dust, but the kerchief or the rainbow appearing over the prospector when he finds Mr. Pocket just took me out of it.

pplains, Monday, 6 May 2024 02:10 (three weeks ago) link

I dunno, they're part of a huge, *huge* number of established filmmakers for whom that's just not a dimension of life they tend to engage with. I'm sure there are a couple counter-examples, but generally speaking those old(er) dogs aren't about to pick up new tricks. The answer is to fork over dough to more Dee Rees-es and fewer Scorseses, not hoping the latter will suddenly privilege the experiences of [insert marginalized group here].

― resident hack (Simon H.), Tuesday, 27 November 2018 15:39 (five years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Little did we know!

Daniel_Rf, Monday, 6 May 2024 02:30 (three weeks ago) link

Old dog/new tricks doubters... could never be me

The first act of this movie I remember fondly. The rest? Shot out the ol memory hole as soon as I finished (except for the franco meme viralization)

H.P, Monday, 6 May 2024 03:01 (three weeks ago) link

The main thing that pops into my head when I think about this movie is this exchange above:

WmC: The prospector gets shot in the back and just carries on like nbd?

Dr Morbius: IT DINT HIT NOTHIN' IMPORTANT

o. nate, Monday, 6 May 2024 14:25 (three weeks ago) link

Haha. Mostly I remember the Tom Waits sequence from this movie, and pretty vividly.

Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 6 May 2024 14:35 (three weeks ago) link

The first act of this movie I remember fondly. The rest? Shot out the ol memory hole as soon as I finished (except for the franco meme viralization)

― H.P, Monday, 6 May 2024 03:01 (twelve hours ago) link

Weird, same. I reread a post of mine upthread about how a certain segment dragged for me. I have absolutely no memory or clue what I'm referring to.

Evan, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:27 (three weeks ago) link

The more I think about the last chapter being filmed completely on a sound stage, the more I think how distracting and unnecessary the digital effects were.

A matted sunset, colored stage lights, camera lens filters... Crazy how 2019 technology doesn't come close to matching the realism of 1939 technology (IN THIS CASE.)

pplains, Monday, 6 May 2024 15:47 (three weeks ago) link


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