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DjC Oscar® Winner	Upon reading the Worst movie ever made thread, i just realizede that a bunch of people gave Fargo a bad name...WHAT THE HE!! Fargo was amazing, brilliantly wrote, acted, scored, what is wrong with fargo!? Personally i thought it was one of the best if not the best mmovie of 96, of the 90'a even! Fargo was a dram/dark comedy that is deffinetly a classic. Just what in God's name is wrong with FARGO!?
posted 03-06-2000 05:55 PM PT (US)

Onelegger Oscar® Winner	Fargo is a great movie in my book. I'm with ya' buddy. Although I'm not quite sure it was the best movie of '96. My vote goes to Braveheart. NP - Tico Tico - Stan Kenton Orchestra [This message has been edited by Onelegger (edited 06 March 2000).]
posted 03-06-2000 10:19 PM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Anyone who didn't get FARGO, I'm not sure that's a person I want to know. Although I love pretty much ALL the Coen Bros. pictures, especially MILLER'S CROSSING -- and if ya didn't get that one, you're off my list even more. And if John Goodman didn't make ya howl in THE BIG LEBOWSKI, then I'll take a CONTRACT out on ya, awright! NP: L.A. CONFIDENTIAL (Jerry somebody)
posted 03-06-2000 10:21 PM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Goodman did make me howl in THE BIG LEBOWSKI, but he's about the only thing in the film that did. And FARGO? Brrr . . . Don't get me started on THAT one.
posted 03-06-2000 10:58 PM PT (US)

JJH Oscar® Winner	Fargo is a great movie. I've found that most people I know dislike it simply because of the accents. I love the opening titles shot of the car with Burwell's music. amazing.
posted 03-07-2000 05:07 AM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	Never mind the accents - I liked those (being a "genuine" Norwegian myself). This movie had atmosphere, an intelligent plot and wellrounded characters. What more can you expect. And then there was Burwell's mezmerizing score - incorpororating a flush drain sound (if I'm not mistaken - or was that BARTON FINK - they're on the same CD, so I keep getting confused...) among other things, and utilizing the (in)famous fiddle sound so well-known in the folk music of my country.
posted 03-07-2000 07:54 AM PT (US)

mlw Oscar® Winner	It was Ok. The last great Coen flic was Miller's Crossing. Then they got all self-consciously self-conscious and ruined everything.
posted 03-07-2000 10:57 AM PT (US)

James Oscar® Winner	Well, I suppose it all depends on what makes a good movie. From a Hitchcockian "pure cinema" standpoint, Fargo is indeed brilliant. It is brilliantly filmed, edited, acted, and scored. I love the opening sequence, too, and I love Burwell's music in it. I also don't mind the accents at all. That's a very good aspect. What I find repulsive about the movie is its attitude. I've never been fond of any "dark comedies" that I can think of, and Fargo was not an exception for me. I don't like the way they make fun of such direly serious events. Sorry. James NP - Incognito (John Ottman) (*****)
posted 03-07-2000 01:12 PM PT (US)

Andre Lux unregistered	FARGO is a great movie. I just love the subversive way of the Cohen Brothers. Their movies are always very strange, bizarre. Not to mention the dark humor that I found so original and nice. But I didn't like THE BIG LEBOWSKY. Had some realy funny moments but it was incredible boring and uninteresting as a whole.
posted 03-07-2000 02:40 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Nothing wrong with "Fargo", I found it very good. The score, too, though it isn't the type of score I need to have on CD (wouldn't mind it, but there are others that are more important to me). NP: Bond Back in Action (VERY good)
posted 03-07-2000 04:33 PM PT (US)

John C Winfrey Oscar® Winner	To me, the most interesting thing about Fargo was the dialects of the folks in the movie. Very interesting. That part I liked. The violence was extreme in places, but an interesting movie and I did like it. A overall very good film. Best, John.
posted 03-07-2000 10:09 PM PT (US)

SBD Oscar® Winner	I really loved FARGO and THE BIG LEBOWSKI (I feel that John Goodman and Jeff Bridges were robbed at Oscar time, but the film opened in March so what can you do...but FARGO was released two years earlier at around the same time and it walked off with two awards, and there I've just contradicted myself! Happy?! ) And who doesn't love RAISING ARIZONA, especially the wild chase, back when Barry Sonnenfeld was good?
posted 03-08-2000 06:35 AM PT (US)

Audacity Oscar® Winner	Fargo is one of two movies that I absolutely love but most of my friends do not, the other movie is Trainspotting. I think that both movies are a little too dark for most people, but I happen to think that both of them are very realistic. Go is another movie that falls into this category. Audacity NP Watch the Skies (Sci-Fi compilation)****
posted 03-08-2000 08:04 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	"Watch the Skies"? Wasn't that the original production title for "CE3K"? NP: Sleepy Hollow (Elfman)
posted 03-08-2000 09:00 AM PT (US)

Pete M Oscar® Winner	"Watch The Skies" is playing at the cinema in one of the early scenes in Gremlins... As is "A Boys Life". I think they are working titles for CE3K & ET respecively, although they may both be ET, I'm not sure. np The Abyss (Voyages Compilation)
posted 03-08-2000 09:09 AM PT (US)

Thor Oscar® Winner	Marian: Don't remember CE3K's working title (if it had any at all), but I do know (as do you, I'm sure) that the movie was based on an early Spielberg movie (he was about 17 years, I think) called FIRELIGHT (wow, I've gotta stop all these parentheses!).
posted 03-08-2000 09:10 AM PT (US)

H Rocco Oscar® Winner	Pete got it right -- WATCH THE SKIES is CE3K, BOY'S LIFE is E.T. For the climactic scene in GREMLINS of Stripe marauding through the department store's toy section, director Joe Dante wanted to include a scene of an E.T. doll being shredded, but Spielberg allegedly nixed that.
posted 03-08-2000 10:20 AM PT (US)

dantoris Oscar® Winner	Rocco - Haha! Not THAT would've been funny!
posted 03-08-2000 10:26 AM PT (US)

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