Comments on: The Essentials: The Coen Brothers Films Ranked

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Sun, 10 Jul 2016 17:01:00 +0000

1. Miller’s Crossing
2. Fargo
3. Blood Simple
4. Raising Arizona
5. No Country for Old Men
6. The Big Lebowski
7. Barton Fink
8. The Man Who Wasn’t There
9. True Grit
10. all the rest

By: rahv

rahv — Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:18:00 +0000

I’m kinda new to The Playlist and I’m unfamiliar with the writers’ taste, so I may be the only who really likes their ranking. Obviously I don’t agree entirely (I’m not a fan of Raising Arizona at all and I think Hail, Caesar! really needs much more love than what it’s getting). I still haven’t seen The Hudsucker Proxy and I truly need to re-watch The Big Lebowski (my first proper Coen knowing who they were, I saw Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers back in theaters and I had no idea who they were back then), still I’d say I agree and overlap on most. I would rank their 16 feature lengths I’ve seen like this:

1. Barton Fink
2. Inside Llewyn Davis
3. A Serious Man
4. Fargo
5. No Country For Old Men
6. Miller’s Crossing
7. The Man Who Wasn’t There
8. Hail, Caesar!
9. True Grit
10. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
11. Blood Simple.
12. The Big Lebowski
13. Burn After Reading
14. Intolerable Cruelty
15. Raising Arizona
16. The Ladykillers

By: filmaboutlove

filmaboutlove — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 23:39:00 +0000

I’m going to have to agree with my fellow commentators, not really a great ranking of their incredible catalogue. Nice try nonetheless.

By: Quiet Wyatt

Quiet Wyatt — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 22:08:00 +0000

In reply to Jeremy Carrier. Yeah, there is a certain "Too Cool for School" quality about the reviewers and writers at the Playlist save for a couple of names. It's starting to get quite predictable around here.

By: Jeremy Carrier

Jeremy Carrier — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 20:53:00 +0000

In reply to Quiet Wyatt. I had a feeling ThePlaylist would put those two at the top. Its just their taste, JUST this side of alternative. I knew it as as soon as I saw No Country for Old Men and Lebowski outside the top 5 somehow.

By: Quiet Wyatt

Quiet Wyatt — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 19:29:00 +0000

Of course these lists are always subjective, but I think your top 2 films (which I adore) are out of place simply by virtue of their inaccessibility. But kudos for ranking O Brother farther down on your list, a film that’s wildly overrated.

By: Dolev Amitai

Dolev Amitai — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 17:36:00 +0000

I love their work but this is a shit ranking