Why is this film great?
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stevenackerman69 — 9 years ago(July 03, 2016 08:24 AM)
I think because it tries to do so many things at once and not just be one thing. You also have characters that seem real and understand their motivations. I certainly felt bad for Jerry and how his life was terrible, living under the thumb of his beep father in law. It also was really about how people talk and think. A lot of films don't do that.
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benaven — 9 years ago(February 02, 2017 10:43 PM)
I first saw this film back in 2008 & when I joined IMDb (Jan 2011) I scored it as a 7, based on my memory of it. i.e. I scored it as a 'good' film, but not a 'great' one. Watched it again last night & was very interested to see how I'd score it, knowing of the high regard in which it's held. I'm going to stick with my score of 7.
I really enjoyed it, but for me it doesn't cross that line between very good & great. My favourite Coen brothers' film would be the brilliant True Grit & I preferred The Big Lebowski to this as well. That film has the same black humour, the same inept criminal element etc, so although they are totally different films, for me that one did a better job of it. TBL got an 8 from me, True Grit, a 9.
Out of interest, as scoring in so difficult, I've noticed that the films at the bottom of the Top 250 list score ~ 8.0, so I give a film an 8 if I think it might be good enough to make it onto my own personal Top 250 list. As drawing up such a list would be fairly close to impossible, I've scored far more than 250 films as an 8 or higher, but I have to start somewhere!