Saturday, August 21, 2010

Coen Brothers Power Rankings

Now that I've seen Burn After Reading, the filmography is complete. For purposes of this list, consider the segment from Paris, je t'aime to be "also recieving votes."

1. O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2. Raising Arizona
3. Blood Simple
4. Fargo
5. The Man Who Wasn't There
6. Intolerable Cruelty
7. No Country for Old Men
8. The Big Lebowski
9. Burn After Reading
10. A Serious Man
11. The Hudsucker Proxy
12. Barton Fink
13. Miller's Crossing
14. The Ladykillers

Honestly, positions 5-9 are something of a jumble. Can you really compare No Country for Old Men to The Big Lebowski? I'm very confident in the top four and bottom five, though. The other caveat is that most of these movies I've seen only once (and mostly many years ago), and since Fargo greatly improved in my mind after a second viewing there's no reason one of the others in the middle of the pack couldn't as well.

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