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BAMF's November 2018 Cinejourney (22 movies items)" Familiar Actors: Tim Blake Nelson Clancy Brown David Krumholtz E.E. Bell Matthew Willig James Franco Stephen Root Ralph Ineson Jesse Luken Liam Neeson Harry Melling Paul Rae Tom Waits Zoe Kazan Brendan Gleeson Saul Rubinek and Tyne Daly True Rating: 9.3/10 Body Count: 29 (4 unconfirmed) Balled of Buster Scruggs- 8 (1 unconfirmed) Near Algodones- 9 Meal Ticket- 1 unconfirmed All Gold Canyon- 1 The Gal Who Got Rattled- 10 (2 unconfirmed) The Mortal Remains- 1"
Watched in 2019
ADG Award for Best Period Production Design: 2010s
“Since I have always been a huge fan of the Coen brothers, of course, I was really eager to check this flick. Well, even if it won't go down as one of their best movies, I thought it was fairly enjoyable and, at least, it was a slight improvement on 'Hail, Caesar!' which was, in my opinion, one of their weakest movies so far. First of all, even though some hard-core movie fans might prefer the good old celluloid, the digital photography displayed in this movie was beautiful and, in my opinion, it was the most gorgeous movie delivered by the Coen brothers so far. Concerning the little stories they gave us, to be honest, even though they were not bad, none of them really impressed me. The first one dealing with Buster Scruggs himself was by far the best one but all the others were going from ” read more
“The title ballad/sketch (more than a ballad is a country black humour stuff) is not the best, is more clisé and satire of singing mortal cowbow outpast bu another one, till dead. There's always dead in the other sketches, including the experience of being almost hung ("first time?" asks James Franco to a companion of dead). 4 stars is because of wonderful sketch with Liam Neeson and the no legged no armed man.” read more