Same mate, just watched it aswell. It had some good parts, the first story was the best and the last one but a few were a little dull for me. Still worth a watch and as always with the Coens they like to make something original!
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Tend to agree - as much as I like the Coens, I have to call them out on a decidedly mixed bag. Most of these stories can be described in two sentences - with last sentence being - "....and then they/he/she died." First one (
Buster) was funny, secong was a just a shaggy dog joke (Algodones), third was just boring, uncomfortable and sad (
Meal Ticket), fourth was interesting but wholly unbelievable in its denoument (
Gold Canyon), girl who got Rattled was involving but again, a shaggy dog ending, and
Mortal Remains was obviously the worst with so-so dialog and a predictable ending telegraphed from miles away.
The cinematography is fantastic. The throughline is obviously death. But it hangs together pretty weakly, and the sum
and the parts have issues. I admit to being bored quite a few times, and after a few endings saying "What the hell was the point of even telling that story?"
And more than once I thought "The director of
GRIM PRAIRIE TALES (1990) is either honored, or pissed that the Coen Brothers nicked his movie all these years later."
