O Brother Where Art Thou is perhaps the greatest movie ever made

[MajorChode]

I've been watching this movie again tonight for the umpteenth time. You really can't get all out of it with just one or two viewings.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Brother,_Where_Art_Thou%3F#Parallels_with_the_journey_of_Odysseus

[flvegan]

1. It's definitely way up there, yes.

I don't know how many times I've watched that movie. It's just so good...and bizarre at the same time.

[Goblinmonger]

2. We show it to our Freshmen

after they read the Odyssey. They bring a new appreciation to the film. It is fun watching them "get it."

[abq e streeter]

3. Its up there; grew on me more and more even the 1st time

started thinking, yeah, its OK, then got into it, and realized how funny and well written, acted, everything, it was. Have seen it twice, but again, realized how good it was by time I was halfway through the 1st time.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

39. That's how Coen brothers movies work.

You watch them once, and it's usually, "Meh." You watch them two or three times, and you begin to appreciate them. By the fifth or the sixth time, you realize their genius.

[Inchworm]

4. Agreed

Gopher, Everett?

:)

[Swede]

5. Perfect casting,I don't know how they did it.

It's one of those classics you can watch again and again.

[AwakeAtLast]

6. I'm right there with you.

The music alone should be enough for anyone to watch it. Outstanding!

[msanthrope]

38. I bought the soundtrack---it's fantastic. n/t

[MajorChode]

46. Yep, I got the sountrack too. The movie is enough to make you a Bluegrass fan

[XemaSab]

7. Hot damn!

Hit's the Soggy Bottom boys! :woohoo:

(The blind dude in the recording studio was in Office Space. Classic.)

[grasswire]

8. I love it too.

My favorite scene is the one where Charles Durning realizes what the Soggy Bottom Boys can do for him and decides to hitch his campaign to their popularity. You can see it all in his face in a quick moment. Then he high-steps up onto the stage. That whole scene is gold. My FAVORITE movie is Victor Victoria, but this is a close second.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

9. One of my Favorites,

How can one go wrong with The Odyssey.

[X_Digger]

10. And damn near the best soundtrack.

Eerie on some tracks, heartbreaking on others.

[realisticphish]

11. very good, especially if you know classical mythology

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. I loved John Goodman's part. LOL

[LostInAnomie]

12. It's no Dolemite.

[BarenakedLady]

13. Hehehehe

I just watched it recently for the first time.

:D

[Inchworm]

14. And, did ya like it?

I must know. :P

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

15. I laughed

I think I'd like to see it again.

:)

[Inchworm]

16. Don't develop a hillbilly fetish!

We's troublemakers.

:*

[BarenakedLady]

20. No shit?

:spank:

Dang hillbillies!

[Ava]

17. she done r-u-n-n-o-f-t

i love that movie

[GreenPartyVoter]

18. I keep forgetting to Tivo it. I need to put it on my wish list. Funny thing is I was

just listening to this and then I read your post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjVZB34ibNo

[Ava]

19. the entire soundtrack for the movie is awesome

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. Yeah, I was watching a video of the Soggy Bottom Boys yesterday. I would like to

get the soundtrack at some point, for sure!

[davidinalameda]

35. it's an absolutely fantastic soundtrack

I have it on my iPod

[MajorChode]

21. I bought the DVD when it came out and I'll probably buy the Blu-Ray if it ever comes out

[applegrove]

22. I should rent it. I've never heard it reviewed before. Sounds like a catch.

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. It's a hoot!

[realisticphish]

27. oh, it's great

music, acting, production, everything's cool

[MajorChode]

30. You should read the book first

http://www.planetpdf.com/planetpdf/pdfs/free_ebooks/The_Odyssey_T.pdf

[Odin2005]

26. I LOVE that movie, it's definitely one of my favorites.

I like the allusions to Homer's Odyssey.

[Inchworm]

28. Here's my chance! In classical mythology/The Odessey.. what does the gohper represent?

Years.. I've wondered and never found out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82_bhD0_Trw

:think:

[csziggy]

32. LOL - I never noticed the gopher!

But there is a problem - what he has on that skewer is not a tortoise. The film is supposed to be set in the deep South and the only gophers we have here are gopher tortoises, not the rodent kind of gopher.

So that gopher has to be an allegory or something significant, especially since he offers it to Clooney's character more than once.

[Inchworm]

33. I knoooow!

:rofl:

I have The Odessey on my book list. I'll have to daggone read it to figure it out :D

:hi:

[csziggy]

36. I read it and the closest I can figure is that Circe feeds Odysseus' crew

A feast and turns them into swine - they escape and then get by the Sirens. Since the movie seems to show the sirens just after, maybe they were combining the two?

[RandomThoughts]

34. Great Song!!!!!!!

Here is a full version of the song

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1FQqSGxBso

[Graybeard]

29. I loved all of the wonderful references to The Wizard Of Oz.

It's been a while since I've seen it but I remember some great "homage" touches. (***Some spoilers here***)

Clooney keeps talking about his fear of fire.(Scarecrow)

The crossroads where they meet the boy with the guitar (Dorothy) looks just like the one on the yellow brick road.

They are pursued by a baddie, the Sheriff (Wicked Witch), whose ultimate demise is by way of water in the flood.

They gain entry to the KKK meeting in the same way the trio got into the Witch's Castle. (Listen to the music and you can hear the big green guards chanting, "Doh-eee-ohm, dee-oh-ohm.)

A wonderful film.

[Lex]

31. Love O Brother.

A great movie indeed.

"We're in a tight spot, boys."

[bigwillq]

37. I loved it!

:bounce:

[NJmaverick]

40. I was unexpectedly and pleasantly surprised by this movie

[Forkboy]

41. "We thought you was a toad."

Fucking awesome movie. My pic on my Myspace page is this one...



I crack up just looking at Durning now.

[Burma Jones]

42. When my Children were 5 and 3, this was their favorite movie

Skipping certain scenes of course........They have no idea John Goodman is in the film and missed out on the Klan and potential Lynching. But, we've seen most of this movie many many times.

My Grandmother loved this movie too

I like it almost as much as Lebowski

[Love Bug]

43. One thing I love about that movie is how George Clooney

was SO doing Clark Gable throughout. His mustache, mannerisms and speech inflections were all Gable. Too funny.

[Captain Hilts]

45. Damn, you just beat me to it. nt

[Captain Hilts]

44. I agree. It's terrific. A splendid send-up of Gable in "It Happened One Night" by Clooney. nt

[Vidar]

47. Great movie, but I wouldn't go that far.