The Ladykillers

[grand theft sparrow]

if i hadnt known that this was a coen's brothers film before viewing the trailer, i wouldve thought it was from teh creators of big mammas house -- this looks really really fucking horrible

Yes it does look horrible...  

If by horrible, you mean awesome, then yes.  Sure, the old lady beating Marlon Wayans with the pillow is a bit much but no different from the bug-eyed reactions of... just about everybody in O Brother.

"We must have waffles.  We must all have waffles forthwith!"  

I'm not worried at all.

[ElPandaRoyal]

if i hadnt known that this was a coen's brothers film before viewing the trailer, i wouldve thought it was from teh creators of big mammas house -- this looks really really fucking horrible

Yes it does look horrible...  

If by horrible, you mean awesome, then yes.  Sure, the old lady beating Marlon Wayans with the pillow is a bit much but no different from the bug-eyed reactions of... just about everybody in O Brother.

"We must have waffles.  We must all have waffles forthwith!"  

I'm not worried at all.

I really want to love it, but I stil can't get over the fact that Intolerable Cruelty, in general, sucked big donkey dicks.

[Ghostboy]

I didn't realize this was going to be rated R. At the very least, it means they're not pulling any punches.

[Pubrick]

or that sumone says a naughty word.

[Pwaybloe]

Yeah.  When I was little, I got my mouth washed out for saying "waffles."  

Saying "pancakes" was ok, but then I was instructed to do a couple of karate moves before I sat back down on my bench.

[Ordet]

first time ethan is credited as director

[modage]

watched the original Ladykillers tonite with Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers.  (not sure if anyone else here has seen it besides possibly Macguffin and maybe Cinephile), but it was okay.  not terribly funny, but it had its moments. its more a better 'idea' than a 'film', so i dont think a remake is a terrible idea in this case.  except for the fact that the coens shouldnt be wasting their time in the first place doing one when they should be generating superior material.  oh well.

[bonanzataz]

I didn't realize this was going to be rated R. At the very least, it means they're not pulling any punches.

or that sumone says a naughty word.

or that somebody smokes a cigarette.

[Stefen]

R Rated R for language including sexual references and tobacco use.

http://www.mpaa.org/movieratings/search/index.htm

[Redlum]

Short making of here. You get to hear Ethan's laugh. So its all good...

[kotte]

"He is given very poor human material to work with."

Love that quote...

[MacGuffin]

Hanks takes on `Killer' role for Coen bros.

Tom Hanks regards the bleak wintry expanse of the Public Garden, so different from "the cargo shorts and flip-flop'' weather he left behind in Los Angeles.

"It's moody,'' he said from his fifth-floor perch in the Four Seasons. "I want to curl up with a good volume of poetry: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Just read all day long.''

It's quite a departure from the temperature and tomes of his upcoming film, the Coen brothers' deep-fried remake of "The Ladykillers'' in which the A-list actor plays a Mississippi charlatan with a penchant for robbery, caped planter's suits and the florid poetry of Edgar Allen Poe.

"Not since Shakespeare have I been wearing capes,'' Hanks said of his Southern Gothic character, Goldthwait Higginson Dorr, Ph.D. "It's pure Doc Severinsen territory. You don't comment on how goofy your clothes are.''

A fan of the Coen brothers' films "Fargo'' and "Raising Arizona,'' Hanks was sold on the updated script about a hapless group of thieves who masquerade as classical musicians while trying to steal $1.6 million from a Mississippi riverboat casino. After playing a geekish lawman in "Catch Me If You Can,'' Hanks is on the other side in this caper, trying to mollify his suspicious landlady (Irma P. Hall) with his all-linen wardrobe and dramatic recitations of "To Helen.''

"You can't put your finger on what it is about a Coen brothers movie,'' Hanks said. "They're very odd movies that end up dictating their own kind of logic....As a guy that goes to the movies, I just want to see something I've never seen before. I want to have things demanded of me, my attention and my professional skills, in a place I've never been. And this was it.''

A place where an endless stream of garbage barges plies the Big Muddy and riverboat gamblers aboard the Bandit Queen dream large while playing penny slot machines.

"The Ladykillers'' represents a departure for the Coens: It's their first remake, unless one considers "O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' a faithful sampling of Homer's "The Odyssey.''

The droll 1955 original, which starred Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers, was the final release from England's Ealing Studios ("Kind Hearts and Coronets,'' "The Lavender Hill Mob''). Hired to adapt a script for Barry Sonnenfeld, the Coens took on the entire project when the "Get Shorty'' director passed.

"Big fans (of Ealing)? Um, yeah,'' said Joel, the elder Coen, who takes directing credit.

"You sound like a measured fan,'' kidded his brother, Ethan, the producer, who considers the Ealing comedies a bit precious - the movie equivalent of painted teacups.

"Makes you want to smash a couple,'' he added with a smile.

Instead of cudgels, the Coens employed gospel music and the trombonelike sackbut, irritable bowel syndrome and F-bomber Marlon Wayans.

"If some other type of filmmaker came up and said, 'Hey, we're going to remake the Alec Guinness comedy,' I'd have said, 'You have fun,' '' Hanks said. "But I only knew this as a Coen brothers movie.''

(The Coens did pay homage to Ealing in their first film, "Blood Simple,'' giving the detective a signature line from "The Ladykillers'': "Who looks stupid now?'')

"We like knuckleheads. There's no question about it,'' Joel Coen said.

"They make movies about knuckleheads, guys who have these plans that are somehow fool-proof,'' Hanks said. "It's not that everything goes wrong. It's that one thing goes wrong. It's like the necklace snaps and all the pearls go bouncing into every corner of the room.

"If there's something that attracts me to Coen brothers movies, it's that they're always about some foible of the human condition that assumes something impossible,'' he continued. "We all think we can get away with stuff. But the characters in Coen brothers movies think they can get away with a lot.''

Which is the antithesis of the modest actor's approach.

"It's all just a big crapshoot,'' Hanks said of the film business. "We're all just dodging bullets up there.''

Before the year is out, he'll also appear in Steven Spielberg's drama "The Terminal'' and Robert Zemeckis' effects-laden adaptation of the modern children's classic "The Polar Express.''

"So it's quite possible it all ends this year,'' Hanks said. "One last big swipe, then everybody says, 'That's it.' ''

[modage]

Hired to adapt a script for Barry Sonnenfeld, the Coens took on the entire project when the "Get Shorty'' director passed.

AND THERE YOU HAVE IT.  the reason this movie, like intolerable cruelty, does not look very good.  FUCK, coens, get your shit together.  QUIT agreeing to write scripts for other people.  QUIT agreeing to RE-write bad scripts by other people.  and GODDAMNIT, QUIT fucking deciding you want to direct that not-so-good script!  get back to coming up with your own ideas, and QUICK.

[Pubrick]

COENS QUIT, QUICK.

yeah, they're seriously losing it. or saving up/gaining boring ppl's trust in preparation for a HUGE SURPRISE.

at least, that's what i tell myself.

[El Duderino]

COENS QUIT, QUICK.

yeah, they're seriously losing it. or saving up/gaining boring ppl's trust in preparation for a HUGE SURPRISE.

i hope so