My Encounters with the Coens

Well i am talking about the Coen Brothers, actually i saw Burn After Reading yesterday , loved it, i guess i can easily give it a second viewing right now without feeling bored and that made me think are my movie tastes changing??? This movie never interested me before , it has so many A list actors but still i was not interested till now fact being i am not a big fan of Coen cinema til now. My first 'Coen' movie was 'Fargo' which i watched like i don't know around 8-10 years back i guess, that was the time when all i know about Hollywood was Bond, Rambo, Terminator and Aliens , that was the time i thought Arnold Schwarzenegger was a great actor ( no offense) , Terminator 2 and Rambo first blood are the best movies ever made, Independence Day is a masterpiece... i guess now you have a clear idea about my approach towards cinema those days and obviously i hated Fargo, i mean the hero is a pregnant women , no good action sequences nothing i could never figure out how on earth this movie is such a rage and by know you should have realized i din't have the 'maturity' to look who is the director , who are the actors and details about any movie i watch so i don't know who are these Coens (actually i never heard about them till 'No Country for Old Men' :) i know i know i am just hopeless ) , so now where are we yaa 'Fargo' i hated it, my next encounter was 'Hudsucker Proxy' .. hmm didnot hate it .. enjoied it in parts i guess.. i still remember the scene when the fatso suddenly gets on the conference table and starts running and jumps out of the window and of course Jeniffer Jason Leigh.. well i like her... to be more specific her assets .. never looked beyond those to every think about her acting and this movie for the first time i did watch her beyond that and she was not that bad .. This was the time i saw 'shawshank redemption' so i picked up this movie just seeing 'tim robbins on the cover of the dvd no idea of the director still ... then it was 'ladykillers'.. picked it up for TomHanks and just hated it period and then was 'intolerable cruelty' which i watched for .. u know Catherine zeta jones , didnot like the movie but enjoyed watched her so paisa vasool and then came 'No Country for old men' .. i was completely bowled over , love every moment/frame of it and this is when Coens arrived for me but still i was not aware of their other movies and came 'superbad'... ok ok i know superbad is not from Coen brothers i am just talking about a scene/dialogue in this movie when jonah hill is talking about his porn website subscriptions and says to Micheal Cera who looks for good story in a porn movie that he is sorry that Coen brothers donot direct these movies and that day i opened imdb to look for other movies that they directed and was pleasantly surprised when none of them are the ones i liked and was bit more surprised when all those movies are considered to be very good (esp. Fargo) and i decided Coens are not for me , except for the occasional No Country for old men i should stay away from them and when Burn after reading opened in theatres i decided to stay away from it and after reading the reviews that this was not 'as good as' fargo i was sure i will hate it but i was pleasanty surprised when i saw it yesterday everybody were awesome , story was simple , comedy was subtle and i was never bored John Malkovich , tilda swanson being their usual self , Clooney's secret project and ofcourse the icing of the cake Brad pitt, he was just awesome
"Pitt, who plays a particularly unintelligent character in Burn After Reading, said of his role, "After reading the part, which they said was hand-written for myself, I was not sure if I should be flattered or insulted.""
"Pitt also said when he was shown the script, he told the Coens he did not know how to play the part because the character was such an idiot: "There was a pause and then Joel goes...'You'll be fine.'" (lifted from wikipedia)

Looks like my movie tastes are changing.. may be i will like Fargo if i watch it now...i guess.....