unarmedman wrote:My hunch is that its way overrated. But most Coen bros. films are.
Perhaps, but that's no fault of the films themselves, just the way overhyping detracting from the 'credibility' of otherwise fine bands is not necessarily a band's fault.
Anyway, I would contest the statement that *most* Coen Bros. films are overrated. A few of them are, and it really shows, but most of them... not so much:
The Man Who Wasn't There: not overrated
Raising Arizona: not overrated
Barton Fink: not overrated
Intolerable Cruelty and Hudsucker Proxy: not overrated because they were clearly bad films
Big Lebowski: more of a mega-cult film than an overrated one. It was initially panned by critics.
Fargo: overrated. A very good film, but the hype weighed heavily upon it.
O Brother Were Art Thou: overrated
Bonus: Gates of Eden, Ethan Coen's collection of short stories: underrated.
