>titular protagonist who's the first character we're introduced to
>is by far the best part of the entire movie
>dies in the first 15 minutes
Some of the stories like the one with the old gold panner and the girl who got rattled were pretty good, but Buster walking into situations should've just been the whole movie.
Buster was neat. There should be more cartoon-type characters just going on fricking tears through civilizations like a whirlwind where they can only be stopped by other people with cool ass cartoon-like energy. Otherwise they'll continue to manipulate physics and probability to their favor just by existing.
You basically just described Dragon Ball
Except in Dragon Ball it's mainly those cartoon characters next to each other, rather than being a rarity.
That anon is describing The Mask more than anything.
*Looney Tunes
ftfy
>Thinking Dragon Ball starts with Dragon Ball Z
You just described my life
Currently waiting on the other wacky chatacters to appear
A group of us would be awesome
>going in FRICKING TEARS THROUGH CIVILIZATION
he kills one guy in a card duel then gets shot, calm down Reddit
he takes out a whole bar full of miscreants like three minutes after appearing on screen
Gal who got rattled > New Gold Canyon > Buster Scruggs > Near Algodones > Meal Ticket > Mortal Remains
>is by far the best part of the entire movie
Nah.
Literally my ranking.
Yep.
New Gold Canyon > Buster Scruggs > Mortal Remains > Gal who got rattled > Meal Ticket > Near Algodones
The table trick should've been one shot, they overdid it.
it would have been great to have 90 minutes of Buster, but that character and that story had a point, which they get into after setting up Buster as a formidable shooter.
> You can't be on top forever.
You could just make it the end of the movie.
I recommended this movie to my boomerslop-loving parents. This is literally the only part that they stayed awake for.
My dad really liked the part where the kid got beat with a stick for walking backwards. He's a former school teacher and hates kids
Reddit the Movie
You would call golden age Cinemaphile reddit, newbie
new here zoomzoom? know who the coens even are?
Here's that Coen Kino I was telling you about
That was a half Coen movie. They split up after Buster Scruggs so that might be the end of good movies from them. However during their long career they put out a ton of kino and actually worked hard on trying to make great films, not generic slop.
Their split broke their talent, they worked well together, one as director and the other as co-director and producer fixing what the autist brother has in mind, both loose they just make one pathetic wacky film and other woke pandering because of his wife. It's over.
>They split up after Buster Scruggs
moronic decision
Agreed, but one or both of them got Trump Derangement Syndrome. Many such cases, sadly.
>know who the coens even are?
Israeli proto redditors, a meme forced by Hollywood
Did anyone else think that Mr Arthur killed the girl and made up the Indian attack? He has a perfect motivation. His helper wanted to marry her and leave the business, which would ruin it. Mr. Arthur couldn't do it alone so he took her out and shot her. The quote at the end says something like "Me. Arthur has no idea what he would tell the man" maybe I'm overthinking it
yes you are overthinking it.
You're overthinking it but not by much. I actually thought they were going for the angle you're describing because Knapp kept going on about how awesome the old guy is but he seemed to give the cold shoulder in every interaction they had so I was certain they would have him betray and sabotage Knapp to keep him on the trail.
I much prefer what we got, Arthur actually is all that he was hyped up to be and more, and the indecisive girl's undoing was being decisive for the first time in her life, a fine tragedy all the same but a less obvious one.
Just take the last lines at face value, Knapp got a fiancee last night and was looking forward to marriage and a good life in Oregon, but his wife died the next day while chasing after the dog he failed to put down previously, it's gonna be hard to tell him all that in a human way.
You're right. I haven't seen it since release so a lot of the details were foggy, but your interpretation is 100% correct and thematically fits perfectly in every way. Good post anon
He killed some Indians though, so he would believe that, but he probably wouldn't believe that she killed herself because she thought he was about to be raped and killed, he'd probably think that Mr Arthur killed her after the fight because it would be convenient to him.
Nah, people were genuinely more trusting of others on face value back then, particularly someone whom they knew had a reputation for honesty.
That's not to say everything was roses and sunshine or that shifty double crossing c**ts didn't exist (the West was kinda famous for them), but IN GENERAL people were more likely to take the word of a person at face value.
>That's not to say everything was roses and sunshine or that shifty double crossing c**ts didn't exist (the West was kinda famous for them), but IN GENERAL people were more likely to take the word of a person at face value.
In fact that’s one of the things that made swindlers successful
No one would buy shit from Soapy Smith today and one of the members would expose the operation on Twitter a week into it.
There were some mean spirited stories that I didn't like. Gold pan man was good. So was buster
Not all stories have happy endings
>spits
>There were some mean spirited stories that I didn't like
Was it the one about the guy using his quadriplegic brother as a side show attraction?
Not that had a happy ending. He was freed into the river
when i saw liam neeson stare into the river i started laughing my ass off like a madman. dudders never stood a chance lmao
RIP Duddykin
Yeah. And I heard about the rattle girl ending, so I didn't watch it.
Just turn it off when Arthur kills the Indian that tries to scalp him and pretend they lived happily ever after.
Even the panner looked like he would bite the dust along with the rest of them.
>IT WENT CLEAN THROUGH!
all the anons posting about the gal that got rattled are 100% correct
>by far the best part of the entire movie
APOLOGIZE
That segment made me feel like shit. HERE's the best part.
the rest is just boring and too serious
buster part is the only part thats funny
Near Algodones, New Gold Canyon, and Mortal Remains, are all very funny in a kind of dark and morbid way. But that's pretty in line with the Cohen's sense of humor, they've always been pretty dark.
Eh i half agree but thats what makes this moment and its accompanying song great.
So in Mortal Remains, were they dead?
Yes. The Coens are aging and as you go along that kind of thing starts to weigh on your mind
I said that while watching it with my parents, they didn't seem to get it. I figured it out pretty quickly, around the time they said the carriage driver never stops.
They're pretty in your face about it, one of the Coen self-inserts tells it directly to your face that we're all on a road to death and they're here to entertain and distract you in the meantime. The ride goes on regardless of what your beliefs are as a passenger etc. There's also some talk about voyeurism or something, enjoying tragedies happening to relatable people as long as they aren't actually us. Mortal Remains and Meal Ticket were a bit too on the nose as I remember.
pretty obviously, yes. they are crossing over
Buster Scruggs>Gal who got rattled > New Gold Canyon>Near Algodones > Meal Ticket > Mortal Remains
There first three can switch spots depending on my mood
Everyone treats the end of Buster Scruggs as a tragedy, but I saw it as the best ending for him. He gets gunned down by the only person who respects him, and the one best fit to carry on his legacy.
>Buster walking into situations should've just been the whole movie.
I’d actually have enjoyed this. Channel some Will Rodgers stuff.
buster was a homosexual