O Brother, Where Art Thou?

[nockergeek]

Got to see this on cable again last night, and I must say it's one of my favorite movies. It's got such a gentle, quirky wit about it, and so many great scenes and vignettes. The characters and circumstances are funny, the look is wonderful, and the soundtrack is perfectly suited to the film. Also, there's a deeper thread running through the story, a tale of grace and redemption, of what was lost being found, of beating the Devil in the end.

And yet, I'm going through IMDb, and while there are a lot of people who love the film, there are quite a few who absolutely can't stand it, who thought it was boring and/or utterly terrible, and I wonder -- did they watch the same film I did?

But then, there are people in this world who liked Josie and the Pussycats, so I guess there's no accounting for taste. :)

Comments

[hidaman.livejournal.com]

Look fucker. I'm not gonna compare Josie to O Brother, because they're both very different types of stories. O Brother has a very deep, well told story to it (it IS a retelling of Homer's The Odyssey after all) whereas Josie was just an excuse to put a few cute girls on the screen and come up with a new story for an old comic book/cartoon. Legendary poem vs. comic book. Yeah, it's easy to see the difference in scale here. However, I was at least amused by Josie. Possibly just because I'm a big fan of both Alan Cumming (go Nightcrawler!@#!) and Parker Posey (and cute girls, of course), but still, it had it's other amusing moments.

See, I told you someone would defend Josie and the Pussycats! ^_^