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Title:	Movie Reviews and Discussion
Notice:	Please do DIR/TITLE before starting a new topic on a movie!
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Created:	Thu Jan 28 1993
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1249
Total number of notes:	16012

1233.0. "Raising Arizona" by GOBUCS::COOLEY (Megan and Michelle's Daddy) Wed Apr 02 1997 20:07

I thought I'd start a note on one of my all-time favs: Raising Arizona
since "Comedy Central" seems to be playing it several times a week.

This was, I believe, the second film by the Coen Brothers (who gave us
Blood Simple, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, and Fargo).

I know several people who think this was a perfectly dreadful film (even
some who I thought had a good opinion of movies, like Roger Ebert).  Anyway, 
I thought it was a riot when it came out and after watching bits of it 
lately, I still think it's pretty funny.

One thing the Coens do real well is that even bit characters seem to be so
special.  In Raising Arizona, here are some I noticed:

	The old man in the grocery store explaining how diapers work
	or "unless round is funny"

	The old timer in the bank asking if they should "freeze or drop"

	The convenience store kid with the gun

	Dot (who turns out to be Frances McDormand!)

Anyway, too many great scenes to recount here but my favorite is when
Ed (Holly Hunter) and HI (Nick Cage) are with Dot at the picnic table
and HI's realizing what he's gotten himself into (Pediatricians, Insurance)
and some kid keeps throwing food at him.  Nick Cage is priceless.  The 
best hairdo around.

Anyone else love this one?

Warren

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1233.1		GRIM::MESSENGER	Bob Messenger	`Wed Apr 02 1997 21:58`	4
	I remember really liking it, but it's been a while since I've seen it. Time for another look! -- Bob
1233.2		BUSY::SLAB	Enjoy what you do	`Thu Apr 03 1997 04:30`	3
	It was just on The Comedy Channel the other night.
1233.3		SUBPAC::GOLDIE	Resident Alien	`Thu Apr 03 1997 13:11`	4
	it's been on Comedy central a lot recently.Excellant movie@! ian
1233.4	classic	MAIL2::LABUDDE	www.tangled.web.com	`Thu Apr 03 1997 13:50`	7
	This has been on my top ten list for awhile. It's one of those movies that you can watch again and again. And is funny every time.
1233.5		JAMIN::RUZICH	PATHWORKS Client Engineering	`Thu Apr 03 1997 16:25`	8
	My favorite scene shows a muddy creature raising itself from the muck, like some half-formed primordial lungfish determined to live on land. It looks like the earth itself is giving birth. This turns out to be John Goodman escaping from prison. -Steve
1233.6		SUBPAC::GOLDIE	Resident Alien	`Thu Apr 03 1997 18:22`	12
	re-1 then with primevil roar,he plucks his friend out of the ground! excellant scene! ian
1233.7	In a perfect world...	DECC::SULLIVAN	Jeff Sullivan	`Thu Apr 03 1997 23:19`	11
	When reviewing Fargo, either Siskel or Ebert said that they would like to see the Coen Brothers release a new movie every week. A world that like that would not be a bad place to live... I saw Raising Arizon quite a while ago and caught only a little bit of it recently. I think I'd like to see it again. My favorite Coen movies are Blood Simple, Fargo and Miller's Crossing; approximately in that order. -Jeff
1233.8	Lowering Indiana	NEWVAX::BUCHMAN	Rosalie's Uncle	`Tue Apr 08 1997 17:56`	12
	Excellent flick! Thanks for reminding us, Warren; it's bene far too long since I've seen it. A couple of my favorite scenes: - Zoom in on the policeman's name tag as Hi's boss tells him one of his famous jokes; - The furniture king who can't resist plugging the sale at his store while being interviewed during a grave family crisis; - Hi looking at his hand, looking up at the motorcycle guy, and saying "I'm sorry..." Sounds like viewing for the weekend! Jim B.
1233.9	The first movie I ever bought on Laserdisc. Coen Bros. RULE!	WONDER::REILLY	Sean Reilly, Alpha Servers, DTN 223-4375	`Wed Apr 09 1997 01:36`	17
	<not word for word, but..> "And when there was no crawdads, we ate sand." "You ate what?" "We ate sand." "You ate sand?" "What was the child wearing?" "What? Nobody sleeps naked in this house. He was wearing his jammies!" "And what did they look like?" "What?? I don't know - they had Yodas and s**t on 'em or somethin'!"