Fair warning: probably about 15 minutes of that is about cotton candy.

Hey Sean, random question did you and Frank settle your Star Wars bet from the neighbors episode where Frank predicted Han Solo’s fate?

Did we actually make a bet on that? I don’t remember. I guess I’ll have to go back and relisten to it.

It’s at 41:13 in the Neighbors episode.

Thumbs up for LoseIt! app. Been using it for years and got a free premium account. Yes, lots of info is from others adding nutrient info. But, you just pick the most accurate one.

Deppilepsy is gold

Ah okay. Was he actually in the movie though or just mentioned?

Wasn’t actually physically in the movie but Brolin speaks to him on the phone a few times I believe and constantly talked about as the head of the studio.

And two random things I noticed as well. Capitol Records is the same studio Barton Fink goes to work for and at the beginning they mention a Wallace Beery which is the actor who is supposed to star in Barton Finks “wrestling picture”

Come on fellas, Coen Brothers premium should be first 7 films minimum. I think if you guys can survive 5 Michael Bay movies at about 2+ hours each, you should easily manage Coen Brothers films where none of which hit the 2 hour mark.

First seven of their movies would be nice:
Blood Simple
Raising Arizona
Millers Crossing
Barton Fink
Hudsucker Proxy
Fargo
Big Lebowski

And if you’re feeling extra generous, toss in O Brother as well. Prior, to Hail Caesar, they had 16 films, so could split it right down the middle for a potential part 2 in the future.

Hahaha what a pile of dog shit! Thanks for the post!

Bet was confirmed at the 49 minute mark. Frank really needs to keep track of his bets; he was about to miss out on 20 big ones. Indianamcclain should also get a cut of that sweet 20 for the reminder.

Pretty sick looking theater room there. Is that Storm Trooper helmet full scale 1:1?

Thanks, Josh. Yes, the Stormtrooper Helmet is the full-sized version that was offered from ‘Master Replicas’. Here are some better shots of the room along with some closer pictures of some of the prop-replicas in the glass cabinet.

Holly cow, it’s like a Spielberg/Lucas museum! I need to get one of those E.T.s.

I seriously doubt that either Jay or Frank would grant me a full ‘pardon’ due to the severity of my crimes, but maybe I could be granted leniency. (I’m not holding my breath though.) ????

And I agree with you, the E.T. is definitely a cool piece. They look awesome in person.

The scene where Marge meets up with her old friend from highschool served a key purpose in the plot of Fargo. After Marge realises that he had lied to her about his whole life story, it dawns on her that Lundegaard may have also been lying to her. She then travels back to Brainerd is to question Lundegaard again.

I agree with Sam completely… you guys are talking about doing the first 6 films, but it wouldn’t be a Coen’s premium without a Big Lebowski discussion and that’s only one more. The first 7 is the perfect way to go.

Did not know about that. Pretty sweet. Frank might need to rewatch it again.

I could also see part 2 of the Coen premium glossing over Intolerable Cruelty & Ladykillers, really not a ton to dwell on with those… Plus we’ve already gotten a bit of discussion about Llewyn Davis & True Grit when they both came out. So that leaves O Brother, The Man Who Wasn’t There, No Country, Burn After Reading & A Serious Man. I’d live to hear updated takes on all those!

I think Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers would be interesting discussions as they are widely considered, and for a pretty good reason, bottom-tier Coen brothers movies.

I’d also like to hear an update a bit on Inside Llewyn Davis even though it’s very new. I feel at end of year 2013, Jay didn’t seem to appreciate as much as he does now. He expanded a little bit more about it when he gave it a rewatch a while back, but not as much as would be done a premium. Especially since a part 2 would likely not be for another year or 2 (or however long it takes for a new Coen film to come out). By that time, I could see revisiting Llewyn Davis and True Grit more reasonable.

I think the reason that many didn’t get Hail Caesar! is because the Coens use the film to point out that Hollywood is, as its critics have pointed out since its founding, an idol of godlessness. Most don’t seem to notice that the Coens do not share the same horror as do their contemporaries in treating of questions of religion, even going so far — may the heavens forbid it — as to cast ideas of God in a favorable light. For a good example, I’m thinking particularly of the moment in No Country For Old Men in which Jones despairs that God does not think very much of him, and his friend reassures him with “You don’t know what He thinks.” Even Chigurh’s (don’t know how to spell it – not looking it up) car accident comeuppance seems to hint at the beginnings of divine retribution. Hail Caesar!, likewise, casts Eddie Mannix’s simple piety in a sympathetic light, and although Mannix calls Capitol pictures a dump, he rises above the madness that surrounds him by his faithful adherence to doing his job well, which almost seems to abscond him from the fact that his job consists of lying to the public about the nature of the people who frequent Capitol pictures. And the nature of those people is the real animating principle of Hollywood. That nature is communicated by way of their adulterous natures. Manix and the cowboy actor, the good characters in the film, are steadfast and faithful (the cowboy actor’s fixed date with the latina starlet is the epitome of naive innocence), but Clooney’s actor and Tatum’s tap dancing sailor communist, the bad characters, are adulterous and characterized mainly by hints of inclinations to sodomy surround them (just pointing out what’s in the film, please don’t be unreasonable). The bad characters are also communists. Now, don’t lay the ban hammer down on me but I’d just like to point out that it is a fact of history that Communism was frequently linked to homosexuality. Communism is atheist of course, so the communists are attempting to excise God from Hollywood, even from a biblical epic as its being made. The primary thrust of the film is that Cloony’s Converso Roman is stolen directly from the picture. The Christian is removed from the epic. Additionally, when Mannix is watching the film’s dailies, God’s image is absent, and a title card reads something like “divine presence to be inserted later”. And most subtly, a line in the Biblical Epic’s script is changed from Passion to ardor. Passion is of course, a reference to the Crucifixion. And even Clooney’s character complains that the change doesn’t make sense because passion is a stronger word than ardor.

The film’s end credits include a rendition of a song called Echelon’s Song by the Soviet Red Army choir, a song nostolgic for the glories of the bolshevik revolution. The song begins to play as the film ends on a wide shot of the Hollywood’s Capitol studios.

This image of the film’s Hollywood revolutionaries is an evocation of the famous painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware, which is of course, a painting of American revolutionaries.

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The simple takeway is that the Coens are just outright saying that
Hollywood is communist, and that’s why no one gets it. To the liberal
who adores the Coen Brothers, they would never say such a thing, or should I say they would never suggest such a thing was bad, so that
message can’t be in there. I’d say that the Coens’ political
allegiances are not as cut and dry as one may think. Honestly though, I’m not sure how anyone could make an honest film about Hollywood and not clearly see that the place has been atheist from the the beginning.

By some bizarre coincidence, my nostalgia goaded me into watching Wayne’s World 2 yesterday, before I watched Hail Ceasar even, and it has an image I could have never guessed in a million years would be in Wayne’s World 2, and yet…

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