Blood Simple (1984) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2023-07-22 16:51:22 +0000 UTC
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Ohh yaa
Odd Thomas
2023-07-26 18:03:22 +0000 UTCPossibly her best film, although it's a close race with Fargo.
David Martin
2023-07-26 04:38:07 +0000 UTCAll sorts the Shawshank redemption is my all time favourite but tucker and dale Vs evil , the Truman show , the dambusters , the wick movies , aliens , coraline , htdyd , brave , the expendables , how to catch a spider etc etc
Ian
2023-07-24 05:08:30 +0000 UTCYeah they're directing style is definitely an acquired taste, I found Fargo boring as well and this just kept me intrigued enough but not by much lol watching it with Sam and Daniel makes it a thousand times more palpable 👍 lol
dieselbeast
2023-07-24 02:43:09 +0000 UTCIt's great.
Tyler Foster
2023-07-24 02:03:40 +0000 UTCNow I'm curious of what movies you do like :)
PIG
2023-07-23 20:41:00 +0000 UTCI'll take all the Frances films! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-07-23 18:57:51 +0000 UTCAww that's okay! Thanks for checking out the outro, Ian! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-07-23 18:57:36 +0000 UTCOh no way! -sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-07-23 18:57:07 +0000 UTCOoh I like this! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-07-23 18:56:49 +0000 UTCGuillermo Del Toro is a top director for Daniel, so this was really cool! Thanks for sharing! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-07-23 18:55:45 +0000 UTCDetective Sam... I love it! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2023-07-23 18:54:00 +0000 UTCFor more iconic Frances McDormand: Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri. It'll blow your socks off.
Odd Thomas
2023-07-23 13:05:56 +0000 UTCSeconded. This movie is excellent.
Brandon
2023-07-23 12:20:54 +0000 UTCSeems I'm definitely not a coen brothers fan 🤷 after 15 mins I was so bored I just skipped to the outro which I always enjoy 👍 hated Fargo so yeah I would say I'm not a fan but that's ok we can't all be the same and you guys loved it which is all that matters really 🙂
Ian
2023-07-23 09:14:02 +0000 UTCOne more thought: I love the visual pun of the lighter being under fish hooked on the red line, so the lighter is just a red herring. First time noticing this. That’s the brilliance of the Coen brothers, and as you pointed out, they put everything there for a reason. Another great reaction to a well deserved movie.
Robert Boyd
2023-07-23 05:12:35 +0000 UTCAlmost forgot. There is a 2009 remake set in ancient China. I'm serious. It's called A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop. I'm highly doubtful, but I wish they included "It's the Same Old Song" by the Four Tops in the soundtrack. Here's the trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMGBQDpfLnc
Ellie Miller
2023-07-23 02:24:11 +0000 UTCThe last scene with the P.I. looking up at the plumbing is a kind waiting-for-the-other-shoe-to-drop metaphor...he's sitting there waiting to die, while the bead of water is waiting to drop from the pipes. Simple, but poetic.
Steve Mercier
2023-07-22 21:54:47 +0000 UTCSam is correct, this is the debut film by the Coen brothers. As others have mentioned, the Coens became friends with Sam Raimi at some point, before he had made The Evil Dead, and Joel even worked on it as an assistant editor. They wrote Raimi's second film with him, Crimewave, but Raimi disowned the final product after producers interfered. Since Raimi had made a movie, they asked him for advice on how to get their movie made, and on his advice they shot a fake trailer for the movie (including Bruce Campbell playing Marty) to show to potential investors, because it was easier than pitching the story or getting them to read the script, and it showed they could actually direct. Later, they collaborated on the script for the Coens' fifth film, The Hudsucker Proxy. In 2009, the movie was remade as, of all things, a period piece set in 19th century China by director Zhang Yimou, who is most famous in America for making the Jet Li movie Hero, and House of Flying Daggers. The remake, which is called A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop, is great and I highly recommend it. (Ethan also saw it at a film festival and said he loved it; I don't know if Joel ever publicly commented on it.) The only small detail you appeared to miss is that when Abby gets the phone call from the detective she thinks is Marty, it's because she can hear the ceiling fan in Ray's house and thinks it's the ceiling fan in Marty's office. Also, Visser does think Ray has the photo and/or the lighter, but Ray actually just leaves it on Marty's desk when he surveys the wrecked office, because it doesn't mean anything to him. I love the subtle joke of both Marty and Ray looking at the bloody wrist in the photo in confusion -- the private detective, Visser, hasn't necessarily thought the logic of his photo doctoring through so much as how convincing it is. When Meurice is listening to the voicemail messages on his answering machine, there's one from a woman chiding him and saying she's traveling to South America. That's the voice of Holly Hunter, who was the Coens first choice for the role of Abby. She was doing a play and thus unavailable, so she recommended her roommate, Frances McDormand instead. Not only did it work out well for the Coens movies, it worked out especially well for Joel personally, as he met and has been married to Frances ever since. They also made up for it, casting Holly in their second movie Raising Arizona, which you've of course seen. Nicolas Cage's co-worker in that film, telling him about a story involving a severed head on a highway, is played by M. Emmet Walsh, who plays Visser in this movie. I think the droplet of water is just about inevitability. Much like the events of the movie, once gravity has taken hold, there's no stopping it from falling, even if it does a little dance on the pipe before falling onto Visser's face. The movie was released on Blu-ray in a nice restoration by The Criterion Collection, whose logo appears at the beginning of your copy. The Coens participated in some nice extras for the disc, which is a departure from the DVD edition that preceded it. On that DVD, you can listen to a commentary by Kenneth Loring of Forever Young Films. Forever Young Films is a fake restoration company that the Coens made up, and Kenneth Loring is a fictional scholar played by comedian Jim Piddock. That commentary was written by the Coens, and features such absurd behind-the-scenes trivia as suggesting the opening scene of Ray and Abby was shot in reverse and upside down, and Loring goes on at great length about the cut of the movie he saw before it was destroyed by the filmmakers.
Tyler Foster
2023-07-22 21:34:02 +0000 UTCGreat reaction, guys. These might be the best kind of movies to watch along with people. Two other hard, stripped-down noirs to watch at some point… DETOUR from 1945 with Tom Neal and Ann Savage, directed by Edgar G. Ulmer (known previously as a horror director) THE HITCH-HIKER from 1953 with Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, and William Talman, directed by noted actress Ida Lupino
Jason Chirevas
2023-07-22 20:38:30 +0000 UTC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (exclamation points!)
Steve Mercier
2023-07-22 19:40:42 +0000 UTCLove the way the Coen brothers can do so many films that all feel different yet all feel like Coen brothers.
Marcus Cato
2023-07-22 19:39:19 +0000 UTCGuillermo Del Toro did an interview with the Coen brothers and joked that the opening narration encapsulates most of their filmography. "Now I don't care if you're the pope of Rome, president of the United States or Man of the Year. Somethin' can all go wrong." So much of their movie DNA is born here. The opening shots of Texas, very similar to No Country. Disposing of a body on a highway road at night is Fargo. The private detective is absolutely a Coen brothers character. Also, the Evil Dead shot is because the Coen brothers are close friends with Sam Raimi. Pretty fascinating that these two guys from Minnesota have made so many movies that take place in the South. Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, O Brother Where Art Thou, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, True Grit, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The husband played by Dan Hedaya, he's a great character actor in a lot of movies but I always think of him as Cher's dad in Clueless 🙂.
Ellie Miller
2023-07-22 19:37:23 +0000 UTCGreat Film !!! Another Great one with Frances McDormand is "Missisippi Burning" from 1988 with Gene Hackman and Willem Dafoe !!!
Florian Meier
2023-07-22 19:11:33 +0000 UTCI'd like to recommend The Drop (2014). James Gandolfini in his last film I believe. Cast includes Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace and Matthias Schoenaerts. This movie would be right in Detective Sam's wheel house
Scott
2023-07-22 17:35:23 +0000 UTCSuch a great movie. This is a neo film noir. The cinematography is amazing. I hoped you both enjoyed this one as much as Fargo because I think both films complement each other nicely.
Robert Boyd
2023-07-22 17:18:23 +0000 UTC
