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madman84 t1_ixmie9r wrote

Reply to comment by riegspsych325 in What was a movie that took more than one viewing to love and understand it much more? by Provav

That to me is the defining feature of most Coen brothers movies. On first watch they strike you as kind of funny/strange but nothing special. But something sticks with you and if you watch it again it really opens up and then gets better with each subsequent rewatch.

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scrubjays t1_ixmir4m wrote

This happened to me with No Country for Old Men. I was so busy watching LLewelyn and the sherriff I did not really pay attention to Anton Chigurgh, who is really the, for lack of a better word, 'heart' of the movie.

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NonuTheGOAT t1_ixo6nph wrote

+1. Saw No Country and Lebowski when I was a teenager and fucking hated them. Now they're two of my faves. They're art films disguised as studio movies.

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traindodge t1_ixtp47s wrote

I’m a big Coen head now but that was my experience with A Serious Man. All these years later I can’t get that movie out of my head and it holds up each time.

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