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Coen Brothers, you know the movie.
Not 100% with you on your police work there, Lou, etc.
Funny looking guys, etc.
Yeah, so this is a good film.
Controversial, I know, right out of the box.
This is, yeah, you know, I'm out here now with the daring minority takes, but yeah, good film.
Did not win Best Picture.
Do you remember what film it lost to in the 1997 Oscars?
Oh, God, I dread to think.
Go on, remind me.
The English Patient.
Oh, God!
I saw The English Patient in the cinema.
And I was with two or three other people.
Yeah, no, I would have been with three other people.
And they all came out raving about it.
Oh, this is always wonderful.
They weren't all women, by the way.
It was it was 50 50 split.
Oh, wonderful.
Wonderful.
I loved it.
Amazing masterpiece.
Genius.
Heart rending.
And yeah, I fucking hated it.
I still never, never bothered to see the English patient.
I've seen plenty of Ralph Fiennes, never seen the English patient.
That is a bad film.
That is just legitimately a bad film.
It's bad.
It's bad.
I hate it.
It's bad.
This was kind of the era.
I mean, this is really like the peak era in which they just designed these movies in a lab to win Oscars, right?
You know, Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if English Patient quite fits into that.
I think it's worse than that, to be honest.
I think everybody involved was very sincere, which is worse.
Fair enough.
But we're not here.
We're not here to talk about the English Patient or the Oscars, really.
We're here to talk about a superior film.
Yeah, I guess.
I mean, have you watched any of the FX TV series at all?
I watched the first season with Martin Freedman and Billy Bob Thornton, I think, isn't it?
I don't know.
freeman martin bilbo what's it yep yeah uh and uh billy bob thornton i think isn't it isn't he first season i don't know i i have not seen it so i was just curious if you what your what your thoughts were on the tv series it was okay it It was kind of it wasn't really like Fargo the film.
It was kind of dressed in some of the Fargo the film's clothes, if you follow me.
But it wasn't.
I think.
It smacked of having been made by people who, from my point of view, misunderstood Fargo as being kind of arch and mocking, sort of raised eyebrow at small town America, you know, Minnesota people and stuff like that.
And sort of viewing Fargo as kind of slightly more realist David Lynch, you know, quite as openly weird, openly surreal Twin Peaks, which is a view that plenty of people have of the film.
And I think is wrong, I think.
But I think the people that made the at least the first season, I've heard that the other seasons are better than the first season, actually.
So I've always been meaning to go back to it because the first season was OK.
You know, it entertained me for 10 episodes or whatever it was.
But yeah, I feel I felt like the first season was made by people that didn't really get the film, at least not as well as I do.
So I appreciate the Muppets on a much deeper level than you is what I'm saying.
It's the Professor Frank with the children's toy, you know, explains all the physics of the Tinker toy and then goes, well, can we play with it?
No, you don't understand on all the levels I do.
That's, that's less than Fargo.
That was basically my blogging career, you know?
Yeah.
And now we do this for a living.
So, you know, hey, we're just failing upwards is what we're saying.
