Cohen_Bros.

Cohen Bros. O’ Brother, Where Art Thou' If Ethan and Joel Cohen had been able to sit down and write the entire script for O’ Brother, Where Art Thou straight through I might consider it a great movie. The problem I run into is that the brothers started the script years ago, and when they found themselves stuck they simply took a break and wrote something else. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Cohen brothers other films, (the Big Lebowski might be the funniest movie ever!) but O’ Brother seems too familiar to be considered a great film. In this respect I agree with Roger Ebert’s review that the movie “contains sequences that are wonderful in themselves - lovely short films – but the movie never really shapes itself into a whole.” The Cohen brother’s made great strides in cinematography, but really missed the boat with O’ Brother. The cast is full of tremendous actors who have dazzled when working with the Cohens, but that’s precisely the problem. John Goodman has appeared in the Cohen’s Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski playing the same violently psychotic character he plays in O’ Brother. Goodman’s performance as Big Dan Teague is solid, but it doesn’t cohen’s, o’, movie, brother, working, really, made, lebowski, good, film, big, think, script, performance, great, excellent, cohen, been, barton, turtorro, turns, turned, thou, themselves, step, scene, same, role, problem, plays, performances, might, john, joel, forward, fink