"There's more to life than money ya' know....and here ya'are....and it's a beautiful day."

@PillarOfWamuu

4 ай бұрын

I love how understated that line is. Really tears down the whole situation. Reminds me of Die hard at the finale when John confronts Hans as he holds Molly hostage. "That's what this is all about Hans? A fucking robbery?!"

@williambryan3346

4 ай бұрын

@@PillarOfWamuu *Holly, not Molly. 😁

@elizabethstrong6057

4 ай бұрын

It's so funny that she's admonishing a murderer like he is a child, and he has this look on his face like he wishes that shot had killed him rather than having to listen to her talk 😂

Many people can never quite figure out the purpose of the encounter that Marge has with Mike Yanagita in Minneapolis. Marge is a good person and assumes that Mike is too, When she finds that he appeared to be good but was actually a scumbag, it causes her to re-think her conclusions about the William H. Macy character.... I think.

@lizd2943

4 ай бұрын

Yeah right after she finds out the truth about Mike she's driving in her car and gets kind of a "hmmmm" look on her face and goes to see Jerry.

@Sophie-ge7ti

4 ай бұрын

I always though this was such a weird thing for Marge to "figure out" though. She's a super smart cop, but never before realized that sometimes, people lie?!?

@albertjimeno5315

4 ай бұрын

@Sophie-ge7ti But you know how sometimes one thought just leads to another? Happens to everyone.

Fun fact: the Coen Brothers are from Minnesota, so the “Minnesota Nice” accent is something they know well.

A pun isn't completely mature until it's fully groan .

@danawinsor1380

4 ай бұрын

Grooooooan.

@TheAndroidBishop

14 күн бұрын

Flawless victory

Not a true story, but such an atmospheric movie. I love this movie. I can’t even count how many times I’ve seen it. Brilliant. William H Macy said all of the dialogue was written, including all of the pauses, and the hemming and hawing and ‘uhs’ and ‘ums’ his character said. Frances McDormand. Absolutely brilliant. Every character is so brilliantly defined.

This movie came out right before Big Lebowski (which I saw your reaction to). In this movie Buscemi never stops talking, so in BL Buscemi plays Donny, who rarely speaks at all and whenever he does Walter tells him :STFU Donny"!

Nominated for 7 Oscars including Best Picture, but won for Best Actress Frances McDormand, and Best Original Screenplay

8:05 Well, now you understand the joke in The Big Lebowski

So I'm half Minnesotan. I say this because its such a distinct culture almost like having a parent from another country lol. If you were wondering, yes people do speak that way (accent plus overall way of speaking) in the smaller towns in the north of Minnesota. I had Aunts and uncles that spoke like they were straight from this movie. Incidentally, you were speaking of the series. The first season (at least the first episode I saw) takes place in my dad's hometown of Bemidji, where he was born and raised, where we visited each year. Love Bemidji.

William H. Macy will be forever associated with this movie. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for this role. He also appeared in Boogie Nights (1997), Pleasantville (1998), The Cooler (2003), and a bunch more. I think the Coens later admitted it wasn't really based on a true story, or maybe only that the plot is based on true events, but all the characters are fictional.

@Vlasko60

4 ай бұрын

I think the whole thing is made up. Now I know not to trust anything the Coen brothers say.

@TheCrayonMaster

4 ай бұрын

I highly recommend Cellular (2004) with William H. Macy and Chris Evans.

Frances McDormand was just wonderful in this movie!

the midwest aesthetic is so painfully real

@SC-gp7kt

4 ай бұрын

You betcha it is! 😂

@williambryan3346

4 ай бұрын

@@SC-gp7kt Oh, yah! 😁

@isaacs3822

4 ай бұрын

Oh for sure

It's so funny that she's admonishing a murderer like he is a child, and he has this look on his face like he wishes that shot had killed him rather than having to listen to her talk 😂

The big blonde silent guy is played by Peter Stormare that plays Satan in Constantine with Keanu Reeves. I love him in that roll.

@flarrfan

4 ай бұрын

Also the chief "nihilist" in Lebowski...

@alissageorge5679

4 ай бұрын

@@flarrfan facts!

@hannejeppesen1809

6 күн бұрын

Peter Stormare is Swedish.

@kristin1533

Күн бұрын

He plays one of the inmates in the series Prison Break from the early or mid 2000s.

The fact that a body was disposed of in a woodchipper is the only part of the movie that's a true story.

oh ya, this is a good one there, gosh darn

You have GOT to watch the series (Season 1 is phenomenal). The series has the tone and vibe of the movie but that’s it…but you DO find out what happened to the money Steve Buscemi buried.

I would recommend Blood Simple. Another classic Cohen Bros.

Fargo TV series would be a perfect addition to the channel since each season is a stand-alone story.

One of the best movies from my favorite living director(s).

Fargo was definitely one of the best movies I've ever seen, in its genre. Top notch filmmaking.

This is a morality tale. True love - mundane, everyday, commonplace - trumps anything else you could ever have, especially "a little bit pf money".

I love the fact that they didn't understand the phrase "Oh, daddy." but like a minute later Zay says, "Oh, brother." Same connotation, Zay! lol

I recommended that you guys watch this over a year and a half ago, so about time you got to it! 😌 This is one of my all-time favorite movies. Happy you liked it, and glad you are now aware of the wood chipper part since it's considered one of the most iconic movie scenes ever. I taped this on VHS when I was a kid, and the TV version I had cut all the parts with Mike, her former classmate that she went to dinner with. That was always the one thing I thought was weird and out of place, so I preferred my version better.

@scottjo63

4 ай бұрын

The scene with Mike is supposed to be taken into a different sort of context. When Marge found out about Mike, she thought more about the story that Macy's character threw at her. She then requestions Macy's character, hence the scene where he takes off fleeing her.

Aspects of the movie based on real events but the full thing is not actually 'true' :D so excited you checked this out!

You guys are friggin’ Hilarious! 😁 Love your reactions. Keep it going, Young Skywalkers. 🎥🍿

Your third Coen Bros film? Raising Arizona should be next

@flarrfan

4 ай бұрын

And for something completely different ( and in IMO better) try O Brother Where Art Thou...When you get around to it, be sure to read a Wiki summary of the plot of Homer's Odyssey first. O Brother is a magical modern adaptation of the Odyssey.

@isaacs3822

4 ай бұрын

And Millers Crossing, arguably the most underrated movie of all time

@albertjimeno5315

4 ай бұрын

@flarrfan O Brother Where Art Thou is a sickening movie that promotes animal cruelty.

@flarrfan

4 ай бұрын

@@albertjimeno5315 Based on The Odyssey, where animals are killed. See the PETA vs. Coens controversy where they had to prove the cow hit by the car was digitized. It's a brilliant adaptation to semi-modern times.

@albertjimeno5315

4 ай бұрын

@flarrfan On second thought now that I think about it, just because a movie shows a character do something doesn’t mean it promotes it. I referred to the cow scene and also to a scene with a frog, but looks like I wasn’t the only one so angered since PETA intervened. I feel like ‘O Brother’ and ‘Fargo’ both have Tarantino influence on the sudden shots of violence. I did appreciate the ‘30s rural Southern look and vibe of ‘O Brother’ and the old-time music in it.

This is my 4th favorite movie of all time! I can watch it ANYTIME. Marge Gunderson is one of my favorite characters in film. So glad you guys are watching it.

@user-bi6rf4bv8v

4 ай бұрын

Marge is the best :)

@Mozdk1

4 ай бұрын

What are the other 3?

Congrats! You both nailed the brilliance of this Cohen Brother movie! Frances McDormand won a well-deserved Academy award for Best Actress. As you pointed out, the acting was totally brilliant by each actor in "Fargo."'

The King of Clubs used to be on Central Avenue in NE Minneapolis. It was torn down soon after this movie was made. The restaurant where Jerry, Wade and Stan discuss the kidnapping has also been torn down. I ate there several times. The staff was blissfully unaware that it appeared in an Oscar winning film.

Ethan Coen first explained why the pair added the "true story" disclaimer to the film, saying, "We wanted to make a movie just in the genre of a true story movie. You don't have to have a true story to make a true story movie." Still, it turns out "Fargo" may be more realistic than you think. "There are actually two little elements in the story that were based on actual incidents," Joel Coen told HuffPost. "One of them is the fact that there was a guy, I believe in the '60s or '70s, who was gumming up serial numbers for cars and defrauding the General Motors Finance Corporation. There was no kidnapping. There was no murder. It was a guy defrauding the GM Finance Corporation at some point." He continued, "The other thing based on something real: There was a murder in Connecticut, where a man killed his wife and disposed of the body -- put her into a wood chipper. But beyond that, the story is made up." -- can't get more definitively than that. Also explains why the series carried on "true story" narrative.

@Vlasko60

4 ай бұрын

The problem with that is, you can only get away with that once. Now I wouldn't believe anything they claim to be true without fact checking first.

Good reaction. One of the things I like about the Coen Bros movies is the simple but massively effective technique of allowing the characters and their personalities to drive the story. Note the contrast between the simple but honest lives of Marge and her husband to the greedy, dishonest, convoluted schemes of nearly everybody else. The tragedy is that the innocent are the only real victims. Everybody else pretty much got what they deserved, as if chance and chaos destroy good and bad alike. It's a pretty dark world view.

The bad guy with the bleached hair 'Gaear' looks like the love child of Judd Nelson and Bruce Willis...lol

@musicaleuphoria8699

4 ай бұрын

He kinda looks like he could be potentially Ryan Gosling's father.

@TheJoujou5555

4 ай бұрын

Peter Stormare. Swedish actor. He's been a lot of big movies. Usually "that kind of" character. My favorite is Dino Velvet from 8mm. Reactors should "find" that movie!!!

@WeerdMunkee

4 ай бұрын

@@TheJoujou5555 Peter Stormare is one of those "character actors" that never get the credit they deserve! For instance, Uli (aka Karl Hungus) in Log Jammin', in, Big Lebowski!

@jamesvonborcke

4 ай бұрын

I'd add to the Stormare list one of the best portrayals of Lucifer ever to appear on screen in _Constantine._

@RustyX2010

4 ай бұрын

He was in a scene with Bruce Willis in the movie "Armageddon"!

Frances McDormand just happens to be married to Joel Coen. You guys should check her performance in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri. She and Sam Rockwell are both amazing in that movie.

I'm 63 and the Fargo series is one of the best shows ever.

He knew what happened when he got home. He was looking around to see how it went.

Oh I am very happy that Cam & Zay are reacting to this fantastic film!! I'm excited for this reaction... it will be a classic.

@d.-_-.b

4 ай бұрын

It already is, dawncha gnaw.

Thanks for getting back to good movies..

So far you're hitting all the right cuts

Love Marge!❤ She embodies so many of the women I was fortunate to be surronded by growing up in a suburb of Minneapolis, especially my Mom. Great movie and reaction, thanks!

Francis absolutely earned the Oscar for this....superb acting. Top class film.

You guys should definitely watch Fargo Season 1 now, especially while this movie is still fresh in your head. A lot of similar characters who get in over their head. And also tie-ins and Easter eggs to the movie.

if you haven't seen it yet, give "Blood Simple" a look, one of the earlier Coen Brothers movie...

Many thanks to Cameron and Isaiah! ❄ Writers/directors Joel and Ethan Coen are always effective for me.

I find it a fun game to try to add up Jerry's body count in my head without looking at the movie. He's extra toasty toast.

Jerry Lundegaard and Margie, those accents are classic!

The "true story" note at the start lets the Coen brothers shoot this almost as a documentary. And the dialogue between the couple and the car dealer is pretty much the conversation Joel Coen had at one point when he was buying a car. But otherwise no, not true.

William H. Macy's performance was superb. One minute he had you feeling sorry for him, the next he made you hate him, and at other times, both emotions competed with each other. Not sure any other actor could do that.

@Vlasko60

4 ай бұрын

He's brilliant.

ohhh this is gonna be good!!

Not at all a true story

You guys are Fargoing straight to the top with puns like those! 😂

@WeerdMunkee

4 ай бұрын

🤨

I honestly think they should show this as a public service in schools under the title, "This is You Doing Crime. Don't be a Jerry."

He needs the money because he's been scamming the finance company with false car sales. The finance company calls him twice about the vin numbers of the cars.

Absolute classic! 💯

I spent 8 years in Minneapolis. I came across some folks that had this thick of accent. People think the way they talk is exaggerated. It's real...but not common.

@evilpenguinmas

4 ай бұрын

You drive 45 miles west on I94 and everyone talks like this movie. I've lived in Minnesota all my life. Most of it in the Twin Cities. My accent only comes out on certain words. "Boat" and "roof" are dead give aways.

Jerry is not ashamed. He doesn't have that in him.

You’re right about LEBOWSKI. I love how much that film recalls this one: Both films have a million-dollar ransom for a wife. In both films, Steve Buscemi says, “in and out.” Peter Stormare wants pancakes in both films. In Malibu, The Dude gets the Shep Proudfoot treatment (beaten on the floor). Bunny Lebowski is originally from Moorhead, Minnesota, the city next to . . . Fargo. The Dude is eager to give 4 dollars because Carl is reluctant to give 4 dollars. (Likewise, Anton is charged 69 cents in NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN because The Dude writes a check for that amount.)

@lizd2943

4 ай бұрын

I love that at some point in the process the Coen brothers must have said to Steve Buscemi "Hey is it ok if we just have people call you funny looking all through the movie?" and he was like "Yeah that's fine."

I like to think that Stan Grossman while managing Wade's estate ended up watching over Scotty until he outgrew the trust that Stan set up for him. They could write a movie from Scotty's perspective, how his life got jacked up and how he overcame, then relapsed into drugs, overdosed, and Stan ended up with the estate.

Son of a Gunderson!

The episode between Mike Yamagita and Marge was important. She took his story at face value as she believed Jerry Lundegard's story. But after she found out that Mike had lied she realized that Jerry might have lied and went back to grill him again. As a small town sherif she wasn't used to such nastiness but this whole mess makes her realize she was too trusting. But, in the end, she goes home to Norm and realizes life is still good.

The two of you reacting is by far the best reactions i've ever seen. I shit you not! Great insight, Great work. And you're clever and funny as.. ( Place exploitive here). Good on you.

This role got Frances McDormand typecast as a mom type forever (see "Almost Famous" for another great version). That's the Catch 22 of doing something that perfectly.

Peter Stormare (bad blond) played one of the anarchists (hit with a bowling bowl) in Big Lebowski.

Coen brothers are so good, the next one by them you guys need to check out is Raising Arizona. It’s the Coen’s take on comedy. I’ve got it in top ten comedies of all time.

I'd recommend "The Ref", you guys would friggin die laughing.

If you want to react to two other GREAT Frances McDormand performances, I highly recommend Mississippi Burning (1983, Willem Dafoe, Gene Hackman, Frances M) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri (2017, Frances M, Sam Rockwell, Woody Harrelson). Both are great movies that cover tough subjects.

Any fans of Until Dawn, you may recognize the blonde guy in this movie as the eerie psychiatrist! I love seeing all the roles that guy has done, it seems like no matter what he does he's always having a blast

28:19 Fuck that guy! LOL I lost it 🤣🤣 "It's Mike Nagagitaa!!!"

Great movie and great reactions. Classic movie. Raising Arizona is another favorite of mine

The TV series of the same name is also fantastic, highly recommend it. Each season is its own self-contained crime story, all connected to the movie in various ways. The most recent season was probably the best yet, though season 1 and 2 are probably my personal favorites.

I love this movie, it's a little odd but IMO the more you watch it the more you fall in love with the characters, story and dialog.

This is a mature step for you guys. 👍👍

@WeerdMunkee

4 ай бұрын

This is a mature step for you guys. 👍👍

This movie has of the smartest screenplays ever written. And the cast is unforgettable.

In case no one else has mentioned this, the brief case with the money was the same case as the Coens used in No Country for Old Men.

You have to watch the series to find out what happened to the money. Those seasons are definitely worth a watch.

@maceomaceo11

4 ай бұрын

Why you spoiling things for others? It's real easy to just say nothing about it.

Guys: I wasn't able to make your livestream to discuss the future of the channel, but I for one would LOVE to see you reacting to less popular movies. For example, Bubba Ho-Tep, Pootie Tang, Kingpin, Kids In The Hall Brain Candy, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension are all classic works of less expensively made movies that your particular brand of wry snark would be hysterical. (The woman who laps milk from a bowl like a cat in Pootie Tang? Kills me every time I see it). Just my two cents.

One of my personal faves by the Coen brothers is the Hudsucker Proxy. Has a great script.

I have a bachelor’s from Iowa State. We had more than a few Minnesota kids there. Before this movie was released, a bunch of us were hanging in my dorm room, and a girl from Minnesota was there-and we knew she was from there from the accent. Everyone started with “OH YAH, REAL GOOD” and such. She yelled, in the heaviest possible MN accent, “WE DON’T TALK LIKE THAT, THAT’S JUST OLD NORWEIGIANS!” There was a beat, and everyone cracked up.

For 10 years straight my family watched this movie on thanksgiving. It was my grandfathers favorite movie and just couldn't stop quoting it.

Watch the movie again while going to bed in the summer and your room will magically cool off! Lol, seriously.... Great reaction guys.

Yeah, William H. Macy is great! He starred on the Showtime series "Shameless" for 10 years.🏆

Awesome ❤

Movies you must react to : 12 angry men 1957 Joker 2019 Dark knight 2008 Don’t say a word 2001 Dolores Claiborne 1995 Requiem for a Dream 2000

@kristin1533

Күн бұрын

Also Collateral with Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx.

Frances did win her first Oscar of 3 in this movie!! I really think William H Macy should've won too....

You guys would actually love Frances McDormand in "Three Billboards outside Ebbing Missouri" she is very intense.

I kind of like that you’ve worked backwards with the Coen bros. If you like McDormand, she is fantastic in Blood Simple, which was the Coens’ first film. This though, is an utter American classic. Ranked 84 in AFI’s Top 100 Films. And it does get even better with each rewatch.

I think Jerry was just showing his true character, he was a used car salesman. Conning people and hiding all flaws--all for the sake for a little money!

That pun was good 😂! This was a great movie! I flew for a major airline called Northwest. We had maintenance bases in Fargo and Duluth. Nothing is as cold as a Feburary night in Fargo, North Dakota! Great town though! Friendly people. The string of dead people these guys left behind was crazy. The way they escalated everything was unbelievable.

The series first 3 seasons are fantastic, I don’t remember season 4 very well, but it was pretty good too from what I remember, season five was pretty good as well. I’d give them a watch and prepare to be blown away, they are true stories from different decades

If you want to find out what happened to the buried money, you have to watch the first season of the Fargo TV series. It’s not a major plot point but a neat Easter Egg. Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman are great in it. Joel and Ethan Coen are not the show runners but they are the executive producers.

If the Cohen brothers made it: you're gonna have a bunch of quirky characters, innept villains, bewildered heroes, and a shit load of dry humor. Also, Steven Buscemi is probably gonna die.

Its a great film, I think its the film that put the idea of a Cohen Brother's film in the public imagination. They had had hits before, but this just raised their profile above being just another pair of film makers. They followed it with The Big Lebowski and Oh Brother Where Art Thou which reinforced that. Though they did mess up with their remake of the 1957 British classic, The Ladykillers, you should check out the original. A comedy caper starring Sir Alec Guiness, Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom, its fantastic. I would like comment on what a great job you do editing your reactions, you really have a knack for keeping in the essentials so that the movie still flows and makes sense. It's a real skill that many movie reactors lack.

The Coen brothers are amazing filmmakers, and this is one of my favorite all-time movies.

This is the best by Coens. What a treat to watch it for the first time. Jealous.

Enjoyed your reaction. You betcha!

Jerry Lundegaard is played by William Macy.

“for Pete’s sake” 😂

John Carroll Lynch who played the husband to Frances McDormand’s character around nine years later played Arthur Leigh Allen the Zodiac Killer in Zodiac! 😎 You should watch Zodiac! Hope I didn’t give too much away! 🙄

I love this movie 🎬 glad you guys did a video on this.

Wow, look at that thumbnail! You're reacting THE HELL out of this movie! React to enough movies and you can stuff a cantaloupe in there one day. Keep shooting for the stars, boys!