Favorite Coen Brothers movie?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Got to go with A Serious Man.

[diptheriadan]

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

This was one of my favorite movies as a toddler, and it's held up even as i've aged.

[Mr. Smith]

No Country for Old Men

[Dr. Cynic]

Damn, that's tough. I love all their movies. I'll go with O Brother, Where Art Thou?, but I also have a super soft spot for Barton Fink.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Burn After Reading. Origin of one of my more repeated movie lines, "Something about the end of the Cold War and the lack of mission..."

[Landslide Lyndon]

Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, and Fargo.

BTW, am I the only who thinks that No Country for Old Men's story is preposterous and would have been eviscerated by critics if this was a typical Hollywood blockbuster?
I mean there is a serial killer on the loose (who just killed a cop) and the only one who goes after him is the decrepit sheriff of a tiny county? Where are the state police and the FBI?
Heck, where are the media?

Also, don't start me with the fact that the protagonist acts like a moron in order to advance the plot. He encounters a drug lord in his death throes and suddenly hours and hours later he feels guilt and goes to give him water? Did he really believe that he'd find him still alive? Or that water would somehow help him to survive multiple bullet wounds? Not to mention that Moss is established as a cynical, jaded person, not some bleeding heart philanthropist who'd feel any kind of sympathy for a big-time criminal.

The movie is masterfully made but I personally find it impossible to ignore these contrivances. 

[Progressive Pessimist]

'Fargo,' 'The Big Lebowski,' and 'A Serious Man.'

Hmm, but I also really like 'The Man Who Wasn't There,' 'No Country for Old Men,' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis,'

[Meclazine for Israel]

Blood Simple.

Fargo.

No Country For Old Men.

You can see the progression in quality of production, but the story line was always there.

[Rand]

Fargo is head and shoulders above the rest and that’s saying something.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

O Brother, Where Art Thou, or the Ballad of Buster Scruggs.

[John Dule]

1. Fargo
2. The Big Lebowski
3. O Brother
4. Raising Arizona

[nicholas.slaydon]

A Serious Man

[emailking]

I thought this said favorite Sacha Baron Cohen movie so I'm going to answer that since I put in the effort to figuring out it is either Hugo or Through the Looking Glass, and they're not because of him whom I do not care for!

[T'Chenka]

Gotta be The Big Lebowski or No Country For Old Men. I consider No Country to be the vastly superior film, but I just really enjoy Lebowski.