Speaking of “O Brother,” that was my reaction after watching “Fargo.” For years people I knew with pretty good taste in movies kept telling me I had to see “Fargo.” It was hilarious, cutting edge they said, and certainly there is a pretty rabid set of fans on the Internet and elsewhere.
So I finally watched the film the other day and I’m still trying to figure out what the big deal was. The film was a pretty straightforward police procedural movie. Not a bad police procedural film, but not spectacular either.
I certainly didn’t see anything in two viewings of the film to explain how on Earth it received an Oscar nomination, unless that was a pretty thin year for films.