Hail, Caesar! (Hollywood does a Coen Brothers Movie about Hollywood)

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Officially, the description says it's about a day in the life of a golden-age studio fixer, though the trailer makes it look more like the main plot it more centered around a kidnapping plot of some kind, so make of it what you will.

Given that it's from the same guys behind The Big Lebowski, a part of me thinks it's possible that this will be like the former in that nothing actually happens and that everything that does happen is due to coincidence and nothing more.

That said, I'd still watch it, just to see where it all goes.

I really liked that dubstep in the first half. Does anyone know the title to that dubstep song?

What if all of those guys in the end really are from the future?

edited 12th Oct '15 5:18:43 PM by TargetmasterJoe

So Scar Jo is a Captain Ersatz of Esther Williams. Anyone recognize of the other Hollywood parodies?

edited 12th Oct '15 5:20:07 PM by Tuckerscreator

I swear to God I was expecting AC/DC's Hail Caesar to play at one point.

It wouldn't detract from the movie at any rate.

So after learning that a good chunk of the Coen Bros.'s movies seem to take place in the same universe (Coen-verse?), I'd like to ask:

You guys think this movie will make some reference to any of the Coen brothers' previous movies?

Wouldn't they have to be call-forwards? Except for O Brother Where Art Thou, anyway.

edited 15th Oct '15 11:07:48 AM by Ogodei

Barton Fink may get a few mentions.

Started a tropes page for the movie. Feel free to add to it at Hail, Caesar!.

Speaking of Call Backs, turns out that Capitol Pictures actually appeared in an earlier Coen Brothers movie called Barton Fink.

Huh.

This looks remarkably like a movie Wes Anderson would make.

But it doesn't actally LOOK like a Wes Anderson film. Otherwise, the actors would be looking directly at the camera.

edited 2nd Nov '15 12:32:10 PM by DS9guy

I know Christopher Lambert is here, but I see no Scottish Japanese immortal god anywhere.

New trailer. It's mostly just a single scene, but it's a good scene.

edited 15th Jan '16 8:17:20 AM by TheSpaceJawa

It's nothing but them repeating the same line and I can't help but laugh.

Is the lady in yellow supposed to be a Hedda Hopper type?

If Scar Jo is an expy of Esther Williams, than Channing Tatum is Gene Kelly (it was either that or Frank Sinatra is Tatum feels more Kelly than Sinatra).

I think he's supposed to be a Gene Kelly. Sinatra, as far as I know, was never a tap dancer.

True. I was going by the Sailor Uniform. Both he and Kelly were in sailor musicals. Or played sailors in musicals. Might have been the same one, actually.

Well, Geth, Frank DID at least do one tap dance in his career, appearing alongside Gene Kelly in Anchors Aweigh, when they were singing "I Begged Her".

... Which I only know because I watched the film and went googling clips on You Tube. Frank's actually quite good, btw, but hella young.

I stand corrected then. As for my guess as to who The Future is: They're Science-Fiction writers.

According to this Glenn Kenny review, The Future are Communists.

So Tilda Swinton is playing a real reporter as a pair of twins and British Director Guy's name is Laurence Laurentz.

Saw the film on Saturday. I liked a lot, but it's a good movie made up of great scenes.

I would agree with that sentiment. Some bits of it drag, especially early on. The first scene with Hobart and Laurence is where you know you've got something good coming.

You can tell the Coen brothers enjoyed making it, since a lot of their stuff is tropetastic anyway, a movie about making movies allows them to indulge, with a musical number about sailors, a Busby Berkley Number with Scarjo and synchronized swimming, a cowboy song, and a hammy take on Ben-Hur.

Despite Jonah Hill being played up in the commercials, he's only a bit part as a "professional person". Others include the guy who plays General Eiling in CW's Flash as a roman soldier, Wayne Knight as an easily-bribed movie extra, and Robert Picardo (The Doctor from Star Trek Voyager) as a cantankerous rabbi.

I just came from seeing this, and I'm genuinely baffled by the mixed reception it's been getting. I found it one of the funniest movies I've seen in a long time.