In light of the recent new from the MTV movie blog, I thought it would be a big of fun to run a quick poll to see which of the two mooted sequels you, the Coen brothers fans, would like to see made, so;

I will run this for about a week, before reactivating the usual “Which is your favourite Coen brothers movie?” in time for the release of A Serious Man (which has already been added to that poll).

Hi all, just a quick note to remind you all that the Favourite Coen Brothers Movie poll is still running (it lives in the sidebar on the right). If you haven’t voted yet please do so. As you can see, The Dude is rolling away with it with a quarter of all votes!

If you have any ideas for future polls please add a comment below. My idea is that we have a kind of history of poll results on various Coen brothers topics.

Just a quick bit of housekeeping news. I’ve just added Burn After Reading to the poll on the right (and within this post) so if any of you should happen to think that the Coens latest offering is your favourite feel free to vote for it.

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Hi, just a quick note to remind you that the poll is still running. I think I’ll run it for one calendar month which means it’ll end on August 18th.

What with all the news of The Dark Knight being the bestest movie in the world since time began (according to it’s IMDB user rating) and in conjunction with YKFK’s currently running poll to find out which was the best (or more accurately- most favourite) Coen brothers movie, I thought it might be interesting to see what the IMDB users thought in comparison. In terms of ratings here’s IMDB’s rundown of Coen awesomeness first by rating and, where there’s a tie, I’ve given preference to the one with the most votes…

1. No Country For Old Men (8.4, 118,396 votes)
2. Fargo (8.3, 122,902)
3. The Big Lebowski (8.2, 122,119)
4. Miller’s Crossing (8.0, 31,861)
5. O Brother, Where Art Thou? (7.8, 71,292)
6. Blood Simple (7.8, 19,584)
7. The Man Who Wasn’t There (7.7, 30,891)
8. Barton Fink (7.7, 22,073)
9. Raising Arizona (7.5, 35,918)
10. The Hudsucker Proxy (7.4, 23,968)
11. Intolerable Cruelty (6.4, 26, 521)
12. The Ladykillers (6.2, 27,747)

Now, obviously, this is a live list so it will change over time. I just thought it might be interesting to compare what general movie fans think as opposed to specific Coen brothers fans who visit YKFK. At the moment the YKFK poll has Miller’s Crossing and The Big Lebowski tied at the top with 19% of the votes a piece. Next up is Fargo with 16% followed by Barton Fink with 13%. The bottom two in the YKFK poll unsurprisingly mirror the bottom two in the IMDB rankings, each taking up zero percent of the votes thus far- come on- SOMEONE must like them .

I was very surprised to see No Country For Old Men top the IMDB list whilst it is sixth on ours, but these type of things are always coloured by short memory. Will the IMDB voters still consider No Country superior to Fargo and The Big Lebowski in 10 years time?

Come the end of the YKFK poll (I ain’t decided how long to run it really- perhaps it should never end- your thoughts welcome) we need to decide which of the two polls is more important to us here at YKFK- the one voted for by dedicated Coen nuts or the one voted for by a more general movie fan…

Incidentally, I’m seeing The Dark Knight tomorrow afternoon and am looking forward to it immensely. I am expecting great things but the best movie of all time… nope.

I thought it might be interesting to find out which of the Coen brothers movies were though to be the best. So I have added a wee poll in the sidebar to the right (below the events calendar) or you can vote directly in this post…

If you’re anything like me it will change depending on the weather. Sometimes it’s Fargo, sometimes it Lebowski, sometimes it’s Miller’s Crossing but I’m not trying to influence your vote- go with your gut. I’ll run this one for a while to see how it goes but I plan to add a series of them, this questions was just the most obvious way to begin.