Fargo (1996) [VHS]
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VHS Movie Reviews of Fargo (1996) [VHS]
Movie Review: Optimism in Fargo?
Summary: 4 Stars
The closing scene of Fargo isn't the train of police cars hauling the silent Swede off to prison. Given the way that shot moves and its position as the conclusion of the murders wrought by him and his partner in crime, that is what you're led to expect tonally. But instead it's Marge, hopeful for the future, in a good, secure situation with her almost comically reliable and doting husband, continuing to swell with the infant life she's bearing.
If there's room for optimism in this movie, it's there, with Marge delivering Fargo's last lines by talking about how she has two more months before bringing her baby into the world. With her sharp intelligence and initiative, she's managed to end the chaotic murderous run that left six innocent people dead and surely would have destroyed other lives if the Swede was not stopped. And, she's done this while preparing to add life to the world. This resourceful woman and the promise she bears within her endures, while the murderers have fallen by the wayside. It's taken a lot of blood, but if I'm reading Fargo correctly, the Coen brothers have hidden a very hopeful message underneath the wrapping of a violent, bitingly sarcastic movie.
Movie Review: Ja, dat vas a goot vun!
Summary: 5 Stars
An American dialect not well known to most of us helps to raise this movie from the level of just another police drama almost to the definition of a new genre of film. Could you call it a "comedy-kill"?
William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, a Minneapolis car salesman, hires Carl Showalter and Gaear Grimsrud (Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare), two thugs who are neither too smart nor too competent, to abduct his wife for ransom so he can split the loot (supplied by her father, Harve Presnell) with the two miscreants. Lundegaard's nefarious scheme leads ultimately to six murders before the case is solved by policewoman Marge Gunderson (played by Frances McDormand) who displays a good instinct as a detective -- and a seven-month pregnancy which she hauls around gamely, even to walking on heavy snow in the frozen Minnesota countryside.
The north country, jaw-breaking accent used by most of those in the movie reminded me of Mr. Tudball, the Swedish office manager on the old Carol Burnett Show. I expected a character to suddenly say, "Tehuda, tehuda, tehuda!" as Tudball often did.
The accent is genuine, however. I served in the U.S. Army with a number of boys from North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin, and that's how people talk up there. There is something refreshingly funny in the way the actors often say something that sounds so old-country weird to the ears of most of us, while never cracking a smile or letting on that there is anything to laugh about.
I also liked the movie because it had no ravishing girls or pretty boys in it -- just common, ordinary folks going about their daily business. The domestic scenes with Marge Gunderson and her husband -- also a police officer -- are matter-of-fact and lacking any of the wisecracks or putdowns so common in movies nowadays.
If you want to see a movie that's different, in ways that have to be seen and, especially, HEARD, to be believed, rent or buy "Fargo."
Movie Review: frozen and quirky
Summary: 5 Stars
Doesn't everyone need a Marge in their lives? No crap, no nonsense and grounded--that's Marge, the pregnant cop, doing her job and awaiting her baby in the frozen tundra of the northern U.S. This Coen brothers film is so hilarious (and dark) that it really has to be savored frame by frame with no disturbance. It is utter perfection.Movie Review: For me, Fargo is one of the best movie thriller I have ever seen.
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't recall a movie that has impressed me so much with a thrilling story as Fargo did, from its beginning to its end. The Coen Brothers have given us a real jewell.Movie Review: FARGO great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is so darkly funny. After Visiting Fargo a few months ago I just had to have a copy of the movie in my collection. The accents are dead on, the extra's are very enlightening. Watch this movie and visit Fargo when you get the chance. North Dakota is full of wonderful, friendly people. Don't mention the movie though, they don't care for it much!