Coen Brothers The Ladykillers Newsnight Review

BBC Newsnight review of the Coen Brother's film The Ladykillers. Featuring Mark Lawson, Tom Paulin, Julia Myerson, Mark Kermode.

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Film & Animation

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• BBC
• Newsnight
• Coen
• Brothers
• Tom
• Hanks
• Ladykillers
• Paulin
• Mark
• Lawson
• Kermode
• Julia
• Myerson

[MrMontagne]

Tom Paulin is a hopeless pseudo-intellectual.

Mark Kermode actually knows what he's talking about.

[rherrick123]

Please watch the original, it's a real classic of comedy.

And as Kermode so rightly said, the remake isn't subtle in any way.

[TheWesternMafia1237]

"Oh my god"

[DeepEye1994]

I love the remake. It's one of my favorite movies. Yeah go ahead, sue me.

[kevinkards]

this film is crap

[KapStuf]

This was a date movie for me. It scuppered the date.

It could have been an interesting new take on the old film, or a decent film of its own, but it's neither. It's just...a juvenile idea of what a clever social comment might be.

But it's still smarter than Tom Paulin.

[Filmzie]

No, it's a shit remake of a great film that shouldn't have gone to america.

[legunncat]

Dilettantes, the lot of them.

[ludocrat]

@jc7622

I think the critics here (in what you call 'another country') are a bit miffed that a remake was made of a classic British comedy at all. It's like sacrilege.

Mind you, a lot of of them probably haven't seen either one of them. I have seen both, the original many times. As a remake the Hanks film is appalling, but on its own it's quite good. You might want to watch the original but I suspect you would not understand its subtle humour. People from another country generally don't. Oh!

[omolawton]

Its a shit film

[Hyman74Roth]

This Tom Paulin is the kind of guy that you see in a Monty Python skit...unreal! On the plus side that Julie woman is rather hot and I agree with her about the film even though I thought the film was funny, but I prefer the classic 1955 version.

[Shnufkin]

Get your rat out Julie!