The Coen brothers are amazing. This film is loosely based on Homer's 'Odyssey' and deals with the adventures of Everett Ulysses McGill and his companions Delmar and Pete (George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson) in 1930s Mississipi. Sprung from a chain gang and trying to reach Everetts home to recover the buried loot of a bank heist they are confronted by a series of strange characters. Among them sirens, a cyclops, bankrobber George 'Babyface' Nelson (very annoyed by that nickname), a campaigning Governor, his opponent, a KKK lynch mob, and a blind prophet, who warns the trio that "the treasure you seek shall not be the treasure you find." This movie is hilarious and should not to be missed.

I adore this movie, and will never cease to adore it. The tale of 3 escaped prisoners is hilarious, sweet, a little dark, and sometimes just quirky. Also, the soundtrack will make you appreciate bluegrass, even if you think you hate it.

If nothing else, it shows the fantastic range of the Coen brothers, and is one of the few examples where they choose George Clooney as nothign short of a moron. It's not my favorite Coen Brothers, but easily worth owning.

Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer's Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons on the run in 1930s Mississippi. Our wandering hero in this case is one Ulysses Everett McGill, a slick-tongued wise guy with a thing about hair pomade (George Clooney, blithely sending up his own dapper image) who talks his chain-gang buddies (Coen-movie regular John Turturro and newcomer Tim Blake Nelson) into lighting out after some buried loot he claims to know of. En route they come up against a prophetic blind man on a railroad truck, a burly, one-eyed baddie (the ever-magnificent John Goodman), a trio of sexy singing ladies, a blues guitarist who's sold his soul to the devil, a brace of crooked politicos on the stump, a manic-depressive bank robber, and--well, you get the idea. Into this, their most relaxed film yet, the Coens have tossed a beguiling ragbag of inconsequential situations, a wealth of looping, left-field dialogue, and a whole stash of gags both verbal and visual. O Brother (the title's lifted from Preston Sturges's classic 1941 comedy Sullivan's Travels) is furthermore graced with glowing, burnished photography from Roger Deakins and a masterly soundtrack from T-Bone Burnett that pays loving homage to American '30s folk styles--blues, gospel, bluegrass, jazz, and more. And just to prove that the brothers haven't lost their knack for bad-taste humor, we get a Ku Klux Klan rally choreographed like a cross between a Nuremberg rally and a Busby Berkeley musical.

This soundtrack is amazing. Such an epic movie.

Just another reason why I want to party with Aunt Beep someday. She picks the best stuff and is way fun! This movie has an incredible soundtrack---with many excellent COUNTRY artists.
Holly Hunter and George Clooney are awesome. Whole cast is wonderful. I can watch it 100 times and not get tired of it. (via auntbeep)

George Clooney, John Tuturro, Tim Blake Nelson and John Goodman are just amazing. I love how the genius Cohen Brothers weave the tale of Homer's Odyssey into this lovely, funny, bizarre Southern American tale. I love love love the Cohen Brothers and this does not disappoint. And of course, you HAVE to get the soundtrack.

I love movies that are different and this one is not like anything I'd seen before. The music was fantastic (bought the CD). I'd put this on my favorite movies list, but it probably isn't quite "unusual" enough given how many people watched and liked it. (via johnpolinsky)