The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

20240824 Comment:
Rating: 5.0/5

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Instant Comments:
1a: hehe cloud dust
1a: why did he kill these people? we didnt even see him drink. other than to set up what kind of person scruggs might be
1a: hmmm why did the player leave a full house
1a: "if you seen em play em"
1a: wow table kill
1a: surly joe song
1a: fingers
1a: harmonica
1a: hehe the count
1a: is this james franco? he looks kind of like but not quite
1a: huh the banker's voice sounds familiar and demeanor... wonder what he reminds me of...
1a: hehe three guns set up... too bad it missed... maybe it was more like... cover fire as he ran out... attached to a string perhaps
1a: haha the chapter quote. pan shot
1a: wow. they spared the bank robber
1a: hehe back in the noose
1a: hehe "first time?"
1a: quite a crowd
1a: is he just rambling famous lines
1a: ah leem neeson
1a: huh... he bought the chicken? there must have been some trick. seems like a waste to buy the chicken
1a: wow that's dark... (drowned the person who was basicallt nothing more than a chicken to him)
1a: paused after this story
1b: resume.
1b: this man discards small stuff. he's after the jackpot.
1b: he seems to have some kind of method... not sure what the flags represent [perhaps the peak woth respect to parallel to river; this would align with my thought that it's not where the river is, but where it was]
1b: the caption read "earth shifts above"
1b: oh no... (shot)
1b: wow. what a turn of events
1b: their conversations (knapp and longabog...) are so poetic sounding
1b: gate and narrow the way... is that a bible story... but maybe the meaning is different?
1b: wow. arthur gets some action
1b: whoa. a trick followed by a trick (arthur has experience)
1b: oh no...
1b: the beginning story quote was a mystery until the end of the story. "Mr Arthur had no idea what to say to Billy Knapp"
1b: I didn't quite understand the last story and I read an article that spelled it out. apparently all the stories are about death - generally random or untimely. and the last story is literally a passage of death. where the two persons are literally reapers.
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Watched first half 20240627, second half 20240709 (Netflix, Instant)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) Ethan Coen, Joel Coen. 133 min

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (IMDb.com)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (RottenTomatoes.com)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Wikipedia.org)