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Title: I suppose it's the greatest movie ever made about bowling
Review: Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Fargo. And Blood Simple. Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing I think are pretty decent. But this movie just seems like one long Coen Bros. "in-joke". The first fourty-five minutes I thought were uproariously funny, and I particularly enjoyed the fantastic cinematography for the bowling scenes. The movie just got bogged down in its preposterous characters--Julianne Moore, John Goodman as the psycho Walter, and that German techno band (?!) --and situations (one of the most bizarre, yet strangely affirming endings I've ever seen). It's a likeable enough movie (and God knows it WANTED you to like it!), but I have to agree with the Sam Elliot character: I only liked parts of it.
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