All right, we're moving on to our movie for this episode. It's 2008's Burn After Reading by Joel and Ethan Cohen, the movie they made the year after a little movie called No Country was just one night when I thought like, fuck, you know,

I could, I could really go for a good movie. You know, the thing about that movie is,

it's a really good film to watch if the thing you want to watch is just a, is a really

fucking good movie. Yeah, it's like, sometimes you're in those moods where it's like,

let's not fuck around, you know. This is not a zero-day kind of night.

I want to be entertained and I want something really well-made that also has a little bit on its mind.

And that everything, no apologies.

And it's perfect.

Yeah.

So I had a great time with that.

But I do remember, you know, when Burn After Reading came out a year

later, a plainly more minor film, or at least presenting itself as a more minor film, although

after this viewing, I may, well, we'll get to it. Well, so look, full disclosure, I was pitching

Blood Simple. We were also tossing around Bart and Fink, two very good films, but Will

suggested this one, and it clicked for me right away. It made perfect sense because would you

believe it, I'd never seen it. And part of the reason for that was that when I was first getting

into the Cohen Brothers, you know, I guess slightly before Burn After Reading came out, but when it came

out, I was still somewhat new to them. You know, I'd seen no country.

I'd seen Fargo, probably one or two others. And the received wisdom about burn after reading was

this is the worst Cohen Brothers film. It wasn't even, as I saw it, like anecdotally, just this

is kind of slight or it's slighted than the others. It was, this is easily their worst one.

That's interesting. I mean, the lady killers is plainly worse.

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