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My wife and I went Sunday . This movie was a hoot and I really like seeing Tom Hanks doing something very different for him.  

Our one complaint was the constant use of the 'f' word.  This really did not complement  the atmosphere of the movie.  It may be my age but I really don't  think hearing someone repeat  a curse word over and over is funny unless it is making a plot point . In The Big Lebowski  it's overuse was actually one the jokes in the movie.

If anyone else has seen it  I'd appreciate your opinion.

I really wanted to see it, but for some reason it didn't make it to any of the 13 screens in my town.  What, I ask you, the hell?  It was a wide-release movie, wasn't it?  CEC owns both theaters, an 8- and a 5- screener.  The new 8-screener is used for newer movies, the three-week or month-old ones get put to pasture in the older 5-screener.  I can't believe that with that much space, they couldn't find room for this movie.

Brother R

Yes. I am trying to remember what I liked about it. Well, Tom Hanks, of course. The cinematography. Especially that opening shot. The camera on one level. The bridge/street below the camera. And the river below the bridge/street. And that wonderful black gosepl music.

I did notice the use of the "f-word" myself. It didn't bother me that much. Maybe because I expect people like that to talk like that.

Of course, the film is a remake of the 1955 film of the same title w/ Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Herbert Lom, Peter Sellers, and Danny Green. I don't know whether it is worthwhile to see the original before seeing the remake. I've seen the original, but only the beginning and the end, but not the middle part of the film.

Enjoyed the remake.

I was seriously disappointed by The Ladykillers.  The trailer was amazing.  The Coen Bros. are typically entertaining.  Tom Hanks in a comedic role? Haven't seen that since the nineties, and here he plays an evil Col. Sanders lookalike? Has to be worth watching, right? Maybe I set my sights too high on this one, but it wasn't all that funny, the characters weren't all that interesting or likeable (except for Hanks, and even he started to wear thin after a while) and the heist was lackluster.  This could have been Fantasy Mission Force Meets Ocean's Eleven.  Instead it was just boring.  Not horrible, maybe not even bad, but nowhere near what the Coens are capable of.  Ladykillers and Intolerable Cruelty are enough to shake my faith in them.

This maybe the first movie I've ever sat through and felt numb. I think i stayed expressionless throughout.It wasn't funny yet it wasn't horrible enough to anger me. It just lulled me into a state of calm, quiet boredom.

Personal tastes are something else, especially when watching movies.  Sometimes you wonder if other people watched the same film you did. For that matter you wonder sometimes if they live on the same planet.

I guess it must be my advancing age that makes me wonder about such things.

This may be an European thing. I see that "The LadyKillers" has been accepted to be shown at the upcoming Cannes Film Festival. On the other hand, "Kill Bill, Vol 2" was offered as a showing at the festival and rejected.

I love the Coen Bros, but I was not a fan of "Ladykillers".  Better than "Intolerable Cruelty", but still, just not as good as it could have been.