Reply #29: "The Man Who Wasn't There" is the only good one they have ever done.

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There may be entertaining moments scattered here and there through the others, but they all fall apart sooner or later. Fargo is 75% filler. The Big Lebowski is an utter waste, 2 hours of Jeff Bridges doing a Tommy Chong impersonation and an endless parade of contrived oddball characters, none of which have 10% of the charm of the oddballs in John Waters' films. O Brother Where Art Thou starts out pretty good, then falls apart when John Goodman appears. The ONLY film the Coens have ever done that holds up from beginning to end is "The Man Who Wasn't There." How could they make such a brilliant film as "The Man Who Wasn't There" when everything else they have done is completely disposable?