I suppose the most fair way to judge a movie like this is to look at each individual segment and then take the average rating. So:
1. 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' is solid enough. It's got a nice charm to it, no more, no less. Also, Clancy Brown keep appearing in movies when I least expect it, so that's cool. 7/10
2. 'Near Algodones' is the best one, it's funny, entertaining and very strange. And now I know where the "First Time?" meme comes from. 8/10
3. 'Meal Ticket' is astonishingly bland. I suppose there's a message and it's supposed to be heartbreaking what happens or something, but I was bored out of my mind watching it. 3/10
4. 'All Gold Canyon' is not super interesting, but it's uplifting and nice, and I'm always easy to bribe with pretty landscapes. 7/10
5. 'The Gal Who Got Rattled' is way too long, and I don't know how to feel about it. It has a Shakespeare vibe to it, which was cool, though it wasn't super interesting either. 6/10
6. 'The Mortal Remains' is half and half, slightly more bad than good. It's very uninteresting to listen to the babble of the lady, the frenchman and the trapper, and I don't care about any of them. When the two bounty hunters start talking it's kinda fun, though not enough to make the entire thing good. 5/10
So, the ranking goes: 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 3. We've got an 8, two 7's, a 6, a 5 and a 3. That leaves us with an average of exactly 6, which is nice. Far from being the Coen brothers' best work, but I still enjoyed most of it, even though some of it was boring.
1. 'The Ballad of Buster Scruggs' is solid enough. It's got a nice charm to it, no more, no less. Also, Clancy Brown keep appearing in movies when I least expect it, so that's cool. 7/10
2. 'Near Algodones' is the best one, it's funny, entertaining and very strange. And now I know where the "First Time?" meme comes from. 8/10
3. 'Meal Ticket' is astonishingly bland. I suppose there's a message and it's supposed to be heartbreaking what happens or something, but I was bored out of my mind watching it. 3/10
4. 'All Gold Canyon' is not super interesting, but it's uplifting and nice, and I'm always easy to bribe with pretty landscapes. 7/10
5. 'The Gal Who Got Rattled' is way too long, and I don't know how to feel about it. It has a Shakespeare vibe to it, which was cool, though it wasn't super interesting either. 6/10
6. 'The Mortal Remains' is half and half, slightly more bad than good. It's very uninteresting to listen to the babble of the lady, the frenchman and the trapper, and I don't care about any of them. When the two bounty hunters start talking it's kinda fun, though not enough to make the entire thing good. 5/10
So, the ranking goes: 2, 1, 4, 5, 6, 3. We've got an 8, two 7's, a 6, a 5 and a 3. That leaves us with an average of exactly 6, which is nice. Far from being the Coen brothers' best work, but I still enjoyed most of it, even though some of it was boring.