Fargo (1996) vs A Simple Plan (1998)

A Simple Plan. Fargo had great actors. A Simple Plan had great actors and a better ending.

MY TAKE?...FARGO OR SIMPLE PLAN?...THATS A DRAW...TWO EQUALLY GREAT CRIME AND SNOW POTBOILERS POPULATED WITH MEMORABLE CHARACTERS AND AMAZING MOMENTS...

Fargo is definitely the better movie, but A Simple Plan is also very good and it's an underappreciated film that never gets talked about.

The comparison is apt, as it's amazing how Coen-esque A Simple Plan feels--it's reminiscent of both Fargo and Blood Simple--despite neither being written nor directed by them.

I like Fargo better, but A Simple Plan is still one of my favorites.

Pretty clear that they wanted to hitch a ride on the masterpiece Fargo here. But cast, script and direction are incomparable. Fargo featured a fateful series of events, almost inevitable, into which Macy/Buscemi/Stormare were sucked, so to speak. In ASP the entanglements came across as rather contrived, with a bunch of implausible characters and implausible decisions.

Especially annoying how constantly in "subtle" ways it had to be pointed out how simple this Jacob was... with that badly played stammering.

Very bad, I turned it off.