The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

This is an anthology movie with old American frontier stories, written and directed by the Coen Bros. Overall it was pretty good. The titular character only has one story, and his story was probably the best one. I honestly wish there was a whole movie about Buster Scruggs; he is basically a cowboy version of Deadpool. As for the other stories, there was one about a bank robber (the meme of the guy getting hanged while saying 'first time?' comes from this), one about a double amputee, one about a prospecter, one about a lady on the Oregon Trail, and one about a spooky carriage ride. These stories sometimes lost my interest, but they were not bad. The way this movie looks is beautiful. The dialogue is near perfect, as usual for the Coens. The casting is perfect and very well thought-out; there wasn't one character that felt miscast in the slightest. The direction is solid and detailed. Some of the characters are really bland and uninteresting. The movie could've done a better job at making the stories feel more connected; they didn't really blend well. The pacing isn't very good, some stories get barely any screentime, and some get way too much screentime. They could've picked a better story to end the movie on, the movie feels very anticlimactic. Overall this movie was interesting despite its flaws. However, Joel and Ethan Coen are my favorite screenwriters/directors, so it's a bit disappointing that this movie was one of their last movies before their retirement.