hatfeathers
VFG Member
Once again, I'm a little late getting to the theater for this one, but I had to share my thoughts on Burn After Reading.
! How can a movie with so many great actors be so bad? Brad Pitt was good, but you could tell he was acting, if that makes sense. Clooney, gosh, his usual screwball comedic character, but with nothing to like about the fellow he played, it was less loveable. He looked like he'd had some work done on his neck, and the lack of lovability in his character somehow made the leathery tightness on his neck stick out. I dunno how that worked, but I found myself staring at his Adam's apple moving as he talked, like the talking stain in the Tide commercials.
John Malkovich said the F-word more than all the other ones combined. Tilda Swinton, well, she excels at the ice queen bitch character, but something about how she looks during real live events makes me think that wasn't a stretch for her, either.
The story line was a mess, there was no hero to root for, with the ever so mild exception of the boss to Frances McDormand's character, and even that was fleeting. As I said, I think the Coen brother's had use the copy/paste feature much too often on the F-word, for lack of better wording, thought, attempt at dialoge.
The humor was similar to that of Fargo, the other dark comedy of note by the brothers Coen, but without the charm of Buscemi putting anyone through a wood chipper. Yes, that was meant to be sarcastic.
I guess I need a hero, a worthy person of note overcoming a challenge or doing something selfless or amazing to like a movie.
Save this one for TNT, but even then, it's going to sound like a room full of answering machines going off for all the bleeping they'll have to do.
Suggested options to going to this movie? Clipping your Grandad's toenails, laundering stranger's underwear, roadkill cleanup, dental surgery.....
Jenn
! How can a movie with so many great actors be so bad? Brad Pitt was good, but you could tell he was acting, if that makes sense. Clooney, gosh, his usual screwball comedic character, but with nothing to like about the fellow he played, it was less loveable. He looked like he'd had some work done on his neck, and the lack of lovability in his character somehow made the leathery tightness on his neck stick out. I dunno how that worked, but I found myself staring at his Adam's apple moving as he talked, like the talking stain in the Tide commercials.John Malkovich said the F-word more than all the other ones combined. Tilda Swinton, well, she excels at the ice queen bitch character, but something about how she looks during real live events makes me think that wasn't a stretch for her, either.
The story line was a mess, there was no hero to root for, with the ever so mild exception of the boss to Frances McDormand's character, and even that was fleeting. As I said, I think the Coen brother's had use the copy/paste feature much too often on the F-word, for lack of better wording, thought, attempt at dialoge.
The humor was similar to that of Fargo, the other dark comedy of note by the brothers Coen, but without the charm of Buscemi putting anyone through a wood chipper. Yes, that was meant to be sarcastic.
I guess I need a hero, a worthy person of note overcoming a challenge or doing something selfless or amazing to like a movie.
Save this one for TNT, but even then, it's going to sound like a room full of answering machines going off for all the bleeping they'll have to do.
Suggested options to going to this movie? Clipping your Grandad's toenails, laundering stranger's underwear, roadkill cleanup, dental surgery.....
Jenn
