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Burn After Reading
AtomSmasher:
I just got back from the theaters and it was good, but not great.
AtomSmasher:
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--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on September 13, 2008, 08:12:48 pm ---I just got back from the theaters and it was good, but not great.
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Meh, you are old and boring.
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;D If you want to see examples of the Coen brothers at their best, then you should rent the Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona. Those are great movies and Burn After Reading pales in comparison. However if we're only comparing it to comedies released in the past year, then it is definately in the top 5 (top 2?), but then it doesn't have a whole lot of competition.
Ginsu Victim:
--- Quote ---If you want to see examples of the Coen brothers at their best, then you should rent the Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona
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RENT?
I feel the entire Coen Bros catalog (minus Intolerable Cruelty and Ladykillers) should be owned by anyone who appreciates excellent film grammar. Watching movies that have passed through their filter is such a treat.
On their pure film grammar merits alone, these guys are in the upper echelon of filmmakers, right up there with Kubrick, Scorsese, Leone, and Kurosawa. Great company to be in.
(By "film grammar" I mean they have dictated a style that is so their own, you can see a film and instantly know who made it.)
ChadTower:
So, I saw this last night. What a stupid stupid movie. I only laughed once, when you saw what George Clooney built, and that wasn't a "good joke" laugh it was a "wtf how does that belong in the movie" laugh. I spent the whole rest of the movie wondering when it would be funny and then laughed at the credits because it was finally over.
I don't even see how this counts as comedy.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on November 05, 2008, 02:25:10 pm ---
So, I saw this last night. What a stupid stupid movie. I only laughed once, when you saw what George Clooney built, and that wasn't a "good joke" laugh it was a "wtf how does that belong in the movie" laugh. I spent the whole rest of the movie wondering when it would be funny and then laughed at the credits because it was finally over.
I don't even see how this counts as comedy.
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I saw the movie and laughed. It takes all kinds like the guy who first dated Linda Litzke. He didn't laugh at the cinema, yet Clooney did. I'm not drawing a parallel to you Chad with that guy, I'm sure you are more interesting than that boring guy. BUT in this case that scene is quite apt with regard to this thread. Some people liked it, some didn't. ;)
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