blajay Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 I saw this last night. I enjoyed it. It may not be terribly profound, but it was a funny story. The scenes of them reporting back to the CIA were great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 22, 2008 Report Share Posted September 22, 2008 Just came from seeing this. I liked it. I really liked No Country for Old Men. (Movie AND novel). I haven't seen a lot of their early material, including TBL, so I'm not able to "rank" this one. But I thought it was well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sal Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 The sign of a great filmmaker(s) imo is that they leave their audience arguing over their ouevre. I saw this movie today and really liked it alot! It was really, really funny, had some terrific performances, and a nice political slant. Wouldn't say its top tier Coen brothers comedy like "Raising Arizona" or "The Big Lebowski", but still one of the funniest movies I've seen in a while. I'm a huge Coen fan, by the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 Burn After Reading was just O.K. Go see a good movie like "Frozen River". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 23, 2008 Report Share Posted September 23, 2008 The sign of a great filmmaker(s) imo is that they leave their audience arguing over their ouevre. ...And they leave their audience saying world like "ouevre." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 This was the first Coen Brothers film I've seen that didn't feel all that distinctively Coen Brothers. Most of the shots seemed like any director could have composed them. And I had just the opposite reaction in a way: my wife and I felt like we'd just watched another Fargo. The movie just seemed kinda pointless. The performances were good, of course. We also felt like Pitt's character was killed WAY too early. Tilda Swinton was such a bitch we kept waiting for her to get killed (I won't spoil it for anyone wondering if she gets offed or not). This is the second movie we've seen with Frances McDormand and really enjoy her acting; she has such a "lovable goofiness" (for lack of a better term), but at the same time it felt like she was just reprising her role from Fargo (or maybe extending it, like what might happen if that character divorced her husband and started a new life in Maryland). John Malkovich looks as he always does, like he's one hour away from dying. It wasn't the comedy I thought it would be, but it definitely had its laugh-out-loud moments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted September 28, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Tilda Swinton was such a bitch we kept waiting for her to get killed (I won't spoil it for anyone wondering if she gets offed or not). Yeah, the most unbelievable aspect of the whole movie was someone actually having an affair with that character... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Ummm. . ..Mark, Al, it was pretty clear to ME that the Clooney character could have had an affair with almost ANY woman. . . he was after . . . one thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Ummm. . ..Mark, Al, it was pretty clear to ME that the Clooney character could have had an affair with almost ANY woman. . . he was after . . . one thing. ***SPOILER ALERT*** I agree, it's just that Swinton's character was someone so cold and vicious that we were disappointed that she DIDN'T get killed. For that matter, it's amazing Clooney and McDormand didn't get killed given that they were just as cold and vicious in their own ways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 Yes, and I guess what I got out of this as a "moral message" is: these type of people, and the successful 'agency' staff in the film, are the "winners." A sad lump of medicine to swallow. . .amid the belly laughs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted September 28, 2008 Report Share Posted September 28, 2008 This was the first Coen Brothers film I've seen that didn't feel all that distinctively Coen Brothers. Most of the shots seemed like any director could have composed them. And I had just the opposite reaction in a way: my wife and I felt like we'd just watched another Fargo. The movie just seemed kinda pointless. The performances were good, of course. We also felt like Pitt's character was killed WAY too early. Tilda Swinton was such a bitch we kept waiting for her to get killed (I won't spoil it for anyone wondering if she gets offed or not). This is the second movie we've seen with Frances McDormand and really enjoy her acting; she has such a "lovable goofiness" (for lack of a better term), but at the same time it felt like she was just reprising her role from Fargo (or maybe extending it, like what might happen if that character divorced her husband and started a new life in Maryland). That's funny, I felt the two characters were very unalike. Mainly, the character that McDormand played in Fargo was smart, good at her job, and had a basic horse sense. The character from Burn was basically a flaming moron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jazzbo Posted September 29, 2008 Report Share Posted September 29, 2008 The movie that made me go "Wow" as far as Frances McDormand is "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day." :tup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porcy62 Posted October 5, 2008 Report Share Posted October 5, 2008 I liked the movie, not the best one of the C. Bros imo, but really funny. I admit I thought about Weizy watching it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 Yes, and I guess what I got out of this as a "moral message" is: these type of people, and the successful 'agency' staff in the film, are the "winners." A sad lump of medicine to swallow. . .amid the belly laughs. Agree with you there. Sad but true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Al Posted October 6, 2008 Report Share Posted October 6, 2008 This was the first Coen Brothers film I've seen that didn't feel all that distinctively Coen Brothers. Most of the shots seemed like any director could have composed them. And I had just the opposite reaction in a way: my wife and I felt like we'd just watched another Fargo. The movie just seemed kinda pointless. The performances were good, of course. We also felt like Pitt's character was killed WAY too early. Tilda Swinton was such a bitch we kept waiting for her to get killed (I won't spoil it for anyone wondering if she gets offed or not). This is the second movie we've seen with Frances McDormand and really enjoy her acting; she has such a "lovable goofiness" (for lack of a better term), but at the same time it felt like she was just reprising her role from Fargo (or maybe extending it, like what might happen if that character divorced her husband and started a new life in Maryland). That's funny, I felt the two characters were very unalike. Mainly, the character that McDormand played in Fargo was smart, good at her job, and had a basic horse sense. The character from Burn was basically a flaming moron. Yeah, I see where you're coming from. Perhaps this character was the answer to the unasked question, "What would happen if the Fargo character just let herself go?" I saw traces of that character in Linda Litsky (the name gives it away for starters). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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