Burn After Reading

Seeing it tonight

today

it was amazing and funny

some parts were a bit slow but it was a great film overall

i recommend seeing it now and not waiting for dvd

It's not out until October here.

I'll be seeing it tonight, then I'll post what I thought. I'm fairly sure I'll like it.

What did you think?

I heard from several people that I work with, people who generally have the same theatrical tastes as I, that this movie was disappointing. My status has changed from 'I will see it soon,' to 'I will wait for it to come out on dvd.'

Really? I heard the exact opposite from someone whose opinion I value a lot, so i reckon I'll check it out in the cinema, as soon as they bother releasing it over here.

There is one stipulation for me that might make me see it in theaters and that is if my wife picks it to be our next movie to see on movie/dinner night for the Hikers.

Originally posted by =Tired Hiker=
I heard from several people that I work with, people who generally have the same theatrical tastes as I, that this movie was disappointing. My status has changed from 'I will see it soon,' to 'I will wait for it to come out on dvd.'

Watched it today; it wasn't very good, to my dissapointment.

The willy dialogue that one comes to expect from a Coen's movie was almost non existant. Had few moments here and there, but it was no TBL, RA or OBWAT. It also didn't have the edge of Fargo or Blood Simple.

That makes me sad.

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
That makes me sad.

Considering the recipe of Coen brothers, Clooney, Pitt, McDormand and Malkovich, it was very sad.

I'll just add this to the short list of Coen movies I don't care for:

Intolerable Cruelty
The Ladykillers (turned off after 20-25 mins)
Burn After Reading
(The Man Who Wasn't There - never watched)
(Barton Fink - didn't watch in full)

Hopefully their next film A Serious Man, which is listed as a black comedy, will be great.

Originally posted by chillmeistergen
What did you think?

It was enjoyable. Wasn't a flop like Intolerable Cruelty/Ladykillers, but it wasn't as good as say... Fargo. It definitely seemed like the Coen Bros wanted to make a purely fun movie after tackling No Country for Old Men, (the latter being pretty serious subject matter), and I'd say that they succeeded. I saw this with my dad and we both liked it. The performances were all spot-on, especially Pitt imo, who was hilarious in a few scenes. There's enough plot to justify the comedy we see on the screen and that's about it, but I was okay with that. Bottomline, I liked it and it's worth giving a shot. I'll be watching it again.

This movie was nuts. I truly enjoyed it.

Spoiler:
I actually let out a minor scream by how shocked I was at the end of the gym owner's life, I was not expecting that to happen out in the middle of the street, hahaha. I was also extremely shocked about what happened to Pitt's character, it was completely out of the blue, and for the next minute I was in denial, thinking, "No way, no way, it has to be a day dream, or someones imagination, that can't be real", but it obviously was. Amazing and hysterical movie!

I was blazed when I saw it. Got confused a couple times 😬

you think its a schwinn!

Did Tilda Swinton have a big role in it or was in it enough to keep me happy? she normally takes the smaller roles in such cast films, big fan of her.

Unlike say, Broken Flowers, was looking forwards to seeing her in that and she was in it for like 4 minutes...

Originally posted by MildPossession
Did Tilda Swinton have a big role in it or was in it enough to keep me happy? she normally takes the smaller roles in such cast films, big fan of her.

Unlike say, Broken Flowers, was looking forwards to seeing her in that and she was in it for like 4 minutes...

Decent sized role, but she didn't do anything worthwhile with it.

Saw this finally, I thought the best scenes were the ones with J.K. Simmons and David Rasche. All in all, it was just an okay movie. Thinking back, there seems to have been many great scenes, but they were few and far between. Brad Pitt was rather humorous, Clooney was good, I liked most of the performances, except for Frances McDormand who's acting I found annoyingly contrived. The final outcome was humorous in that one could say

Spoiler:
that the whole movie was all just about a woman who wanted to get a face lift and a tummy tuck.

brad pitt was the bomb, he got so into the role he's like, seriously talented shit. i hated it when he died and frances mcdormand was boring.