So what if George Clooney's movies aren't successful and ...

[Goliath]

The guy from Highlander: The Series. GWR seems to think there's some sort of grave galactic injustice involving this guy's career and the fact that he keeps landing roles in shitty movies.

Ah. Never saw a single episode of Highlander, myself. I must have been too busy ranting about the Yellow Peril at my Klavern meetings.

Trust me, don't let that fool you. Great cast, HORRIBLE movie.

I don't normally say too much about movies, I figure to each his own, and who am I to tell somebody what they may or may not like. But that one was such a stinker I can't restrain myself.

I saw it, and thought it was very entertaining--an amusing send-up of the spy-movie genre. Even the music was funny.

It wasn't the best Coen-Brothers movie ever, but their comedies rarely measure up to their more serious films.

The Ladykillers was a true stinker. Burn After Reading wasn't anywhere near that bad.

 

[John Clark]

I haven't seen all his films, but the ones I have seen, I've generally liked

 

[benny]

Do I really need to go and do a box office analysis for GC's movies again to prove every single one has been profitable to its respective studio? Please, someone go grab the info I posted in the OTHER thread and repost it here. I'm much too tired to do it.

I think doing that would be redundant at this point. Everyone knows Clooney is one of Hollywood's most bankable stars and yet he pretty much manages to stay that way without doing Generic Action Movie #47 every summer.

And that's the thing. Regardless of whether or not certain people like his movies, they have all been successful. Everyone just likes to make wild assumptions without checking the facts. Fine, be ignorant.

 

[gh4chiefs]

^Thanks, but I will doubtlessly still end up giving it a go.

I understand. Some people just have to learn the hard way.

Seriously, I've NEVER walked out of movie, but came very close on this one. My girlfriend and I were watching it together and had either one of us leaned over to the other one and said "Hey let's get out of here" we would have been gone. But neither of us wanted to be the one to make the move.

A friend of mine who happened to be at the theater at the same time came out after us and had the same dumbfounded look on her face that I'm sure that me and my girlfriend had on ours. We are all like "WTF did we just watch?"

 

[archeryguy1701]

A friend of mine who happened to be at the theater at the same time came out after us and had the same dumbfounded look on her face that I'm sure that me and my girlfriend had on ours. We are all like "WTF did we just watch?"

To be fair, after that ending I'm half inclined to think that that's what the directors were shooting for...

 

[Goliath]

A friend of mine who happened to be at the theater at the same time came out after us and had the same dumbfounded look on her face that I'm sure that me and my girlfriend had on ours. We are all like "WTF did we just watch?"

To be fair, after that ending I'm half inclined to think that that's what the directors were shooting for...

I liked the ending.

CIA Superior: So what did we learn from this?
CIA Officer: Um... I don't know.
[pause]
CIA Superior: I don't fuckin' know either.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Ah. Never saw a single episode of Highlander, myself. I must have been too busy ranting about the Yellow Peril at my Klavern meetings.

You, maybe.

Jack London (who coined the term), definitely.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Burn After Reading has been on my list of films I want to see, for at least 2 or 3 months.

Oh dear Lord, save yourself some money and rent this one. My girlfriend and I saw this recently and this was by far the worst movie we've seen in a long time.

Sorry, I've been waiting for this film for a while. Still have to wait another 2 weeks before I can see it.

 

[Good Will Riker]

Make no mistake:

Burn After Reading is more of a Netflix rental than something worthy of a theatrical release. For those of you who think that Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen are "self-indulgent," they obviously have not seen this film.

For Coen diehards only.

 

[Goliath]

Ah. Never saw a single episode of Highlander, myself. I must have been too busy ranting about the Yellow Peril at my Klavern meetings.

You, maybe.

You wish.

Jack London (who coined the term), definitely.

Wrong again. The term "yellow peril" had been around for years before London used it.

In any case, this is a complete non sequitur.

 

[Goliath]

Make no mistake:

Burn After Reading is more of a Netflix rental than something worthy of a theatrical release. For those of you who think that Quentin Tarantino and Woody Allen are "self-indulgent," they obviously have not seen this film.

For Coen diehards only.

Don't you ever get tired of being wrong?

 

[Good Will Riker]

^^^

Well, you should be the one to talk considering your self-proclaimed "location?"

 

[JonathonWally]

^^^

Well, you should be the one to talk considering your self-proclaimed "location?"

HAHA OMG that was so funny!!





No, no it wasn't in the least.

 

[The Evil Dead]

Don't the Ocean's movies make a lot of scratch? I thought he did one of those every couple of years so his name has a bit of value so he can keep dabbling in the more experimental or at least independent films he seems to enjoy working on.

Anyway, most of his movies probably have pretty modest budgets so they don't have to make a lot of money. He's just such a high profile star you expect him to be pulling in Tom Cruise or Will Smith money but the fact is, he's not making those types of films.

 

[Hermiod]

Just going by Wikipedia.

Ocean's 11 - Budget $85m, Worldwide Gross $450m
Ocean's 12 - Budget $85-110m (estimate), Worldwide Gross $444m
Ocean's 13 - Budget $85m, Worldwide Gross $311m

Okay, the box office diminished over time but all three still made significant profits.

 

[sidious618]

Barring Michael Clayton which I despised although Clooney gave a good performance, I've enjoyed all of Clooney's recent works that I've seen (Good Night and Good Luck- great, great film!, the Oceans films).

 

[gh4chiefs]

A friend of mine who happened to be at the theater at the same time came out after us and had the same dumbfounded look on her face that I'm sure that me and my girlfriend had on ours. We are all like "WTF did we just watch?"

To be fair, after that ending I'm half inclined to think that that's what the directors were shooting for...

I'm not talking about the ending, I'm talking about the whole freakin' movie. Talk about .

The actual ending of the movie was only thing remotely funny about the whole damned mess.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I'm fairly a fan of most of Clooney's work. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind was brilliant. Ocean's 11 was a lot of fun. (Ocean's 12 was uneven. Ocean's 13 was bland. But that's what happens with a lot of sequels.) O Brother Where Art Thou was brilliant. I thought Leatherheads was a lot of fun even though it obviously wasn't trying to reinvent anything or challenge anything.

Probably the movie of his that I've enjoyed the least was Michael Clayton. I just thought it was boring and sometimes confusing. (Though that may have had something to do with me watching it at the end of a 3 movie marathon with I Am Legend & No Country for Old Men.) I might have liked it more if Tom Wilkinson had been in it more. He really stole the show there.