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Michael Clayton - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 10-28-2007
Oh my god, the Queen and I went to the movies. I think we figured the last film we left the house for was Transformers. What happened to us? It used to be five movies a day. And now nothing for almost three months. Could it be that movies sucked this summer? At least big time Hollywood movies did, not Bollywood or Korean cinema, I'm sure.
Michael Clayton is old time Hollywood film making. Big stars. Lavish sets and good story. And isn't that George Clooney dreamy?
Clooney plays Clayton a clean up man for a major law firm that is in the midst of handling a $3 Billion dollar class action suit against it's client uNorth. Think ADM.
The thing I like best about this movie is it doesn't stop to explain things. It doesn't waste time introducing the characters and telling you what they do and where they are going. It voyeur time. It's up to you to figure out what's going. Almost as if you are a participant in the story. It's starts with Clooney playing poke and then racing out to Westchester in the middle of the night to help with client who has been involved in a hit and run. On the way home, his car explodes while he is out of the car looking at some horses.
It's all very fast paced and eventually answers all the question. There's a reason why it's bad he was playing poker in the Chinese laundry. It all hangs togethr nicely. There's even a few loose ends to figure out for yourself.
You can wait for the DVD on this one. The film isn't about lavish cinematography, it's about story and characters. And while the characters are pretty stock, the story is pretty good. I especially liked the ongoing meltdown of the legal counsel for uNorth.
Tilda was great... - Drunk Monk - 03-15-2008
...but the film failed to deliver on DVD. Firstly, I do not find Clooney dreamy. He's got a good hard-drinkin'/smokin' voice, but the only thing I have ever liked him in was Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? What's more, I'm getting tired of films that start just prior to the climax, then back track to the begining, then you have to go through the pre-climax all over with a fresh perspective so things 'fall into place'. That's just been so done. The style was amusing at first because there are initially unasnwered questions, but once the pieces are assembled, the ending is totally predictable. For me, it was all about Tilda, perhaps that's Oscar fallout, or more likely it's me hoping that Tilda does well and finished out the role of Jadis.
Maybe - Greg_phpbb3_import1 - 03-15-2008
But Stars do their best work playing themselves.
I'm not the guy you kill. I'm the guy you pay off.
Clooney will always be playing Clooney much like Cary Grant. Unless of course the film is Gunga Din, then all bets are off.
granted, that was a good line - Drunk Monk - 03-17-2008
I'm just not that into Clooney. Worst Batman ever. EVER.
Worst Batman - The Queen - 03-17-2008
I'm pretty sure Clooney would agree with you on that. Every interview he does, he can never get through it without someone commenting about the rubber nipples. When someone says the word Batman, he just rolls his eyes. He knows it's one of the worst things he's ever done.
nipples - Drunk Monk - 03-18-2008
Alicia's nipples are better than Clooney's and O'Donnell's put together. Just ask PETA.
Quote:"Everybody looks at Batman as an opportunity to do something wild and crazy," she says. "I had a hard time because I'm very serious. And I never really knew what the hell I was doing, because it's so huge, it doesn't feel like a film, or a character you're working on." She "hated" the costume, which gave her "tendinitis or something," though she reports that her suit's nipples are "covered," unlike Chris O'Donnell's: "Chris's are, like, ping! I'm not a sexy, nasty Batgirl. I'm, like, a wholesome girl who turns into a robot."
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/9628/premiere.htm
The Subject is the Subject - thatguy - 07-14-2008
I have to agree with DM on this one: meh...Made me think of Hamlet.
Regarding the nipples, more nipples would have improved things.
--tg
Re: The Subject is the Subject - thatguy - 07-14-2008
Oh yeah, my last post should be filed under "Doom DVDs" not "Doom Movies" because I watched it on disk.
Maybe Movies and DVDs should be merged for us lazy folk who don't get out to the theaters that much.
Maybe this post should be filed under "The Website" not "Doom Movies".
--tg