Thursday, March 8, 2012

CBMWC Part XI: Burn After Reading




A couple weeks ago we knocked another Coen Brother off our list, Burn After Reading. We are completely out of order here, folks, and I apologize. I also blame Alger, ever since he started dating this new girl he has become completely worthless in regards to this club.

To understand the order we've gone in, refer to the list below:

Blood Simple  84'                             9
Raising Arizona   87'                         1
Miller's Crossing  90'                         2
Barton Fink  91'                                3
The Hudsucker Proxy  94'                 4
Fargo  96'                                         5
The Bit Lebowski  98'                       6
O Brother, Where Art Thou?  00'      7
The Who Wasn't There  01'              10
Intolerable Cruelty  03'                      8
The Ladykillers  04'
No Country For Old Men  07'
Burn After Reading  08'                    11
A Serious Man  09'
True Grit  10'

Burn After Reading made a jump in the queue big time, I don't know how it happened, but it did. And I think from here on out we should be following the order till the end.

I was excited to watch this movie after I found out the cast of people in it... George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, etc. And I think for the most part, this movie was pretty good. I liked Brad Pitt's character a ton, even though it was a little over the top - the upbeat gym trainer, chewing gum non-stop, and biking everywhere (I mean, that picture of him posted up above kills me!). And I thought Frances' character was pretty fantastic, a gym trainer who is worried about growing old and being alone, so she turns to plastic surgery and online dating...

I liked the movie, I thought it was clever. I also didn't like the movie because it got a little gruesome, like they all do, and good people end up killing each other. Alger didn't like it all, so there ya go.

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