New Coen Brothers: Burn After Reading (1 Viewer)

[muffin]

I saw this last night.I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Corey]

S'good this. I'm not clever enough to come straight out of a Coen Brothers flick and be able to say i like/dont like it straight off the bat. That's why i like Coen Bros. movies though, you get a couple hours out of it afterwards while it all sinks in.

Was'nt nuts about Pitt in it though. Dont know if someone else could've done it better.

The CIA guys' scenes are fucking priceless.

 

[Corey]

Mine wasn't a bad review.

The Coens just seem to think that humanity is hopelessly vain, endlessly needy and wholly deserving of punishment.
That's not necessarily a bad thing.

Yes it was.

And so was that one.

Your stuff needs more Fnarr, and your Yuk content could be better.

 

[Wheels]

I thought this was pretty good too, not one to trouble their top 10 best though. I agree with the points made about the misanthropic feel, but I kinda enjoyed the misery and found it fairly funny. Not a great film, but lots of great performances.

 

[Jill Hives]

Not impressed. I hated all the characters. I found it kind of painful to sit through.

 

[CitySickness]

I loved this to bits. Two particular stand-out moments were Pitt snorting "You think it's a Schwinn" and Malkovitch prowling around the house with a gun in one hand and not even bothering to put down the scotch in the other.

As far as misanthropy goes, the world's staffed with vacuous twits so I have no problem with anybody ridiculing them for an hour and a half.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

watched this tonight. i thought it was enjoyable. a clever comedy about stupid people. not a whole lot of laugh out loud moments but some of the dialogue was great.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Yes it was.

And so was that one.

Your stuff needs more Fnarr, and your Yuk content could be better.

Everyone's a fecking critic

 

[Pram Stroker]

Yeah, i could take it or leave it.
Good thing they made No Country in the midst of these last few throwaway comedies.

JK Simmons is brilliant in the tiny part he has.
Pity the trailer gives away so many of the best parts.

 

[evil bandit]

I really enjoyed it while watching it but after felt nothing, I'd put it in the same bracket as Oceans Eleven in that it's enjoyable to watch but completely throw away after.

As mentioned alrerady JK Simmons cameo was great, Brad Pitt and Malktraz seemed to be having great fun in it to.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

I really enjoyed it while watching it but after felt nothing, I'd put it in the same bracket as Oceans Eleven in that it's enjoyable to watch but completely throw away after.

As mentioned alrerady JK Simmons cameo was great, Brad Pitt and Malktraz seemed to be having great fun in it to.

oceans 11? ah come on. that film was a flatulant, celebrity wank fest. it was basically a two hour fashion shoot. burn after reading wasn't perfect but it was fucking beckett compared to that self indulgent pile of wank

 

[Wilbert]

I thought it was distinctly average. This is their first original screenplay in 7 years. The last one was The Man Who Wasn't There. If this is their best original idea in 7 years then they are in trouble.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

intolerable cruelty came after the man who wasn't there. that was pretty throwaway in fairness though

 

[Wilbert]

intolerable cruelty came after the man who wasn't there. that was pretty throwaway in fairness though

It was. My point is that apart from the No Country.... they have been on a downward trajectory for 7 years.

I liked The Man Who Wasn't There but didn't love it. It's been 8 years since the last out and out classic Coens movie; O Brother Where Art Thou?

 

[David Kronenbourg]

It was. My point is that apart from the No Country.... they have been on a downward trajectory for 7 years.

I liked The Man Who Wasn't There but didn't love it. It's been 8 years since the last out and out classic Coens movie; O Brother Where Art Thou?

yeah that was a hard movie to love. it was beautifully lit and shot but quite dull. no country is an awesome movie. that and miller's crossing are their high watermark films for me. they're adapting michael chabon's the yiddish policeman's union soon which is a perfect coens vehicle

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

a fairly boring mean spirited movie punctuated by 3 or 4 moments of comic brilliance.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

a fairly boring mean spirited movie punctuated by 3 or 4 moments of comic brilliance.

how is being mean spirited a bad thing? it was a black comedy, they're supposed to be mean spirited

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

how is being mean spirited a bad thing? it was a black comedy, they're supposed to be mean spirited

cosmo landesman told me to think that.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

cosmo landsman is a tired hack. he doesn't even have his own telly show

 

[Kid Lovebeach]

he used to be married to julie burchill.