Soldato
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Anyone else seen this yet? Was very disappointed after no coutry for old men. Kinda funny in places, but defo not as good as the coens other films.
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I very nearly walked out of it. Long, boring and unhumourous with no strong story line. Either do a brilliant comedy with a weak story line, or a good story line with weak comedy, but this failed at both.
Burn after watching
Burn after watching
The story, when you think about it, is actually funny, it's just that the movie is so badly edited it feels like you were watching really bad short version of re-captured tv series. There are some brilliant performances in there, between the random scenes glued together with nothing more than scotch tape and what feels like serious substance abuse from both directors and producers.
Meh it was alright, didn't finish watching it though. Some bits were pretty funny.
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Definitely watchable
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That wasn't bad actually. Wouldn't watch it again or even recommend it but it was ok.
The ending was a bit "meh" ish.
The ending was a bit "meh" ish.
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Not very good, theres definately something missing from it. The characters aren't serious enough for it to be a drama with oddball characters, and they aren't remotely funny enough to be a simple comedy. Its caught inbetween and fails pretty epically.
Malcovich really does smeg all in the film, he drinks a bit, swears a bit but really nothing he does is funny or interesting, at the end he hacks someone to bits but who cares. The main story seems very broken up and splits between trying to be serious and trying to be funny to often. Pitt's character is funny but he doesn't really have any genuinely funny lines just the way he acts is funny but only sometimes. There isn't a loveable character amongst them which you generally want in a drama or a comedy, someone you want to win or come out on top with. The main women's a utterly stupid hateful person, Pitt's dumb as anything, Malcovich is a dullard, the wife whose name I forget is hateful. Theres no one to pull for, like or remotely care what happens to them.
Clooney played the same damn character as he does in all Coen type films. Maybe the only genuinely funny moment of the film was his unveiling of his sex device.
Malcovich really does smeg all in the film, he drinks a bit, swears a bit but really nothing he does is funny or interesting, at the end he hacks someone to bits but who cares. The main story seems very broken up and splits between trying to be serious and trying to be funny to often. Pitt's character is funny but he doesn't really have any genuinely funny lines just the way he acts is funny but only sometimes. There isn't a loveable character amongst them which you generally want in a drama or a comedy, someone you want to win or come out on top with. The main women's a utterly stupid hateful person, Pitt's dumb as anything, Malcovich is a dullard, the wife whose name I forget is hateful. Theres no one to pull for, like or remotely care what happens to them.
Clooney played the same damn character as he does in all Coen type films. Maybe the only genuinely funny moment of the film was his unveiling of his sex device.