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Just got back from Ocean's 13 and it was FUN. Tight plot, lovely light tone, the usual smart Soderbergh cinematic styling, and the cute boys we love. Popcorn, but yummy popcorn.
Same here. I called Steven Soderbergh as the doctor and Bob called the Bourne movies parody when Linus is in London.
I think it is a question of style, and of what makes a character's actions "bad" or bad enough to be haunted/hunted/killed. With Frankenstein, you had to think a little bit about why playing God rebounded on the doctor. And you had the distraction of the monster - were you supposed to focus on his story? Hitchcock did the same with Psycho, but made it a bit more obvious that Leigh was a Bad Girl (she changes from a white bra to a black bra), before distracting you with Norman's story.
It's sort of generally agreed that one shouldn't play God, but is teen sex really punishable by death? Is taking a school vacation in a crappy shack really punishable of rape by tree? Is being female enough "bad" to merit brutal torture? Movies currently make it more obvious why the characters are being punished, but the reasons are, to my mind, less useful as social lessons.
Will someone confirm for me that there was no J---a R-----s in Ocean's Thirteen ? If so, I may be able to view the damn thing....
Not according to IMDB, Theo.
No CZJ either, according to the EW interview with Pitt and Clooney.
There's no CZJ and no JR but there is Ellen Barkin, although from what I understand it's not a romantic role.
Better and better. I may actually view this one.
I liked the first one, there was enough going on without Julia Roberts, but since she's Ocean's love interest you have to deal with George Clooney talking to her/about her. Although he and Rusty have much more chemistry.
The second had too much in the way of love interests. Too much Julia and too much CZJ. That got in the way of the caper.
It sounds like they've learned from their mistakes and have gotten rid of love interests and it's just about the caper.
JR and CZJ are minor topics of conversation between Clooney and Pitt (and hilariously so), but do not appear in the film.
We rented Marie Antoinette (saw it in the theater, too). Just as before, the movie is only eh, but the look of the thing is too gorgeous for words. I enjoy the first half of the film but the second half gets really boring. I want to be made up like MA!