No CZJ either, according to the EW interview with Pitt and Clooney.
No, it's shiny! I like to meet new people. They've all got stories...
Kaylee ,'Serenity'
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Lee - Jun 10, 2007 5:06:23 am PDT #9035 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
askye - Jun 10, 2007 5:39:29 am PDT #9036 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
There's no CZJ and no JR but there is Ellen Barkin, although from what I understand it's not a romantic role.
Theodosia - Jun 10, 2007 5:41:57 am PDT #9037 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Better and better. I may actually view this one.
askye - Jun 10, 2007 5:45:26 am PDT #9038 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
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.
Jessica - Jun 10, 2007 6:23:52 am PDT #9039 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JR and CZJ are minor topics of conversation between Clooney and Pitt (and hilariously so), but do not appear in the film.
Glamcookie - Jun 10, 2007 7:51:05 am PDT #9040 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
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!
Laga - Jun 10, 2007 8:30:44 am PDT #9041 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Well I don't think I can blame my nightmare about my car being stolen on Eli Roth so maybe the Hostel part II side effects are over. On the other hand, I did find my steering wheel on a bathroom counter in the dream. Perhaps that's a symbol of dismemberment.
Laga - Jun 10, 2007 8:32:48 am PDT #9042 of 10001
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Marie Antoinette was my least favorite Sophia Coppola movie. Maybe I'm tired of Kirsten Dunst. I'd sure be glad if she wasn't in any more Spider-Man movies.
Strega - Jun 10, 2007 12:14:01 pm PDT #9043 of 10001
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.
As I keep saying, it isn't about what people deserve. If a character runs into the street and gets hit by a car, that doesn't mean he deserved to die for failing to use a crosswalk. But that is why it happened.
Horror stories don't create fears; they reflect them. You can look at trends in horror movies and see what the cultural anxieties were. It's certainly not fair that sex puts your life at risk in the real world, but it's not surprising that having sex got people killed in a lot of 80s movies.
Cashmere - Jun 10, 2007 12:19:30 pm PDT #9044 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
As I keep saying, it isn't about what people deserve. If a character runs into the street and gets hit by a car, that doesn't mean he deserved to die for failing to use a crosswalk. But that is why it happened.
Meet. Joe. Black.
I don't care for toture flicks because they make me horribly uncomfortable. I don't understand the attraction but the films make money and lots of people see them. I think they can be well made, well written and of high quality, I just try to avoid them if I can.