Burn After Reading: Waste of 2 fucking hours
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Agreed. I have a wide range of appreciation for humor... and I think I laughed at 3 jokes throughout the entire movie... maybe. What a disappointment considering the cast
I don't know what kind of humor it is, but I doubt you'll leave the room laughing.
Movies with George Looney in them are always highly overrated IMO.
Movies with George Looney in them are always highly overrated IMO.
Same opinion, it sucks. It's not funny, I enjoy all types of humor, this movie was retarded
Really? I thought it was pretty cool. I'm not a big Keanu Reeves fan but thought it was pretty good.
Still prefer the original though.
That was the funniest fucking part of the whole movie, that dildo chair he had behind the chained gate!
The movie was not bad per-se however it could have used a bit more action or suspense. I just happen to loathe movies that contain a heavy tree-hugger undertone.
I have my regrets because it was a toss-up between that and Yes Man (Liar Liar part 2) and I chose the former.
HarveyJ
He is - THE CACTUS!
See, the problem with a movie like Burn After Reading is that people are expecting it to be something it really isn't.
It's only funny if you're the sort of person that thought Layer Cake or In Bruges was funny. The it's not comedy so much as just really morbid fantasy that's not-quite-ironic.
I thought it was a rather brilliant movie about how people will continue to dig the hole a little deeper for themselves and everyone around them because they keep saying "Dig up, stupid!"... And at the end of it, we learnt not to do it again, whatever it was in the first place.
But we never learn what it is in the first place.
The way I see it, the whole movie rests on you understanding that last line as being something you're meant to realise is happening in your own life.
Also, the bit where they finally wipe the smile of Brad Pitt's face is great!
It's only funny if you're the sort of person that thought Layer Cake or In Bruges was funny. The it's not comedy so much as just really morbid fantasy that's not-quite-ironic.
I thought it was a rather brilliant movie about how people will continue to dig the hole a little deeper for themselves and everyone around them because they keep saying "Dig up, stupid!"... And at the end of it, we learnt not to do it again, whatever it was in the first place.
But we never learn what it is in the first place.
The way I see it, the whole movie rests on you understanding that last line as being something you're meant to realise is happening in your own life.
Also, the bit where they finally wipe the smile of Brad Pitt's face is great!
I liked it. It was a little bit slow, but it was actually funny. "Haha, you think that's a Schwinn" has become one of my favourite movie lines, just because of how Brad Pitt delivered it.
Anyways, I had a bit of a Gold Class mishap (Harvey might be the only one who knows what Gold Class is... basically you get reclining seats and food delivered to you during the movie and we didn't get our food
) so I kind of missed about 15 important minutes when I was trying to get something to eat.
But yeah, I liked it. In Bruges was fucking hilarious, too.
Anyways, I had a bit of a Gold Class mishap (Harvey might be the only one who knows what Gold Class is... basically you get reclining seats and food delivered to you during the movie and we didn't get our food
) so I kind of missed about 15 important minutes when I was trying to get something to eat.But yeah, I liked it. In Bruges was fucking hilarious, too.
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