Monday, September 29, 2008

Burn After Reading

When I left the movie theater last night I thought I had liked this movie, but it turns out my brain was just playing a trick on me, and I really didn't like it. It wasn't as bad as Ladykillers or Intolerable Cruelty, but it felt a lot like those movies. Basically the plot is some spy stuff that isn't worth summarizing, then Brad Pitt and Frances McDormand do some funny things while George Clooney has a beard. Somebody compared this movie to Big Lebowski, and that is accurate in that it is some story committed to celluloid performed by some people while music happens. In conclusion lame unless you are the guy in the back of the theater who was laughing hysterically at everything really loud.

RATING: 38%

2 comments:

Chris said...

I was about to review this and give it a 60%. There were a lot of good things about it. Then again there were a lot of bad things too.

John said...

Since you and I always disagree on movies, I figure all I have to do is subtract your review from 100% and I'll approximate my own rating. Not like I've seen the movie, but I'm looking forward to it. 62% isn't that bad.

It's weird, because we're alike in a very general way, I think, but not at all particularly. For example, you can drive, while I'm better at unplanned pregnancies.