Comments | jadesfire2: we are not alone!

jadesfire2

we are not alone!

Sep 27, 2008 02:59

so I saw Burn After Reading with Lis, BIlly and Lolly tonight. It was...it was good, but also kind of...I'm actually still trying to piece together my reaction to this movie. I know that I enjoyed myself, and in that sense I liked it, but I don't know if I liked it in a broader sense than appreciating the entertainment it gave for a few hours... ( Read more... )

burn after reading, movies, kira knightly, not ugly just overexposed

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airie_fairy September 27 2008, 22:34:12 UTC

I'm still wondering about whether I'm interested in the movie. (I'm sick of Brad Pitt's face. I've totally seen him give good performances, but could he stop stuffing his personal life an children willingly into photographers' faces maybe?) Billy squeed at me about it, though.

Lauren was headdesking over how she's been in the majority of historical films to come out recently and how she dearly wants a Keira Knightley-free historical.

Me, I just say that the version of Dr. Zhivago was in was actually pretty great (Masterpiece Theatre), and she in it. Unfortunately for her, she played Lara, who I DON'T LIKE.

jadesfire2 September 28 2008, 01:21:45 UTC

the media wants us to believe that all women in the past looked like Kira Knightly. I totally agree with Lauren, especially since she's so right about the genre wedge. If she simply has to be cast in every movie on the planet (like Johnny Depp, who I'm not sick of because of my entertaining theory that he's secretly three to five people) can she please be cast in a contemporary film? And not as the lead? Oh for the days of Bend it Like Beckham!

jadesfire2 September 28 2008, 01:35:09 UTC

Here's the thing about Brad Pitt in this movie: he barely absorbs into his role like at all. You are very aware that you are watching Brad Pitt. (George Clooney too, for that matter.) But going with the style of the film, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say this was on purpose. There are a number of points in the movie where the humor stems from the awareness that these are actors playing people, not real people whose lives you are spying on, and the elements of the film come together to drive this home. (The George Clooney scene where he's crying on the phone is one of these.)

So yeah, Brad Pitt's face is going to be RIGHT THERE, but he's acting like a riteous spaz, so there's fun in that.