Comments on: Movie Review – Burn After Reading (2008)

By: prowler

prowler — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:58:39 +0000

laughed my ass off whenever brad pitt was on screen, and to quite a few of malkovich’s bits. nothing unusual there

By: leomoviegoer

leomoviegoer — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:30:39 +0000

I’m with Tom, because frankly, to know the Coens are to love the Coens thick and thin, good or bad. This falls right with The Ladykillers as to where it places in their list of films. Enjoyable, but just a ‘tweener til they decide to make a masterpiece. It had too many moments to not like and to have A listers like Clooney and Pitt just be apart of a film about nothing should warrant some attention. By the way, The Three Stooges always made me laugh and when I laugh in a Coen movie I love the idea that I’m one of the few, if not, the only one doing so.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:08:04 +0000

haha no, thankfully not. can’t imagine that set the tone very well.

most people i know are only lukewarm towards the film as well, readers should be warned i often seem to have the minority opinion when it comes to the coens. :)

By: Helen

Helen — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:25:14 +0000

Illustrating the proposition that humor is subjective, I hardly laughed during Burn After Reading. Harry (thanks in large measure to Clooney’s performance) is the film’s highlight. The man is loathsome, but always believable.

Were you made to suffer through an interminable and horribly unfunny Three Stooges short comedy before the movie started? Imagine a 10 minute abridgement of The Great Dictator as re-made by the Stooges and you’ll have the idea. I had assumed the short was packaged by the Coens to be part of the show, but no one I know who saw the film was subjected to it.