BURN AFTER READING- Page 2

[verynewyorkcurious]

Posted: 12/27/08 at 1:32pm

Burn After Reading was probably the most underwhelming film I saw this year. I laughed a couple of times, and I love those actors, but I didn't think it was as good as most people said it was.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/27/08 at 2:21pm

I didn't find it to be a totally laugh out loud film but I really enjoyed it. The ending just killed me.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 12/27/08 at 2:24pm

I was hoping it would be funnier than it was bloody.

It was not an "All Out" Comedy...

I was dissapointed.

[HellsBells2]

Posted: 12/28/08 at 10:39pm

I thought it was brilliant. Clooney's invention was totally amazing - thought I would die. Pitt was fantastic. Malkovich and McDormand were a little predictable, but still good.

Not what I expected at all.

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/28/08 at 11:20pm

Clooney's invention was hysterical!

[Plum]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 2:11am

SPOILERS






I did think the movie took an ugly turn once Pitt's character was killed. The zings at spy movies and the characters' silliness were very, very funny, but when everyone started getting killed off and freaked out the story turned into something a lot more nihilistic. I love dark comedy. I also appreciate movies that don't turn around and slap me in the face halfway through. (Oh, you liked these characters? Now we're going to make them suffer and die pointlessly!) If people had been dying from the beginning because of the ridiculousness of the spy game, great. But they didn't do it that way.

[Q]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 4:43am

Potential spoiler, I guess.




I tried to watch it last night. I was really laughing and enjoying it - especially Pitt and Clooney. Then came that Pitt moment, and I just got up and walked away.

[HellsBells2]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 9:27am

Well it was the Pitt moment that allowed Clooney's reaction (which was hilarious). And let's face it.......noone saw that coming, so that in itself was the point of it.

[misschung]

Posted: 12/29/08 at 8:50pm

Which Pitt moment?

I thought Clooney was hysterical in this film. The scene when Pitt meets Malkovich in the car and keeps cutting his eyes at him, I almost wet my pants.

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 12/30/08 at 9:07am

LOVED IT.

Thought it was brilliant.

Clooney and Malkovich were amazing.