Ocean’s 13
Wherein I review a heist film.
Hey, this was fun. About three times as good as Ocean’s 12, which should really make it something like Ocean’s 36, but it was about 7/8ths as good as Ocean’s 11, which is too much math for the amount of beer I’ve had, so let’s just split the difference and call it “13”.
I find it humorous that there exists a movie in which fuckin’ Matt Damon gets fourth billing. How crazy is that? I mean, this is a movie with friggin’ Carl Reiner, Elliot Gould, Eddie Izzard, and Don Cheadle in support roles.
I am very fond of italics.
At any rate, it was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for in the movie. I’m a fan of heist/con/caper films, and this was a pretty solid one (though, if you’re expecting realism – like, with, you know, physics and shit – you’ll find more accurate portrayals of things like gravity and earthquakes in any Superman film [minus Zod]).
Comments on Ocean’s 13
which is too much math for the amount of beer I’ve had
Ummmmm, seriously?
part of thinks this was jorm’s way of finding out who still reads his journal
heh.
I more or less agree with you on that point of view… I thought it was a lot of fun. While I didn’t have said *beer*, I did have a mild fever so that one montagy part towards the middle that I think was intended to be midly trippy was probably more trippy for me personally, than was intended (so tired of stupid coldy colds).
The only thing that was off putting was … what’s her name? the blond. The close ups of her plastic surgery and scars and skin that looked like she had survived a fire… has she survived a fire? We weren’t sure.
And there a few close ups of Al that were way too close… when you can see spittle flying, and it’s not for any good reason… it’s time to pull back the camera. Having said that, yeah, I LOVE watching Mat Damon and George Clooney act/intereact.
Penny Priddy! She was Penny Priddy in Buckeroo Banzai. And yeah; she was lookin’ like a survivor of “awful plastic surgery”. However, seriously, I don’t think she has *had* surgery; she’s always kind of looked like that. Sort of weirdly butterfaced.
The Pacino/spit thing: I’ve seen this before, actually, in lots of his movies. He likes to hock loogies, I think. And what are you gonna do? Even if you’re a director of Soderbergh’s caliber, I mean, it’s Pacino. You’d do well to just let him do his thing.