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[Blankments]

I feel this way about Ocean's 11.

 

Hail Soderbergh.

Are the other ones worth my time? I've seen 11 like eight times but never bothered with the sequels

 

Great movie. But then most of Alexander Payne's movies are. 

Haven't seen any of his

 

Definitely recommend Up In The Air and The Descendants. He's excellent in both.

I've been meaning to catch both

[BobbyJohn]

LOL you're shutting down Tele with absolutely no reason. Jolie is just as beloved at Clooney, and it's not Clooney's fault he was on ER

Beloved lol? She got passed over for Oscar nom in one of her best career performances in A Mighty Heart while Cate Blanchett got it for playing the same role 2nd time lol

[Jack Nevada]

Beloved lol? She got passed over for Oscar nom in one of her best career performances in A Mighty Heart while Cate Blanchett got it for playing the same role 2nd time lol

That doesn't mean anything, really. 

[Dementeleus]

Lol You're desperately trying to bring Jolie into the conversation, c'mon. She's not particularly beloved in Hollywood, doesn't do "pranks", got praise for acting before anyone knew who she was etc. Zero comparsion

 

Clooney and Jolie are both absurdly good-looking people who:

- use their larger-than-life celebrity-dom for good purposes,

- use their larger-than-life celebrity-dom to jumpstart their own personal projects,

- are multi-talented and capable of stepping behind the camera as easily as acting in front of it,

- are confident and relaxed enough with who they are that they don't get all caught up in the gossip/hype craziness,

- are solid enough actors that they're generally good regardless, and can be excellent given a particular role,

- are genuinely likable people, insofar as their public personas go and really, we'll never know more than that.

 

The fact that you embrace one while wildly deriding the other seems bizarre to me. I mean, like I said, we all have our idiosyncratic likes and dislikes when it comes to celebrities, but at least own up that it's just your own thing instead.

[BobbyJohn]

Clooney and Jolie are both absurdly good-looking people who:

- use their larger-than-life celebrity-dom for good purposes,

- use their larger-than-life celebrity-dom to jumpstart their own personal projects,

- are multi-talented and capable of stepping behind the camera as easily as acting in front of it,

- are confident and relaxed enough with who they are that they don't get all caught up in the gossip/hype craziness,

- are solid enough actors that they're generally good regardless, and can be excellent given a particular role,

- are genuinely likable people, insofar as their public personas go and really, we'll never know more than that.

 

The fact that you embrace one while wildly deriding the other seems bizarre to me. I mean, like I said, we all have our idiosyncratic likes and dislikes when it comes to celebrities, but at least own up that it's just your own thing instead.

We were talking acting. And to me Jolie is simply infinitely better actor who got less praise (if you look at Oscar nods for example) than horribly medicore Clooney. This is a question which one could've "made it" without their physical attractiveness - the answer is obvious to me.

[katniss]

Maleficent only $11 million behind that overrated DOFP!  I hope the Dame keeps running. 

 

I don't know which movie i want to take the summer crown:  Maleficent, TF4, or Apes. But hopefully, these 3 end up to be the top 3 movies this summer in whatever order. 

[4815162342]

OUT OF SIGHT is one of the greatest movies ever made. I'm not even kidding.

 

Have you read the Elmore Leonard novel? Fun pulpy stuff (so basically your standard Leonard novel).

[Dementeleus]

We were talking acting. And to me Jolie is simply infinitely better actor who got less praise (if you look at Oscar nods for example) than horribly medicore Clooney. This is a question which one could've "made it" without their physical attractiveness - the answer is obvious to me.

That's, like, just your opinion, man.

[BobbyJohn]

That's, like, just your opinion, man.

Yup

[Fancyarcher]

I've been meaning to catch both

 

Good. Personally I don't think you'll regret seeing either.

[Dementeleus]

Have you read the Elmore Leonard novel? Fun pulpy stuff (so basically your standard Leonard novel).

I haven't read that one, but a few of his others.The movie, though: such thrillingly confident filmmaking. Edited July 9, 2014 by Telemachos

[a2k]

We were talking acting. And to me Jolie is simply infinitely better actor who got less praise (if you look at Oscar nods for example) than horribly medicore Clooney. This is a question which one could've "made it" without their physical attractiveness - the answer is obvious to me.

 

Talking about making it, Clooney had a much harder route to Hollywood than Jolie.

 

 

He attended Northern Kentucky University from 1979 to 1981, majoring in Broadcast Journalism, and very briefly attended the University of Cincinnati, but did not graduate from either.[25] He made money selling women's shoes, insurance door-to-door, stocking shelves, working construction, and cutting tobacco.[20][26]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Clooney

[Chewy]

We were talking acting. And to me Jolie is simply infinitely better actor who got less praise (if you look at Oscar nods for example) than horribly medicore Clooney. This is a question which one could've "made it" without their physical attractiveness - the answer is obvious to me.

 

Neither?

[CJohn]

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[4815162342]

I haven't read that one, but a few of his others.The movie, though: such thrillingly confident filmmaking.

 

It's a fun read.

 

In many ways Quentin Tarantino is the Elmore Leonard of cinema.

[Empire]

Are the other ones worth my time? I've seen 11 like eight times but never bothered with the sequels

Ocean's 13 is good, but Ocean's 12 sucks.

[RichWS]

Ocean's 13 is good, but Ocean's 12 sucks.

 

INCORRECT

[Empire]

INCORRECT

CORRECT

[MrPink]

I think all of em' are enjoyable

[RichWS]

CORRECT

 

I've always had a thing for 12. I think it's a tremendous throwback to Euro films of the 60's and 70's. It has such a particularly laid-back vibe that I know people always chalk up to the stars just fucking around. Don't think it gets its due. 13 on the other hand? Saw it twice and was bored stiff both times.