Movie Mind Says: Buy It
If You Like This You Should Watch: The Big Lebowski
Better Than: O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona
Worse Than: The Sting
Starring: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton
The Movie Mind desperately wanted to hate this film. I went into it knowing that this latest creation of Joel and Ethan Coen would be much like the rest of their self-indulgent artistic nonsense that panders only to the Academy and their brethren (ala No Country for Old Men). It didn’t help their cause that the theater was oversold and I was forced to sit in the very first row for the first time in my life (is there any special treatment for this thankless career?). Going in, this film had everything working against it…and then it began. I must give a hearty pat on the back to those very brothers, who can’t even crack a smile after winning an Oscar, for putting together one of the more clever, entertaining, and amusing films I have seen in a while. A true “dark comedy”, Burn After Reading was a delight in the mold of The Big Lebowski that I can watch over and over again.
Below is a list that has been in the works for quite some time now. It’s not something I just thought of and needed to put out there as a way to “vent”. Oh no, this is something that has been festering over the years and now that I have a forum to put it out there…you’d better believe I am going to take that opportunity. This list serves as a living testament to a group of people that should I ever run into would be on the recieving-end of a decleating haymaker courtesy of The Movie Mind! Enjoy the list, check back for updates (there are plenty of people who are dangerously close to earning a spot), and make sure you post who you think deserves to be on it!