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Double-bill The Informant with what? Suggestions?


At the risk of being troll-slapped with an inane personal attack, I have to add my opinion that this movie bites.

I respect Soderbergh and Damon, but every collaboration between talented people does not result in a stunning product.

Details? I was enjoying a very tasty cheeseburger from my George Foreman, preceded by a nice salad while watching the start. By the time the food was gone and a gentle burp was nigh, I was about a half hour into the movie. The voiceover musings were mildly entertaining, but I was falling asleep waiting for something interesting to happen. Who was lying to whom and who was breaking some abstruse commercial law was never clear through 40 minutes. I didn't know who to root for or who to hiss at. It just didn't develop fast enough to keep me into it.

Writers know that the first sentence, paragraph and chapter of their work can be all-important. I'm afraid that was forgotten in this movie. Perhaps the movie should have started with a flash-forward to some dramatic event in the movie so that we'd wonder, "How did he/she get the point of doing that?" But I'm guessing, from what I did see, that there was no drama to come.

Before I get troll-slapped by an Informant-lover, I don't live in a trailer. I've never seen a Transformer movie. I do not have a low IQ. I have been watching movies since "On The Waterfront" was originally in theaters. (I can hear the troll now: "What's a yachting movie have to do with the instant classic, The Informant?")

I don't mind slow movies if they get me involved. A recent one that comes to mind is Winter's Bone. To me, it moves slowly, but with an excellent, little-known cast, yet you can't stop watching it until the satisfying conclusion. Or, I can't. It's not for everyone. But like The Informant, everyone is allowed to have their own tastes. So that's mine; I'm just one more movie watcher who thinks The Informant bites.

So, my suggestion for a twin bill movie night sure to ease the insomnia? The Informant paired with Men Who Stare at Goats. Anybody else?

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