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BAAA,BAAA! This way sheep for more of the same.

posted 15 years ago by st-shot
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Are they beautiful, sexy and self assured? Yes. Are their antagonists smug and unctuous, cold, cruel and greedy? Yes. Will Clive and Julia have their cute, little spats before making up? Yes. Will Clive provide at least one knockout punch to a smarmy dude or a sober looking henchman? Yes? Will Julia frustrate Clive by holding her own in conversation and confidence? Yes. And of course will the beauty with the Sea-Bisquit mouth let out with at least one uproarious guffaw. You can take that one to the bank. Nothing like stale predictable paint by the numbers pap for you millions of sheep.

[–] edaz 15 years ago

Clearly you have not seen the film because it doesn't reduce itself to your stupid cliches.

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[–] coolguy5090 15 years ago

Agreed. The film is extremely intelligent, well-written, and brilliantly executed. Tonly Gilroy is the man.
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[–] bas1311-1 15 years ago

Spoilers Included:

It wasn't intelligent. It was deliberately told in a confusing way, but pretty easy to figure out. The whole movie turned on them stealing the formula(which they didn't, it was stolen for them at Wilkinson's direction) They didn't wonder why this happened? What was their plan had it not happened? Why did Owen's team let him go after he tried to steal the formula? Not an intelligent movie, a movie that attempted to be intelligent but failed miserably. Not to mention that the 2 main characters who were supposed to be master spies never did anything the entire movie even remotely clever. They talked about doing things but never did. And what was up with the pizza thing? Just silly.

Another major problem was that nobody checked the formula, not Owen, not Roberts, and not Giammati. You have got to be kidding me. 2 spies selling something for $35 million and a guy who runs a multi-national conglomerate are going to go to their respective meet and stockholder meetings and not have someone take a look at a 1 page formula that it turns out is for some sort of cream? The twist needed the characters to be beyond stupid. That is just more silliness and horrible writing.

[–] croqq 15 years ago

... with the Sea-Bisquit mouth let out with at least one uproarious guffaw

LOL count on it Timmy

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[–] st-shot 15 years ago

Oy, this sucker tanked. Could today's movie going populace prefer something challenging? Not! Fast and Furious set an April BO record.

[–] cinecing 15 years ago

There is actually some movie going populace which find this " sucker " as you so kindly called it challenging . And please spare your effort to publish this Russian salad which constitutes your first message of the thread as an actual synopis for the movie . Some people would actually think that you smoked too much ganja while you were in the theater . Thanks for the laughs .

[–] st-shot 15 years ago

I didn't see the film I just knew it would happen. And it did. And I don't smoke weed...in the theatre. Quel est un salade Russe?

[–] PPPuro 15 years ago

only real important thing is do Clive and Julia have chemistry, and the answer is yes.

Lol. The only chemistry they had between them was H2O5OH, which was what I woulda needed myself after this. And got, too. Cheers.