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mikhail

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Jan 24, 2003
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Why all the Burn After Reading hate? It's perfectly a good film. Far better than Barton Fink, for example. I think people who are dissing it are the kind who Friends writers aim at - a joke every 30 seconds or you'll lose the audience.
 
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Why all the Burn After Reading hate? It's perfectly a good film. Far better than Barton Fink, for example. I think people who are dissing it are the kind who Friends writers aim at - a joke every 30 seconds or you'll lose the audience.
You lost me after the first sentence.

I rather liked Barton Fink.

Just watched (literaly) Rear Window: what a truely wonderful filmmaker Hitchcock was. Brilliant, and it is not his best.
 

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Oct 11, 2005
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Why all the Burn After Reading hate? It's perfectly a good film. Far better than Barton Fink, for example. I think people who are dissing it are the kind who Friends writers aim at - a joke every 30 seconds or you'll lose the audience.
Hardly. I loved No Country For Old Men. But I do like Friends. Still no need to be insulting.

At the same time the film just really didn't do it for me. I'm sure it's a fine movie. But as a follow up to No Country, I have to say no thank you. It seemed over done and just never really got going. I still have it on my hard drive and will probably give it another shot.
 

mikhail

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...But as a follow up to No Country, I have to say no thank you...
Yeah, I've seen that sentiment a bunch of times. I don't get it. It's like comparing Indiana Jones 4 with Munich (Spielberg's previous film). They're nothing alike. Why compare at all?

As for the slow to get going comment, it's the kind of thing that elicited the Friends gag every 30 seconds from me. So what if it's slow to start? So's Once Upon a Time in the West (staggeringly so - and still a great film).
 

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Yeah, I've seen that sentiment a bunch of times. I don't get it. It's like comparing Indiana Jones 4 with Munich (Spielberg's previous film). They're nothing alike. Why compare at all?

As for the slow to get going comment, it's the kind of thing that elicited the Friends gag every 30 seconds from me. So what if it's slow to start? So's Once Upon a Time in the West (staggeringly so - and still a great film).
I didn't really think it was slow. The Good Shepherd is slow. I understand the irony behind the whole it's a spy thriller that really isn't thing smattered with sub plots in order to provide depth for some of the more important characters. That doesn't mean I enjoyed it.
 

Elvin

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Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, oh cant stand and watched it again, very good and funny movie indeed, i love the end:D..***..
Cigdem, what's with you and guys with facial hair (your avatar)? I bet you have dreams about Mellberg too eh :D
 

Ahmed

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I didn't really think it was slow. The Good Shepherd is slow. I understand the irony behind the whole it's a spy thriller that really isn't thing smattered with sub plots in order to provide depth for some of the more important characters. That doesn't mean I enjoyed it.
:agree: it was like watching the LOTR trilogy in one day...twice
 

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Taken. Liam Neeson kicking ass? :shocked: One of the best action movies I've seen in a while, it's like a retired Jason Bourne.
 
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