'Burn After Reading' review by Michael Phillips

A Coen brothers crime comedy starring
Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swinton
and John Malkovich.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Comedy
• Coen
• brothers
• Brad
• Pitt
• George
• Clooney
• crime
• CIA
• blackmail

[ruleraddison]

I loved Burn After Reading. Brad Pitt was hilarious.

[rkosixty]

the movie was good.

[X4ctlY]

yeah this movie was fucked upp funny...

[guitarreilly]

i loved this film sooo funny and very entertaining

[ozonepizza3563]

@kilibot you're okay. this movie is amazing

[videogamenostalgia]

@mikajacksonwarrior Coen Brothers movies NEVER conclude satisfactorily. That's their 'quirk'. Some call it genius; I call it pretentious, lazy bullshit. The Coens are determined to be the stars of their own movies, they never try to draw you in- you always have to think 'This is a Coen brothers movie' to not find it total shit. The only exception is No Country for Old Men, because they didn't write it. Having all the actors overact like hell doesn't help, either.

[kilibot]

this movie was okay

[mikajacksonwarrior]

yeah i agree it never really concludes, not a good film

[dinocro111]

@diefortacos  your friends are right

[patrickj25]

he missed the point.

[diefortacos]

most characters' actions are quite random and guided by expediency instead of principles and personal morality (i guess a more positive version is seen on lebowski, while movies such as fargo and ladykillers, present a different worldview - good eventually triumphs).

[diefortacos]

then fair enough, maybe it is a kind of existentialim, but a more modern version, hopeless and deeply nihilistic. i wouldn't blame them for feeling this way with all the problems in the world since the u.s. emerged as a superpower, but this is not the existentialism of sartre or kierkegaard, i feel, who believed in holding your personal morality and in persisting through, for lack of a better phrase, all the shit the world puts you through.