- Aside from Brad Pitt and, on occasion, Frances McDormand, this movie was not terribly funny.
- Brad Pitt was hysterical, though. He should do more comedy, or at least more comedic roles, because I think he’s got good timing. It’s why his role in True Romance is amongst my favourite Brad Pitt performances.
- I always forget about the random and abrupt deaths in these Coen movies, so when Brad Pitt got shot point blank in the head, I was pretty shocked. And then when John Malkovich hatcheted that other guy to death, that was also shocking. It’s like the first time I saw Fargo all over again. Eesh, wood chipper.
- This movie was trying really hard to be clever and madcap but in the end it was just sort of, well, boring.
- Loved how Frances McDormand kept trying to sell secrets to the Russians as if she had no idea what year it was.
- They must have written the ending of this movie specifically for those who felt the ending of No Country For Old Men lacked closure. I find this ending much more deeply unsatisfying than I did the one for NCFOM.
- I was reading an IMDB thread about Brad Pitt’s death in this movie wherein someone “spoiled” someone else for a certain very similarly unexpected death in The Departed. I’m sorry, but the movie is titled The Departed — the spoilers should be who actually lives in that movie, not who dies. In the words of Ivan Korshunov, “EVERYBODY DIES!” Well, not quite everybody, but there’s a reason the movie is titled what it is. And knowing who that person is who dies will absolutely not take away from the impact of the death — it still kills me every single time I watch it. I don’t want to say what it was for those sensitive souls who don’t like being “spoiled” for things other than the movie they were explicitly told they were being spoiled for.
Burn After Reading
Burn after reading and salt the earth so nothing like this will ever grow again.
IMDB Plot Synopsis A disk containing the memoirs of a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous gym employees who attempt to sell it."