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]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:31:56 GMTMovies we do not want to seeWed, 22 Mar 2006 14:27:50 GMT203190Group Spout Post: Superbad Trailer http://www.spout.com/blogs/aidanbos/archive/2007/7/13/13842.aspx Post By: aidanbos
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Body: As if 'Knocked Up' wasn't enough of Seth Rogen this summer we still have Superbad to look forward to this August. Here is the trailer, prepare to laugh: http://www.spout.com/films/286651/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views
]]>Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:00:13 GMTaidanbosFilm Views7/13/2007 4:00:13 PMAs if 'Knocked Up' wasn't enough of Seth Rogen this summer we still have Superbad to look forward to this August. Here is the trailer, prepare to laugh: http://www.spout.com/films/286651/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views Spout Post: Lack of interesting character dramas in The United States http://www.spout.com/groups/Film_Views/Lack_of_interesting_character_dramas_in_The_United/356/11124/1/ShowPost.aspxPost By: aidanbos
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Body: I have recently become very interested in foreign films, especially films coming from Denmark. These films are all relatively low-budget, but are much more interesting, provacative ultimately rewarding than much of what Hollywood produces for much more money and relatively often. Why have foreign markets like this one been able to steer away from mindless blockbusters that we forget as soon as we finish watching them while simple intimate films like this linger in your mind long after viewing? Is the trend steering towards or away from big-budget action films?
]]>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 00:39:37 GMTaidanbosFilm Views6/14/2007 8:39:37 PMI have recently become very interested in foreign films, especially films coming from Denmark. These films are all relatively low-budget, but are much more interesting, provacative ultimately rewarding than much of what Hollywood produces for much more money and relatively often. Why have foreign markets like this one been able to steer away from mindless blockbusters that we forget as soon as we finish watching them while simple intimate films like this linger in your mind long after viewing? Is the trend steering towards or away from big-budget action films? Spout Post: Ocean's Thirteen: Less than eleven but more than twelve. http://www.spout.com/blogs/aidanbos/archive/2007/6/11/10831.aspx Post By: aidanbos
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Body: There is a scene mid-way through the last installment of the Oceans Eleven franchise where our two main characters Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan lament over the vegas that used to be and how it has changed for the worse. The same could be said for the heist movie which has now become just another mundane genre full of cliche'd robbery methods and meaningless payoffs. Thankfully Ocean's Thirteen has enough charm and humor to make us forget or at least ignore the fact that as a heist movie it doesn't quite work on more than one level. The story opens with the rest of our beloved gang discovering that their mentor and financier Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) has landed in the hospital as a result of a business deal gone awry with sleazy casino developer Willy Bank (Al Pacino, terrific). After going through a somewhat humorous list of what they could all do to Bank to enact revenge they decide not to use violence and hit him where it really hurts: by sabotaging his new casino 'The Bank' on it's opening night. These men, of course, would never resort to violence. Sure they have no problem stealing loads of money but hurting another huma being is absolutely out of the question, how then would be able to root for them? The plot to bring down Bank's casino is an elaborate one. It involves a number of operations that seem ten times as impossible as anything in the first film. They include infiltrating numerous associated industries of the casino industry such as a dice factory in Mexico where the always funny Casey Affleck and Scott Caan do as much to help the Ocean's gang cause as they do to start a workers revolution. The gang also needs to infiltrate the gaming board so that they can manipulate the card machines in order to rig black jack and watch Bernie Mac's Frank Catton show up as a domino dealer keen on selling his special gaming tables. While these scams and cons might seem difficult enough on their own none of it can be done while the casino's special security system is functioning. In order to get it to go offline they need to create a miniature earthquake by doing no less then drilling underneath the casino with a large man driven drill, one that was specifically used to 'dig the chunnel from the French side'. There is also a smaller sub-plot that entails Saul (Carl Reiner) impersonating a notorious reviewer of casinos. He is given the royal treatment while the real casino reviewer (David Paymer) is subjected to the worst hotel service (including a nasty skin infection) known to man. This ties in to what really matters to Willy Bank: the coveted 'five diamond' rating for a new casino. Bank has one five already that he keeps stored away on the top floor of his monstrosity of a new building and is hell bent on getting a sixth. This creates significant problems for the Ocean's gang when they run out of money and ar forced to go to their former nemesis Terry Benedict for financing. He demands that they also steal Bank's 'five diamond' awards and will not finance the other part of their plan unless they capitulate. There are numerous other developments in the film in which I could divulge but I don't feel the need to because nothing in this film goes deeper than the surface. The first 'Ocean's' film had all of the charm of this one but it also had just a little bit of depth with the added story of Danny Ocean trying to win back his ex-wife Tess from Terry Benedict. In 'Thirteen' Ocean's Tess and Rusty's Isabelle are mentioned only in passing and it is alluded that things are over in both relationships. This is really just a way for their to be an explanation of their absence from the film. The only thing closely resembling a romantic story is Matt Damon's character's seduction of Ms. Sponder (Ellen Barkin) as Pacino's #2. This was a fun sub plot and had it been given more development earlier in the film would have paid off in a more rewarding fashion. Instead it is just another cherry on top of the sundae. In the end Ocean's Thirteen is no great achievement; it offers very little that is new in the heist genre, there are happenings which are illogical at best and impossible at worst and much of what happens seems to materialize out of thin air. Heist movies of the old days took pleasure in explaining how the crime would be achieved and we eventually grew to believe in the plan along with the criminals. This film simply shows us the results and asks that we take the leap. However, despite all the things this film gets wrong as heist movie it moves along wonderfully as a piece of pop art. Steven Sodebergh is a director who I have long admired but his latest attempts and experiments have mostly failed. Bubble was an interesting film but didn't quite reach the catharsis necessary to make it relevant and last year's the Good German was an earnest experiment that ultimately failed in achieving all that it wanted to be. But with Ocean's Thirteen Sodebergh hits the mark, at least on the surface. We don't need emotional depth or revelatory dialogue or even believable set pieces here, it was made merely to entertain us and it does that. It's style is beautiful, and the characters banter is great to listen to now that it lacks some of the arrogance of the 2nd film. I suppose it is essential to suspend disbelief for a film like this, because once you do it is worth the ride.http://www.spout.com/films/278177/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views
]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:01:51 GMTaidanbosFilm Views6/11/2007 11:01:51 PMThere is a scene mid-way through the last installment of the Oceans Eleven franchise where our two main characters Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan lament over the vegas that used to be and how it has changed for the worse. The same could be said for the heist movie which has now become just another mundane genre full of cliche'd robbery methods and meaningless payoffs. Thankfully Ocean's Thirteen has enough charm and humor to make us forget or at least ignore the fact that as a heist movie it doesn't quite work on more than one level. The story opens with the rest of our beloved gang discovering that their mentor and financier Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) has landed in the hospital as a result of a business deal gone awry with sleazy casino developer Willy Bank (Al Pacino, terrific). After going through a somewhat humorous list of what they could all do to Bank to enact revenge they decide not to use violence and hit him where it really hurts: by sabotaging his new casino 'The Bank' on it's opening night. These men, of course, would never resort to violence. Sure they have no problem stealing loads of money but hurting another huma being is absolutely out of the question, how then would be able to root for them? The plot to bring down Bank's casino is an elaborate one. It involves a number of operations that seem ten times as impossible as anything in the first film. They include infiltrating numerous associated industries of the casino industry such as a dice factory in Mexico where the always funny Casey Affleck and Scott Caan do as much to help the Ocean's gang cause as they do to start a workers revolution. The gang also needs to infiltrate the gaming board so that they can manipulate the card machines in order to rig black jack and watch Bernie Mac's Frank Catton show up as a domino dealer keen on selling his special gaming tables. While these scams and cons might seem difficult enough on their own none of it can be done while the casino's special security system is functioning. In order to get it to go offline they need to create a miniature earthquake by doing no less then drilling underneath the casino with a large man driven drill, one that was specifically used to 'dig the chunnel from the French side'. There is also a smaller sub-plot that entails Saul (Carl Reiner) impersonating a notorious reviewer of casinos. He is given the royal treatment while the real casino reviewer (David Paymer) is subjected to the worst hotel service (including a nasty skin infection) known to man. This ties in to what really matters to Willy Bank: the coveted 'five diamond' rating for a new casino. Bank has one five already that he keeps stored away on the top floor of his monstrosity of a new building and is hell bent on getting a sixth. This creates significant problems for the Ocean's gang when they run out of money and ar forced to go to their former nemesis Terry Benedict for financing. He demands that they also steal Bank's 'five diamond' awards and will not finance the other part of their plan unless they capitulate. There are numerous other developments in the film in which I could divulge but I don't feel the need to because nothing in this film goes deeper than the surface. The first 'Ocean's' film had all of the charm of this one but it also had just a little bit of depth with the added story of Danny Ocean trying to win back his ex-wife Tess from Terry Benedict. In 'Thirteen' Ocean's Tess and Rusty's Isabelle are mentioned only in passing and it is alluded that things are over in both relationships. This is really just a way for their to be an explanation of their absence from the film. The only thing closely resembling a romantic story is Matt Damon's character's seduction of Ms. Sponder (Ellen Barkin) as Pacino's #2. This was a fun sub plot and had it been given more development earlier in the film would have paid off in a more rewarding fashion. Instead it is just another cherry on top of the sundae. In the end Ocean's Thirteen is no great achievement; it offers very little that is new in the heist genre, there are happenings which are illogical at best and impossible at worst and much of what happens seems to materialize out of thin air. Heist movies of the old days took pleasure in explaining how the crime would be achieved and we eventually grew to believe in the plan along with the criminals. This film simply shows us the results and asks that we take the leap. However, despite all the things this film gets wrong as heist movie it moves along wonderfully as a piece of pop art. Steven Sodebergh is a director who I have long admired but his latest attempts and experiments have mostly failed. Bubble was an interesting film but didn't quite reach the catharsis necessary to make it relevant and last year's the Good German was an earnest experiment that ultimately failed in achieving all that it wanted to be. But with Ocean's Thirteen Sodebergh hits the mark, at least on the surface. We don't need emotional depth or revelatory dialogue or even believable set pieces here, it was made merely to entertain us and it does that. It's style is beautiful, and the characters banter is great to listen to now that it lacks some of the arrogance of the 2nd film. I suppose it is essential to suspend disbelief for a film like this, because once you do it is worth the ride.http://www.spout.com/films/278177/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views Spout Post: Top 5 Heist Movies http://www.spout.com/blogs/aidanbos/archive/2007/6/11/10830.aspx Post By: aidanbos
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Body: In Honor of the newly released Ocean's Thirteen I have compiled a list of my favorite heist films. Enjoy.5) Reservoir Dogs. 1992 Directed by Quention Tarantino.The film that put Tarantino on the map is also one of the best looks behind the mask of film criminals. Behind that mask we find a cold, selfish heart. It is unflinching in it's portrayal of the type of person or person's who make their living knocking off casinos, robbing banks, and holding up liquor stores. However unlike most heist films, none of the members of the crew know each other besides through color coded aliases and even more unusua is that all of the action takes place after the robbery, which goes horribly wrong. Despite all of their differences all of the members are sure of one thing: there is a rat in their midst. Who it is they do not know and eventually their seeds of distrust amongst one another grow to fruition. What we do see of the robbery we see in flashback and even then very little. All throughout the film we too are wondering who the rat is and when we do find out we are rewarded with the best sequence of the film as Tim Roth's undercover officer preps himself to infiltrate this gang of professionals. Filled with great dialogue and possibly the most memorable torture scene in film history this is a heist film that isn't afraid to get its hands dirty and gives us a cynical, brutal finale. 4) Heat.1995 Directed by Michael Mann.You cannot think of the modern crime genre without thinking of this classic heist film from Miami vice creator and director of The Last of The Mohicans and The Insider's Michael Mann. The film is memorable for many reasons least of which having Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro on screen together for the first time in film history. The two were famously in the Godfather Part II but never shared a scene. Here they are flip sides of the same coin; Pacino as a world weary police detective chasing DeNiro's master thief. DeNiro runs a crew of highly skilled professional criminals including Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore. Likewise Pacino also has a crack team of his own whose sole purpose is to put people like DeNiro away. The story, which could easily play out as a simple genre film elevates itself to a kind of modern epic with the action unfolding itself over a dark, visually captivating Los Angeles. As the film moves along it picks up the viewer to move along with it towards its tragic and mournfully sad ending where no one wins and everyone loses. This film shows the ultimate futility of life on either side of the law.3) Ocean's 112001 Directed by Steven SodeberghProbably one of the biggest surprises at the box office, Sodeberghs original Oceans movie was a remake of the classic starring Frank Sinatra. It has now surpassed its original in popularity, style, and star power. Danny Ocean, fresh out of prison hopes to make the score of a lifetime by robbing not one but three casinos in Las Vegas. He does this by recruiting a large crew of trained Pro's from his right hand man Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) to freshman pick-pocket Matt Damon to explosives expert Basher (Don Cheadle). The film is great fun as it unfolds the general planning of the heist only to deliver the actual job in a much more spectacular and unbelievable fashion. Through a series of cons and slight of hands Ocean's 11 manages to pull of the heist of a lifetime all the while providing plenty of humor and visually pizzaz. The film fits together perfectly and all of the stars balance their performances off of one another with amazing precision. 2) The Sting 1973 Directed George Roy HillAs far as heist movies go this one deviates a bit from the main path leading us into territory mostly not visited in the genre. There are no strong armed-men with guns or cracking of safes but rather huge confidence scams and wagers placed upon wagers that depend on one another. The whole things is like a house of cards that could come falling down at any minute. If this movie were made today there is no doubt that George Clooney and Brad Pitt would take the place of a stellar Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the leaders in a complicated plan to enact revenge on a powerful banker for the death of one of their mentors. The set up is complicated as more than a few unwelcome special interests begin to rear their heads as Newmand and Redford set up a complex plan to get even involving horse racing. Newman and Redford are great together as the double protagonists and its many memorable scenes and unforgettable theme song make this one a classic.1) Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Directed by Sidney LumetRarely do heist films deeply explore the reason behind the main characters desire for money. That is what makes this 1975 film so different from any other hiest film ever made. It starts with a bang as Pacino and partner John Cazale storm a bank and hold it hostage. Things escalate as we are thrown into scene that has become familiar in contemporary films but rare at the time. The set up for this film has been copied so many times, think John Q, Mad City, Inside Man, that we forget that at the time what Lumet was doing was quite original. Pacino and Cazale hold out in a standoff that ultimately forces the robbers to reveal their motives to the police and the audience. This is a rarity in film that the desire should be so human and not guided by guilt or indulgence as misguided as the criminals actions may be. Pacino is amazing in a performance that he has unfortunately found himself repeating for the last thirty years. However at the time it was original and true. Cazale is also great and watching him makes you realize that the film world lost him long before it would have liked to.http://www.spout.com/films/9387/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views
]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:01:51 GMTaidanbosFilm Views6/11/2007 11:01:51 PMIn Honor of the newly released Ocean's Thirteen I have compiled a list of my favorite heist films. Enjoy.5) Reservoir Dogs. 1992 Directed by Quention Tarantino.The film that put Tarantino on the map is also one of the best looks behind the mask of film criminals. Behind that mask we find a cold, selfish heart. It is unflinching in it's portrayal of the type of person or person's who make their living knocking off casinos, robbing banks, and holding up liquor stores. However unlike most heist films, none of the members of the crew know each other besides through color coded aliases and even more unusua is that all of the action takes place after the robbery, which goes horribly wrong. Despite all of their differences all of the members are sure of one thing: there is a rat in their midst. Who it is they do not know and eventually their seeds of distrust amongst one another grow to fruition. What we do see of the robbery we see in flashback and even then very little. All throughout the film we too are wondering who the rat is and when we do find out we are rewarded with the best sequence of the film as Tim Roth's undercover officer preps himself to infiltrate this gang of professionals. Filled with great dialogue and possibly the most memorable torture scene in film history this is a heist film that isn't afraid to get its hands dirty and gives us a cynical, brutal finale. 4) Heat.1995 Directed by Michael Mann.You cannot think of the modern crime genre without thinking of this classic heist film from Miami vice creator and director of The Last of The Mohicans and The Insider's Michael Mann. The film is memorable for many reasons least of which having Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro on screen together for the first time in film history. The two were famously in the Godfather Part II but never shared a scene. Here they are flip sides of the same coin; Pacino as a world weary police detective chasing DeNiro's master thief. DeNiro runs a crew of highly skilled professional criminals including Val Kilmer and Tom Sizemore. Likewise Pacino also has a crack team of his own whose sole purpose is to put people like DeNiro away. The story, which could easily play out as a simple genre film elevates itself to a kind of modern epic with the action unfolding itself over a dark, visually captivating Los Angeles. As the film moves along it picks up the viewer to move along with it towards its tragic and mournfully sad ending where no one wins and everyone loses. This film shows the ultimate futility of life on either side of the law.3) Ocean's 112001 Directed by Steven SodeberghProbably one of the biggest surprises at the box office, Sodeberghs original Oceans movie was a remake of the classic starring Frank Sinatra. It has now surpassed its original in popularity, style, and star power. Danny Ocean, fresh out of prison hopes to make the score of a lifetime by robbing not one but three casinos in Las Vegas. He does this by recruiting a large crew of trained Pro's from his right hand man Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) to freshman pick-pocket Matt Damon to explosives expert Basher (Don Cheadle). The film is great fun as it unfolds the general planning of the heist only to deliver the actual job in a much more spectacular and unbelievable fashion. Through a series of cons and slight of hands Ocean's 11 manages to pull of the heist of a lifetime all the while providing plenty of humor and visually pizzaz. The film fits together perfectly and all of the stars balance their performances off of one another with amazing precision. 2) The Sting 1973 Directed George Roy HillAs far as heist movies go this one deviates a bit from the main path leading us into territory mostly not visited in the genre. There are no strong armed-men with guns or cracking of safes but rather huge confidence scams and wagers placed upon wagers that depend on one another. The whole things is like a house of cards that could come falling down at any minute. If this movie were made today there is no doubt that George Clooney and Brad Pitt would take the place of a stellar Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the leaders in a complicated plan to enact revenge on a powerful banker for the death of one of their mentors. The set up is complicated as more than a few unwelcome special interests begin to rear their heads as Newmand and Redford set up a complex plan to get even involving horse racing. Newman and Redford are great together as the double protagonists and its many memorable scenes and unforgettable theme song make this one a classic.1) Dog Day Afternoon 1975 Directed by Sidney LumetRarely do heist films deeply explore the reason behind the main characters desire for money. That is what makes this 1975 film so different from any other hiest film ever made. It starts with a bang as Pacino and partner John Cazale storm a bank and hold it hostage. Things escalate as we are thrown into scene that has become familiar in contemporary films but rare at the time. The set up for this film has been copied so many times, think John Q, Mad City, Inside Man, that we forget that at the time what Lumet was doing was quite original. Pacino and Cazale hold out in a standoff that ultimately forces the robbers to reveal their motives to the police and the audience. This is a rarity in film that the desire should be so human and not guided by guilt or indulgence as misguided as the criminals actions may be. Pacino is amazing in a performance that he has unfortunately found himself repeating for the last thirty years. However at the time it was original and true. Cazale is also great and watching him makes you realize that the film world lost him long before it would have liked to.http://www.spout.com/films/9387/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views Spout Post: Ocean's Thirteen: Less than eleven but more than twelve. http://www.spout.com/blogs/aidanbos/archive/2007/6/11/10765.aspx Post By: aidanbos
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Body: There is a scene mid-way through the last installment of the Oceans Eleven franchise where our two main characters Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan lament over the vegas that used to be and how it has changed for the worse. The same could be said for the heist movie which has now become just another mundane genre full of cliche'd robbery methods and meaningless payoffs. Thankfully Ocean's Thirteen has enough charm and humor to make us forget or at least ignore the fact that as a heist movie it doesn't quite work on more than one level. The story opens with the rest of our beloved gang discovering that their mentor and financier Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) has landed in the hospital as a result of a business deal gone awry with sleazy casino developer Willy Bank (Al Pacino, terrific). After going through a somewhat humorous list of what they could all do to Bank to enact revenge they decide not to use violence and hit him where it really hurts: by sabotaging his new casino 'The Bank' on it's opening night. These men, of course, would never resort to violence. Sure they have no problem stealing loads of money but hurting another huma being is absolutely out of the question, how then would be able to root for them? The plot to bring down Bank's casino is an elaborate one. It involves a number of operations that seem ten times as impossible as anything in the first film. They include infiltrating numerous associated industries of the casino industry such as a dice factory in Mexico where the always funny Casey Affleck and Scott Caan do as much to help the Ocean's gang cause as they do to start a workers revolution. The gang also needs to infiltrate the gaming board so that they can manipulate the card machines in order to rig black jack and watch Bernie Mac's Frank Catton show up as a domino dealer keen on selling his special gaming tables. While these scams and cons might seem difficult enough on their own none of it can be done while the casino's special security system is functioning. In order to get it to go offline they need to create a miniature earthquake by doing no less then drilling underneath the casino with a large man driven drill, one that was specifically used to 'dig the chunnel from the French side'. There is also a smaller sub-plot that entails Saul (Carl Reiner) impersonating a notorious reviewer of casinos. He is given the royal treatment while the real casino reviewer (David Paymer) is subjected to the worst hotel service (including a nasty skin infection) known to man. This ties in to what really matters to Willy Bank: the coveted 'five diamond' rating for a new casino. Bank has one five already that he keeps stored away on the top floor of his monstrosity of a new building and is hell bent on getting a sixth. This creates significant problems for the Ocean's gang when they run out of money and ar forced to go to their former nemesis Terry Benedict for financing. He demands that they also steal Bank's 'five diamond' awards and will not finance the other part of their plan unless they capitulate. There are numerous other developments in the film in which I could divulge but I don't feel the need to because nothing in this film goes deeper than the surface. The first 'Ocean's' film had all of the charm of this one but it also had just a little bit of depth with the added story of Danny Ocean trying to win back his ex-wife Tess from Terry Benedict. In 'Thirteen' Ocean's Tess and Rusty's Isabelle are mentioned only in passing and it is alluded that things are over in both relationships. This is really just a way for their to be an explanation of their absence from the film. The only thing closely resembling a romantic story is Matt Damon's character's seduction of Ms. Sponder (Ellen Barkin) as Pacino's #2. This was a fun sub plot and had it been given more development earlier in the film would have paid off in a more rewarding fashion. Instead it is just another cherry on top of the sundae. In the end Ocean's Thirteen is no great achievement; it offers very little that is new in the heist genre, there are happenings which are illogical at best and impossible at worst and much of what happens seems to materialize out of thin air. Heist movies of the old days took pleasure in explaining how the crime would be achieved and we eventually grew to believe in the plan along with the criminals. This film simply shows us the results and asks that we take the leap. However, despite all the things this film gets wrong as heist movie it moves along wonderfully as a piece of pop art. Steven Sodebergh is a director who I have long admired but his latest attempts and experiments have mostly failed. Bubble was an interesting film but didn't quite reach the catharsis necessary to make it relevant and last year's the Good German was an earnest experiment that ultimately failed in achieving all that it wanted to be. But with Ocean's Thirteen Sodebergh hits the mark, at least on the surface. We don't need emotional depth or revelatory dialogue or even believable set pieces here, it was made merely to entertain us and it does that. It's style is beautiful, and the characters banter is great to listen to now that it lacks some of the arrogance of the 2nd film. I suppose it is essential to suspend disbelief for a film like this, because once you do it is worth the ride.http://www.spout.com/films/278177/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views
]]>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:00 GMTaidanbosFilm Views6/11/2007 2:09:00 PMThere is a scene mid-way through the last installment of the Oceans Eleven franchise where our two main characters Danny Ocean and Rusty Ryan lament over the vegas that used to be and how it has changed for the worse. The same could be said for the heist movie which has now become just another mundane genre full of cliche'd robbery methods and meaningless payoffs. Thankfully Ocean's Thirteen has enough charm and humor to make us forget or at least ignore the fact that as a heist movie it doesn't quite work on more than one level. The story opens with the rest of our beloved gang discovering that their mentor and financier Reuben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) has landed in the hospital as a result of a business deal gone awry with sleazy casino developer Willy Bank (Al Pacino, terrific). After going through a somewhat humorous list of what they could all do to Bank to enact revenge they decide not to use violence and hit him where it really hurts: by sabotaging his new casino 'The Bank' on it's opening night. These men, of course, would never resort to violence. Sure they have no problem stealing loads of money but hurting another huma being is absolutely out of the question, how then would be able to root for them? The plot to bring down Bank's casino is an elaborate one. It involves a number of operations that seem ten times as impossible as anything in the first film. They include infiltrating numerous associated industries of the casino industry such as a dice factory in Mexico where the always funny Casey Affleck and Scott Caan do as much to help the Ocean's gang cause as they do to start a workers revolution. The gang also needs to infiltrate the gaming board so that they can manipulate the card machines in order to rig black jack and watch Bernie Mac's Frank Catton show up as a domino dealer keen on selling his special gaming tables. While these scams and cons might seem difficult enough on their own none of it can be done while the casino's special security system is functioning. In order to get it to go offline they need to create a miniature earthquake by doing no less then drilling underneath the casino with a large man driven drill, one that was specifically used to 'dig the chunnel from the French side'. There is also a smaller sub-plot that entails Saul (Carl Reiner) impersonating a notorious reviewer of casinos. He is given the royal treatment while the real casino reviewer (David Paymer) is subjected to the worst hotel service (including a nasty skin infection) known to man. This ties in to what really matters to Willy Bank: the coveted 'five diamond' rating for a new casino. Bank has one five already that he keeps stored away on the top floor of his monstrosity of a new building and is hell bent on getting a sixth. This creates significant problems for the Ocean's gang when they run out of money and ar forced to go to their former nemesis Terry Benedict for financing. He demands that they also steal Bank's 'five diamond' awards and will not finance the other part of their plan unless they capitulate. There are numerous other developments in the film in which I could divulge but I don't feel the need to because nothing in this film goes deeper than the surface. The first 'Ocean's' film had all of the charm of this one but it also had just a little bit of depth with the added story of Danny Ocean trying to win back his ex-wife Tess from Terry Benedict. In 'Thirteen' Ocean's Tess and Rusty's Isabelle are mentioned only in passing and it is alluded that things are over in both relationships. This is really just a way for their to be an explanation of their absence from the film. The only thing closely resembling a romantic story is Matt Damon's character's seduction of Ms. Sponder (Ellen Barkin) as Pacino's #2. This was a fun sub plot and had it been given more development earlier in the film would have paid off in a more rewarding fashion. Instead it is just another cherry on top of the sundae. In the end Ocean's Thirteen is no great achievement; it offers very little that is new in the heist genre, there are happenings which are illogical at best and impossible at worst and much of what happens seems to materialize out of thin air. Heist movies of the old days took pleasure in explaining how the crime would be achieved and we eventually grew to believe in the plan along with the criminals. This film simply shows us the results and asks that we take the leap. However, despite all the things this film gets wrong as heist movie it moves along wonderfully as a piece of pop art. Steven Sodebergh is a director who I have long admired but his latest attempts and experiments have mostly failed. Bubble was an interesting film but didn't quite reach the catharsis necessary to make it relevant and last year's the Good German was an earnest experiment that ultimately failed in achieving all that it wanted to be. But with Ocean's Thirteen Sodebergh hits the mark, at least on the surface. We don't need emotional depth or revelatory dialogue or even believable set pieces here, it was made merely to entertain us and it does that. It's style is beautiful, and the characters banter is great to listen to now that it lacks some of the arrogance of the 2nd film. I suppose it is essential to suspend disbelief for a film like this, because once you do it is worth the ride.http://www.spout.com/films/278177/default.aspx Originally posted on:Film Views Spout Member:The_MOW - Mickey Micklon http://www.spout.com/members/148616/default.aspx Identity: The_MOW
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