Coen Brothers + Brad Pitt = GENIUS!

Good Evening.

Well, It's Friday so that means Cinema time!!!

Tonight, i was orginally going to see Eagle Eye with my friends. However, becuase not everyone could make it this week, we decided to watch Burn After Reading instead (Luckly, i wanted to see this more than Eagle Eye anyway, hehe) and i was not disappointed. It was classic Coens. The characters were as insane and moronic as ever. The plot as intentionally nonsensical and wonderfully crafted as ever. The dialogue was bitting and clever as you would expect from the men behind The Big Lebowski and Fargo. I will say it's not as zany and cartoony as Raising Arizona or The Hudsucker Proxy; however, it did have some fantastic "What the fuck!" moments. It was very funny without resulting to simple humour, (apart from Brad Pitt getting hit in the face, which was hilarious i admit) and it has an amazing juxtaposition between the complexity of the situation and the sheer idiocy of the characters involved. It's a wonderful script and the confusion of the narrative even has the character's confused, which makes for some good laughs with J.K Simmons supporting role as a CIA chief trying to figure out what the hell is going on!

Undoubtably, the two stars of the show are Brad Pitt and John Malkovich. Clooney is great, McDormand fine, and Swindon did well in what ultimately is a small but important part; however, the best moments of the film involve either Pitt's moronic gym trainer Chad, or Malkovich's frustrated and increasingly unhinged Osbourne. Pitt definately needs to do more comedy; he is a natural. Chad is SOOOO out of his depth, and tries his best to play the spy (Pitt's delivery as he tries to blackmail Osbourne is amazing: "I think you might want...to know... the security... of your shit." haha. He even gives himself a codename!) and just the sight of Brad Pitt sitting confused as hell as Osbourne rants right in his face, is too funny. Malkovich is at his insane best in Burn After Reading, and his character is probably the unluckiest guy in the world. You almost feel sorry for him. Before he goes mental! The small supporting characters also provide laughs and there are a couple of one scene wonders in there to boot!

I won't say it is the Coen Brother's best film. Not by a long shot. However, it is certainly an improvement on their last comedy, The LadyKillers (Which i do personally like, but is definately their weakest film) It might not be the Coen's "best" or a perfect comedy, but it is certainally close to both, and is still SO much better than most films out today. The Brother's amazing ability to create memorable characters, craft magnificent humour and talent for skillful, deft direction, i think, marks them out as possibly the best, and definately most entertaining filmmakers working in cinema today.

It is definately a BIG improvement on Taken! haha. It's got better violence too.

So that was my fun for the weekend. Tomorrow: an avalanche of Film research and referencing. Ahh, to be a young student. It sucks! hahahaha.

Goodbye.