Burn After Reading
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Burn After ReadingI'm watching it at the moment and Brad Pitt's character is hilarious, I keep laughing out loud..oh dear.
other than that I find it hard to concentrate on it, specially after watching Being John Malkovich recently, I just keep expecting John to break into the puppet dance from ther film... -
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Re: Burn After ReadingOne hopes it's a decent copy. Cam, Telesync or Screener?(Original post by cellor_door)
I'm watching it at the moment and Brad Pitt's character is hilarious, I keep laughing out loud..oh dear.
other than that I find it hard to concentrate on it, specially after watching Being John Malkovich recently, I just keep expecting John to break into the puppet dance from ther film...
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Re: Burn After ReadingHow was there no plot?(Original post by wombley)
I loved Burn After Reading! We started trying to figure out what the plot was...after half an hour we realised there was none! Brilliant.
Malkovich has a drinking problem. Fired from his job. Writes down memoirs. Cheating wife steals them and puts them and puts them on a CD for divorce procedures. CD ends up with Chad and Linda. They try to blackmail Malkovich to pay for Linda's surgery. They take them to the Russian embassy. Clooney (Harry) meets Linda via Internet dating. Chad pokes about in Malkovich's house. Clooney comes back. Chad dead (
). Clooney realises he's killed Linda's friend. Linda's lover (I forget the name) persuaded to sneak into Malkovich's house. Malkovich gone crazy and shoots the poor guy. CIA officer then kills Malkovich. Clooney flees to Venezuela. Linda bribed into being quiet. The CIA guy in charge is like "lol wat?". End.
Well, that's at least what I think happened
Quite an in-depth plot I thought. Brad Pitt was hilarious. 
I wonder what happened to the two wives. Surely they'd need some explanation of why their husbands are dead.
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Re: Burn After ReadingI bursted out laughing when he got shot though. The vacant, idiotic grin he had on his face just before he was shot.(Original post by Yellow-nutshell)
Weird ass film. Funny but just so random and pointless! Just left the cinema feeling a bit like..
And i felt sorry for Pitts character, he didn't deserve that
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Re: Burn After ReadingIt's classic Coen. You either get it or you don't. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of people (that I know) seem to not like this movie at all whereas I absolutely loved it.
It isn't the best Coen brother's film by any means, but it's still pretty damn solid. -
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Re: Burn After ReadingI loved it. Brad Pitt was hilarious, which is strange because I've never really liked him, but I watched him in Burn after Reading and a day later his guest appearance on friends and was laughing so much, so I guess I'm converted.
Like the above said though, it isnt the Coen's best film. Having only watched Fargo a few days before I had quite high expecations, but I still enjoyed it.
