Well I'm not a big fan of George Clooney, but overall this was a good movie.

I read a review before I saw it that panned it and I must admit I was expecting to be disappointed, but except for some holes in the story this was a good waste of 2 hours. I am kind of surprised how Hollywood feels that making good moral decisions are a dilema and deserve music and inner struggle, when most people would say: This is how it has to be done. and do it.

My biggest thrill in the whole movie though was the trailer for an upcoming Jack Nicholson/ Morgon Freeman movie called The Bucket Letter.

This movie looks really good.

michael clayton was....really sweet.

Although this movie looks very good from the previews and reviews, I just can't bring myself to go to it.

I hear this one is supposed to be good but I was initially turned off by the trailer. I cant stand when a trailer shows a bunch of intense scenes with people yelling and a whole lot of flash but you get absolutely no sense of what the story is about. That usually means a bad or non-existent story.

BTW, its the Bucket List, and it looks great. There seems to be a sh*t-ton of good movies dropping soon.

The bucket list... not letter.

I saw Michael Clayton and think it was a very good movie. It took me a little while to figure out exactly what uNorth was. But after I understood that, the movie fell into place.

I would recommend this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

EDIT: Didn't see this.

Wow I thought it was incredible - and maybe it's my political bias but the only thing i found unbelievable was that it sort of had a happy ending


oh and as for bucket list - has anyone ever done narration as well as morgan freeman?

Just watched this and it was kind of like a civil action, but from the other side.

And who is unorth supposed to be?

yes.

My guess was http://www.cargill.com/

Does it look like I'm negotiating?

I just saw this movie last week. I thought it was over-rated and kinda over-hyped. It was ok, but I didn't walk away thinking it was a great movie or anything.

Furthermore, I have no idea how Tilda Swinton won best supporting actress for this movie. She was barely in it at all and really didn't do much.

I completely disagree with this entire post, and if you think Tilda wasn't in the movie very much, you didn't watch it. While she was onscreen less than 20 minutes of the final cut, she probably has the 3rd most screen time of any actor. With Clooney being by himself a lot, Wilkinson next (because of his long scenes before he dies) and then Swinton or Pollack.

But if you watched the Oscar ceremony you saw that she was just as surprised as you were.

BTW, I think Clooney and Wilkinson should have won for their acting before Swinton. Wilkinson would have easily won had No Country not come out this year. How many minutes was Wilkinson in the movie? I would guess not much more than Swinton, and yet, he was amazing and deserving of the nomination. Screen time doesn't matter, imo.


Please read this.

I thought it was a nicely done movie. It was extremely well structured. The final scene in the taxi is one of the great bits of acting in a long time -- no words, just several minutes of close-up that is played *perfectly*.

I work with a clone of Swinton's character -- same hair, clothes, walk, voice.... it freaked me out a bit. I thought she deserved the award because she captured a personality that I've run into several times in my career, and it was a powerful character, one that in a couple years you can say "she was the boss lady in Michael Clayton" and you'll be able to form a picture of the character in your head. There aren't a lot of roles like that for women.

Having said all that, the movie wasn't in the same class as NCFOM.... I guess Swinton is lucky there weren't any big roles for women in NCFOM.

Truest statement ever.

Didn't Anthony Hopkins only have like 15 minutes in Silence of the Lambs and he still won the leading Actor Award?

BTW, I thought the movie, Michael Clayton, was good, but not GREAT. I've definitely seen alot better. I just think there was alot of hype surrounding this movie.

Just watched this for the first time and wasnt too thrilled with it. It started off really slow and confusing, then when all the action starts the movie just ends without really wrapping it up. JMO though.

LOL.

Cate Blanchett got absolutely robbed of that supporting actress Oscar. Tilda Swinton was good (although as others have pointed out, she didn't even give the best performance of that film), but Blanchett totally stole the entire film (I'm Not There), even though she was only in a few scenes.

Blanchett stole the film, and Swinton stole her Oscar.

I thought Tilda Swinton's performance was Oscar-worthy. It was controlled, nuanced, morally challenging and perfectly executed. I like the movie quite a bit and thought it was one of the better films of that year. I rewatched it recently and was still impressed. Tom Wilkinson was amazing...again.

I'm interested to know what movie you actually watched that you thought was Michael Collins.

I'm betting it's Syriana, that movie fits the above description perfectly.

I thought Syriana was fairly good, too. A little disjointed and ambiguous, but I thought it might have been paced/written like that to accentuate the current political climate, in which it's difficult to tell who the good guys and bad guys are, in many instances. As the saying goes: "At night, all cats are grey"

I found it almost unwatchable, personally. Had the same issue with Body of Lies (it's probably just the fact that I really have no interest in being educated by Hollywood filmmakers about the Middle East) but at least that had a somewhat cohesive story for me to pay minimal attention to after the first 10 minutes.

I think part of my enjoyment was watching characters trying desperately to latch on to something firm to keep from being swallowed up by moral quicksand.

That being said, I definitely hear you. Some directors (and I think immediately of Edward Zwick, for example) just love to shove a message movie down our throats, yet when you examine the movie with some scrutiny, it turns out to be superficial fluff...ideas that point in a certain direction, but are lacking in the substance and personal investment that can make a movie compelling; standard Hollywood templates disguised as meaningful sequences.