I've always been kind of meh on Brad Pitt, with one exception: his Floyd in True Romance. The few minutes he graced the screen in a stoner torpor made me wish the whole film revolved around him (nice try Pineapple Express, but no cigar). In Burn After Reading he does it again as the weightless meathead Chad. The movie was slight but fun, almost as if the Coens were hired by HBO to make a pilot for a new spy thriller and decided to screw with them. As usual, the Coens have found brilliant uses for their players, from an angry John Malkovich doing aerobics to George Clooney lugging around a Liberator sex cushion. But watching Pitt drink a Jamba Juice is worth the price of admission.9.13.2008
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I've always been kind of meh on Brad Pitt, with one exception: his Floyd in True Romance. The few minutes he graced the screen in a stoner torpor made me wish the whole film revolved around him (nice try Pineapple Express, but no cigar). In Burn After Reading he does it again as the weightless meathead Chad. The movie was slight but fun, almost as if the Coens were hired by HBO to make a pilot for a new spy thriller and decided to screw with them. As usual, the Coens have found brilliant uses for their players, from an angry John Malkovich doing aerobics to George Clooney lugging around a Liberator sex cushion. But watching Pitt drink a Jamba Juice is worth the price of admission.
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I'm looking forward to seeing Burn After Readeing. I think Brad Pitt is always better in his more "out there" rolls. I liked hime in 12 Monkeys and Snatch too.
Jesus, where did I learn how to spell? Well, at least rolls is spelled right, it's just the wrong word :P
I hate it when spellcheck doesn't catch it because it is a real word.
Missa....sure, it may be my 12 year old boy humor (too much hanging out with my hubs) getting the best of me but I had a good giggle at the typos and then your subsequent discovery of said typos. It seemed to match Brad Pitt's character in Burn....thank you for the guffaw!
Yes, it was very "in character." ;)
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