Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Burn After Reading

"Hi. We're the Coen brothers. We just won some Oscars, so you'll watch whatever we make."

I was not impressed with this story of the CIA, the gym Hardbodies, and a bunch of incomparably stupid "adults." The plot doesn't sustain interest, but it doesn't have to if the jokes are funny. Which brings me to the jokes. The jokes aren't funny, aside from a few amusing moments with Brad Pitt. In fact, it was so not funny that in retrospect, "Hamlet 2" made "Burn After Reading" look like "Hannah and her Sisters."

On the plus side, I saw this two times today and still had time to fit a run in.

2 comments:

seefeldt said...

Sounds to me like you were bourne to run.

Seefeldt

lakshmy said...

saw 'burn after reading'. i agree with you. the only reason i chose that over whatever other crap was playing at the time was cuz of the coens. haven't watched 'hamlet 2'. i think i'll try to get that for the wknd!