Syriana

[dwell]

+1 for cliche scene of George Clooney walking away from car bomb without blinking an eye.

 

[Looney]

I had no idea what kind of movie it was when i was watching it, but i found it to be very good. When i started to see what the cast was made of, i expected it to be more action packed, and was disappointed early on that it wasn't, but eventually got very engaged in the story.

 

[Chunkee]

it was a very good movie, paced well and had a tone of dulled apathy that displayed how these kinds of things are decided upon as easy buying an appliance...

all you nay sayers go back to watching your anime porn and let the adults watch and critique the more serious movies.

 

[iamwiz82]

Sounds like some of you need wire-fighting and 3 minute sex scene for a movie to be enjoyable.

 

[Gunslinger08]

I thought it was "medium." Nothing spectacular, but not horrible. Entertaining, maybe?

 

[alien42]

it was a good movie, nothing spectacular but also no that difficult to follow (the ADD reference above is fairly accurate though). as for the people who do not like it because it somehow offends their sense of politics are ignorant, its just a movie.

i did not undersand the point of the attorneys father and their relationship however.

 

[biggestmuff]

Average flick. I missed the impact of the final scene, however. Days prior, I had finished rearranging my HT system and decided to use the auto-shutoff feature on my sub. Well, Syriana isn't the most LF driven film. I think the sub gets to work a total of twice in the whole flick. So, the sub had shut off ten minutes after the scene at the beginning and it turned on too late during the final scene so I missed the dramatic impact of that big explosion. I wasn't bothered, though. Like I said, it wasn't that impressive. I could care less about the characters.

There was a short scene at the Arab pool party where Matt Damon's character has an exchange with his wife. It was either poor-writing or showing the ignorance of their characters. Damon says something like, 'Look how these Arabs are so family orientated.' His wife gives him this odd look and tells him to be quiet. He says, 'was that racist' and she replies, 'yeah, I think so'. WTF? Why was that dialog there? It's like a conversation between ATOTers; always calling something racist when it's not.

For everyone complaining about the film jumping between different story arc or referencing ADD, that was done on purpose. The director was interviewed on that HD NET TV show and he said that he cut it to be purposefully confusing to make it seem real.

 

[FilmCamera]

Originally posted by: Shawn
I didn't really like it either. It has the guy from 24 though.

You mean Alexander Siddig? He is much more famous as Dr. Bashir from Deep Space Nine.

 

[whistleclient]

Originally posted by: JS80


heh very well said. the high critic rating makes no sense but an endorsement to the negative american perception in hollywood.

i hate to burst your bubble, but that negative perception of america of which you speak is pretty much worldwide.

as for the movie, i didn't really have any trouble following it but maybe that's because i was prepared for a movie with multiple plotlines. it was written and directed by Stephan Gaghan, the writer of Traffic, who likes using the multiple protagonist approach.

 

[50cent1228]

i liked it

 

[50cent1228]

omg lol at the v dub ad

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: eits
it's not a crappy movie at all... it's explaining the huge network of how governments, oil, and terrorism are related

QFMFT.

In addition I also just loved that scene were George Clooney got the crap almost literally beaten out of him by that Lebanese dude it was sensational and hilarious

DarkThinker

 

[skyking]

Not about the movie itself, but I have some older conservative acquaintances who go ballistic at any viewing of our great country in a negative light.
It absolutely cracks me up that they dislike George Clooney and rail on about him because of this flick.
Hello? He's an actor doing a job

 

[Staples]

I liked it but you don't know what the hell is going on unless you watch it a second time.

 

[SpanishFry]

good movie

 

[Descartes]

I thought the movie was great. I've seen it a few times, but I don't remember being confused by it the first time. I thought it demonstrated everything quite nicely.

Originally posted by: DarkThinker

Originally posted by: eits
it's not a crappy movie at all... it's explaining the huge network of how governments, oil, and terrorism are related

QFMFT.

In addition I also just loved that scene were George Clooney got the crap almost literally beaten out of him by that Lebanese dude it was sensational and hilarious

DarkThinker

Actually, he got the crap beat out of him literally. I remember reading that when he hit the ground he suffered from something that left him in therapy for quite a while.

 

[BoomerD]

Parts of it were pretty good, but the way it was chopped up made it hard to follow at times. As has been already said, it does show how governments and oil are so tightly intertwined as to lose any real distinction between them..."what's good for the oil biz is good for us..."