Sometimes, filmmakers get so caught up in making their movie appear "deep" that they forget that it won't matter if their audience is falling asleep. This is the case with a lot of George Clooney movies. Syriana was one such movie. It was, in fact, the first movie that put me to sleep.
I just saw The American last night and it is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in theatres. Why? Nothing happened. The entire film is just exposition and setting, although you never really know the character's motives behind anything they do. George Clooney plays an assassin but he's more of a photographer of butterflies, since there's never anyone to assassinate. The film follows him in his daily life in an Italian town. This means that you'll see multiple scenes of him walking back and forth in some desolate Italian town. The most exciting parts of these scenes is when he suddenly casts a wary glance backwards to reveal that *gasp* nothing is following him. Eventually someone does follow him, and you are never really made to understood why they did. Maybe they saw a pre-screening of the film and wanted to kill him before it was made, I don't know.
Anyways, this last part is what was what was in the trailers, making the movie look like some sort of suave Jason Bourne/James Bond/Leon combo. Sounds perfect. But instead you get George Clooney fixing a gun for 30 minutes, George Clooney walking on ruins for 30 minutes, George Clooney in the park for 30 minutes, George Clooney having sex for 20 minutes, and George Clooney actually shooting for 10 minutes. And in all of these are random shots of random things, because it's artistic to do so.
Why should we care about any of this? It's never explained or shown. Maybe because he's George Clooney and everyone should care about him. I know I'll never see another movie with him after this, even though he was great in Burn After Reading and From Dusk Till Dawn.
It's worse than The Informant!, another abysmally boring film that never went anywhere. It was also marketed as something it wasn't; a comedy. Maybe if I had gone to see The American with the intent of seeing some sort of gun-making/scenic tour of Italy with hookers movie, I would have liked it more. Or maybe not, because that's egotistical, wanna-be-artsy, arrogant schlock.
What movies have you seen that bored you to death? What makes a movie boring for you?
I just saw The American last night and it is by far the worst movie I have ever seen in theatres. Why? Nothing happened. The entire film is just exposition and setting, although you never really know the character's motives behind anything they do. George Clooney plays an assassin but he's more of a photographer of butterflies, since there's never anyone to assassinate. The film follows him in his daily life in an Italian town. This means that you'll see multiple scenes of him walking back and forth in some desolate Italian town. The most exciting parts of these scenes is when he suddenly casts a wary glance backwards to reveal that *gasp* nothing is following him. Eventually someone does follow him, and you are never really made to understood why they did. Maybe they saw a pre-screening of the film and wanted to kill him before it was made, I don't know.
Anyways, this last part is what was what was in the trailers, making the movie look like some sort of suave Jason Bourne/James Bond/Leon combo. Sounds perfect. But instead you get George Clooney fixing a gun for 30 minutes, George Clooney walking on ruins for 30 minutes, George Clooney in the park for 30 minutes, George Clooney having sex for 20 minutes, and George Clooney actually shooting for 10 minutes. And in all of these are random shots of random things, because it's artistic to do so.
Why should we care about any of this? It's never explained or shown. Maybe because he's George Clooney and everyone should care about him. I know I'll never see another movie with him after this, even though he was great in Burn After Reading and From Dusk Till Dawn.
It's worse than The Informant!, another abysmally boring film that never went anywhere. It was also marketed as something it wasn't; a comedy. Maybe if I had gone to see The American with the intent of seeing some sort of gun-making/scenic tour of Italy with hookers movie, I would have liked it more. Or maybe not, because that's egotistical, wanna-be-artsy, arrogant schlock.
What movies have you seen that bored you to death? What makes a movie boring for you?
