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""Michael Clayton""

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Anonymous SFG said...

Maybe it's because I'm a liberal, but I enjoyed the movie.

And I wound up seeing it instead of Beowulf, too, so I wss prejudiced against it.

12/20/07, 6:09 AM

Anonymous Evil Neocon said...

Good point Steve -- corporate yuppies and lawyers don't kill for Monsanto. Instead money is spread around in influence peddling.

Which is not very interesting dramatically.

You're wrong though on Clooney being a movie star. He just isn't. He won't put butts in seats. UNLESS he's making an Ocean's whatever movie.

The whole movie (and SFG's response, no offense SFG) are problematic of Hollywood's decline.

No one in Hollywood is close socially to their audience to figure out that they just want entertainment, not a moral lecture on how people in Malibu are better than those in say, Lawndale. Or Torrance.

It's why Syriana, Crash, all those movies stunk to high heaven. And made little money.

Meanwhile Nic Cage and Will Smith generally carefully select projects that promise populist appeal. While Clooney claims Hollywood ended Jim Crow, saved the Environment, and stopped the Cold War.

12/20/07, 3:22 PM

Anonymous fifi said...

I went looking for the "debate" to see if it was as bad as you said but couldn't find it. If it's any consolation, Clooney is starting to look like an alcoholic ex-frat boy. I think his newly developed social conscience is actually some kind of compensatory behavior for the loss of status that will ensue as he ages. Unfortunately for Clooney, as his boyish good looks degenerate into chubby cheeked pastiness, people will stop being motivated to agree with everything he says.

12/20/07, 11:51 PM

Anonymous Ola Amigo said...

Steve,
I found the movie unbelievable too. The movie was going for a realistic look and feel which made the story seem even more unlikely.

I think the people who made that movie, and possibly some of critics, think that this sort of thing happens. I recall from the Enron story there was one executive who commited suicide, there might have been some conspiracy theories about that. And no one Karen Silkwood wasn't killed.

BTW, an excellent book on conporate shenanigans is The Informant, but Eichenwald. It was about Archer Daniels Midland and price fixing. Highly recommended.

12/21/07, 8:36 AM

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