A month or so ago Jeff Tucker urged me to watch Up in the Air (which I still haven’t done). I said that if he wanted to see another movie with George Clooney that had an outstanding appeal for Rothbardian viewers, he should check out Burn After Reading.
I just watched it again and I think it’s fantastic. If you liked the humor of The Big Lebowski, you may end up thinking this movie is in your top ten. (Warning, there are a lot of F-bombs.)
I hesitate to say much more, since part of the greatness of the movie is trying to figure out what the heck it even is as you watch it develop. All I will say is this: My model of government officials was fundamentally altered after I watched this movie. I thought, “Of course that’s how things must be if we could see these guys behind closed doors.”
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John Malkovich’s opening rant is a classic
“My model of government officials was fundamentally altered after I watched this movie.”
As if he assumed competence before!?
George Clooney is a Krugman-look-alike in the movie…anyway great movie!
I’ve never seen a movie demonstrate the insanity of the state better than Burn After Reading.
Aren’t the Coen Brothers amazing?
I haven’t seen all of their films, but I have loved all of the ones I have seen.
Even though it was a remake, I thought “The Ladykillers” was fantastic and highly underrated.
It’s funny you post this today, because I was actually thinking of a scene from the movie earlier this morning before I read this post. Weird.
If you want to see a great and hilarious comedy of government errors you MUST see last year’s “In the Loop”!
Eric Staib, what do you mean? I don’t want to give away anything, but I wasn’t saying, “Wow these guys are incompetent!” when I watched the guys discuss things in the CIA.
I second “In the Loop”. Hysterical.
That movie was horrible and depressing. I found nothing at all humorous or respectable in the entire thing.
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