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Capone enjoys the sweet con of THE BROTHERS BLOOM!!!

Brick= brilliant film by SkinJob69	May 22nd, 2009 09:06:21 AM
One of the most underrated movies I've seen. Looking forward to seeing this.
I don't know... by wampa 1	May 22nd, 2009 09:09:55 AM
...but it sure smells good!
Fourth by Underoos Hero	May 22nd, 2009 09:15:43 AM
Hell Yea!!
Did anyone else have their hopes up . . . by Nice Marmot	May 22nd, 2009 09:33:05 AM
. . . til they saw the trailer and TV ads? It looks like yet another hipster indi flick that looks way too Wes Anderson-inspired. I bet there's a whimsical poster out there for it in the style of a childlike illustration. Brick is the only positive thought I have going into this.
Darjeeling Ltd meets Ocean's (>=11) by estacado1	May 22nd, 2009 09:56:21 AM
Looks like that to me.
AICN = no cred? then why you here? by RKDN	May 22nd, 2009 10:07:55 AM
Seriously, if you've already accepted the opinions of reviews you've read before coming here, why are you even bothering to read this one, and then post your worthless thoughts in it? If some assclown staff writer for the BrokeBack Daily has already said this film is "dern wacky" and you've taken that as the final verdict, then why exactly are you even here? On the other hand, the first umpteen minutes of the movie are online, and there about 5 different trailers available. Why not look at those and form your OWN opinion? Ever consider the possibility that of all the on-set visits that AICN gets for movies, that some of those movies might actually be good? I've loved everything I've seen and heard about this movie and cannot wait for its wide release. The fact that AICN got heaps of access to it doesn't automatically predispose me to hate it. Maybe this just isn't the site for you. Stick to BrokeBack Daily - they gots coupons on the back page for Casey's General store - 10% off peperroni pizza with a purchase of 5 gallons of premium gasoline. SHOOO WEEEE! you moron.
RKDN by FireFriendly	May 22nd, 2009 10:36:21 AM
Good work fella - thats one of the better slag-offs i've heard recently :)
cant_stop_yawning by Nice Marmot	May 22nd, 2009 10:37:02 AM
What films fall under the "mumblecore" movement?
You people have only seen the Derp De Derp trailers... by natecore	May 22nd, 2009 11:03:20 AM
of course the real meat of the film isn't going to be found is these formula bastards.
Capone, you forgot Frank Oz' "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" by ricarleite2	May 22nd, 2009 11:09:29 AM

Please use an editor by xsi kal	May 22nd, 2009 11:22:29 AM
It would be nice if someone would actually proof-read these articles before they are posted. The sentence fragments, typos, and mistakes seriously detracted from what seemed like a relatively interesting review.
Loved it by durban1973	May 22nd, 2009 11:27:28 AM
Yes it had a Wes Anderson sensibility, in that Wes Anderson gets a great deal of his stylistic sensibilities from other directors. Brothers Bloom was a smart funny touching movie. I didn't like Brick, but i look forward to Rian's next movie.
My Spanish Prisoner story by Tin Snoman	May 22nd, 2009 11:34:15 AM
So I let my friend and his wife borrow my copy of The Spanish Prisoner. A few days later I got it back. "What did you think?" I asked. "That was the dumbest movie ever," he said. "Steve Martin just kept giving the guy stuff and was all nice to him all the time. We shut it off like halfway through, it was so stupid." Unbelieveable.
@ cant stop ywaning by orange cinema	May 22nd, 2009 11:50:20 AM
which critics are giving negative reviews? all i've read is good ones.
This looks like great fun! Remember Dirty Rotten Scoundrels? by DoctorZoidberg	May 22nd, 2009 12:03:24 PM
Great for a summertime laugh.
Mamet's HEIST - that's the one by palimpsest	May 22nd, 2009 01:53:28 PM
A wonderful, underrated film.
charley varrick,flim flam, and hot rock by redrain	May 22nd, 2009 02:06:39 PM
netflix that!!!
I'll go see it by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead	May 22nd, 2009 02:26:45 PM
The movie actually looks pretty decent from the little I've seen in trailers and the little I've heard of it. There is one problem, however. Who the hell decided that Brick was a great film? I know Ebert loved it and critics fell all over themselves trying to hug it, but it really wasn;t that good. Original? Yes, but gimmicky. I don't mind gimmicks like the dialogue of Brick and they serve to enhance a well written story. That is the problem I have with Brick. I thought the story was lousy, therefore, the dialogue came off as gimmicky to me. Am I in the minority here? As far as con movies go, I can't remember the title but there was a decent one a few years ago with John C. Reilly and Diego Luna, and I always considered the Color of Money to be a con movie. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is about as good as it gets with Comedy con movies. The Spanish Prisoner is much better than the well beaten path plot of House of Games. Anyway, that's my two cents
This flick is gonna be great, but by adrianmole	May 22nd, 2009 02:55:46 PM
would it really pain this site so much to get a copy editor? It normally doesn't bother me so much, but this otherwise well-written and cogent review of a movie I'm really looking forward to is just so riddled with misspellings and grammatical mistakes that it just about made my eyes bleed.
The Comfy Chair by gavdiggity	May 22nd, 2009 03:40:38 PM
Was done by the same guys who did Baghead, if memory serves. And it had some of the most painfully realistic-sounding arguments I've ever seen in a movie. Not what you'd call a cool movie, though.
do you remember when by maitlanr	May 22nd, 2009 05:07:46 PM
harry cried at the crystal skull?
Whilst it looks like great fun, bad ratings thus far on RT by DoctorZoidberg	May 22nd, 2009 05:08:51 PM
So sad, my wife actually thought the trailer looked good, and we might have agreed on a movie for once.
No more movies, you'll just need Hustle by quintana007	May 22nd, 2009 05:11:06 PM
One of the greatest tv-shows about con artists.
Brothers Bloom, Drag Me To Hell, & Up by SoylentMean	May 22nd, 2009 05:14:22 PM
All of these films open wide on 5/29. A triple feature awaits. Hopefully they won't suck.
"But it has a bad rating on Rotten Tomatoes..." by SoylentMean	May 22nd, 2009 05:18:08 PM
Think for yourselves, monkeys!
This summer has very few films I must see in theaters by SoylentMean	May 22nd, 2009 05:25:28 PM
Up, Drag Me To Hell, Brothers Bloom, Land of the Lost, The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, Transformers 2:Robots Still Have to Urinate, Public Enemies, Harry Potter 6, District 9, Inglorious Bastards (I can spell), and Final Destination 4 (in 3-D!!!). Yet most of those movies I intend to see don't have me psyched or jazzed or even remotely excited. It's like Hollywood said "fuck it" and just dumped shit into theaters. I mean more so than usual.
cant_stop_yawning2 by AugustusGloop	May 22nd, 2009 05:43:26 PM
I'm not paid by AICN, the studios, or anyone else. I saw BB at Fantastic Fest last year, and I loved it. You want to talk about how AICN writers are shills, go read Harry's review of Terminator Salvation or the various reviews of Wolverine, which I believe bought a lot of AICN ad space. Your complaints are bullshit.
reilly and luna by TheExterminator	May 22nd, 2009 06:15:45 PM
wasn't that a remake of 9 queens or am i mistaken. cant be fucked to go imdb. confidential was decent enough. i do like a good con/grifter film. remember loving 9 queens when it came out
ok yeah it was remade as criminal by TheExterminator	May 22nd, 2009 06:17:10 PM
and my brother said it was wank
AICN is still trying to fist fuck us with this?! by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	May 22nd, 2009 06:56:50 PM
Pathetic.
cant stop yawning by applescruff	May 22nd, 2009 08:19:50 PM
So you spend a ton of energy to slag the writers of this site off for blindly showing affection to the highest bidder, yet you are blindly writing off a film before you've even seen it? I'm sorry man, but anything you can say that's a pretty backwards way to act. FYI, Brothers Bloom is a GREAT movie, and you missed the boat cause you decided to be thick.
Are people confusing by Tin Snoman	May 22nd, 2009 08:52:11 PM
Wes Anderson with Paul W.S. Anderson? Because I seriously don't get the hate. Maybe he doesn't tell stories everyone gets, but at least he doesn't make trash.
Titbag, cant stop yawning by RabidDogma	May 23rd, 2009 01:59:55 AM
Titbag - of all the people to trash, you're trashing Mamet? The man wrote Glengarry Glen Ross and State and Main. Think before you type. cant_stop_yawning - WHY do you put so much faith in certain critics, whether or not they're "respected"? It's very unlikely that any two people are going to have the same taste in film, and even an educated critic's first reaction isn't necessarily the best one. Have you seen any of the trailers? Anything of the film? I agree with you in loving Brick. MY reason, moreso than the still-great pulpy noir story, is the writing. The man can WRITE. If I take my impression of Brick and weigh it against the opinions of men, my own personal impression is going to win out. Doesn't it call into question the validity of a critic if Rian Johnson's second movie gets a lower score than PAUL BLART? Have you thought about it from that perspective, at least?
Besides, "Top Critics"... by RabidDogma	May 23rd, 2009 02:05:12 AM
...on Rotten Tomatoes? Includes the likes of Rex Reed and Claudia Puig. I'll take that with a grain of salt. Also, it's at 52% (which still isn't great). Honestly, Claudia Puig giving this movie the thumbs-up worries me more than anything. I'm still excited as fuck to see it.
Brick was pretentious junk... by Davidia	May 23rd, 2009 02:22:31 AM
And not to mention boring. I lost track of what was going on in the last half because...well to put it bluntly it was some stupid shit. Needlessly contrived and self-referential. I will give it its first third however, when things were amusing. This looks like an Anderson-aping. From the atrocious cutesy V.O.ed flashback montage shit to the barebones of the cinematography...all scream Wes Anderson. I'll pass on this one...and the next needless "cute" indie flick as well.
Davidia by RabidDogma	May 23rd, 2009 02:31:41 AM
...you've never seen a noir film or read a Chandler novel, have you? You would have gotten what Johnson was going for, then. Besides, calling names of a movie with that kind of script...wow. Just wow.
Rabidogma (thought police), yes I have... by Davidia	May 23rd, 2009 03:18:55 AM
Sorry if my opinion makes your balls recoil. But I have actually seen a good amount of noir flicks. I got every-beat he was going for. Doesn't change that I thought it was shit. Just because it's a homage (check that...a homage in highschool, that's where the genius part comes in I guess) doesn't make it automatically a good film.
This movie was good by bottombrick	May 23rd, 2009 04:03:10 AM
Unlike what Capone's review indicates, a lot of the switcharoo is it really a con when is the carpet gonna get yanked out stuff is annoying and played out (until the climax), but I've never seen performances this good gotten from these actors, and the movie has incredible fun at times with these characters. The writing is great at times, except for some of the more mundane overarching is it all a con stuff which apparently is mandatory in these type of movies, but the dialogue, characters, and the concept of all life as player's writing their cons, some just shittily, were all pretty sweet. The Darjeeling / Wes Anderson comparisons are seriously only because they both have Adrian Brody and some of the trailers show a bit too much Brody mopy face, but no one who has actually watched the movie would think it a hipstah Anderson clone, and Brody is much better here and has a range to play and humor too.
This review is bullshit by dancetothebeatofthelivingdead	May 23rd, 2009 06:37:18 AM
I can lend no credence to anything Capone says in this review based purely on one quote. "it took me to a place and told a story that I have never been to or seen before on the big screen." You see, this is an impossible feat. If there were still places to go on film that were unchartered, surely the studios wouldn't beat us over the head with reboots, remakes, and sequels to reboots and remakes. Surely, we wouldn't be on the cusp of seeing every minor character that has ever appeared in one cell of a comic book given his own movie. Right? I think Capone's full of shit and I will sit here impatiently waiting for my goddamned remake of Citizen Kane with stunning action from McG, bitches!! Nothing's sacred, I want Uwe Boll's new vision of the Godfather and the visionary director of 300 to offer me up some slo-mo shots of Russell Brand behind the curtain in the The Wizard of Oz
Proofread Muttonhead! by Feral Colon	May 23rd, 2009 09:21:54 AM
Capone and this entire website are losing credibility in the most muttonheaded way possible way. Please proofread your work. Or atleast do what you did with your T4 review and fix the bloody typos.
NEED MORE COOL NEWS by SkinJob69	May 23rd, 2009 09:25:02 AM
Ben a slow couple of days here. How about some more reports from Cannes? Or a dedicated Terminator talkback? Anything
Davidia - thought police?? by RabidDogma	May 23rd, 2009 11:32:55 AM
Come on...all I did was state my incredulity that you didn't like Brick. I still can't wrap my head around WHY you didn't like it. What was it about it? Writing? Acting? Is it just not the type of movie you like? I'm not trying to insult you, so I'd appreciate the same consideration.
Cannes by RabidDogma	May 23rd, 2009 11:36:16 AM
I can see why a supposedly 'hip/alt' movie site (though it stopped being that YEARS ago) wouldn't report on the usual things at Cannes, but yeah, I'm sure we can all find out the latest on Harry Potter and T4 somewhere else. I remember Moriarty answering criticism in the TBs, and I'm fairly sure I remember others doing the same. They just don't do it often, and rarely something that we would all like the answer to.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by antonphd	May 23rd, 2009 12:18:24 PM
You forgot to mention the greatest comedy con game remake(Betime Stories) ever! Do I need to get out the genital clamp?
Ruffalo is the human equivalent to Ambien... by elwood_p_dud	May 23rd, 2009 01:02:15 PM
he's so boring. I've never liked the guy. He must've started using large amounts of crack if people have grown fond of watching him in a movie.
'The Sting' has aged about as well as... by Negator76	May 23rd, 2009 02:53:44 PM
... a Thai hooker's meatflaps. A miscast Redford, a ridiculous and unimaginative 'scam'.... I mean, they basically build a hollywood set and populate it with con artists who agree to scam Robert Shaw, the most dangerous gangster in the U.S. for...free? Out of the kindness of their hearts? Or are they working on spec? I love Newman and Redford, Shaw is badass, and the music is classic, but the story is fucking retarded.
Mamet gets a nod... by Continentalop	May 23rd, 2009 04:48:06 PM
...just for writing The Verdict, one of Lumet's best movies and one of Paul Newman's best performances.
Actually I really did not like BRICK by Continentalop	May 23rd, 2009 04:53:44 PM
I know a lot of you guys like it, and that is cool, but man did that film annoy me. What got me was you had all these kids acting hardboiled like they stepped out of a Dashiell Hammett/Raymond Chandler story, but the thing is YOU ARE A BUNCH OF HIGH SCHOOL KIDS. You haven't earned the right to be hardboiled yet. You haven't been double-crossed, stepped on, dealt with a corrupt city, had your heart broke/partner killer, or any of that yet. I just felt like "what a bunch of posers." It was as if Alan Parker decided to make “Bugsy Malone” as a serious film.
all i care about is weisz by simondark	May 24th, 2009 07:34:25 PM
she can poo on my face and i would ask for more please...seriously,shes that hot
just saw this tonight by drave117	May 25th, 2009 01:51:25 AM
Best movie of the year so far.
Rotten Tomatoes is Flawed by Two	May 26th, 2009 12:25:04 AM
Unless you generally agree entirely with all the boring masses. Rotten Tomatoes doesn't work for NICHE films at alll it's only good for broad, general appeal. In other words, bad dumbed-down Hollywood derivative crap. I enjoyed BRICK, though I'm guessing just as many people hated it as loved it. (And I'm sure it would have scored terribly on Rotten Tomatoes.) Can't wait to see this one (which I'm doing tomorrow night).
Shiat! Am I the ONLY one who thought this flick was not very go by Guy Grand	May 26th, 2009 12:58:25 PM
I was thoroughly bored by "The Brothers Bloom." And no, I'm not some novice in the heist caper / con world of movies. I've been loving them ever since seeing "The Hot Rock" when it came out on the big screen. The watermark here is "The Sting." "The Brothers Bloom" isn't even a con movie really. Seriously, all they do is convince Rachel Weisz to write million dollar checks for some completely convoluted (yet very simplistic) plan, and she simply JUST GIVES AWAY THE MONEY. There's no elaborate twists, there's no "oh-shit-I-didn't-see-that-com ing" con. It was cuddly-cute Wes Anderson stuff peddled with overly-stylistic costume/period trappings in modern day settings. I totally disagree with Capone...the writing / dialogue sucked and was overly-precious and pretentious. The visual gags were the only moments of real humor and entertainment. An almost-complete waste of time.
Great character film, not so great at the con by aversiontherapy2	May 26th, 2009 06:20:09 PM
I wouldn't put this anywhere near House of Games or even Heist. Like a lot of con films it trips over itself trying to be too clever when simplicity is what makes a great con. Still, it was an enjoyable film, uneven in tone at times, but solid characters throughout.
loved it by Jarek	May 30th, 2009 11:06:36 AM
Johnson is 2 for 2.

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