12/10/2006

Casino, Borat, & The Quiet American

Casino is overly long, but it's a very good film. I highly recommend it. I have no idea why I hadn't seen it before. I really don't. I mean, Goodfellas is a great frickin' film, and Scorsese doing gangsters is just good. Well, Scorsese in general is good.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is funny, but the more I think about it, the less I'm impressed with it. I enjoyed it while I was watching it, but I pretty much never have to watch it again. And I never want to watch the wrestling scene ever again.

The Quiet American actually was closer to the remake than I was expecting. Yeah, there's the expected cop-out ending, because you can't have an American being a terrorist, but it was pretty good until that point. I still have a soft spot for Audie Murphy, so I enjoyed it, but it's not really a good film overall.

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