Pretty good film; way more enjoyable than i thought it would be. In my opinion (well, that's what this blog is, isn't it? MY opinion.) the Coen Brothers can put out some fairly dull and goofy stuff.
This movie was a satire on the old Hollywood studio days. Josh Brolin has the main part as the head of production; Tilda Swinton plays 2 - yes, 2 - gossip columnists; George Clooney is a very popular heart throb leading actor; Scarlet Johansson is the lead in all the Esther Williams type swimming extravaganzas. She is unmarried and pregnant and a husband has to be found quick. Ralph Fiennes is a director of staid British parlor type movies. Anyway, there are a lot of actors in this one; some like Frances McDormand has barely any screen time but add to the mayhem of the studio/making movies/keeping the stars in line plot.
The movie was way funnier in the beginning but it did have scenes throughout that were either witty or out loud laughing humorous. One of my favorite ones (and i was pounding the arm of the seat and thumping the floor with my leg and i couldn't catch my breath for awhile) was Ralph Fiennes trying to direct an actor who only had appeared in cowboy movies and didn't have to talk hardly at all except to say "giddyup" and "whoa" and ride horses all the time; an entrance and then some lines talking to his sweetheart in the movie. The line was staidly British-old England "may i thwart my love who hither and yon was not forgoing pithily." (this is not an exact rendition of the words.)
They rapidly went back and forth with the cowboy actor continually screwing up his pronunciation and the order of the words and it just got funnier and funnier; the whole audience was roaring.
So the film rated a 6.5; entertaining but not consistently so.
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