George Clooney @ MindSay

"At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the school steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black."

 

George Clooney

Hot damn, Michael Clayton is a good movie.  I don't even need to say much more after a sentence like that, but then that would make this an ultra-mini movie review and that's not my plan.

It is wonderfully structured so that while you are playing a classic case of whodunit through about 2/3rds of the flick.  Most movies that have you trying to figure something out generally get weak after the big reveal, as the challenge of the hunt is the real motivation to continue watching the movie.  These movies lose steam with the big reveal out there and only plot housekeeping left.  Not with Michael Clayton.  The big payoff is right at the end of the movie, even though the whodunit question was answered a good twenty minutes before the credits roll.  I think this is because the viewer gets that answer in a very natural, organic way.  There isn't a big confrontation with a showy reveal, but a very natural discovery as the plot unfolds.

I have a big man-crush on George Clooney, so I might not be the best person to write about his performance in the movie, but I'm going to anyway.  I thought he was incredible.  I rarely saw George Clooney on the screen; I almost always saw Michael Clayton.  Tilda Swinton was also amazing in her role, one for which she was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.  I haven't seen the other nominee's performances to know if she was truly the best, but after watching Michael Clayton, I certainly can't argue with her win.  The rest of the cast was just incredible, as well.  Tom Wilkinson... oh, wow.  Just simply, "wow".

The only fault I can really find with the movie is that there are many things that are just not explained very clearly.  All the information you need is given to you, but often you have to put it all together on your own using the context of the situations to connect all of the dots.  While this works wonders for the whodunit aspect of the film, it can be a bit challenging in other areas.  I felt like I spent the first 30 minutes of the movie playing catch-up.  It would have been nice for someone to just throw out a sentence like, "So we're the defense lawyers representing u-North in the class action lawsuit against them," but that would have been completely unnatural and out-of-place given how late in the lawsuit the story takes place.  I only mention this to set expectations.  You won't be able to have this movie on in the background and pick up all the necessary details.

If you like Clooney, or lawyers, or whodunits, or good movies, you owe it to yourself to watch Michael Clayton.  It is one superb movie.

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Okay so it wasn't a brunch and we didn't eat with George Clooney, but we were supposed to have brunch and George Clooney apparently ate at the Wrenn House.

haha.....weird food lol, but yeah I finally saw my sister today and it was weird....I'm not much for small talk so I kept like looking around trying not to look at her and Jerry so much. But it was fun needless to say. She and Jerry are pretty funny. Haha my sister went for a whiteboy....who'd a thought? I think I'd like him to be my brother-in-law. He has two kids....mom showed me a pic today. I think that we might actually go to a reunion this year....which is kind of scary because my family is huge and I don't know any of them.

 

 

So I have a flight for monday morning to Houston....it's about time I got out of here and visited my peoples. The only thing is I wanted to leave sunday so I could debate on whether or not I was going to go to the 30stm concert....which is $100 a ticket now....I want to go so bad....but I don't even know if I can get the tickets considering my credit card hasn't even been turned on yet and it's on monday....and to get them online would be cutting it pretty close unless I ordered them today, but Marty doesn't want me spending that much on him....I could go alone but what's the fun in that? I don't know nothing ever turns out how i want it....the whole point was to visit my friends and do something like go to a badass concert! I hope there's another tour next year because if I can't go to one of their concerts I'm going to cry. That's another concert I just missed.

Life is a ballbuster sometimes...but on the upside I get to see some of my friends....not the one I really wanted to see, but what can I do?