Ocean's Eleven

Pros: Great cast and story
Cons: A few things are unresolved. Some characters weren't in enough of the movie

Ocean's Eleven is a remake of a movie that was originally made in the 1960's staring the Rat Pack. I've never seen the original. In fact, I had never even heard of the movie until about a year ago when I heard about this version being ...

Pros: Soderbergh and cast make the film seem so effortless
Cons: Same as above

It seems to me that Steven Soderbergh has taken a page from Sally Field's career book - he's a director who wants people to really, really like him. He may have won his Best Director for one of last year's best films - "Traffic" - but in his other recent...

Pros: George and Brad, need I say more?
Cons: Well, George and Brad could have bared a little. LOL

Sunday my husband said "I am off tomorrow. You and Trish should go to the movies and see that movie you've been wanting to see". What a great idea!

So, off to see Ocean's 11 Trish (bryrrose) and I went. Truthfully, I wasn't expecting...

Pros: Fun stuff with an entertaining cast and it's in Las Vegas
Cons: Sure, it's predictable, but it's in Las Vegas

I'm going on record right now and I will say that I am both a sucker for "caper" films as well as most things Las Vegas. Of course, there are a couple of exceptions to my Las Vegas affection. For one, you must represent gambling correctly. I don't ask ...

Pros: Even the surprise that there are so many pros is a pro.
Cons: Very few. Only for the willing.

Before we get too far into the movie 'Ocean's Eleven' (or 11), George Clooney's character lays it flat out on the table to Matt Damon's character. 'You're either in or you're out,' he says, 'right now.' That pretty much sums up the movie's...

Pros: Eye candy, eye candy, eye candy...oh and the story line is good too!
Cons: nothing

I would leave my husband for George Clooney. Yeah you heard me right. George doesn’t know that, and neither does my husband (so keep this info to yourselves please, what my husband doesn’t know, won’t hurt him) Clooney’s been at the top of my hotty...

Pros: Charming performances from George Clooney and some of the supporting cast.
Cons: It's overproduced fluff.

Bridget Over Troubled Waters, my new kabuki musical adaptation of The Last Seduction continues to rehearse in my wonderful home studio cum rehearsal hall in the basement of Chateau Maine. I am working very, very closely with my two...

Pros: Clooney, Pitt, Damon, Garcia, Cheadle, Reiner, Gould
Cons: Julia Roberts!

Ocean's Eleven is the kind of movie that can't lose. It is directed by Oscar-winner Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, Erin Brokovich, Traffic) and has a list of stars who could carry the movie by themselves. George Clooney, Bratt Pitt, Matt Damon, Andy...

Pros: Great characters and dialogue.
Cons: Plot a little too predictable.

Word on Ocean's 11 suggested that it was supposed to be the thinking man's caper film. With an all-star cast and direction by Stephen Soderbergh, this remake of the 1963 Brat Pack film sounded like it had the potential to be quite great.

Well...

Pros: pretty sets.
Cons: wasted talent

I should have known when I saw the cast list of Ocean's 11 included Andy Garcia that it was not going to be a good movie. Don't get me wrong. I like Andy Garcia. I have never seen him give a bad performance. However, over the past several years,...

Pros: Exactly, perfectly, wonderfully what it's trying to be...
Cons: ...and no more than that.

Sorry. I'm not going to use this review as a forum for discussing how George Clooney's Danny Ocean is somehow a Christ Figure (though the film is certainly about his resurrection and he certainly has his share of apostles). And I'm not going to use it to...

Pros: Great cast, dialogue, and acting
Cons: Except Julia Roberts, and the heist doesn't have enough hitches

With Ocean's Thirteen coming out this weekend, the wife and decided that it would be nice to watch Ocean's Eleven first, just so we have an idea who the characters are. You can't beat a first movie in a series for character introductions, ...

Pros: It only lasted two hours
Cons: I saw a side of Brad Pitt I never knew about

Are you looking for a slightly boring flick this week? One that is low on slick production and special effects? Perhaps Ocean’s Eleven will fit the bill.


The plot is focused around an ex-con who has been out of jail for twenty seconds...

Pros: nice to look at
Cons: lazy

Steven Soderbergh, the Academy Award winning director of such films as Traffic and Erin Brockovich has done something I didn't think he was capable of -- he has created a completely average film. Look past the visual beauty and the amazing...

Pros: A fun movie.
Cons: Roberts is totally superfluous. Too much Clooney, Pitt, and Damon.

If you've seen the trailer, one of the lines George Clooney's character in the movie says is, "10 should be enough? You think we need one more?"

Well, apparently, Soderburgh really wanted them to have 8 less. If you were in this movie and...