Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[innerSpaceman]

Last Night's Screener Double Feature was Michael Clayton and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

I can highly recommend the Jesse James movie as a sleep aid. OMG, what a bore! Brat Pitt plays a piece of wood named Jesse James, and Casey Affleck is actually really good as the creep Robert Ford who kills him and puts us out of our misery. The movie is only enjoyable in the last half hour after James is killed, when Ford is making himself infamous as a cowardly assassin. The cinematography is beautiful, but the movie is dullsville.

However, I did enjoy the stunt casting of Garret Dillahunt in a supporting role, since he played Jack McCall on Deadwood, the Cowardly Assassin of Wild Bill Hickok. Tee Hee, I was amused.



I recommend Michael Clayton on its own consderable merits. George Clooney is playing to type, as an attractive, world-weary cynic down on his luck. But he carries the movie as a real movie star, practially on camera the entire time. The film is a neat riff on corporate corruption and the toll it takes. Tom Wilkinson is, as usual, excellent as the attorney who knows too much and takes a dive off the deep end of sanity.


See Clayton, skip James.