Friday 9 April, 2004
Welcome to Colinwood
No matter what Dragon and J-Ko say, I very much enjoy watching Welcome to Colinwood. It's a movie about pathetic bunch of petty criminals that agree to do a job that will guarantee them for life. The boys were squirming uncomfortably when one thing after another went wrong, but it seems I was watching an entirely different movie. First of all - the morality of "crime doesn't pay" appeals to me (yes, there were exceptions but it doesn't matter). Secondly, it had one of my favourite plots ever: boy meets a girl, boy falls in love with girl and girl falls in love with the boy (and I believe they lived happily ever after). Yes, everything goes miserably wrong but it that's really the beauty of it. Great acting from all involved, great characters, great directing.
So there. It's a good movie and it will make you laugh. Just watch it, ok?
Posted by kolibri at 9 April 21:45, 2004When I first saw the trailer for that film, showing the setup and the fact that George Clooney was in it, I *immediately* hit upon a new title for it.
"Arsehole's Eleven"
It just seems to fit perfectly, really.
# 2 - Kolibri (on April 9, 2004 10:06 PM):
Hey, stop slagging George, he was great in this movie. And believe you me, it's got very little in common with Ocean's Eleven. In fact so little it's not really even worth mentioning.
# 3 - rannva (on April 10, 2004 04:27 AM):
Sean at blogging.la links to BoingBoing where Xeni Jardin thinks someone might have found Clooney's, or Owen Wilson's or someone else's ;) blog.
http://sean.blogging.la/
http://www.boingboing.net/2004/04/09/owen_wilsons_celebbl.html
Happy Easter!
Hauskaa Pääsiäistä!
Glad Påsk!
# 4 - Rel Fexive (on April 10, 2004 11:05 PM):
Umm...
Sorry to have ruffled some feathers... but I have absolutely nothing against Mr Clooney or the film. It was a joke. Y'know: bunch of criminals get together to do their biggest job ever... only they're all bungling eejits. Add in George, and a new comedy name was born.
Having not seen it (and I will now, having been reminded by you) I can't say how much it truly resembles "Ocean's Eleven".
I just thought it was funny.
# 5 - Kolibri (on April 11, 2004 01:04 PM):
You should learn to use smileys my friend ;)
It's just that I was in a very defensive mood to begin with :)
# 6 - Rel Fexive (on April 11, 2004 11:12 PM):
Obviously it wasn't as funny to you (at the time anyway) as it is to me. Which isn't all that much funny to begin with.
Oh well... just add the following as appropriate:=
;) ;) :) :) :D
# 7 - Kolibri (on April 11, 2004 11:31 PM):
:)
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