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| Articles about Ocean Thirteen |
| Ocean's Thirteen. Steven Soderbergh. | | 2008-01-15 07:36:07 | |
A friend of mine thinks this entry is the series’s most successful, but--while it is a tad confrontational--I prefer the outright hostility to the average viewer the second one exhibits. Ocean’s Thirteen seems to be made more for the remaining audience. The people who got Twelve. The scenes in Mexico, in particular, are the sort of absurdist humor only Soderbergh can get away with. I actually had to pause the film to laugh while the wife wondered why we were stopping.
The film isn’t just missing Julia Roberts, it’s missing needing her. The job becomes so central to the film from five minutes in, the particulars of the characters aren’t important. Clooney and Pitt do have some great scenes together--the Oprah scene is a winner, as is the film’s half-way point emotional scene, with the two back where they ended the first film for a nice moment. Damon’s role is smaller as well.
Instead of filling the empty space--even with the ultra-produced heist summaries, there’s empty space--by bumping up the supporting members of the team, Thirteen just gives it all to Al Pacino. Pacino’s a hilarious bad guy, embracing a touch of silliness I don’t think he ever has before. Besides his scenes with Barkin (she’s great too), he only really has contact with Clooney and, for a moment each scene, it’s jarring. Danny Ocean shouldn’t be talking to Al Pacino that way... it’s Al Pacino.
Even with the stylization of the second film, which was semi-referential as well as strangely affecting, Thirteen is--stylistically--Soderbergh’s tour de force for the series. The color palatte, lots of reds, lots of blues, is lush and complicated. It might be, in addition to the sound mixing, the way Thirteen is most hostile to the viewer. Obviously, with a film mostly set indoors, Soderbergh has lots of fun with his sets.
The general opinion of the cast, as I recall, is Thirteen is the series’s final entry. I agree a break--and a significant one--is in order, but (and someh... | | By: The Stop Button | | |
| | CGI Ocean’s Thirteen Hotel Fancy Designer Table Ornament | | 2008-01-10 09:54:00 | | A fancy designer table ornament blown up to skyscraper scale was what the featured CGI (computer generated imagery) hotel casino looked like in the Ocean’s Thirteen movie. Any smaller than what it was in the movie then it would probably be very difficult building to design.The sensuous curving & separated main blocks of the building would make a smaller sized building built in the same style prove a waste of commercial space. Nonetheless, I reckon the Ocean's Thirteen CGI hotel building would make an impressive table ornament present... | | By: internet executive log | | |
| | Recensione: Ocean's Thirteen | | 2007-08-11 16:03:11 | | TITOLO ORIGINALE: Ocean's Thirteen NAZIONE: USAGENERE: CommediaDURATA: 122 min.DATA DI USCITA: 2007REGIA: Steven SoderberghCAST: Andy Garcia, Elliott Gould, Al Pacino, Ellen Barkin, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, George ClooneyComincia, classicamente, con una rapina interrotta sul più bello, il terzo episodio delle avventure di Danny Ocean e la sua banda: Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt) sta "lavorando" quando riceve una telefonata di Danny (George Clooney), che sta raccogliendo gli uomini per dare una mano al suo "maestro" Rueben Tishkoff (Elliott Gould) che si è fatto imbrogliare da un magnate di Las Vegas. Rueben (tagliato fuori dalle sue quote del nuovo, faraonico casinò The Bank) c'è rimasto tanto male da beccarsi un infarto e una vendetta s'impone. La migliore: sbancare il casinò il giorno stesso dell'anteprima, fare in modo che, per una manciata di minuti, i giocatori a tutti i tavoli vincano. Complicato da altri dettagli che si aggiungono strada facendo (un furto di diamanti, per il qua... | | By: Recensioni Film | | |
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