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post #1 of 24
2/12/09 at 3:40pm
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Anyone else excited about Clive Owen's new movie, The International? Sounds like we'll get to see what he might have looked like playing James Bond.
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post #2 of 24
2/12/09 at 3:46pm
Mildly excited.

Plus: based on the early 90s scandal of The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). When I think of BCCI, I think of Giando, a mob-friendly restaurant at the foot of Broadway in Brooklyn, which through some BCCI link made the cover of the NY Post.

Minus: Meh reviews.
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post #3 of 24
2/12/09 at 5:17pm
Yes and I intend to see it sometime this weekend.

I kind of chuckled at the plot until someone reminded me that Goldman Sachs has it's own private security force...
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post #4 of 24
2/13/09 at 12:21am
Ugh, the premise sounds absolutely idiotic.
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post #5 of 24
2/13/09 at 12:22am
Ebert gave it three stars, as in 'it more or less fulfilled the entertaining requirements of a silly action movie where things only happen because the plot demands them.' Matinee movie, in other words.
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post #6 of 24
2/13/09 at 1:03am
i absolutely refuse to watch it even when it on TNT or something. It just sounds painfully stupid. Kind of like Antitrust.
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post #7 of 24
2/13/09 at 1:48am
I'm a fan of Clive Owen's work so I definitely am looking forward to this one.
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post #8 of 24
2/13/09 at 6:34am
hopefully he'll replace craig as jb soon.
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post #9 of 24
2/13/09 at 11:58am
It always looked daft in the trailers. NPR this morning just trashed it.
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post #10 of 24
2/13/09 at 1:59pm
Not going to watch it... Looks somewhat, for the lack of a better word, stupid. Come on, trying to take down a bank? That's like many other movies, except they replace the government with bank.
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post #11 of 24
2/14/09 at 7:24pm
I'm going to see it at matinee tomorrow.
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post #12 of 24
2/15/09 at 10:47pm
these types of movies never fly man, stupid thriller trying to act realisticand modern, its stupid
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post #13 of 24
2/16/09 at 12:46pm
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Originally Posted by Invicta View Post
I kind of chuckled at the plot until someone reminded me that Goldman Sachs has it's own private security force...

So are mall cops mercenaries in your book too?
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post #14 of 24
2/16/09 at 3:50pm
clive owen should just stick to bmw films
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post #15 of 24
2/16/09 at 5:16pm
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Originally Posted by Edward Appleby View Post
So are mall cops mercenaries in your book too?

Sarcasm, learn it.

So I saw the movie on Sunday, it gets a 1 &1/2 "mehs". I wouldn't say embarassingly bad, because the writers obviously gave Clive nothing to work with and he somehow manages to pull a two dimensional character out of what was a one dimensional plot, but yea, underwhelming.

Taken was infinitely better than this not quite festering turd.
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