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Re: Michael Clayton
AuburnAlumni got it right.
This movie was terrible. Sorry.
If it weren't for the last five minutes when Clayton drops some major ownage I would have seriously considered burning the copy before returning it to Blockbuster if only to save others from watching it."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Michael Clayton
Let me get a bit more in-depth.
There was just a lot of unnecessary stuff going on in this movie.
The guy that knew the whole time that the company was hiding something wasn't a necessity to the film. He was just there. His story had no real affect on what happened at the end.
Now, yes, Clayton needed the guy so he could even know something was up but why did the film spend so much time on this character? They were screening his calls, checking up on him, looking for him, etc. And it served no true purpose to the story.
All it did was fill up an hour for no true reason.
Seriously, good films don't show you all that crap. They just show you that there is a guy that knows this information and then it would jump to Clayton figuring it out from that guy.
The movie is called Michael Clayton but a lot of the time it wasn't focused on him.
This film should have been 30 minutes long. Everything of importance could have been told in that time frame and the film would have been worth 10 bucks at the theater (luckily I rented it) instead of watching it for two hours."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
"You'll not find more penny-wise/pound-foolish behavior than in Major League Baseball." - Rob NeyerComment
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Re: Michael Clayton
"The guy" was certainly important in establishing the lengths that U North was willing to go to protect their company, but why the secrecy by Wilkinson's character (the disturbed lead attorney) about the "internal U North memorandum" that proves the company's culpability in regards to the cancer causing herbicide ? Why the cloak and dagger? If you are willing to be a whistle blower, just do it, get it over with. You only made a million or two copies of that memorandum so what are you waiting for? I don't know if his mental condition was an excuse for prolonging this process, so why was he so legally sharp on other matters such as involuntary mental confinement? The main driving point of the movie just didn't make sense and who would pick Clooney's Clayton over Harvey Keitel's Winston Wolf in the fixer department?
Very well acted movie, but very weak plot wise. I was generous with calling this movie good-I have to downgrade a bit.
Internal U North Memorandum-I was unsure of the origins of this document, so I had to look it up, and sure enough it was the old "floating around memorandum" that conveniently seals a company's fate-clever, huh?
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Re: Michael Clayton
Yea, I agree.
He obviously was important in showing what the company would do. I don't mean to say that he should have been written off the script.
I'm more bothered that the movie decided to spend so much time on his character. It just seemed like even the writer wasn't sure what he wanted to do during the middle of the film.
And it's odd because the writer is a pretty good one having done the Bourne movies. I respect that he tried to make this subject matter interesting and suspensful but I don't think it worked."It may well be that we spectators, who are not divinely gifted as athletes, are the only ones able to truly see, articulate and animate the experience of the gift we are denied. And that those who receive and act out the gift of athletic genius must, perforce, be blind and dumb about it -- and not because blindness and dumbness are the price of the gift, but because they are its essence." - David Foster Wallace
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