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Originally Posted by djgeneral
This is $17.99 on Amazon. I've never seen any of the three films, is it worth it? I recently taped the first one on my DVR but haven't gotten around to it. I was going to buy until I heard the AQ and PQ are horrible.
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I bit on that price. How could I not! I'm very familiar with the first one but I've never seen the sequels -- so I figured what the heck...I was going to spend 12 bux on the first one anyway.
So...I would describe the first one,
Ocean's Eleven, as being extremely addictive. I can't tell you how many times I've caught it on HBO or something and was unable to stop watching. I think a lot of it is in the editing -- there's not a wasted second of film. It's bip/boom/bip -- very snappy. Which fits seamlessly with the snappy dialogue -- very ultra-hip and cool.
You get to know and study the characters a bit...but they remain distant enough that you learn more each time you watch them. Again, an economy of sorts -- not a wasted bit of dialogue. And tons of quotable lines result. And it's extremely light and breezy...so you can watch it on a brain-dead, eye-candy sort of level and be enthralled the entire time. Not a bad deal -- I'm brain-dead more than I give myself credit for anyway.
I have fun trying to un-weave the whole convoluted plan. It's fun. All the actors are superb -- no small feat I'm sure, given that all the characters need to have different and interesting personalities while sharing the same stage.
The sound track is dynamite -- keeps things moving along real cool like. The only thing I don't like about this otherwise perfect movie is Julia Roberts. I would have chosen anybody else. But even Julia Roberts can't stop the freight train of entertainment in this film. She delivers her lines and you're perfectly able to forget her.
I also never understood why Bernie Mack's character is so adamant about getting a few thousand bux off some vans -- especially after all the expensive and lavish buffets, accommodations and equipment they endure to carry out the operation. Then they just blow them up anyway. But it results in a wonderful scene nevertheless:
"You moisturize?"