Roger's back! And he's reviewing "Ocean's Thirteen":
"I know full well I'm expected to Suspend My Disbelief. Unfortunately, my disbelief is very heavy, and during "Ocean's Thirteen," the suspension cable snapped. I think that was when they decided to manufacture a fake earthquake to scare all the high-rollers on opening night. How did they plan to do this? Why, by digging under the casino with one of the giant tunnel boring machines used to dig the Chunnel between England and France.My verdict: Better than the loathsome second movie, but not as good as the first. And Ellen Barkin, in her "comeback" role, looks like she paid a plastic surgeon to turn her into Cameron Diaz. Posted by Stephen Silver at June 8, 2007 12:29 PMYes, you can buy your own. There were originally 11. One sold on eBay for around $7 million. A boring machine, I find, weighs about 600 tons. How easy do you think it would be for a handful of Vegas slicksters to buy such a machine, transport it to America, move it cross-country, and use it to drill a tunnel under the Strip (which never sleeps), all the while removing untold tons of earth, rock and sand without being noticed? And without causing earthquakes in all the other casinos they bored under?"
Glad the third movie will be way more enjoyable than the second. And I agree about Barkin. I was watching Eddie and the Cruisers today and thought, damn she gotta ALOT of work done now.
Posted by: A at June 9, 2007 05:34 PM