Keith Uhlich on the very-funny-in-retrospect "Never Back Down":
"As Never Back Down would have it, Orlando, Florida is a spoiled rich kid's haven, littered with cavernous million dollar mansions and inhabited by sun-baked, iPhone-toting teenagers prone to nightly Fight Club-like bouts of bloodletting. Parents and trailer trash are non-existent, but rock-hard abs are legion (for truth-in-advertising purposes the film might best be subtitled 'Chest Porn').Much less funny, even though it's supposed to be? "Leatherheads," which I saw tonight. Not only does the movie have nothing of interest to say about 1920s football, but it abandons the subject altogether for an hourlong second act filled with an unconvincing love triangle and a pointless World War I subplot. And has anyone else noticed that with the exception of "O Brother Where Art Thou," George Clooney can't act in comedies at all? Posted by Stephen Silver at April 2, 2008 12:17 AM
"in comedies"?
Remember Batman? If you use box office as evidence (leaving aside the Oceans movies), the numbers would seem to suggest that people believe he can't act, period.
Posted by: Benedict at April 2, 2008 10:57 AMJust watched Michael Clayton last nite. GReat film and Clooney was good in it too. And as to NBD, I loved all the rock hard abs :)
Posted by: A at April 2, 2008 01:08 PM