O Brother, Where Art Thou?

..."Hips Don't Lie." Brad Paisley is the token country artist on the list with "5th Gear," though the old-time country-flavored soundtrack "O Brother Where Art Thou" made the list. Robert Plant is the only old-guy rocker to crack it. Plant,...

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It feels like this movie wastes these actors more than anything. Clooney, who is incredibly capable of comedic roles, as shown in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Burn After Reading," is only a mildly entertaining goof. McGregor is entirely...

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...with the film: George Clooney hams it up as a long-haired psychic, Lyn Cassady, without the hilarity of his previous roles in O Brother, Where Art Thou? or even Three Kings (which drew much more humor from the Iraq scene than what's...

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...are brilliant. I really cant wait for this movie and I love Jim Carrey!! I don't think the comparison is totally unfair. "O Brother" was critically acclaimed while it seems "Goats" is not. "Burn After Reading" was more a Coen...

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...with a wicked wit. Photos: Laura Macgruder/Westgate Film Services Clooney, although not averse to wackiness on film (see: O Brother, Where Art Thou?), lets go with the gusto of a soldier fresh out of boot camp. Bridges, in full-on Dude...

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...Goats - Clip - Predator" And how did you become involved in the film? I was happily… I worked with George (Clooney) a couple of times. "O Brother Where Art Thou" and "Leatherheads." He and Grant thought this would be a good thing for me to...

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...waste of space, but Clooney and Bridges garner some chuckles. Clooney has done the delusions of grandeur thing quite well before ("O Brother Where Art Thou," "Burn After Reading") and Bridges has gotten plenty of mileage out of the riff he's...

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...distractions. Clooney at times seems like a cross between his Desert Storm operator from "Three Kings" and his looney-tunes Odysseus from "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Django plays a bit like Bridges' Dude from "The Big Lebowski" had he joined...

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...novels set in Appalachia. It was mid-July, and we had been on the road for several days in Tennessee and North Carolina on a kind of "O Brother Where Art Thou" family book tour of five adults and four kids caravaning through the mountains. To...

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...man in the world, George Clooney brilliantly took the piss out of his movie star image in the joyous O Brother Where Art Thou (2000) in which a bunch of escaped criminals in Depression-era America try to make their way home. A loose homage...

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