Ocean's 13 is on the way, and there's nothing you can do to stop the flood of endless famous smug faces and cringeworthy British accents when it gets released next summer.
What Ocean's 13 needs is a little energy injected into it to mix up all the complacent self-congratulating that made Ocean's 12 such a suicide-baiting waste of time. And it looks like it'll be getting it – crazy-eyed shouting pensioner Al Pacino has signed up for an Ocean's 13 role.
The world needs Ocean's 13 like it needs being taped to the floor and stabbed repeatedly by rat-faced East European street kids. Surely Ocean's 13 is a step backwards for George Clooney – who wants to see dashingly lazy, booze advertising George Clooney after fat, bearded, intelligent George Clooney has won so many plaudits lately. And Brad Pitt doesn't need to make Ocean's 13 – he's far too busy being a globe-trotting city rebuilder. And Matt Damon… OK, so some people need Ocean's 13 to be made.
So when it was announced that Ocean's 13 was getting made, we were a little disappointed. Then, when we heard that Julia Roberts and Catherine Zeta Jones were to be replaced with Ellen Barkin, we were sort of slightly nonplussed for about two and a bit seconds. And now the big news is that bonkers, flailingly overacting screen legend Al Pacino is to join the Ocean's 13 fun. And we're just bewildered.
According to reports, Al Pacino has signed up for Ocean's 13 to play Willie Banks, a Las Vegas casino and hotel owner who will presumably be turned over by the overwhelming smugness of Clooney and co. In many ways, the addition of Al Pacino to the Ocean's 13 proceedings is a kind of rubber-stamping of potential crapness – finding a good Pacino movie from the last 15 years is like panning for gold in a sewerage – but maybe there's a glimmer of hope.
The last time Pacino and Barkin shared a screen was in Sea Of Love, a film with one of the most electric love scenes in cinema history. Maybe there'll be a knowing, postmodern reprise in Ocean's 13. Actually, scrap that: the day we watch a 66-year-old man and a 52-year-old woman tear each other's clothes off on a giant screen is the day we pluck out our eyes.
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Pacino Join's Clooney's Gang – Guardian
[story by Stuart Heritage]
lily says
Don’t be so mean. If you think you are a better actor, then let’s see what you are made of.
So there…:(
fan_of_my_man says
Matt Damon does not need Ocean 13 to be made. He has finished filming The Departed by Martin Scorsese, The Good Shepherd by Robert De Niro, Margaret by Kenneth longoria. He will be shooting The Bourne Ultimatum this summer and will be preparing for the untitled Lance Armstrong biopic.
GOT IT.
raynie! says
kiss my ass!!! i agree with lily. let mister pacino give YOU a few acting lessons so YOU can win an oscar, you asshole.
lily says
Yeah raynie! Although many actors are good, Pacino gives us his soul, and have you seen all his stage credits? Have you ever heard him talk about acting and the theatre? The man is a marvel and I love him for it. So there- again you foolish so-and-so…