Ocean’s Twelve (2004) First Time Watching! Full Movie Reaction!!
Added 2024-01-19 22:41:02 +0000 UTC
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not as good as 11, but still extremely enjoyable--these actors are sooo fun to watch!!!
Chris Bruneau
2024-01-21 14:46:16 +0000 UTCHaha that’s always so fun to spot locations you know! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-01-21 01:44:25 +0000 UTCI love this movie, primarily because I love Albert Finney and Vincent Cassel (the actors who play LeMarque and the Night Fox).
John W Foster
2024-01-20 19:48:18 +0000 UTCI still freak out when I see that the movie opens with Danny Ocean in my small hometown in CT. Such a random place for him to be.
Stefan Daniw
2024-01-20 10:43:57 +0000 UTCmy least favorite in the trilogy but still a fun ride and the third is my favorite!
Terry Lee
2024-01-20 05:55:55 +0000 UTCAlso, the team wasn't reset to zero, necessarily. They didn't have to pay anything to Benedict out of their own pockets. They lost whatever they sank into the job (although you can imagine Reuben funded it), but The Night Fox's deal was to pay their entire debt.
Tyler Foster
2024-01-20 04:34:52 +0000 UTCThank you!! This was a super interesting read and I’m definitely going to look up Singer’s piece! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-01-20 04:12:38 +0000 UTCOoh thank you! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-01-20 04:11:07 +0000 UTCOh you’re right! I thought you meant the movie title haha
TBR Schmitt
2024-01-20 04:07:42 +0000 UTCWhat’s wrong? -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2024-01-20 04:07:05 +0000 UTCThe title for this is wrong.. I think
Logan Nelson
2024-01-20 04:06:15 +0000 UTCCouple of things you missed, the dialogue goes fast at some points: The Night Fox called Danny with a wake up call the night before the job, it was him on the phone. The Night Fox didnt have the money with him to give to Danny, he left it with LeMarc in escrow. Danny being there was just to rub it in his face.
aarswft
2024-01-20 01:59:53 +0000 UTCI always wonder in movies like this how it feels for the younger actors to be working with older pros like Elliot Gould, Albert Finney, and Carl Reiner. Albert Finney was always a favorite actor of mine. RIP
Vwlss Nvwls
2024-01-20 01:45:36 +0000 UTCOh, also, LeMarque is played by Albert Finney, who is also in...Miller's Crossing. Which is a masterpiece, and you should watch it.
Tyler Foster
2024-01-20 00:58:28 +0000 UTCAlso, a couple of jokes you didn't seem to pick up on during the Bruce Willis bit: The scene on the airplane where Damon asks to be "more involved this time" is a little joke about how The Bourne Identity (2002) came out after Ocean's Eleven and turned Damon into a major star. Basher tells Tess "The accent is the most important thing," which is a joke about Cheadle's own terrible British accent. He wanted to change it for this one after getting flak for it in the first one, but he was told not to. "I'm apparently playing a real person!" Roberts won an Academy Award for Steven Soderbergh's Erin Brockovich. Linus jokes to him "the statue on the mantle starts staring at you after awhile." He's joking about the anxiety of having an Academy Award and not following it up with something equally great. In addition to Roberts, Damon has an Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting. Willis doesn't, which is why he dryly replies, "Not really." The movie with the "scene in the restaurant" that everyone's talking to Willis about is from The Sixth Sense. I can't remember if you guys have seen that -- I assume it would be on the channel if you hadn't -- but just in case, I won't explain it further.
Tyler Foster
2024-01-20 00:56:50 +0000 UTCThis movie was all over the place
Vlasios Vougiouklis
2024-01-20 00:48:05 +0000 UTCI know Patreon doesn't like links, so you'd have to search for it, but I love Matt Singer's piece over at IndieWire about Ocean's Twelve. Essentially, his interpretation is that Ocean's Twelve is a sequel about how tough it is to make a great sequel. Benedict is the studio, demanding the crew get back together and deliver the same score again, plus interest. The crew try to do things the same way they did before, and not only are their hearts not in it, they have the Night Fox, who represents the audience, watching their every move at every second -- either way, the same thing over again is not going to suffice. As a Hail Mary, they bring in a special guest star ("Julia Roberts" in the story, Bruce Willis in reality) to spice things up. Meanwhile, the movie subverts the viewer's expectations by having the heist being a quick switch on a train rather than something as elaborate as a guy breakdancing his way through a randomized laser field. I also love the movie because it's essentially director Steven Soderbergh stealing from himself. His first movie with George Clooney, which I've mentioned a few times, was Out of Sight (1998), which was also a cop-criminal romance. He even uses the same little freeze frames in that movie that he uses here. That's a great movie, and as previously mentioned there's a great Easter egg in it if you remember Jackie Brown (both movies were based on books by crime author Elmore Leonard). In addition to that, I will also mention The Brothers Bloom (2008), which is another great European travelogue movie about heists and cons. It stars Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel Weisz, and this film's Robbie Coltrane, and was written and directed by Rian Johnson (Knives Out).
Tyler Foster
2024-01-19 22:56:06 +0000 UTC
