{"id":6482,"date":"2019-01-17T13:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=6482"},"modified":"2019-01-17T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T19:59:48","slug":"oceans-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=6482","title":{"rendered":"Ocean’s Eight"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The majority of plane trips beget a second plane trip, wherein you return to where you left from in the first place. As such, I watched a second movie on the way back from Chicago, and it was Ocean’s Eight<\/a>. Pleasingly, this was a sequel to the Clooney Danny<\/a> Ocean<\/a> movies, rather than a remake<\/a>. It picks up a few years after Gravity<\/a> left off, with Danny Ocean dead saving his sister from a space walk gone horribly wrong and Sandra Bullock being released from prison (one presumes for an illegal landing?) with the perfect plan to steal a really expensive necklace at the annual Met gala, which is I guess an exclusive museum thing (fundraiser?) in New York that also happens in real life.<\/p>\n

I think just to prove she can, Sandra (almost certainly not the character’s actual name) Ocean has decided to make her crew all ladies, and I cannot help thinking that was also the motive of whoever made this movie. Which is fine, because it was every bit as good as any of the previous sequels[1][2], and aside from saying<\/em> she wants an all lady crew at the beginning of the movie, it’s never really brought up again[3].<\/p>\n

After all the characters and marks are established, it’s, you know, a heist movie. I like them. You maybe incorrectly do not? It’s cool, tastes vary as they say. More importantly, it’s not a bad heist movie, so there you are.<\/p>\n

[1] I maintain that the Ocean’s Eleven remake (I never saw the original with Sinatra and whoever) is in a class by itself.
\n[2] And let’s be honest, probably significantly better than 12
\n[3] I do not at all mind when movies are trying to make A Point, and I mind even less when it’s a point I agree with. I will, however, always mind when the movie is actually chanting to a drumbeat, “Look at this Point I’m Making.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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