Syriana what.....?

So yeah. Don't see this movie. Or if you do see this movie, prepare to be dazed and confused throughout most of it.

I saw "Syriana" last night with JT and Sam-- a future doctor and a Middle East studies scholar. Add in my school psych smarts and you think we would be able to get this movie. Umm...no.

So maybe the fact that we were inebriated when we saw it didn't help. I mean JT's opinion doesn't really count since he passed out for about 2/3 of it. After Sam caused a commotion by trying to quietly open his bag of peanut M&M's, only to have them comically fly everywhere after the bag finally ripped open, he and I settled down to try and figure this movie out. Our thoughts:

#1-- George Clooney really packed on the weight for this role
#2-- Since the movie was funded by a liberal organization, we were expecting more in the way of political persuasion and really it didn't seem to be persuading anything but more confusion (my own personal thought: it was half-assed, which is to be expected from a liberal organization)
#3--Maybe the first 5 minutes was the key to the whole movie and since we missed it, that's why we were confused.
#4-- JT was funny all passed out

Before you think we were drunk and just didn't get it, the woman in front of us was so confused when the movie ended that she felt compelled to stand up and annouce to the whole theater, "I didn't get that! Did anyone else get it?! I really didn't get it at all." I just kind of stared at her cause I don't know that my pride would have allowed me to stand up in a crowded theater and make that sort of declaration. Kudos to her.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution gave it an A-. It seemed to be well filmed and acted, so I can't say that I hated the movie. I just was kind of confused by the pacing of it all. At any rate, go see it if you must cause Matt Damon is pretty cute in it at least. Stay tuned for my review of "The Family Stone" and my visit to the new Georgia Aquarium.