Is the work of Steven Soderbergh the most overrated thing ever?

Cinemax is owned by hbo I think. Or they're owned by the same company or whatever. Anyways, hbo aired it to spread the word b/c who watches cinemax.

they are owned by HBO, which is owned by time warner.

not gonna watch any show about surgery sry folks not gonna happen

I dbl dog dare u

no way surgery is hella gross

i love watching surgery, but i have a pretty strong stomach.

http://th09.deviantart.net/fs70/150/f/2012/029/8/e/we_got_a_bad_ass_over_here_by_multipettan-d4nz1uj.jpg

i like surgery scenes in movies, but really only like battlefield surgery or that scene in 'ronin' with the bullet or that scene in 'the killer' with the gunpowder and the cigarette and the bullet wound.

not into any sort of surgery or puss poop blood puke

soundtrack for the knick is dope

Why is this series on Cinemax instead of its corporate cousin HBO?

Well, it was an ego problem. I asked (HBO boss) Michael Lombardo, when I called him on the phone, if it would be OK if we would be on Cinemax because I, frankly, in the midst of understanding that they were sort of reorienting that brand, wanted to be the big kid at a small school, and as it happened, Michael said, "Actually that would really work well for us." And I'm glad that that did work for them because it allowed for a smaller teacher-to-student ratio in the sense that it was really me and (HBO miniseries exec) Kary Antholis having a conversation, and that was it. I mean, it was just the two of us, and I really enjoyed that. It was efficient, and it was fun, so it all for me creatively worked out perfectly.

i'm going to marathon Soderbergh, all of his films in 3 weeks. wish me luck.

I'd like to see "The Limey" again. TELL 'IM I'M FAHKING COMING"

you left out six Ns and a couple Gs

Not a marathon actually, I'm doing it as one day one Soderbergh film and so I started with Out of Sight, which is formidable. J-Lo had such potential as an actress.

keep expecting clive owen to say "eeeeeeeeranu"

Out Of Sight is movie of the week in Dissolve

http://thedissolve.com/features/movie-of-the-week/720-out-of-sight-stayed-true-to-its-source-by-taking-l/

fair dos

So I decided to watch everything Soderbergh ever did and so far the worst film by far is Side Effects, this film is terrible. Absolutely terrible. The first half hour is great and then it's a huge plan crash.

haha yeah that one really went down the tubes with the murderous lesbians and everything. it was like a bad 90s erotic thriller plot.

*queues up side effects*

Even Soderbergh’s filmmaking owes a debt to the rhythms of Leonard’s prose. Leonard portrays Karen’s riposte after she takes down Kenneth, one of Maurice’s henchmen, with these words: “‘You wanted to tussle,’ Karen said, ‘we tussled.’” Soderbergh’s film keeps the line and ends the scene with one of several freeze frames he deploys throughout Out Of Sight. Here, it serves much the same function as the “Karen said,” interruption, pausing the moment to emphasize the competence and authority with which Karen handles the situation. Kenneth didn’t get exactly what he asked for, but he got what was coming to him, and like Leonard, Soderbergh draws out the moment by one delicious beat.

otm

Side Effects is wonderful b-movie sleaze! The batshit-ness of it all is classic!

No by far his worst film is Waking Life

wait, i got my wires crossed

It would be if he'd directed it instead of Linklater.

Realizing I haven't even seen half of Soderbergh's movies, but Side Effects is still magnificent stupid entetainment

So far I'd say:

Make a golden statue in yr city's biggest park for:
Out of Sight
Traffic

Deeply satisfying stuff:
Haywire
Ocean's Eleven
Ocean Thirteen
Magic Mike

The very definition of meh:
Ocean Twelve

Burn it down and bury the ashes on a mountain:
Side Effects

I have a lot to go still: tonight it's Erin Brockovich, then I'll do the scary SL&V ->Schizopolis part of his career.

The Limey is good stuff, especially if you liked Point Blank

the informant is great

^my choice for his worst.

haven't seen King of the Hill in 20 years, liked that quite a bit.

The Knick is immediately one of the best shows on television btw

I would rank the Limey as his best

you know what film of his hasn't been mentioned once in this thread? this one.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/and-everything-is-going-fine

I can't bring myself to watch something that sounds so depressing

Gray's Anatomy isn't much more uplifting, at least now.

VHS- have you gotten to the girlfriend experience yet? Be sure you see the directors cut and not the theatrical cut.

traffic is such a huge piece of shit movie just unbelievable bad a corny

wow check out those filters and years before instagram too

side effects is cool too

traffic isn't that bad but its definitely bad

i think soderbergh's got kind of a light touch that works really well with a lot of if not most of his films and a sort of 'let's throw something together and see how it works' style, which paid off with something like 'the limey', but i think 'traffic' was the worst sort of project for his two styles.

dude likes wide shots of rooms more than i do

big fan of wide shots of rooms, its true. throw in some non-actors and i start swooning

idk if traffic is technically the worst movie but it is extremely stupid and lame

like to the extent that you wonder if its purposely insulting you

Oscar winner!

big fan of wide shots of rooms, its true. throw in some non-actors and i start swooning

― ╲╱\/╲/\╱╲╱\/\ (gr8080),

why I liked The Girlfriend Experience.

it's just an odd movie storywise too, it's like a really lurid afterschool special spliced together with a south of the border docudrama and a gritty episode of CSI san diego.

Saw a bit of Oceans 12 flipping channels and even that one has some fine wide shots of an Amsterdam rowhouse.

did the people who hated Traffic also see Traffik (the tv series on which it was based)? did they hate that too if so?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096716/

it's just an odd movie storywise too, it's like a really lurid afterschool special spliced together with a south of the border docudrama and a gritty episode of CSI san diego.

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its cool tho u can tell which one is which from the colors