07.01.09 MATT DAMON IS A DORKY MIDWESTERNER
The Informant is director Steven Soderbergh’s return to plot-driven comedy after a few years of smaller films like Che and The Girlfriend Experience. I generally enjoy Soderbergh movies (Out of Sight is an underappreciated classic and I even liked Solaris), and I’d probably see this one based on the Matt Damon wallpaper alone (see above).
‘The Informant’ is about Ivy League Ph.D. Mark Whitacre (Damon), a rising star at Decatur, Illinois-based Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) in the early 1990s who wound up blowing the whistle on the company’s price-fixing tactics. [WAMG]
Apparently the case had to do with Lysine price fixing and a class-action suit about high-fructose corn syrup. This is neither here nor there, but I think if you were were trying to tough-talk some bigwigs in the corn industry, saying “Oh yeah? Well I pick pieces of guys like you out of my stool,” would be a really apt insult. Haha, good one, Jay.
I also wouldn’t mind seeing Matt Damon’s character in the Informant play an intense game of beach volleyball against Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading.
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MATT DAMON IS A DORKY MIDWESTERNER
Matt Damon must be having a crack at DiCaprio’s title of Least Convincing as an Adult in a movie.
/or words to that effect. Not feeling too articulate today.
Snitches end up with sandwiches.
Snitches get hit by pitches.
That banner pic reminds me of Chodin when he passes a daycare center.
Vince, I think you grabbed the wrong image, the banner pic is actually the poster for the long awaited sequel The 41-Year Old Virgin.
Snitches get their heart broken by bitches.
But if they sell cheap Lysine, the raptors will be able to complete their conquest of the mainland!
Snitches sleep with the fitches.
A film about dorky midwesterners? How is the FilmDrunk audience supposed to relate to that?
Snow’s “Informer” will finally get what it deserves.
god this would be so much funnier as a Paul Blart/Kevin James movie… think of all the “you’re too fat to be a spy jokes”
This looks like William H. Macy is being Benjamin Buttoned.
Despite numerous advances in the field, the corn industry continues to have problems with rats.
This should be called The Boring Ultimatum
This is set in Snitchita, KS?
Matt just grew that thing so he could finally wear his “Free Mustache Rides” t-shirt he got from SnorgTees.com
Lysine? Raptors? I can’t believe I’m notthe nly person that’s read that f’n book.
That poster should actually read: underwhelming
@Erswi
I got you Erswi. Jurassic Park. Chaos Theory. Survived by finding it in plants.
It looks like what would happen if Dwight Schrute and the 40-Year-Old Virgin poster had a baby.
I hear Soderbergh was tempted to call this
“The Who Gives A Fuck Experience”
I love playing beach volleyball.
BTK, “Dorky Midwesterner” is redundant. That’s like calling somebody a snooty New Yorker or a gay Floridian.
Sorry there. What I meant to say is that I can’t believe I’m not the only one here that reads books. My bad.
is that what flo-rida is, a ‘gay floridian’?
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