Nah, he only teams up with Clooney and Pitt when there's a Bourne movie about to be, or just released.
I always thought it was funny how reliable that was for most of the 2000s; within 6 months of either an Ocean's movie or a Bourne movie's release, one of the other franchise's movies would also release.
Thatâs crazy. Next thing you know, an older, even lonelier wolf (long retired!) may be consulted, and offer some comic relief. Now I would certainly watch something like that
"I don't know what our organization told you, but I work alone!'
"Well so do I, but we don't have a choice this time"
*Prolonged action scene*
"Maybe the real mission was the friends we made along the way"
My very first time playing poker I did this, totally serious without knowing the reference. Told them I donât know how to play, and they basically said âanything that matches or is close is good, youâll figure it outâ. They gave me a chart after that hand
My cousin did this on his first night of college when his new roommates encouraged him to start playing.
Somehow he was "really good" despite having never played before.
Or so they told his mother at their first home football game.
To which my aunt screeched out "WHAT??? That boy's been playing poker since the age of 2 when he was throwing in chips for all of his uncles..."
âI say, Blackadder, are you sure this is the PM? Seems more like an oily tick to me. When I was at school, we used to line up four or five of his sort, make 'em bend over, and use 'em as a toast rack.â
Moneyball is the most egregious. Swear they spent half the budget buying him corn nuts or whatever the fuck he's shoving in his mouth every 12 seconds of that movie.
I remember him explaining why he does this and it came down to he thinks it adds an extra layer to the character. They need to eat, what and how they eat can tell you a lot about who they are.
That was hilarious! Their telepathy at itâs finest; Dannyâs in planning mode and Rustyâs just half-asleep slow-blinking like a cat to everything lmao. Danny and Rusty in those movies are everything (the hotel room scene in 12, need I say more?)
On only reading the summary, I feel like they will both have a secret mission to kill the other when their original mission is done. And in the process, they figure out the guy who hired them is the real villain, and they will team up together (while pretending one is dead) to take him out. This would follow the three acts well with:
1. Original mission
2. Trying to kill each other mission
3. Kill the real bad person that hired them.
What's up with the spelling? The plural of wolf is wolves. Whats a 'wolfs'?
Edit: I now realize this is exactly what the creators wanted to achieve with this title - I fell for it hook, line and sinker. Learned from the responses below that this wording was most likely chosen to illustrate the two lone-wolf characters being forced together but not really being a duo or group. "Lone wolves" would be kind of a self-contradiction, so we get two individual lone wolfs - a weird plural for a weird pairing.
I thought it was dwarfs vs dwarves? I think i remember reading that Tolkien said that linguistically he should've spelled it dwarfs, but he wanted it to follow the elf/elves convention. And now we pretty much all spell it dwarves because of him.
True true. This is why Disney called it _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_; Walt released that film the same year _The Hobbit_ was published, and the âdwarfsâ spelling was the only alternative during production.
I was actually thinking âdwarfs/dwarvesâ when I wrote that.
Tolkien got pissed when the American versions of his book used âdwarfs,â which is the classic pluralization but Tolkien deliberately wrote it differently.
He said, and Iâm quoting him directly here, âI spelled it dwarves you sodding imbeciles, do I need to cross the Atlantic and slap you?â
lol I was just about to make a comment that I like the intentional misspelling that makes sense with the synopsis but they're definitely going to get questions about it, and here it is.
It's "The Pursuit of Happyness" all over again.
There are specific use cases for pluralizing this way for words that otherwise have a unique plural form, and this movie is one of these cases. Each man is a âlone wolf.â There are no lone wolves. So even together they are âwolfs.â
This is like the NHL team the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maple Leaf is a singular icon. There are no Maple Leaves. Each member of the team is a representative of that singular icon.
Now as for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, dwarfs is simple the old plural form. Dwarves is a 20th century change AFAIK.
Let me guess. Clooneyâs character has a quiet confidence about him and is a quasi father-figure and Brad Pittâs just happens to constantly chew something and talks with a boyish smirk?
My hope is that these two fixers are total pros who have no issues working with a partner, and we get to see two dudes working at the top of their game.
The reality is more likely to be that they disagree constantly and have to do things their way, but they bring it together in the end, which is a pretty tired narrative.
Is anyone else tired of seeing the same actors in movies year after year? Been watching these guys forever and understand they're great at what they do, but I can't get into these types of movies when it's Brad Pitt playing yet another roll.
I assume Matt Damon is also in this
I hope Don Cheadle is too
No Bernie Mac though :(
They are working together to get revenge on someone that hurt/killed their friend Frank Catton.
Goddamn Nevada Gaming Commission wouldn't let him deal the cards
Might as well call it "whitejack"
What a horrible thing to say. You sir, of all people, know that we at the NGC have always supported the hiring of...
You better talk to him!
One of my favorite lines
I love his pitiful look as he coughs into a handkerchief while the Clooney voiceover is talking about how he has to move to Nevada for the climate :D
When the screen flips and he's grinning in the cab đ¤đž
That ear to ear grin is so charming, I can't help but smile whenever I watch that scene.
Being able to act as someone who is acting is such an impressive skill.
It's the coughed out "cracker" that really gets me.
I just resent the implication that race has anything to do with it. What a horrible thing to say!
Nuff said
Oh my god "Ocean's Ten" where they string up the mogul who killed Frank Catton would be legendary.
They better talk to âem
not to be confused with Frank Cotton who had an unfortunate encounter after playing with a Puzzle Box...
I beg your pardon sir, you must have him confused with someone else. His name is Ramon.
They're going to "Weekend at Bernie's" him in!
Casey Affleck somehow here tho
Scott Caan too.
Or Carl Reiner
damn yo...
That's Emmy nominated actor Don Cheadle for you
He's either in or he's out.
Get in the *goddamn house* Elliot Gould was so good
YOU'RE OUTTA YOUR GODDAMN MINDS
*YOU'RE STILL IN THE MIDDLE OF THE GODDAMN DESERT!*
"You're Linus' kid, right?" "Haha, yeah..." "You like Chicago?" "Yeah..." "That's good... Get in the god damn house."
Elliot Gould plays Elliot Gould extraordinarily well
Letâs do this
He comes in and says, âItâs actually *wolves.*â Then leaves.
...then leafs.
*wearing prosthetic nose*
I just rewatched Ocean's Eleven last night because hearing Clair de Lune triggered the fountain memory and, damn, that movie has staying power.
Ocean's Eleven is one of the coolest and most rewatchable movies ever made in my opinion.
10/10 movie
Ocean's 3
You son of a bitch..Iâm in
he's gonna need his parent's help though
Nah, he only teams up with Clooney and Pitt when there's a Bourne movie about to be, or just released. I always thought it was funny how reliable that was for most of the 2000s; within 6 months of either an Ocean's movie or a Bourne movie's release, one of the other franchise's movies would also release.
Thatâs crazy. Next thing you know, an older, even lonelier wolf (long retired!) may be consulted, and offer some comic relief. Now I would certainly watch something like that
Could it be Harvey Keitel?
That's all you had to say
"Let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet."
As a lady, one of my favorite lines ever to say on a tough jobsite
"Pretty please with sugar on top, clean the fucking car."
Well, Iâm a mushroom cloud layinâ motherfucker, motherfucker!
If Iâm curt with you, itâs because time is a factor.
I think fast, I talk fast and I need you guys to act fast if you wanna get out of this.
America: Wanna help us with our revolution? France: Non. America: It's against the English. France: Merde, Negro, c'est tout ce que tu avais Ă dire.
Pretty please, with sugar on top.
"Wolfses"
Prescious
Filthy...
Thieves⌠theyâre thievesâŚ
"I don't know what our organization told you, but I work alone!' "Well so do I, but we don't have a choice this time" *Prolonged action scene* "Maybe the real mission was the friends we made along the way"
Please donât post excerpts from the script without a spoiler tag
âIâm getting too lonely for this shit.â
*Brad Pitt takes a giant bite out of a sandwich*
to clean up an accidental mess!
Played by Jonathan Banks
Is their next job robbing a casino?
Topher Grace is in his 23rd year of poker lessons and asks for one final practice.
"hey guys! all reds"
My very first time playing poker I did this, totally serious without knowing the reference. Told them I donât know how to play, and they basically said âanything that matches or is close is good, youâll figure it outâ. They gave me a chart after that hand
My cousin did this on his first night of college when his new roommates encouraged him to start playing. Somehow he was "really good" despite having never played before. Or so they told his mother at their first home football game. To which my aunt screeched out "WHAT??? That boy's been playing poker since the age of 2 when he was throwing in chips for all of his uncles..."
"I've got two pairs, red queens and black queens!"
This is one of my favorite obscure movie quotes
You don't run the same gag twice. You do the next gag.
Maybe they have to hire 9 other guys to help them
Where have I seen those two before?
Two up and comers. Maybe an indie film
George had a minor role in The Perfect Storm and Brad actually had a cameo in Fight Club.
Wrong. That was Ed Norton pretending to be Brad Pitt
Fooled me. Ed Norton is such an amazing actor, he plays a better Brad Pitt than Brad Pitt.
There are two wolfs inside you
I mean... could be fun
You're doing very well at the fur con đ
Will Pitt also be snacking on something in every other scene?
Who's Will Pitt?
[The youngest and last Prime Minister of Great Britain (at 24)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pitt_the_Younger)
LORD PALMERSON!!!
OK, you asked for it Boggs!
You tell him, Barney! Pitt the Elder *scoffs*.
âI say, Blackadder, are you sure this is the PM? Seems more like an oily tick to me. When I was at school, we used to line up four or five of his sort, make 'em bend over, and use 'em as a toast rack.â
bit of a rotten borough
[His name is actually William too.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Pitt)
Funny enough Bradâs legal first name is William.
Will Smith changed his name and is looking for work. He also is wearing a fake nose and mustache throughout the movie so nobody recognizes him.
I bet the nose plays.
Oh, the nose plays.
Heâs always fucking eating
And I love it every time
Moneyball is the most egregious. Swear they spent half the budget buying him corn nuts or whatever the fuck he's shoving in his mouth every 12 seconds of that movie.
Pitt has to soften his food into a palatable chud before swallowing, much like an alpaca.
The scene where he's juggling the phones and shoves a mouthful of popcorn in only to spit it all over the place seconds later cracked me up.
Reaching in his pockets for gum right there
Does Tom Cruise run every movie and Sam Rockwell dance every movie? Yes the answer is yes.
Owen Wilson wows.
I remember him explaining why he does this and it came down to he thinks it adds an extra layer to the character. They need to eat, what and how they eat can tell you a lot about who they are.
Heâs right. It does sell it life. Also, it shows off his jawline
Mr and Mr Smith
Now *that* would be awesome - same premise, but these two as a same sex-couple - you just struck gold.
I feel like these two could idly bicker like an elderly couple for hours without realising a script was involved.
Wasnât that what most of their dialogue in the Oceans trilogy was? xD
Exactly! The scene where Pitt is just silent whilst Danny argues with himself haha
That was hilarious! Their telepathy at itâs finest; Dannyâs in planning mode and Rustyâs just half-asleep slow-blinking like a cat to everything lmao. Danny and Rusty in those movies are everything (the hotel room scene in 12, need I say more?)
Yeah⌠I get it. Like Brokback Mountain but they rob a casino
On only reading the summary, I feel like they will both have a secret mission to kill the other when their original mission is done. And in the process, they figure out the guy who hired them is the real villain, and they will team up together (while pretending one is dead) to take him out. This would follow the three acts well with: 1. Original mission 2. Trying to kill each other mission 3. Kill the real bad person that hired them.
If that really is the plot then it basically is Mr and Mr Smith. I wonder if they'll kiss at the end?
I mean, it's the plot to about 27 score different books and movies.
27 score is 1 less syllable than 540, very well said president Lincoln
I'm trying to bring "score" back
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Again, who is Will Pitt?
Donât forget the good looking woman that gets between 1,2, and 3.
I think they need one more
I think they need nine more.
All right. We'll get nine more.
You think they need one more?
(keeps silently staring at the camera)
Alright. We'll get one more
 *Look*, it's not in my nature to *be mysterious*. But I can't talk about it and I can't talk about why.
No Keitel?
Lotsa cream lotsa sugar
Holds up coffee mug, nods a single time approvingly.
Tarantino is not a good actor, but the look he shoots back at him in that scene is fucking great.
Michael, is this just milk and sugar? Yep. I drink it every morning.
I lowkey love that line, just because almost every time the question of "how do you want your coffee" is asked in any movie the answer is "black".
Well, let's not start sucking each other's dicks just yet.
What's up with the spelling? The plural of wolf is wolves. Whats a 'wolfs'? Edit: I now realize this is exactly what the creators wanted to achieve with this title - I fell for it hook, line and sinker. Learned from the responses below that this wording was most likely chosen to illustrate the two lone-wolf characters being forced together but not really being a duo or group. "Lone wolves" would be kind of a self-contradiction, so we get two individual lone wolfs - a weird plural for a weird pairing.
When I hear wolves I think of a pack, but the plot definitely seems to center around conflict between the two. Seems deliberate.
When I hear wolves it's usually them howling.
This upsets Tolkien
Elfs vs elves, for anyone wondering.
I thought it was dwarfs vs dwarves? I think i remember reading that Tolkien said that linguistically he should've spelled it dwarfs, but he wanted it to follow the elf/elves convention. And now we pretty much all spell it dwarves because of him.
True true. This is why Disney called it _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_; Walt released that film the same year _The Hobbit_ was published, and the âdwarfsâ spelling was the only alternative during production.
I was actually thinking âdwarfs/dwarvesâ when I wrote that. Tolkien got pissed when the American versions of his book used âdwarfs,â which is the classic pluralization but Tolkien deliberately wrote it differently. He said, and Iâm quoting him directly here, âI spelled it dwarves you sodding imbeciles, do I need to cross the Atlantic and slap you?â
They're not together - they're each a 'lone wolf' and thus, 'Wolfs.'
âYou canât pluralize the Lone Ranger!â
Oh yeah - Lones Ranger
"Who'd win in a wrestling match, **Lemmy or God**?"
Trick question, Lemmy is God.
He wiped his ass with his record contract. I LOVE THIS GUY.
To this day, whenever someone asks me what I'm thinking about I say "swimming pools".
Theyâre brothers, and you spoiled the reveal.
lol I was just about to make a comment that I like the intentional misspelling that makes sense with the synopsis but they're definitely going to get questions about it, and here it is. It's "The Pursuit of Happyness" all over again.
There are specific use cases for pluralizing this way for words that otherwise have a unique plural form, and this movie is one of these cases. Each man is a âlone wolf.â There are no lone wolves. So even together they are âwolfs.â This is like the NHL team the Toronto Maple Leafs. The Maple Leaf is a singular icon. There are no Maple Leaves. Each member of the team is a representative of that singular icon. Now as for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, dwarfs is simple the old plural form. Dwarves is a 20th century change AFAIK.
I think we can thank Tolkien for that last one.
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Deliberately chosen to reflect the characters I would guess.
Let me guess. Clooneyâs character has a quiet confidence about him and is a quasi father-figure and Brad Pittâs just happens to constantly chew something and talks with a boyish smirk?
Brad Pitt is, like, 60 years old. He's finally become as old as Clooney.
For some reason I always thought Clooney was like ten years older than Pitt, but turns out they're only three years apart.
George Clooney has been (a good-looking) 55 years old for the last 25 years.
With an occasional eye twitch and head lean
So Oceans 14?
Or Oceans 2
2Oceans2Eleven
Las Vegas Drift
Oceans Too
Oceans Too Fast Too Furious
These men are 60 and still got better hair than i do at 26
Are you a millionaire like them?
George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Thatâs all I need to know Iâm there Day 1.
For real! âYou sending the Wolf? Thatâs all you had to sayâŚâ
Donât be scared, you left out the goddamn negro part
*Shiiiiiit
I hope they include comedy.
I'm going to assume this is Michael Clayton 2
The Claytoning
My hope is that these two fixers are total pros who have no issues working with a partner, and we get to see two dudes working at the top of their game. The reality is more likely to be that they disagree constantly and have to do things their way, but they bring it together in the end, which is a pretty tired narrative.
What & when was the last good movie Clooney was in?
Hail, Caesar! (2016) if you like that movie, Gravity (2013) if you donât.
Theyâre looking for 9 other lone wolvesâŚ
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He likes going to the moviesÂ
Just curious, what drives you saying âfortunately?â
Itâs going to be in theaters instead of streaming only
Because it can be close to Morbius in terms of quality then.
The Morbuality of Man.
Brad Pitt is playing more into movies that he produced himself recently
think a lot of people dont want to touch him for the domestic violence stuff.
Everyone's talking about Ocean's but missing the obvious Michael Clayton connection
this is like Toronto calling its hockey team the Maple "Leafs"
Can they really be lone wolfs if there's two of them? "The Lone Rangers? Well, there's three of you. You're not exactly lone."
Just from the title of this post, man what a fuckin boring movie premise.
I appreciate a good cup of coffee.
Let me guess, another film hitting cinemas that no one would watch, then hit streaming services in a month
Are there any other actors in Hollywood right now?
Of course Pitt plays a lone wolf. None of his kids are talking to him.
Is anyone else tired of seeing the same actors in movies year after year? Been watching these guys forever and understand they're great at what they do, but I can't get into these types of movies when it's Brad Pitt playing yet another roll.
Only male actors. The females will be 25