Ocean's Eleven

Another watch, another great time.  Yes maybe it’s not a movie you’d expect me to rank among the best of the best (because I know you are all keeping exhaustive tabs on my movie opinions). This movie however checks all the boxes for me. It’s fun, stylish, funny, well-written and well-directed. Soderbergh makes sure there is not a moment wasted, every single second is in service of the movie experience. Every moment with characters lends to their personality, every song lends to the atmosphere and every setup has a satisfying payoff. For example, pretty innocuous thing, Rusty eats in almost every single scene and in the last scene of the film he has indigestion. Just small things like that lend to the greatness of the film, and a lot of that comes from Soderbergh’s style in my opinion.  A fun story I heard about Soderbergh is that once they finished the movie the whole crew went bowling, and while bowling Matt Damon asked Soderbergh how the edit was coming. Soderbergh responded by pulling out his MacBook and asking him if he wanted to see it. Turns out that Soderbergh had been editing the film concurrently with shooting the film on his MacBook with Final Cut Pro. Just shows how much sauce he has.