{"id":1217,"date":"2018-09-04T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2018-08-18T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-18T20:56:11","slug":"movie-oceans-eight-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/04\/movie-oceans-eight-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: Ocean’s Eight (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ocean'sOcean\u2019s Eight
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2018
\nRating: PG-13
\nLength: 110 minutes \/ 1.83 hours<\/p>\n

As the gender-swapped spin-off of a remake,\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight<\/em>\u00a0(2018) feels convoluted merely based on its heritage. While I love the\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/em>\u00a0(2001) remake, I was curious to see what would make\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight<\/em>\u00a0something that would distinctly empower women (which I\u2019m assuming was the point). In the end, it seems like\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight<\/em>\u00a0merely highlights the 72% wage disparity when compared to\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/em>\u00a0since most of the tropes and clich\u00e9s almost felt like they were pandering to the very audience they were trying to lift up.<\/p>\n

While I will praise\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight<\/em>\u00a0for its ability to be a passable heist film, both with main and \u201ctwist\u201d heists, that\u2019s mostly where my adoration ends. Sure, I get the need to move the setting to New York to better align with fashion and other women\u2019s interests, and part of Sandra Bullock\u2019s character introduction after being released from prison was fun, but there were so many problems with the plot and characters that I\u2019m still scratching my head days later thinking, \u201cWait, what?\u201d I mean, there was no way that these women would have gotten away with this heist, especially considering all the details they had to overcome. They might have stolen jewelry, but they\u2019d certainly be caught afterward.<\/p>\n

I suppose when it comes right down to it, the \u201cOcean\u2019s\u201d franchise doesn\u2019t work outside of Las Vegas. That\u2019s part of the appeal: the flashy razzle-dazzle of the casinos that entice us all to play games of chance to get rich quick. New York may be the city that never sleeps, but that\u2019s because they\u2019re working hard to earn their fortunes. This disconnect\u2014along with the loose connection to the original reboot trilogy\u2014is what disappointed me the most and made me want to go home and watch the 2001\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eleven<\/em>. It also probably didn\u2019t help that the music, while being great music, was more suited for\u00a0The Man from U.N.C.L.E.<\/em>\u00a0(2015) than an Ocean\u2019s movie. And yes, I\u2019m aware this composer made the music for\u00a0The Man from U.N.C.L.E<\/em>.<\/p>\n

A sub-par \u201cOcean\u2019s\u201d movie on almost every level, I give\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight<\/em>\u00a02.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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Ocean\u2019s Eight Year: 2018 Rating: PG-13 Length: 110 minutes \/ 1.83 hours As the gender-swapped spin-off of a remake,\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight\u00a0(2018) feels convoluted merely based on its heritage. While I love the\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eleven\u00a0(2001) remake, I was curious to see what would make\u00a0Ocean\u2019s Eight\u00a0something that would distinctly empower women (which I\u2019m assuming was the point). In the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[1020,115,13,1449,1448,1237,630,8,984],"class_list":["post-1217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-5-stars","category-movie","tag-1020","tag-heist","tag-movie","tag-oceans-8","tag-oceans-eight","tag-oceans-eleven","tag-reboot","tag-review","tag-spin-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1219,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}