The IMDB page for Steven Soderbergh's next film says it's called The Informant. But its new trailer enthusiastically insists it's called The Informant! instead. That's weird. That's weird! It was going to be a drama. Now it's a comedy! Matt Damon plays a top executive for Archer Daniels Midland who is wildly unsuited to perform any task that requires even a shred of stealth.
EXCLAMATION [BULLET] POINTS RE: 'THE INFORMANT!' TRAILER
- I could use some more closeups of corn on the cob!
- Matt Damon's face invokes puff pastry, and I like his character's glasses! I usually love everyone's glasses in movies!
- Joel McHale can rock some shellacked Mad Men hair!
- But the film actually takes place in the early '90s and is based on this 2000 book!
- As if Tony Hale weren't enough to quell our daily Arrested Development craving, Damon's character's tendency to needlessly narrate his experience reminds us of Larry Mittleman, "The Surrogate"!
- Stupid exclamation points make it seem like I'm mocking the movie but it actually looks pretty good.
Go ahead and exclaim your own thoughts about the trailer!
This looks so good – I had no idea Tony Hale and Joel McHale were in this…can’t wait exclamation point.
I would trust Steven Soderbergh with my life. Or rather, a movie about my life.
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This movie was NEVER going to be drama. From the beginning around 2001 it was a comedy.
They lost me at Matt Damon.
I kinda love that Damon’s doing a comedy. He started out doing dramas, he proved to be almost shockingly adept at action (the “Bourne” movies), so why shouldn’t he be able to bring the funny? I thought his humor in Sodebergh’s “Ocean” movies was underrated.
Scott Bacula! McHale! Buster Bluth! Fat Matt Damon! It looks great!
I will totally see this movie, even though I’m not really sure what’s going on…Still when the director is the same director of Ocean’s Eleven, Twelve, and Thirteen, as the trailer boasts (really Stephen?! That’s what we’ll boast about?!), I’ll see it.
Matt Damon looks like a younger, thinner Philip Seymour Hoffman. The line about “corn goes in…” sounds like something from “Better off Ted”. Based solely on the trailer, it looks like a fun movie.
This looks pretty great.