THE LOOKOUT

RYAN: I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised by “The Lookout.”

CAROLINE: It was a fun flick. Especially in the last twenty minutes.

RYAN: I was totally into it the whole time. And for all that we talked about going to see this movie, I had no idea what it was about.

CAROLINE: Oh, I knew. And I told you a couple times what it was about. Evidently listening isn’t your forte.

RYAN: Even though I’m not a huge fan of the lead actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, I thought he did a really good job and I love his hair.

CAROLINE: Had you even heard of him before this movie?

RYAN: No, who is he?

CAROLINE: Well, that’s my point. How could you not be a fan if you didn’t even know who he was?

RYAN: Wasn’t he on some TV show?

CAROLINE: Yes, it was “3rd Rock from the Sun.” And he looks like Heath Ledger.

RYAN: He totally does. The movie has also got soon-to-be-wife of Borat, Isla Fisher.

CAROLINE: It’s a heist movie with some interesting twists.

RYAN: I’d say it’s a cross between “Memento” and “The Thomas Crown Affair.”

CAROLINE: Wasn’t Thomas Crown about a stolen painting?

RYAN: Oh yeah. Maybe it’s nothing like “Thomas Crown Affair.”

CAROLINE: [laughs’ This movie is a directorial debut, and it’s pretty good but it could be a rental. You don’t have to see it in the theater, but it would be a very fun Friday night rental with some really good suspense toward the end.

RYAN: I think this is a sign of good movies to come this year.

CAROLINE: One hopes, because we’ve been slogging through close to four months of shite and I’m tired of it.

RYAN: Can we talk for a moment about how inappropriately matched Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen are?

CAROLINE: First of all, she’s way too short for him, and as a tall woman, I resent that. Secondly, I like her a lot but she’s less than gorgeous.

RYAN: I think she was better in “Wedding Crashers.” Her role in “The Lookout” was a little too serious for her. There were moments where she wasn’t that natural.

CAROLINE: She was fine. She didn’t offend me, but she didn’t shine the way she did in “Wedding Crashers.” But her part also wasn’t as big in this movie.

RYAN: You made a point as we were sitting in the theater about set design?

CAROLINE: Yes! There is one pivotal scene in this movie where the lead guy joins his new friends for Thanksgiving and learns about the heist plans, and it’s the creepiest ramshackle farmhouse with the perfect basement. Whoever designed that basement did an amazing job. It actually made me nervous.

RYAN: There’s one guy in the film with a marginal role and no lines but he totally scared me.

CAROLINE: We liked to call him Sunglasses but his actual name in the movie is Bone, and I had a nightmare about him after seeing this movie.

RYAN: Jeff Daniels also appears in this film as a blind man.

CAROLINE: He has a hilarious role and there was a man in the theater loudly guffawing every time Jeff Daniels said a line. I have to agree, he was quite funny.

RYAN: Bottom line?

CAROLINE: I liked this movie. It’s not phenomenal, but it’s an auspicious directorial debut for Scott Frank, who also wrote the screenplay for “Minority Report.”

RYAN: I liked it too. In fact, I gave it golf claps when it ended and I could hear other people in the theater actually applauding.

CAROLINE: I don’t think it’s gonna do huge box office but I think and hope it’ll have a nice DVD career for itself.