Comments on: The Informant!: It’s Good!

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 01:51:02 +0000

Way to stick it to Big Agra.

By: bigbunzfagolino

bigbunzfagolino — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:04:39 +0000

Eileen jons is such goo whita. I wike huh witing belly much.

By: Andy Nowicki

Andy Nowicki — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:07:19 +0000

Doc Amazing, you are right about the similarities to Damon’s Mr. Ripley character, although Whitacre is much more subtly sinister. A very good movie, and a great review, whoever the author might be.

By: doctor k

doctor k — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:26:30 +0000

fucking wonderful. I love these clueless-critics pieces more than the straight reviews themselves.

By: Wozzi

Wozzi — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:15:35 +0000

The movie is somewhat like “Burn After Reading” but for whatever reason, critics were so giddy seeing Brad Pitt and George Clooney on screen that they didn’t even bother to question what the characters were doing and why (if at all the characters knew).

Here, its bland Matt Damon and they suddenly are so confused and what not.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:14:12 +0000

Eileen Jones has done radio interviews? Where?

By: Expat in BY

Expat in BY — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:31:32 +0000

I too think everything here is written by Dolan, but also that Dolan is really a secret pseudonym for Dan Savage. I mean, look at the proximity between Victoria, BC, and Seattle. It’s too obvious.

We should all ask Elaine for sex advice now. (Excellent article, btw.)

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 12:04:16 +0000

Good review, but consider spoiler warnings. I read this review yesterday, then went to see the movie. If you know in advance that he’s lying all the time, the movie loses any tension.

By: Pádraig Ó Buth Chanain

Pádraig Ó Buth Chanain — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 06:41:29 +0000

@18. …”American civilization”…

Say what?!

By: mechagodzilla

mechagodzilla — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:53:58 +0000

I think that both Ms. Jones and all the other reviewers are equally infuriated and saddened by the status quo, the chain of events that brought us to this point (in the US but not limited to it, about ADM and the current big story of corporate rampage but not only that), and the clumsy tools that as ever are our only ones; the only difference is the way they channel it.

I say this because I want to believe the best of people if only because we are so bitterly incapable of gauging the depth of their worst.

By: rick

rick — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:40:26 +0000

The pseudonym detectives are retards.

By: DocAmazing

DocAmazing — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:34:07 +0000

One thing that didn't get mentioned: Didn't Matt Damon also star in The Talented Mr. Ripley, as another tabula rasa/I-am-who-you-want-me-to-be type character?

By: aleke

aleke — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:34:40 +0000

I Am Dolan. You Are Dolan. We Are Dolan

By: Kevin Riley O'Keeffe

Kevin Riley O'Keeffe — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:26:18 +0000

I don’t really know what to say, except that one day Martians are going to be sifting through the rubble of American civilization, and they’re going to come across a cultural artifact – a cache of (c)rap “music” CDs? A stack of issues from The Weekly Standard? A DVR still loaded with “reality” TV shows? Almost anything would do – and suddenly, a light is going to go off:

“Oh, I get it now. They didn’t DESERVE to survive.”

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:55:28 +0000

A quick Google search reveals that “Eileen Jones is Assistant Professor and Program Chair of Film Studies at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.” If I were writing on this website, my Dolan influences would be on display too.

By: Deep Throat

Deep Throat — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:14:40 +0000

@e0/15

Matt Taibbi is also Dolan.

By: e0

e0 — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:47:23 +0000

Exiledonline.com is completely written by John Dolan. All the articles all the time. Notice how we only see footage of Mark Ames and never Dolan. Mark Ames is just another name of John Dolan, used for public appearances.

Really the whole movie (The Informant) is just a thinly veiled retelling of the Spanish Civil War. Read the wikipedia entry and then watch the movie. Obvious really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Civil_War

By: Doom

Doom — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:26:27 +0000

I operate under the assumption all eXiled writers are Dolan, even Ames, who is actually just a very elaborate costume, much like Eddie Murphy’s characters in various films.

By: George B

George B — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:45:36 +0000

I don’t get how Eileen could be Dolan: she’s don radio interviews. They’ve been posted here. Dolan doesn’t have that much time on his hands. Why does she refer to “The Beige”? Because it’s a good description and she reads the eXile.

But yeah, this is an excellent review. “They haven’t even told us how to feel! The nerve of these filmmakers! They leave this giant hole of uncertainty in the middle of a narrative about a man who succeeds in America by reflecting back to his various audiences what they want to believe!” made me laugh, then desperately hunt for someone to send the article to.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:49:40 +0000

@John/5:

I’ve been wondering whether Jones is another Dolan psuedonym, and I’m about fifty-fifty on it. References to to Beigeism come from other writers on this site, like Ames. It could be that Jones is real, knows Dolan, and picked up the term from him (or vice-versa). I’ve started using it in day-to-day conversation, and I only read them on the internet, so that’s not totally out of the question. Dolan referred to an Eileen Jones in his piece on Michael Moore way back in the early 00s, so either she’s real or he planned this psuedonym way, way in advance. Both are possible; at bottom I don’t care that much, but it’s worth some idle think-time.