Burn Before Seeing

Okay, so I'll preface this with the fact that I am not a big George Clooney or Brad Pitt fan. Still, "Burn after Reading" ranks right up there with "Napoleon Dynamite" on the list of movies that I've seen and wish I could steal my time back. I could sleep or play tiddleywinks and it would have been more productive.
Th concept is that this movie is supposed to be a farce about the intelligence industry, specifically the CIA, and about life in Washington D.C. What it taught me is that everyone in D.C. sleeps around, no one has any moral values and that the bad guys win in the end.
It is also showed me that clooney, who I still don't like, can at least make fun of himself as the sleep with everyone in sight Treasury agent and that Brad Pitt was very poorly cast in this movie. Pitt's a little too old to play the self-absorbed gym rat with any believability.
This movie had a cast that should ahve made it a hit. John Malkovich was wasted in his role. It's not that he wasn't excellent, he was. But the movie around him sucked rocks.
I compare it to "Napolean Dynamite" because both movies kept me watching under the pretense that it would eventually get better and I would car about at least one of the characters. It never did.
Frances McDermand is believable as a 40-something plastic surgery obsessed woman using online dating to get laid and in hopes of finding love. I suppose the fact that every man she hooked up with was married was supposed to be social commentary. It came across as pathetic.
Tilda Swinton, whom I adore as an actress, plays Malkovich's cold-hearted beast of a wife. Again, believable portrayal, but the story fell flat.
I want movies that make me love the characters or hate them and then give me some sort of satisfaction at the end. This failed on all accounts. Most of the characters were unlikeable, but not bad enough to hate. No one got what they deserved...ever.
I see enough of that in real life. The bad guys/girls got away with everything from murder to high treason and the "good guys" such as they were got murdered/put in a coma.
Worse yet, the movie dragged on for what seemed like forever.
The fact that this movie got nominated for two Golden Globe awards speaks volumes about the lack of quality in the industry and the nature of the politics of Hollywood. Hopefully, "Burn After Reading" will be shut out at the awards show, as it richly deserves.