{"id":1398,"date":"2025-10-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=1398"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:06:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:06:00","slug":"361-oceans-eleven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/10\/06\/361-oceans-eleven\/","title":{"rendered":"361 &#8211; Ocean&#8217;s Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oceans11-thob-1024x576.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oceans11-thob-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oceans11-thob-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oceans11-thob-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/oceans11-thob.jpeg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the defining stories of the 2000 Oscar year was the one-two punch of Steven Soderbergh delivering both <em>Traffic<\/em> and <em>Erin Brockovich<\/em>, making good on the past decade&#8217;s worth of promise kicked off by <em>Sex Lies and Videotape<\/em>. In 2001, the victory lap was <em>Ocean&#8217;s Eleven<\/em>, a Vegas heist remake that cast some of the biggest names in movies. The film was a box office smash, but ultimately considered just a fun blockbuster romp. It remains a classic but Soderbergh has yet to return to the Oscar club since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This episode, we talk about the decade leading up to Soderbergh&#8217;s Oscar homecoming and the film&#8217;s surprising omission from the Globes Comedy races. We also have a quiz heavy episode, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt sharing a double Six Timers Quiz and Julia Roberts enters our Ten Timers Club.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Topics also include the MTV Movie Awards, Don Cheadle&#8217;s cockney accent, and the city of Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4669\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1398-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_361_Oceans_Eleven.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_361_Oceans_Eleven.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_361_Oceans_Eleven.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_361_Oceans_Eleven.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?powerpress_pinw=1398-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/3563080\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/EP\/THOB_EP_361_Oceans_Eleven.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"THOB_EP_361_Oceans_Eleven.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the defining stories of the 2000 Oscar year was the one-two punch of Steven Soderbergh delivering both Traffic and Erin Brockovich, making good on the past decade&#8217;s worth of promise kicked off by Sex Lies and Videotape. In 2001, the victory lap was Ocean&#8217;s Eleven, a Vegas heist remake that cast some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2025\/10\/06\/361-oceans-eleven\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;361 &#8211; Ocean&#8217;s Eleven&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,632,1997,200,1996,1166,1788,1234,1995,217,14,214,3,6,1998,703,445],"class_list":["post-1398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academy-awards","tag-andy-garcia","tag-bernie-mac","tag-brad-pitt","tag-carl-reiner","tag-casey-affleck","tag-don-cheadle","tag-eddie-jemison","tag-elliott-gould","tag-george-clooney","tag-julia-roberts","tag-matt-damon","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-qin-shaobo","tag-scott-caan","tag-steven-soderbergh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1400,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1398\/revisions\/1400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}