Clueless Clooney

Human Events called George Clooney's recent directorial effort, Good Night, and Good Luck, a "clueless movie," and while I certainly liked it better than everyone's favorite Coulter-publishing conservative weekly, I may have found the reason for what they saw. Filming Steven Gaghan's political thriller, Syriana, Clooney went all Christopher Nolan on us :

His chair was kicked backwards and his head smashed on the ground, damaging his spine. The injuries left him in such intense pain that he entertained suicidal thoughts and continues to suffer short-term memory loss.

What movie does this remind me of? Demented? Mentos? Mothballs? What's this post about again?