Aaron Taylor-Johnson probably has an awesome agent. I assume that his is the case because he’s starring in the upcoming “Kick-Ass 2,” a reboot of ‘Godzilla” and now it seems that he may be cast as ‘Quicksilver’ in the upcoming sequel to Marvel Studios’ “The Avengers.”
Quicksilver is the guy to the right. Hopefully he will be fully articulated.
For those of us not living in a cave “The Avengers” was directed by Joss Whedon (“Buffy, The Vampire Slayer,” “Angel,” Dollhouse,” Serenity”) and was released in 2012 and ended up earning over $1.5 billion (Yes that’s ‘billion,’ with a ‘b’) during its theatrical run.
““The Internship” Is Funny, Though Instead Of Google, It Should Have Taken Place At A Hospital. That Would Have Been Only Slightly More Preposterous, Though Better Situated For A Much Needed Testicular Implant.”
You may be wondering why this review is for “The Internship,” as opposed to “The Purge,” the film that I woke up this morning with every intention of seeing.
The long and short of it is that if you pick up tickets to an Advanced Screening of anything, it’s worth your while to arrive at least an hour early, though unlike with other screenings that I have known of (“Attack The Block”) an alternative was provided for those of us that have to do things like work and weren’t able to get the theater on time.
“The Internship” was that film, which I enjoyed a lot more that I thought I would. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have this quality about them that makes them seem like people that you’d enjoy knowing better. Particular Vaughn, who seems to have an almost Jobsian ability to make himself seem likable.
My next question isn’t particularly relevant to my review, but I wonder what happened to Wilson’s nose. It had to have been broken at some point (and healed badly) because his bridge is a bit awkwardly shaped.
“Now You See Me” poster courtesy of Totalfilm.com
“Now You See Me” is well-acted and generally interesting to watch, though it’s not nearly as magical as it gives the impression of being.”
Louis Leterrier’s “Now You See Me” revolves around the antics of ‘The Four Horsemen,” (Jessie Eisenberg, Woody Harrelson – who seems to be turning up everywhere lately – Dave Franco and Isla Fisher) a group of magicians who are somehow committing crimes while not actually being present at the scene. They’re being doggedly pursued by FBI agent Dylan Rhodes (Mark Ruffalo) who always seems a few steps behind.
Morgan Freeman plays Thaddeus Bradley, a former magician who now makes a living revealing their secrets.
Written by Boaz Yakin and Edward Ricourt, I get the feeling that the story was significantly darker that than what finally made it to the screen. I assume that that is the case because there’s a subplot about the Order of Horus (an ancient sect of magicians whose abilities extend beyond illusion, into true magic) that makes absolutely no sense in the context of the film, and would be a better fit on a supernatural-based movie.
Now this is what I call a scoop (which I wish were mine;)! Courtesy of thefuriousfanboys.com, here’s the first shot that I have seen of the Winter Soldier from Captain America: The Winter Soldier. I don’t even consider myself a fan of the character, but this looks to be crazy accurate.
I assume that that’s Sebastian Stan under that half-mask, proving that he somehow survived that fall in the 2011’s Captain America movie.
I don’t know how I missed this one. “The Colony” features Lawrence Fishburne and Bill Paxton, and takes place sometime in the near future where, once again, humanity is in the process of jumping the shark.
This time around it seems that we somehow fraked up the weather, so unlike in “Oblivion” and “After Earth” the Earth is reduced to a frozen wasteland. I assume that this isn’t something that you could move away from, or this would be a very short movie (the ‘frozen wasteland’ looks curiously like a matte painting, which is never a good sign).
There are other groups of survivors beneath the ice, whom remain more or less self-sufficient, though geographically apart (I assume that cellular networks and the Internet are broken, or this would be an every shorter movie).
One group, led by Lawrence Fishburne, receives a distress call from another outpost, which he decides to investigate – over the objections of Bill Paxton, whom you can tell is going to be a problem at some point.
If anyone remembers when I first posted this trailer, I am still pretty buzzed about it. The Purge answers a question most of us have probably considered at one time or another, which is: What heinous things am I capable of doing if I were allowed to do anything that I wanted?
Universal Pictures wants to know as well.
To find out they’re offering free tickets for an Advance Screening of “The Purge.”
I don’t know how many quantities they’re offering, though these types of deals tend to go really, really fast.
Despite that, think very carefully before clicking that button because Universal, or any one else for that matter, will hold themselves responsible for what you discover.
Henry Cavil seems like a very charismatic actor, but is he mighty enough to carry a franchise? I am deliberately not including the Superman reboot, “Man of Steel” – you don’t carry films with Superman, Batman or Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr. may be the exception), they carry you – but because Cavil is in discussions to replace Tom Cruise in a film version of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.”
Just about anyone could be Superman – though it helps if they’re white, because of past depictions of the character as well as the expectations of the fan base – and that movie will rise of fall on the strength of Cavil convincing people that he’s worthy of wearing that famous red cape.
But millions won’t want to see it because of Cavil, just as relatively few people probably went to see “Superman Returns” on the strength of Brandon Routh in the title role.
“A Very Entertaining, Though (Seemingly) Unoriginal, Voyage Of The Starship Enterprise”
Let me say for the record I am not a Trekkie. While more people are probably into the work of Gene Roddenberry I preferred Gerry Anderson and shows like “Space: 1999,” “UFO.” and “Space Precinct.” That ’s not to say that I didn’t respect the multi-cultural future Roddenberry portrayed, though it struck me as a bit Stepford-like.
Everyone dressed essentially the same, even non-Federation people, though this may have been due more to budget limitations than anything else. The inhabitants of Rodenberry’s universe even seemed to think the same and if “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and ’Deep Space Nine’ were any indicator, spent way too much time on holodecks imagining some swashbuckling event from the past, as if the future were so bankrupt it stopped generating stories and ideas of its own.
Still not too crazy about Zack Snyder’s “Man Of Steel.” Part of it has to do with my preference for Marvel heroes, though that does not mean that I want DC characters not to do well. Besides, if they have enough success, maybe they’ll get around to making a feature or two about characters I really care about, like ‘The Question.’ What I am not jazzed about is how ‘MoS’ seems to be working on the ‘everything and the kitchen sink’ approach to filmmaking. Space battles? We got those. Epic destruction of major buildings? We got that too. Monomaniacal villain? Yep. Impossibly noble good guy? Got that in spades.
It’s almost as if DC/Warner Bros. took everything that went right with their other big superhero film (“Green Lantern”) and combined it with the moody and anti-superheroic approach of Christopher Nolan’s three Batfilms.
Why ‘Escape From L.A.’ Is Much Better Than I Remember It Being
John Carpenter’s “Escape From L.A.” isn’t a great movie, mainly because on the surface it’s essentially “Escape From New York,” with a change of locale. It’s currently on Netflix, though as I watch I have come to the conclusion that it’s much better – and a tad deeper – than I remember it being (Sure, the surfing scene was odd, and probably a bit beyond Pliskin’s skill set, if the original film was any indication).
‘New York’ dealt with an America where things are so far gone that someone gets the idea that it would be easier to just corral all the deviants, criminals and anyone else unable to fit easily into the New World Order, in New York (which some may perhaps consider to be redundant), which would be walled off.
The first film is very much self-contained, in that you don’t get much information about the rest of the country (though the force that keeps the inmates within the city walls –the United States Police Force – hints at the rise of military-styled fascism).
This idea is expanded upon in “Escape From L.A, which uses the entire country as a canvas, though the prison that is L.A. is emphasized.
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