Angelina Jolie playing some kind of beautiful cold hearted spy/killer doesn’t even sound like something she needs to be acting to pull off. Salt is thankfully not just a Bourne Identity with a chick which was kind of I’d gotten from the advertising. Instead it’s a pretty fresh take on the well worn espionage genre. I liked it.
Stallone has still got it. This movie is pure 80s action, refined into a carefully manufactured hit. This movie ticks all the boxes. Big explosions, fantastic set piece action scenes, boss fights and one hell of a final action scene.
The world has seen enough of Michael Cera being an awkward loser. This movie is his fitting swansong. Hyperkinetic, with an impressive visual style, it lacks any real depth, so take it for what it is – a movie based on a comic book in a video game style. I wanted to like this movie more than I did.
Aside from Iron Man 2, it would seem that movie studios have eased up quite significantly on their comic book movie titles in 2010, and aside from “Inception” the year has suffered for it in terms of the quality of its “blockbusters”. That looks to be remedied in the next couple of years with the impending releases of “Thor”, “Captain America”, “The Green Lantern” and “The Avengers”. Perhaps the break was a good thing to help people catch their breath.
As an avid comic book super hero fan, I am looking forward to these movies with great anticipation, however, lets face it, these titles are B-grade heroes at best. Sure, Iron Man has shown that if a film is well made it doesn’t matter what the status of the hero was in his comic book form, but I do wonder about the broad appeal of these upcoming titles.
So it was a pleasant surprise for me to see the extended Comic-Con trailer for “Thor” which is due out early next year. This particular property seemed challenging to make in any kind of grounded form – remembering that in conjunction with “The Avengers”, it is supposed to be set in the same world/universe as the “Iron Man” films which are somewhat grounded. This trailer made me feel better about the potential of this movie, but didn’t leave me all that convinced that it would have mass market appeal. What do you think?
See the bootleg trailer on YouTube
Holy crap, I freaking loved Inception. I’ve seen it twice, and I’ll no doubt be seeing it many more times. It is such a well made, superbly crafted film, it totally blew my mind. A definite must-see film. Go, see it now. I’ll wait.
I think the days of a movie drawing people in purely on star power might be over. Aside from Will Smith, I’m not sure seeing a movie because someone is in it is enough of a motivation for people any more. There is no compelling reason to see Knight and Day; I’m not sure people see Tom Cruise as much more than a creepy weirdo these days anyway. This movie was lame.
It’s pretty rare for an Australian film to get much positive buzz, but after hearing a few people rave about this film, I thought I’d take a look. It is a pretty good film, and definitely a stand out in a sea of ordinary Aussie stuff. Not great though, probably just as good left for a DVD hire on a quiet evening really.
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