Sifting through the talkbacks for my deluxe Summer Movie Preview, the overwhelming consensus seems to be that a) I’m gay, and b) I overestimated Timur Bekmambetov’s Wanted by a good $60 million (predicted final tally: $145 million). Sounds reasonable. Keep the invective flowin’, and you just might win me over on both counts.
If Wanted fails as Wall-E counterprogramming, it’ll be due to the target audience taking the weekend off after nearly two months of non-stop empty spectacle (while they prepare for the much more promising Hancock). But I’m sticking by my prediction for now: James McAvoy feels like he’s ready to happen, Morgan Freeman’s been huge with teenage girls since Street Smart, and Angelina Jolie looks great with firearms.
While I don’t know how Jolie squares the gun fetishism with her humanitarian efforts, the sex and death shtick sure is good for business. So kudos to Universal for selling the obvious. Click over to AICN for the whole image.
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That full poster is all kinds of awful. Poorly photoshopped – her skin is overly airbrushed and softened that the gun looks totally out of place (or are they trying to make it stand out). The white light coming from the right makes her forearm look even more ridiculously tiny that it already is, the gun isnt quite resting against her forehead as it is to one side of her face.
Oh, and it takes more than a cheesy tattoo and a gun to make a poster interesting. This is dull, dull dull.
Though, I haven't watched the trailer so I can't say how hot she actually looks with her thumb-too's and gun's blazing. The house gun-fight in Mr/Mrs Smith was kind of hot.
I guess, in closing, you are gay.
Totally unrelated but after I read it in the forums, I felt compelled…"Devin is a Fat Fuck". Sorry, I'm just curious as to what LisaNY sounds like when she screams out in frustration. Jesus Beaks, don't get all of the closeted types riled up with stuff like that, yeesh. Also, go back to playing with your Mac and stop being an art fuck anal case,Trejo. Maybe YOU can show us all of YOUR artwork which was used for major Hollywood movie posters? I'll go learn 12 languages, while we wait for you to come up with one.
Looks inferior to the Nightwatch films. Those were some good, weird little foreign popcorn flicks.
Those were shit films, empty as a hollywood blockbuster.
"If Wanted fails as Wall-E counterprogramming, it'll be due to the target audience taking the weekend off after nearly two months of non-stop empty spectacle…" – How about "It just doesn't look very good"?
"Nightwatch" was an awful, awful experience. The music, the cinematography, the editing, the f/x, and the story all up there on the big screen pounded my brain into mush. A movie did not make my head throb like that since "Van Helsing", and no single movie has since. I even sat in the front row for "The Bourne Ultimatum", no sweat. I will never understand the appeal of "Nightwatch". Granted, most of you watched it at home. For me, it was an endurance test.
"If Wanted fails as Wall-E counterprogramming, it'll be due to the target audience taking the weekend off after nearly two months of non-stop empty spectacle"…..that's sort of what it looks like to me. Simply set pieces. In my case, though, I know nothing of the source material so I'm just going by the trailer I saw recently. And for what it's worth, Jolie by herself is enough to make me add this one to my queue when it comes out. Don't know that I'll actually go and see it in the theater, though.
Sorry, you guys are wrong. Those movies were fun. THIS looks like a real shit Hollywood movie.
You're wrong Sam. They weren't fun. THEY were real shit Russianwood films.
Ugh.
Is it now obligatory for all news stories to mention the Talkbacks and how awful they are? Because that's really going to help settle them down. Just get rid of them. Like every other element of the long-awaited and gruesomely botched "redesign" it doesn't seem like any thought went into how these things would actually work. Ditch the talkbacks. Fix the main page layout. And give Alex his own games site so that the movie news doesn't get bumped into the archive before the day is over.
MB members are actually more obnoxious talkbackers than actual talkbackers – way to go. As for Wanted – the 'Watch films were daft but fun (yes FUN – not every Russian film has to be Tarkovsky) so it might be worth a ticket if the mood strikes. I think you're right about the main appeal being in counter-programming though.
the movie looks like crap. it was one of my favorite comic books of all time and from what Ive seen they just grabbed the character names and made the rest of the shit up. just when i thought that Hollywood was starting to listen to the fans and stick to the source material, they do this hack job.
Why couldn't Wanted fail on the fact that everyone knows Pixar makes far better movies, and so even the big action lovers would rather watch a robot finding love?
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