First let me say that I harbor no ill will towards Brett Ratner. I even think his Red Dragon is pretty ok. I don’t look to him as some sort of blight as some do. Plus, he produced Horrible Bosses, a movie I am sweet on. The web is rife with people who fire hate darts at the guy all day long and I don’t get it.
I used “I” five times in that paragraph. What is this, some other site? Anyway, Tower Heist does not look very good. At least if the trailer is any indication.
Yahoo Movies (and with the budget spent on this landing page we could keep CHUD.com and GUY.com in business for half a year) debuted the first look at Ratner’s new action comedy with a weird, eclectic cast.
The movie tells the story of a Maddoff-esque (Alan Alda, who literally plays roles like this in his sleep) corporate type who has embezzled the money of many around (including Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck, and Gabo.. Precious). They decide to heist the shit out of him and to do so they get career criminal Eddie Murphy out of jail to help them. What happens is Ocean’s Eleven without the style or the realization that it’s not 1986 and Eddie Murphy’s not funny anymore.
I keep trying to embed the trailer but Yahoo uses iframes. Iframes are a pain in your mother’s ass. If there’s a window here, watch the trailer. If not, watch it over there and hurry back. Can’t be over there on their fancy hit-gettin’ site while we lie out here in the cold gulag of no fancy Tower Heist ads*.
Click here if the stupid iframe technology doesn’t work in our great site.
8 comments
Come on, Nick – we’ve seen worse.
Worse from Stiller and Murphy in the last couple of years.
Broderick just looks beat down from all the years with his horse…
Affleck wonders what happened to his career, so promising so recently…
Gabo.. Precious…guess Howard Stern was wrong.
Got to give it a chance…
Yeah, compared to all the recent trailers for supposed comedies this year, this at least looks like a comedy you wouldn’t mind catching on a flight or something. Sometimes not being the cinematic equivalent of soul rape is all I ask of a comedy movie I’m never going to pay to see.
The trailer makes me want to watch it. But it is so obvious that you could cut 50 million from the film’s budget and still have the same film. Maybe a better film. I’m never sorry to see people get paid, but damn!
You lost me forever at “Red Dragon is pretty ok.”
Felt pretty tired overall, but that last bit with Eddie Murphy and Gabourey Sidibe made me laugh out loud. I’d rather watch THAT movie than the one it looks like they made.
It’s Eddie in s movie that’s not for kids. Whatever gets him closer to one more stand-up special is a good thing.. Go fuck yourself if you think that’s a bad thing.
I must go find the producer of this.
A guy who thinks the names Ben Stiller, Matthew Broderick and Casey Affleck are box-office gold
will sure give his money to ANYBODY….
Was that a used up Tea Leoni? Yikes!
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