Saw these previews today at the theater. Looks like a mixed bag.
- Pacific Rim – Battleship meets Godzilla meets Transformers meets Independence Day. Probably pass, although the visual effects look really good.
- Beautiful Creatures – Someone owes Anne Rice a check because they’ve been ripping off The Mayfair Witches series. A teenage witch needs to decide if she wants to be a good witch or a bad witch while she deals with raging hormones. A bunch of her female relatives act like they need to have a house dropped on them, and her father seems to be the guy behind the green curtain. Note to filmmakers: Putting the entire rough plotline in the preview only convinces me that I’m not your target demographic.
- The Lone Ranger – Johnny Depp as Tonto? Seriously? He’s as Native American as I am. Granted, he’s a talented actor, but to me it’s a bit of a stretch. Of course, I’ll probably end up seeing this one, seeing as how it’s produced by the House of the Rat, and we are in thrall to them. I will, however, give bonus points if Keith Richards makes a cameo appearance.
- Promised Land – Family farms good! Failing rural agricultural communities great! Fracking bad! Corporations bad! Ecoterrorism and extremism wonderful! Dieing cold and in the dark even better! If you see this movie, please stop reading my blog.
- Warm Bodies – ZombieLand meets Twilight. Seriously, are so many of America’s young women necrophiliacs? Not even going to entertain seeing this, and I shall shun those who do.
- Oblivion – Tom Cruise is a repairman for the robots that are taking care of the world after all that remains of humanity after an alien attack has left. He’s about to leave himself when Morgan Freeman shows up and screws up either his plan or the plans of some nefarious plot. Looks like a good premise. I might have seen this if Tom Cruise wasn’t in it.
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ December 16, 2012Johnny Depp is AT LEAST as Native American as Elizabeth Warren. How much more Indian can ya get?
Maybe Promised Land has a scene where the family farms get bought up by large corporations because the families couldn’t pay the huge inheritance tax when the parents died. Oh wait, that is a consequence of policies Obama is pushing. These people don’t understand consequence.
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Lazy Bike Commuter
/ December 16, 2012I went to my sister-in-law’s graduation from Centre College a couple years ago. Their commencement speaker was Jerry Bruckheimer. Apparently his wife is from “rural Kentucky”, and she runs a foundation that is intended to help save Kentucky by keeping Walmart and highways out of the less developed areas.
God forbid anyone there be allowed a future other than subsistence farming. Or an interstate to use for transporting their crops.
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MaddMedic
/ December 16, 2012None sound remotely interesting and I am boycotting all things Hollywierd anywho..What really is a stretch is Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher!! I mean that is beyond a stretch!!! Cruise….Even my #1 Son a 20 year old despises him!!!
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daddybear71
/ December 16, 2012Honestly, there are only two or three new movies each year that I consider going to see. I’m more interested in going to see the older movies that are occasionally shown.
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LabRat
/ December 17, 2012I’m actually oddly looking forward to Warm Bodies, just because it looks very different from anything else in the zombie genre that I’ve seen.
Or for that matter the sexy-monster genre. Even these zombies are… not attractive.
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