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Bangkok Dangerous – Nicolas Cage plays a hitman with a bad haircut who travels to Bangkok for a series of jobs. While there he falls for a woman and bonds with a young boy who runs errands for him. Written and Directed by The Pang Brothers who are remaking their own Thai film from 1999.
THAT’S IT?!?!?!?
I guess we can tell the summer is over because Cage is the only new obstacle in the way of Tropic Thunder going for four straight weeks atop the box office.
Married Life – set in 1949, post World War II, comes the story of Patricia Clarkson and Chris Cooper as a married couple. Cooper confesses to his buddy Pierce Brosnan that he is unhappy and wants to leave his wife for another woman, Rachel McAdams. When Pierce sees the girl, he also tries winning her over.
The Promotion – two junior managers at a grocery store, played by Seann William Scott and John C Reilly, are both trying to get a coveted promotion while their friends and family can only sit back and watch how one will one up the other.
Disaster Movie – from the douche bags that brought you Epic Movie, Date Movie, and Meet The Spartans comes a new one spoofing all the disaster movies of recent times. The plot goes like this, over the course of one evening a group of people find themselves bombarded by a series of natural disasters.
Babylon A.D. – Vin Diesel is a war veteran turned mercenary when he takes an assignment to escort a woman carrying a synthetic virus out of Russia. A cult is also after her so they can attain the virus that could bring the end to all humankind.
What Happens In Vegas - Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz meet in Vegas after their lives were on a downward spiral. They get hammered drunk and get married. When they sober up and realize it was a mistake, they accidentally win 3 million dollars and must stay together for 6 months in order to split the cash.
Redbelt – Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mike Terry, a Jiu Jitsu instructor who saves the life of actor Chet Frank, played by Tim Allen. He then gets wrapped up with a wealthy Brazilian family who rig televised Mixed Martial Arts matches. He must compete even though it is against his beliefs.
The Rocker – Rainn Wilson plays a former member of a famous rock ‘n roll band. Twenty years later, he jumps at the opportunity to join his nephew’s garage band as their new drummer so they don’t have to cancel their prom gig. He then starts trying to relive his rock n roll glory days.
Death Race – Paul WS Anderson remakes the 1975 Stallone action flick. This time Jason Statham stars as a former NASCAR driver framed for the murder of his wife so he can come to the prison where the warden, Joan Allen, runs a kill or be killed car race. The inmates must compete to win their freedom.
Street Kings – Keanu Reeves is a veteran cop whose partner is murdered by two gang members. So he is forced to take it upon himself to go on a reckless quest through the streets of LA to get revenge while his captain tries to control him. Also starring Forest Whitaker, Chris Evans and Hugh Laurie.
Prom Night – a remake of the 1980 horror flick of the same name. A group of high school students cause the accidental death of a young girl but the truth is never discovered so they go free. Years later, the man who witnessed them kill the girl is back for vengeance.
This wasn’t my first choice (or ever my second or third for that matter) to see in the theater, but a buddy of mine I haven’t seen in a while wanted to go see this. Without a doubt, The Clone Wars would be very cool if we saw it on TV, however its not feature quality in both the writing or the production values.
The story has very clear spots where you can tell there’s supposed to be a commercial break or an new episode ends. They even introduced two more characters close to the end that really came out of nowhere. Again, that wouldn’t have been a problem if those two characters, one a familiar face and the other is Jabba the Hutt’s gay uncle (I shit you not), if this was an episode on TV, but as it’s presented here its very awkward.
Actors in a jungle… for real.
An animated sci-fi prequel.
Attack of the reflections.
A Love Triangle.
What do we have here? Well it looks like a slew of new movies for this glorious Friday.
Tropic Thunder – Ben Stiller is a washed up action star. Jack Black is a raunchy comedy actor. Robert Downey Jr. is a serious method actor. All of them are working on a big budget war movie from a first time director that is having problems controlling them. So they are forced into the real jungle during a real war to get some more realistic scenes. Also directed by Ben Stiller.
Smart People – a professor (Dennis Quaid) has an accident and is treated by a doctor (Sarah Jessica Parker). The professor falls for the doctor and must bring her home to meet his smarty pants daughter (Ellen Page) and good for nothing brother (Thomas Haden Church).
CJ7 – a foreign film about a poor Chinese laborer (Stephen Chow of Kung Fu Hustle fame) who learns important lessons after his son receives a strange new toy. Also Co-written and Directed by Stephen Chow.
A stoner action movie.
The pants return.
Gee whiz, these sound like some damn fine movies for the summer that is coming to an end!
Pineapple Express - Big time stoner Dale Denton, played by Seth Rogen, witnesses a corrupt cop commit a murder. So he hits the road with his weed dealer (James Franco) in an attempt to outrun the men sent to kill him. Co-written by Superbad writers Rogen and Evan Goldberg. Produced by the great Judd Apatow.
