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Movie Release Awareness for May '09
Gim
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Movies for May 2009
May 1:
Battle for Terra
Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Justin Long (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A space explorer (Wilson) crash-lands on the planet Terra and finds himself at the forefront of a battle to prevent his people, who are entrenched in a civil war at home, from invading the beautiful, peaceful planet where he has two new friends, rebellious alien teens Mala (Wood) and Senn (Long).
Snark: It's a good thing that they're rebellious. Wouldn't want to befriend any button-down conformist teens.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Director: Mark Waters
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: At his younger brother's wedding, a committed bachelor/womanizer (McConaughey) is haunted by his romantic past.
Snark: So he cries, a lot.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: An origins story that follows the early life of James Howlett (Jackman), also known as Logan, and best known as Wolverine. The chronicle of his younger years as a mutant connects to his relationship and eventual falling out with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Schreiber), and his fateful entry into the Weapons X project, the governmental program that turns willing and unwilling beings into living weapons.
Snark: An amazing exercise in franchise prolongation. Dominic Monaghan is in it for all of three minutes.
The Limits of Control [limited]
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal, Bill Murray (Full Cast)
Studio: Focus Features
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: The story of a mysterious loner (De Bankolé) who exists outside the law and is in the process of completing his current job.
Snark: Hot diggity, new Jarmusch!
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May 8:
Star Trek
Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: The origin story of Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise before they had boldly gone where no man had gone before.
Snark: Just a smidge more action than the original movies.
Next Day Air
Director: Benny Boom
Stars: Mos Def, Mike Epps, Donald Faison (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: When a delivery man (Faison) leaves a package containing bricks of cocaine at the wrong address, it sets into motion a battle of wills and wits between the dealer, the intended recipients, and the people who have the drugs and plan to sell them off.
Snark: Pineapple Express but with cocaine.
Rudo y Cursi [limited]
Director: Carlos Cuarón
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A chance encounter with a talent scout affords half-brothers Tato (Bernal) and Beto (Luna) the opportunity to play professional soccer in Mexico City. The catch: the scout can only bring one of the boys, which kickstarts an intense sibling rivalry, though fate will not keep the brothers apart for long.
Snark: Brother of Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) and the two leads from one of his movies (Y tu mamá también). Thar be potential there. Yar.
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May 14:
O' Horten [LA/NY]
Director: Bent Hamer
Stars: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654070/, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence: the evening of his retirement.
Snark: Woo! Norway!
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May 15:
Angels & Demons
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, [url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1189217-angels_and_demons/
]rotten tomatoes[/url])
Plot: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) finds himself in Rome, where he has to race against time to prevent the Illuminati, a secret society, from putting in motion a terrorist act that could destroy the Vatican. He's aided in his quest by the beautiful Italian scientist Vittoria Vetri (Zurer).
Snark: Do you love Dan Brown? Because Ron Howard sure does.
The Brothers Bloom [limited]
Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A pair of brothers and veteran conmen (Brody and Ruffalo) target an enigmatic wealthy woman (Weisz) as their potential last job, fully unaware of the twists in the road ahead of them.
Management
Director: Stephen Belber
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson (Full Cast)
Studio: Image Entertainment
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A traveling saleswoman (Aniston) tries to shake off a motel manager (Zahn) who chases her across the country after she has an ill-advised fling with him.
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May 21:
Terminator Salvation
Director: McG
Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: John Connor (Bale) is joined in his attempt to defeat Skynet and its army of Terminators by Marcus Wright (Worthington), a man who apparently has been rescued from the past, though Connor wonders if instead he's been sent from the future as a foil to his plan. As Connor and Wright push deep into the heart of Skynet, they get closer and closer to learning the secret behind the organization's mission to wipe humankind off the planet.
Snark: I'm be really curious to see the lighting.
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May 22:
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Director: Shawn Levy
Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: Security guard Larry Daley (Stiller) infiltrates the Smithsonian Institute in order to rescue Jedediah (Wilson) and Octavius (Coogan), who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.
Snark: Mistake, huh?
Dance Flick
Director: Damien Wayans
Stars: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: Street dancer Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.) is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White (Shoshana Bush) might help the duo realize their dreams as the enter in the mother of all dance battles.
Snark: On one hand this is a genre that is ripe and probably deserves parody. On the other hand, ew, no.
Easy Virtue [limited]
Director: Stephan Elliott
Stars: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A young Englishman (Barnes) brings his glamorous American bride (Biel) home to meet his family, and she arrives like a blast from the future, blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Snark: "Great Scot, Marty!"
The Girlfriend Experience [LA/NY]
Director: [URL="(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001752/)"]Steven Soderbergh[/URL]
Stars: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos (Full Cast)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
(imdb, wiki, yahoo trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A drama set in the days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, and centered on a high-end Manhattan call girl (Grey) meeting the challenges of her boyfriend (Santos), her clients, and her work.
Snark: I really have no idea what to expect. Soderbergh is characterized by making movies about just about everything, and Grey is characterized by being in an endless number of blowbang scenes.
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May 29:
Up
Directors: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger (Full Cast)
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
Snark: I don't know which surprises me more; that it has only been a year since WALL-E came out, or that Ed Asner is still alive.
Drag Me to Hell
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A loan officer (Lohman) ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse which turns her life into a living nightmare. Desperate, she turns to a seer for help, and learns she only has a short period of time before she is literally ushered into Hell.
Snark: Literally!
Departures [limited]
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki (Full Cast)
Studio: Regent Releasing
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A musician (Motoki) who is jobless after his orchestra is dissolved moves back to hometown with his wife for a fresh start, a move which introduces him to an unusual profession: an "encoffineer," one who prepares the deceased for burial and entry into the next life.
Snark: Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for 2008.
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I can probably drag one or two people out to see The Limits of Control. (On a side note, I saw Slingblade a few weeks ago. Goodness, did that man always have freaky white hair?) My nerdiness/geekiness/whatever should probably compel me to go see Star Trek, but I lack the friends to go and see it. We'll see. I'm going to wait until I hear more reviews for Terminator. Same goes for The Girlfriend Experience. I've liked Soderbergh before, but I haven't really been blown away by him. And let's make it a hat trick with Up. Pixar is good, but this does not sound like it will grab me like WALL-E did.
And you, if I held a gun to your head and asked what movies you would see, how would you disarm me?
Movies for May 2009
May 1:
Battle for Terra
Director: Aristomenis Tsirbas
Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Luke Wilson, Justin Long (Full Cast)
Studio: Lionsgate
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A space explorer (Wilson) crash-lands on the planet Terra and finds himself at the forefront of a battle to prevent his people, who are entrenched in a civil war at home, from invading the beautiful, peaceful planet where he has two new friends, rebellious alien teens Mala (Wood) and Senn (Long).
Snark: It's a good thing that they're rebellious. Wouldn't want to befriend any button-down conformist teens.
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Director: Mark Waters
Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Emma Stone (Full Cast)
Studio: New Line Cinema
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: At his younger brother's wedding, a committed bachelor/womanizer (McConaughey) is haunted by his romantic past.
Snark: So he cries, a lot.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Director: Gavin Hood
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: An origins story that follows the early life of James Howlett (Jackman), also known as Logan, and best known as Wolverine. The chronicle of his younger years as a mutant connects to his relationship and eventual falling out with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Schreiber), and his fateful entry into the Weapons X project, the governmental program that turns willing and unwilling beings into living weapons.
Snark: An amazing exercise in franchise prolongation. Dominic Monaghan is in it for all of three minutes.
The Limits of Control [limited]
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Stars: Isaach De Bankolé, Tilda Swinton, Gael García Bernal, Bill Murray (Full Cast)
Studio: Focus Features
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: The story of a mysterious loner (De Bankolé) who exists outside the law and is in the process of completing his current job.
Snark: Hot diggity, new Jarmusch!
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May 8:
Star Trek
Director: J.J. Abrams
Stars: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: The origin story of Captain James T. Kirk, Spock and the crew of the USS Enterprise before they had boldly gone where no man had gone before.
Snark: Just a smidge more action than the original movies.
Next Day Air
Director: Benny Boom
Stars: Mos Def, Mike Epps, Donald Faison (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: When a delivery man (Faison) leaves a package containing bricks of cocaine at the wrong address, it sets into motion a battle of wills and wits between the dealer, the intended recipients, and the people who have the drugs and plan to sell them off.
Snark: Pineapple Express but with cocaine.
Rudo y Cursi [limited]
Director: Carlos Cuarón
Stars: Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A chance encounter with a talent scout affords half-brothers Tato (Bernal) and Beto (Luna) the opportunity to play professional soccer in Mexico City. The catch: the scout can only bring one of the boys, which kickstarts an intense sibling rivalry, though fate will not keep the brothers apart for long.
Snark: Brother of Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) and the two leads from one of his movies (Y tu mamá también). Thar be potential there. Yar.
____________________________________________________________________________
May 14:
O' Horten [LA/NY]
Director: Bent Hamer
Stars: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0654070/, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A drama focused on a life-changing moment in 67-year-old train engineer Odd Horten's existence: the evening of his retirement.
Snark: Woo! Norway!
____________________________________________________________________________
May 15:
Angels & Demons
Director: Ron Howard
Stars: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Releasing
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, [url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1189217-angels_and_demons/
]rotten tomatoes[/url])
Plot: Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon (Hanks) finds himself in Rome, where he has to race against time to prevent the Illuminati, a secret society, from putting in motion a terrorist act that could destroy the Vatican. He's aided in his quest by the beautiful Italian scientist Vittoria Vetri (Zurer).
Snark: Do you love Dan Brown? Because Ron Howard sure does.
The Brothers Bloom [limited]
Director: Rian Johnson
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Adrien Brody, Mark Ruffalo (Full Cast)
Studio: Summit Entertainment
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A pair of brothers and veteran conmen (Brody and Ruffalo) target an enigmatic wealthy woman (Weisz) as their potential last job, fully unaware of the twists in the road ahead of them.
Management
Director: Stephen Belber
Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Steve Zahn, Woody Harrelson (Full Cast)
Studio: Image Entertainment
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A traveling saleswoman (Aniston) tries to shake off a motel manager (Zahn) who chases her across the country after she has an ill-advised fling with him.
____________________________________________________________________________
May 21:
Terminator Salvation
Director: McG
Stars: Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Anton Yelchin (Full Cast)
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: John Connor (Bale) is joined in his attempt to defeat Skynet and its army of Terminators by Marcus Wright (Worthington), a man who apparently has been rescued from the past, though Connor wonders if instead he's been sent from the future as a foil to his plan. As Connor and Wright push deep into the heart of Skynet, they get closer and closer to learning the secret behind the organization's mission to wipe humankind off the planet.
Snark: I'm be really curious to see the lighting.
____________________________________________________________________________
May 22:
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Director: Shawn Levy
Stars: Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Amy Adams (Full Cast)
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: Security guard Larry Daley (Stiller) infiltrates the Smithsonian Institute in order to rescue Jedediah (Wilson) and Octavius (Coogan), who have been shipped to the museum by mistake.
Snark: Mistake, huh?
Dance Flick
Director: Damien Wayans
Stars: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans (Full Cast)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: Street dancer Thomas Uncles (Damon Wayans, Jr.) is from the wrong side of the tracks, but his bond with the beautiful Megan White (Shoshana Bush) might help the duo realize their dreams as the enter in the mother of all dance battles.
Snark: On one hand this is a genre that is ripe and probably deserves parody. On the other hand, ew, no.
Easy Virtue [limited]
Director: Stephan Elliott
Stars: Jessica Biel, Ben Barnes, Kristin Scott Thomas (Full Cast)
Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A young Englishman (Barnes) brings his glamorous American bride (Biel) home to meet his family, and she arrives like a blast from the future, blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Snark: "Great Scot, Marty!"
The Girlfriend Experience [LA/NY]
Director: [URL="(http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001752/)"]Steven Soderbergh[/URL]
Stars: Sasha Grey, Chris Santos (Full Cast)
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
(imdb, wiki, yahoo trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A drama set in the days leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, and centered on a high-end Manhattan call girl (Grey) meeting the challenges of her boyfriend (Santos), her clients, and her work.
Snark: I really have no idea what to expect. Soderbergh is characterized by making movies about just about everything, and Grey is characterized by being in an endless number of blowbang scenes.
____________________________________________________________________________
May 29:
Up
Directors: Pete Docter and Bob Peterson
Stars: Edward Asner, Jordan Nagai, John Ratzenberger (Full Cast)
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn't alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years his junior, has inadvertently become a stowaway on the trip.
Snark: I don't know which surprises me more; that it has only been a year since WALL-E came out, or that Ed Asner is still alive.
Drag Me to Hell
Director: Sam Raimi
Stars: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Ruth Livier (Full Cast)
Studio: Universal Pictures
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A loan officer (Lohman) ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse which turns her life into a living nightmare. Desperate, she turns to a seer for help, and learns she only has a short period of time before she is literally ushered into Hell.
Snark: Literally!
Departures [limited]
Director: Yôjirô Takita
Stars: Masahiro Motoki, Ryoko Hirosue, Tsutomu Yamazaki (Full Cast)
Studio: Regent Releasing
(imdb, wiki, apple trailer, rotten tomatoes)
Plot: A musician (Motoki) who is jobless after his orchestra is dissolved moves back to hometown with his wife for a fresh start, a move which introduces him to an unusual profession: an "encoffineer," one who prepares the deceased for burial and entry into the next life.
Snark: Winner of the Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for 2008.
____________________________________________________________________________
I can probably drag one or two people out to see The Limits of Control. (On a side note, I saw Slingblade a few weeks ago. Goodness, did that man always have freaky white hair?) My nerdiness/geekiness/whatever should probably compel me to go see Star Trek, but I lack the friends to go and see it. We'll see. I'm going to wait until I hear more reviews for Terminator. Same goes for The Girlfriend Experience. I've liked Soderbergh before, but I haven't really been blown away by him. And let's make it a hat trick with Up. Pixar is good, but this does not sound like it will grab me like WALL-E did.
And you, if I held a gun to your head and asked what movies you would see, how would you disarm me?
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I will also probably see Wolverine and Terminator.
Keeps the Transformers 2 fever at bay ... pun only slightly-intended and only noticed as an afterthought ...
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Damn, I will probably be busy on the 8th...the parents (and the wife, of course) are coming down for my graduation the next morning. Probably be doing dinner and what not.
Saturday night, however, it will be on.
Aside from that? Terminator, maybe. I loved the first Night at the Museum, and I love Amy Adams, so I'll probably wind up seeing that. I love Steve Zahn, so if we get Management (unlikely) I might check it out.
The wife is seeing Ghosts of Girlfriends Past tomorrow night at some kind of sneak preview. Which means that, unfortunately, I probably won't get a chance to see it. I am heartbroken.
Obviously I want to see the ones that most people have been waiting for (Terminator Salvation, Star Trek), but the Girlfriend Experience looks fantastic, and of course I'll have to check out Up. A movie about a crotchey old man? I'm so there.
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I'm quite exited for Star Trek, because I don't know shit about the series.
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I don't care what anyone says about any of them, it's going to be awseome!
I am excited about Star Trek and Terminator, and Up. Though I'll probably skip Terminator for the sake of saving a couple dollars.
There's a *cough* abandoned haunted house in Staten Island, NY that will one day be mine. I will own it some day, I don't care if the whole family committed suicide!
May is looking good!
Also, I'm reading through the OP, and I get to The Girlfriend Experience. 'Sasha Grey... I feel like I know that name from somewhere...'
--clicks the IMDB link--
'Oooohhhhhhhhhhh. Right. That Sasha Grey.'
In a less crowded month I'd consider Angels & Demons and Up.
Nothing else matters this month.
haha, I did the same thing. I wonder how many lines she has in the movie?
I'm going to see it in an hour or so, I expect it to be moderate to pretty OK.
"You in there harry?"
"Im right here"
line makes it sound like its supernatural possession.
Also I don't get how he managed to lock himself in that cage and apparently change out of costume before help arrived which he had to do to not have blood on him.
I liked the overall package though.
That said, I fully anticipate Star Trek and Up will be exactly as good as advertised. I'm also looking forward to The Limits of Control - I am a huge Jarmusch geek - and The Girlfriend Experience.
Gim, if Soderbergh hasn't blown you away in the past, check out Kafka or Schizopolis to see what he's really capable of.
The civil war is long since over. There's only one teen. The invasion is not dissimiliar to a Cold Equation, though less stark.
Still playing catch-up, but I think I'll have to watch Terminator and Star Trek.
So far of his movies, I have seen: Brockovich, Traffic, Solaris, and Bubble. I really wanted to see Che last year, but that was an expensive theater ticket.
I really do need to check out his 90s output. And I suppose Sex, Lies, and Videotape is sort of a modern classic.
As for Limits of Control, it's playing at a couple of theaters within driving distance of me. I may be able to check it out in the next week, hopefully.
It's a great movie, but Schizopolis is even modern-er classic-er. It really shows how literate and thoughtful a director he is, and that his mind and interests go a lot further afield than someone like Linklater, who much as I love him, seems mainly interested in reliving his philosophy 101 courses over and over and over again. The Limey and Out of Sight are also brilliant, and just absolutely beautiful to look at, to boot.
I hear he does good commentary tracks as well. Can you confirm or deny?
Simon Pegg is in Star Trek?
Interest increased 10x
I understand that the one for The Limey is considered to be among the best ever, as he and the film's writer slowly descend into a maelstrom of bickering and recrimination. It's one of the only ones I've ever listened to all the way through.
Even better: He's Scotty. Fucking Scotty.
Also, if anyone hasn't seen Taken yet. FUCKING DO SO! That was seriously one of the best movies I've seen in a very, very long time.
I'm still kinda iffy on Wolverine, given how bad reviews have been.
Add to that I haven't seen the first movie.
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You probably won't be missing much having not seen the first film. The two stories are stand-alone and, in the book chronology, Angels & Demons comes first anyway.
Plus you would get more enjoyment out of reading The Da Vinci Code instead of watching Tom Hanks read it to you (the adaptation... wasn't very exciting).