Ok so maybe thats not the real poster, but you get the point. On Saturday I went to see "Predators" with Nicole, fellow librarian. It was...pretty much exactly what I expected, which wasn't much. Imagine, for a second, that the same team that made the original movie set out to do...everything they had already done, in exactly the same style, with a new cast (except for the monsters, of course) and better special effects, and you'll have quite a good idea of what this was like. Bright spots: Adrien Brody and...I hesitate to add him to this list, because he only makes it by sheer force of insanity, but Laurence Fishburne. Also the Yakuza gangster whose name I do not know, but whose scenes were wonderfully referential to older Tokyo gangster films like...well, "Tokyo Gangster" (Kristin, please tell me you remember that). Laurence did the best he could with the material he had, which amounted to not very well with not very much, but it turned out to be one of the more entertaining sections of the entire film. All of that being said, the writing was astonishingly bad, and the violence was over-wrought. It had some really great "ARE THEY SERIOUS?!?!?!?!" moments, but not much else worth going for. Maybe I should start grading movies. I give this one a solid C-.
This definitely had some entertaining previews though. Look up "Machete". I promise you will not be sorry you did.
OMG the japanese gangster movie. Sometimes I still have the weird theme song stuck in my head. And then memories of some scene where he is walking and walking and walking in the snow usually accompanies it.
ReplyDeleteExpect for how Jessica Alba kept saying "Machete" wrong. "Mashete." Blah Jessica Alba Blah.
ReplyDeleteAnd how none of the men in that movie are under 50, but the only two women are just babies in bikinis and eye patches. Everyone in the theater was laughing hysterically the whole time. It was wonderful.
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