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When I first heard about this movie I said to myself “another Bah-ston crime flick” try­ing to cap­ture the magic of the Departed. But after see­ing this trailer I feel this movie has the star power to stand on its own two feet. It feels less like the Departed and more like Heat. Jon Hamm and Ben Affleck have the poten­tial to make this movie bad ass.  Have a look at the trailer and decide for yourselves

Before I really get into this review I have to let off some steam. Noth­ing against this movie at all really but it’s a shame that films like this can do well while really good ones like Scott Pil­grim are on life sup­port, in terms of box office num­bers. That is an argu­ment for a dif­fer­ent arti­cle but I had to put it out there. The other thing is that if you needed any fur­ther proof that 3D is absolutely unnec­es­sary and a waste of a gim­mick then you really need to see this movie. When the high­light of your 3D effects is a dig­i­tally ren­dered, dis­mem­bered penis being torn apart, eaten and burped up to float out at the audi­ence, well…that one pretty much speaks for itself, doesn’t it?

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Can it be? A hor­ror movie that is rated-R and seems inter­est­ing. We might have a win­ner a folks with the excep­tion of the damn 3-D

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I am not one to watch flicks with Renee Zell­weger sim­ply because I think she sucks. In my opin­ion her best role was in Jerry McGuire, but it seems that she is shed­ding the rom-com image and try­ing out new projects. I was pleas­antly sur­prised at how the plot unfolded in this trailer and it actu­ally suc­ceeded in gain­ing my atten­tion. Now as long as we get no Hugh Grant cameos we should be all good.

Cast
Michael Cera … Scott Pil­grim
Ali­son Pill … Kim Pine
Mark Web­ber … Stephen Stills
Johnny Sim­mons … Young Neil
Ellen Wong … Knives Chau
Kieran Culkin … Wal­lace Wells
Anna Kendrick … Stacey Pil­grim
Mary Eliz­a­beth Win­stead … Ramona Flow­ers
Chris Evans … Lucas Lee
Mae Whit­man … Roxy Richter
Bran­don Routh … Todd Ingram
Jason Schwartz­man … Gideon Gor­don Graves

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Finally the movie adap­ta­tion to the cult graphic novel hit is here to rock our socks off. Releas­ing just in time to fin­ish off the sum­mer along with The Expend­ables, will this film be worth the tokens required to play, or will it be KO’ed by the new chal­lenger? How will this hold up as an adap­ta­tion for a graphic novel that’s essen­tially an action-packed gamer’s wet dream? Click through for my take on the prod­uct of awk­ward Michael Cera and the crew behind the British zom­bie hit Shaun of the Dead.

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I say it over and over again that there is no hope for Hol­ly­wood when all that comes out are remakes and any­thing that rep­re­sents even a mild amount of cre­ativ­ity is sti­fled. This was a big open­ing week­end and the above has been proven once more. He can beat seven evil exes but Scott Pil­grim could not touch the Expend­ables (I guess they all are vegan and stuck to the diet). Stallone’s action romp is a smashup and homage to pretty much all the films the cast has done over the past three decades and that for­mula grossed thirty-five mil­lion over the week­end. This was one remake I did not truly mind because the film is not tak­ing itself seri­ously and it looks like a hell of a lot of fun to watch (I’ll know for sure soon). The fact remains that remake is killing cre­ativ­ity because Scott Pil­grim vs. The World (which I have seen) only grossed ten and a half mil­lion this week­end. I can only hope the buzz about how great this film was makes it really pick up steam dur­ing the week and into next week­end. This film does not deserve to bomb and it really needs to do well to open the door for more films like it to fol­low. Stay tuned to My Take Radio for Ant’s review of Scott Pil­grim and Rich’s review of The Expendables.

SOURCE: Enter­tain­ment Weekly

Now this one I think I will like. You have seen plenty of movies where the girl gets kid­napped and is either raped or killed or sold into pros­ti­tu­tion and you just hope some­body comes to save here. What if she just … I don’t know, SNAPS?

Who’s gonna save the sorry bas­tards that vio­lated her? My vote is for nobody.

Saw this trailer while I was wait­ing for Scott Pil­grim to start. The effects look great but I fear this movie will suck eight fla­vors of frog ass. When your promo tells me that I should turn to the guy that was doing auto­tune before it got big for all mat­ters regard­ing alien life because giant alien vac­uum clean­ers may come to Earth, I just can’t be excited for your film.

I guess Speed and Speed 2 weren’t enough, now we have a train ver­sion. But wait, this one is based upon true events! And it has DENZEL!

Guess what? Still not impressed. I love me some Rosario Daw­son but she has too much cloth­ing on.