Some good articles over at The Guardian and The Telegraph ask what happened to action heroes and how Hollywood has turned to British actors to fill the roles.
The Guardian’s article about Jason Statham seems a bit off the mark after reading the other articles: Christian Bale and Gerard Butler, to name but two others, are battering their way to action hero status as well (Bale will be starring in a Terminator movie no-less, the epitome of action movies).
Having said that, most aren’t appearing in movies that were high in action and muscle flexing, while short on story. Movies like: Commando, Predator, Tango and Cash, Rambo, Universal Soldier, Kickboxer, Best of the Best and Cobra. Now those are action movies.
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Vue cinemas have begun showing over-18s only screenings after positive reaction to trials. Sounds like an interesting idea.
While there are times that would be good, generally I find seeing kids movies with children in the audience more fun, they react in a completely different way and haven’t learnt the social rules that mean the rest of us (generally) stay silent.
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The idea of someone coming from a slum and being able to win the top prize, then getting accused of cheating sounds interesting enough, but the link to destiny and how events (presumably shown by flashback) in his life have given him the answers, plus his search for his true love, sound like a great combination.
See the trailer on Apple.
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From the trailer and description I’m not sure if Michael Rapaport’s character actually develops super-powers or if he just gets convinced he has them. Either way it looks a very interesting, and surreal, story of a man going from zero to (sort of) hero.
See the trailer on Apple.
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The BBC has an article called Like a remote control for cinema all about cinemas, using digital projection, providing a greater choice of films each week instead of locking a film into a screen for an entire week.
Interesting idea, although I rarely find myself thinking I need more choice, indeed, I more often find I can’t muster the energy or time to see a film in it’s normal run, so allowing for longer runs (maybe around main screenings) would be better.
Read Full Entry | 27th Oct 2008 | Comments (1) | General
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