A self-taught critic and genuine movie geek
Matt Dillon must be getting tired of being in movies about armored car heists. At least this time he’s on the other side, playing Jack Welles, the semi-renegade cop who knows some huge criminal plot is in the works, but he can’t get anyone else to believe him.
I thought I was loopy, going to see this movie. At the ticket counter, I mumbled the title in shame and the girl had to ask me to repeat it. But what was I going to do, watch the sequel to a kids’ movie that I hadn’t even seen? Or that odd-looking comedy with Jennifer Aniston? Thanks to that huge, unpleasant ad on imdb, I couldn’t bear to take the risk of seeing what’s his name make that funny face again.
They’re expendable and proud of it. I don’t get it, either, but they are. Sylvester Stallone even has the word tattooed on his back.
First of all, I don’t like Will Ferrell. I’m honestly not sure why they’re still letting him star in major motion pictures. And I don’t really like Mark Wahlberg, either, after that whole Max Payne thing. I wanted to go see Middle Men because yes, a movie about the economics of internet porn sounded more appealing than this. But it wasn’t playing around here. Stupid pseudo-wide-release.
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It’s been five months since the original, so it must be time for the sequel. Okay, really, I just couldn’t bring myself to watch anything on offer this past weekend,* and I really feel I should post something. One of these days I might pass 100 readers. Besides, there are actual new developments in the field of superhero flicks!
Continue reading “Return of the Comic that Ate Hollywood (Green)”