2010-08-16, 10:27 AM
People still go to movie theaters to watch movies? Well color me surprised.
From what I've see/heard of these movies and the plot involved with them, I say they all are fairly ridiculous. First you have a movie with the most top-notch action heroes of our time(The Expendables) who's premise is that of pretty much every single action movie ever made:They are part of an elite squad of mercenaries out to dispose of some evil dictator or crazy guy in charge of an army or oil company. If you're expecting story, you will get very little in the way of an intelligent one in most action movies. But hey, people will pay to see explosions.
Then you have Eat, Pray, Love, which in all ways should not be a movie. This is like Julie & Julia in context, a woman sees her life is full of depression and goes on a wonderful journey to search for her soul or be felt up/have sex with some hot Cabana-boy looking actor. Like in the first one, you will not find story, you will find nothing. The only people who see this movie are middle-aged women who like Julia Roberts no matter what horrible piece of pomegranate movie she is in.
The other three I have no real quips about. One is a cop comedy, which they seem to be remaking now more than ever(perhaps the producer has watched too much Lethal Weapon), another is a movie about an investigator that goes into other people's dreams, and the other one is a teen-romance-comedy with outlandish movie effects and fist-fights. All in all Scott Pilgram is the most original and should be in top spot if you think about the competition.
But hey, you can't beat explosions and middle-aged women finding themselves =D
From what I've see/heard of these movies and the plot involved with them, I say they all are fairly ridiculous. First you have a movie with the most top-notch action heroes of our time(The Expendables) who's premise is that of pretty much every single action movie ever made:They are part of an elite squad of mercenaries out to dispose of some evil dictator or crazy guy in charge of an army or oil company. If you're expecting story, you will get very little in the way of an intelligent one in most action movies. But hey, people will pay to see explosions.
Then you have Eat, Pray, Love, which in all ways should not be a movie. This is like Julie & Julia in context, a woman sees her life is full of depression and goes on a wonderful journey to search for her soul or be felt up/have sex with some hot Cabana-boy looking actor. Like in the first one, you will not find story, you will find nothing. The only people who see this movie are middle-aged women who like Julia Roberts no matter what horrible piece of pomegranate movie she is in.
The other three I have no real quips about. One is a cop comedy, which they seem to be remaking now more than ever(perhaps the producer has watched too much Lethal Weapon), another is a movie about an investigator that goes into other people's dreams, and the other one is a teen-romance-comedy with outlandish movie effects and fist-fights. All in all Scott Pilgram is the most original and should be in top spot if you think about the competition.
But hey, you can't beat explosions and middle-aged women finding themselves =D