Push being an obvious place to start, a much more gun-happy episode of
Heroes in which Johnny Storm and
Layla Miller fight supervillains in Hong Kong and a bunch of fancy editing techniques. Dakota Fanning playing drunk and carrying guns is very strange, even if you don't know the comic character she's otherwise exactly like that everyone had her down to play if they ever made that movie. The fact that it's set in Hong Kong is almost entirely beside the point, which is kinda cool for an American action-adventure movie.
The International being new out and all reviews pointing to a standout action sequence in the Guggenheim. And yes, it's really bloody cool, as a narrative development and as an action scene in itself. Worth an Orange Wednesdays trip on its own. Doesn't really fit with the grey palette, deliberate pace and Cold War thriller overtones of the rest of the film, though. I wonder if it was first or the rest of the film was, and who came up with what. And Clive Owen has a ringing in his ears
again. He should see a specialist.
I nearly ran
Push last year. I might go for
The International starting in September.
3 of 3 would be
Bolt. In 3D, even. Maybe next week.
Trailers:
Watchmen,
Wolverine,
Transformers 2,
The Boat That Rocked, Sundance-friendly documentary
American Teen, and
Lesbian Vampire Killers, which actually managed to look worse than it already did, not because it's immensely skeezy and doesn't seem funny, but because all the shots in the trailer seem to be closeups or medium shots and it looks like the whole film's shot like a TV sketch.
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