things wot we learned from the 2013 summer movies
Have you been paying attention to what the movies have been saying — what the movies have really been saying — all summer? Here’s a refresher.
Mark Wahlberg
2 Guns review: buddy cops, slight of hand
Oddly took some advice not intended for movies: “Be specific but not memorable. Be funny but don’t make ’em laugh.”
Pain and Gain review: American nightmare
A bleak, bitter, wicked pleasure that holds up the underpinnings of modern America — self-help, Jesus, and violence — for ridicule.
2 Guns trailer: oops my partner in crime is a fed… and so am I
Can Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington work together without driving each other crazy, or shooting each other in the head? *cue Odd Couple theme*
Broken City (review)
I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that this script had been sitting around, unproduced, for 20 years, it’s that musty…
question of the day: Who would you like to see on a celebrity newscast?
Would George Clooney read the headlines while Jane Lynch did sports? Ryan Gosling on weather?
question of the day: What movie event of 2012 will have the biggest impact in years to come?
The rise of Seth MacFarlane as a movie player, with the phenomenal success of Ted? The arrival of 48fps? Disney’s purchase of Lucasfilm? Something else?
question of the day: If Mark Wahlberg can transform Transformers, what other actors could spice up other franchises?
Should we get Judi Dench into a Fast & Furious movie? Ian McKellen into Alvin & the Chipmunks? Marion Cotillard into a Hangover flick? How about a new Rush Hour movie starring Will Smith and Doona Bae?
Broken City (trailer)
Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe, together again for the first time!
Ted (review)
“I need a man, not a little boy with a teddy bear.” This is a shocking thing to hear in a piece of American pop culture in the early 21st century…
