BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
(FOUR) R.I.P.D.
This looks really cook. A young cop is murdered and finds himself still on the job in the afterlife as he joins a team of undead officers. What do they call their team? The “Rest In Peace Department”, hence “R.I.P.D.”. All right. This is what they call a “high concept movie” so sometimes they’re hit or miss. The cast is cool. The young cop is Ryan Reynolds and the rest of the cast is made up of Jeff Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Mary-Louise Parker, Robert Kneeper, Mike O’Malley, and what looks like a lot of other solid talents. I’m confident this movie will at least be fun, if not awesome.
(THREE) THE WOLVERINE
I didn’t hate Wolverine Origins. A lot of people seemed to have a problem with the movie, but I’m not a comic reader so it was fine with me. Nothing was tainted for me. I got to see Wolverine take form and get an interesting and action packed back story. Hugh Jackman returns as Logan, it’s mostly set abroad in Japan, and it’s set AFTER X-Men: The Last Stand. So Wolverine is having a hard time and goes and fights lethal samurais. I’m cool with that. I don’t expect to be blown away, but I’ve invested this much time into this franchise. I might as well keep going.
(TWO) KICK-ASS 2
Kick-Ass 2 might end up being the best movie of the summer. I really enjoyed the first one. A lot of people caught on after the fact, but it’s a really great action movie. It’s not too cheesy or lame like some superhero movies and it’s funny, but not stupid. It had a great story, a great tone set in place, awesome casting, and plenty more roads to travel. This time out, Kick-Ass inspires a whole slew of others to become masked heroes. This gives us Jim Carrey, Donald Faison, Clark Duke, and others all putting on costumes and fighting bad guys. The stuff we’ve seen with Jim Carrey looks to be awesome. Of course Kick-Ass is back as well as the other surviving characters. You need to have THREE names in order to be a star in this franchise. Aaron Taylor-Johnson takes the lead and is awesome in the role. We also get Christopher Mintz-Plasse in the evil villain role. Best of all Hit-Girl returns and we get to see Chloe Grace Moretz say the word “cocksucker”. What more do you need?
(ONE) WORLD WAR Z
Zombies are all the craze these days. A few years ago I remember there being tons of hoopla over getting the movie rights to the book of this movie. Brad Pitt won. This is supposed to be an epic zombie story. A lot of B-movies will go with the zombie route, but it’s rare to see it in a big mainstream movie. The last I can really remember was probably “I Am Legend”. When time and craft is put into a zombie movie, it can be great. That’s what I’m hoping for here. No big expectations or anything. I just want a great movie. That’s not too much to ask, is it?
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