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The Longest Yard
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Up in the Air (2009)
"Please, for the love of God, can I fire the next one."
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2013)
While I didn't enjoy this film, that doesn't mean you won't. No matter what I say, the people involved in this project did it: they actually made a movie. That's something to be applauded. With that established...
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning is a vile, sadistic film where gore replaces potential scares. It’s predictable, poorly written and doesn't show anything worth seeing, even to those who liked the 2003 film it serves as a prequel to.
Set four years before the events of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (remake), the hulking Thomas Hewitt (Andrew Bryniarski) is working at a slaughterhouse. When the health department orders its closure, the people surrounding it pack up their things and leave - all except for Luda Mae (Marietta Marich), Uncle Monty (Terrence Evans), and Charlie Hewitt (R. Lee Ermey), who are determined to stay. If cannibalism is the only way to survive, then so be it. We witness the origin of “Leatherface” as brothers Eric (Matt Bomer) and Dean (Taylor Handley), along with their girlfriends Chrissie (Jordana Brewster) and Bailey (Diora Baird) pass through the town.
This is one of the most prequel-y prequels I’ve ever seen. We learn how the Hewitts developed their taste for human flesh, why Uncle Monty is in a wheelchair, how R. Lee Ermey’s character became the sheriff and why he has dentures, who Leatherface's mother was, where he was born, we witness his first murder, find out why he makes masks, and more. If there was a detail from the 2003 remake you never wondered about, it receives an origin story. We see cows in fields surrounding the town, which means the Hoyt’s would rather eat people than hamburgers? So what if it makes no sense?
The Beginning is also one of the most by-the-numbers, clichéd horror movies you’ve ever seen. The characters are simply there to get chopped up and have no personalities beyond what is required for you to remember who is still alive and who is now dead. You don’t care about anyone, and I mean ANYONE at all, making this an extremely dull experience. All it’s essentially doing is interrupting the prequel moments with the same beats we’ve seen in every single Texas Chainsaw movie since the original sequel in 1986.
General incompetence oozes from every frame of this film by Jonathan Liebesman (Darkness Falls, Battle: Los Angeles). The suspense is nonexistent and since we couldn’t care less about who lives or who dies, there aren't any scares either. You’ll want to close your eyes often though, as the film lingers on the gore constantly. I know “massacre” is in the title but did we need to see a human being vivisected while still alive? It might be disturbing but scary? No. How could anyone care when we already know none of these people will make it out alive - this would contradict the events of the other film. This means the picture is free to indulge in tropes we thought we’d left behind years ago such as “the killer is hiding in the back seat”!
Say what you will about the decline in quality the Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th series saw, but some of the follow-ups were actually good or could be enjoyed ironically. Average out the rating these Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies have been receiving. That's a scary thought. This may be the worst-faring slasher franchise out there. Wish me luck as we proceed with the rest. (Unrated version on DVD, February 15, 2019)
Some animals were meant to carry each other, to live symbiotically for a lifetime - star crossed lovers, monogamous swans. We are not those animals. The slower we move, the faster we die. We are not swans. We are sharks.
Ryan Bingham, Up in the Air
The film X-Men First Class was originally going to be a prequel about Magneto. Screenwriter Sheldon Turner (first picture) wrote a treatment which he described as “X-Men meets The Pianist (2002)”: the story focused on Magneto’s early years as a prisoner of war in a Nazi concentration camp, until liberation by a squad of Allied Forces led by Charles Xavier. They later meet after the war and become friends, and later become rivals. The studio decided to change the film’s direction to the early years of the X-Men, but still put aspects of Turner’s script into the film.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
"I've been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again."
La película de Days Gone se encuentra en desarrollo
La #película de #DaysGone se encuentra en desarrollo - #BendStudio #Sony #videojuegos #elmundotech
Según Deadline, Sony PlayStation Productions continúa convirtiendo algunas de sus franquicias de juegos en películas con una película de Days Gone en desarrollo. El artículo de Deadline dice que la película será producida por Jennifer Klein y Sheldon Turner (en representación de PlayStation Productions). Asad Qizilbash y Carter Swan producirán la película en representación de PlayStation…
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Fox, whose upcoming drama Shots Fired deals with police shootings, is taking on another hot-button and timely topic: college rape. The network has given a put pilot commitment to Controversy, an in…
Fox, whose upcoming drama Shots Fired deals with police shootings, is taking on another hot-button and timely topic: college rape. The network has given a put pilot commitment to Controversy, an investigative thriller drama from Up in the Air and X-Men: First Class co-writer Sheldon Turner, Scandal co-executive producer Judy Smith and This Is Us directors/exec producers John Requa & Glenn Ficarra. The project hails from Turner and Jennifer Klein’s Vendetta Productions. 20th Century Fox TV, where Vendetta and Requa & Ficarra are under deals, is the studio.
Written by Turner, Controversy centers on a successful crisis-management consultant brought in to advise a university when a co-ed accuses football players of gang-raping her. Facing a crisis of conscience, she partners with a lawyer for the university to seek out the truth.
Smith, who was the inspiration for the lead character in Shonda Rhimes’ Scandal, is a real-life top crisis-management consultant who has worked with a number of high-profile clients, including universities. She executive produces Controversy alongside Turner & Klein via Vendetta and Requa, Ficarra & Charlie Gogolak via Zaftig Films.
