The geriatric revenge picture Harry Brown opens in the UK today. BlackBook calls it Michael Caine's "Gran Torino moment." The Guardian declares, "What a tremendous role for Caine. I can't imagine anyone else carrying it off." Alex Balk says, "Oh, yes, please, bring it on." But then I'm a huge fan of the original Get Carter. The Samuel Goldwyn Company will distribute it here in the states, and ohmygodIamsothere.
Friday, November 13, 2009
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OMFG Michael Caine has scared the kack out of me since Dressed to Kill, and this looks awesome... He is the mack.
"Some men can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with."
"There are two kinds of people I can't stand. Those who are intolerant of other cultures, and the Dutch."
Nigel?
The Limey?
It starts off looking all Gran Torino but ends up more like Death Wish. I hope I'm wrong.
Hey, Alfie. Charlie Bronson cowd an ee wonts iz fahkin moowvee bak, innnih. Who am I kidding; I'll be in the theater for this one. Caine. Nuff said.
Shite; that's "innih" as in innit as in isn't it.
Actually an improvement, I think, innih!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgH6prJkLew
Brazos.
Was there another Get Carter? When will people learn?
What was one one generation's fears and martyrdom fantasies projected onscreen (Death Wish etc.) are now another's (This, Taken, Torino). This, as the previous ones, is basically a wank film for the Glenn Beck Fox News Lou Dobbs demographic of increasingly elderly whose tea party revolution happens in both their dreams and their colostomy bags. Hey, wait a minute, it's the SAME population's fantasy 30 years later!
An A-list version of John Cena's The Marine.
Save your righteous disdain for a film that looks crap. This is Michael Caine blowing away chavs for fucks sake. It has to be brilliant.
"Finally a film that really matters," says the Daily Mail. Or, basically, "Bloody Vigilantism Hope After 'Violent Young Poor People' Findings."
http://books.google.com/books?id=r-b3sJvXBj0C&pg=PA106
For a split second when I read the title I thought they were adding Michael Caine to the latest Harry Potter movie.
Michael Caine walks into Hogwarts and starts shooting child wizards?