Shoot 'Em up

[Sebastos]

Oh, you're not the only one man.

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

I wish I was the baby in that 2nd. picture

Me too...

 

[The Dark Defender]

In all honesty I am not one of those people who says you are missing the point of every movie you don't like that I do, but seriously dude...You seem to be clearly over looking the appeal of the movie

Paul G-man as a hitman, and you're response is yeah...right? thats the point its a zainy casting choice, he is supposed to bring humor to this role

it looks cheesy as hell, yeah, you're right it pretty much looks like the most obserd action ever, almost out of a loony tunes show or something, again that is part of the point of this movie.

if they wanted to make you're standard action movie, nether great actors like clive owen or paul giamatti would be in it, and it would have been called "War" but they are going for something a bit more off the wall, a bit more fun than you're normal movie

again, I'm not one of those people who always says you miss the point....but seriously I think you're missing the point completely



on a side note, is that Lance Henrikson in one of those pics?

Good points, iwas about to quote that same post and write avery simialar reply.

And no, that man was one of the bad guys from the beginning of A History of Violence, and the man that helps Gorga get a meeting with the council in 300; he sort of looks like Lance though.

This is going to be one of the most purely entertaining, and just plain coolest movies ever.

I can't ****ing wait.

I'd have to disagree about WAR though, I'm not a huge Statham fan, but Jet Li is great and I'm really looking forward to that one too.

 

[The Dark Defender]

I wish I was the baby in that 2nd. picture

What about the baby in this picture...

 

[Venomfan]

from what i've heard so far, this movie isnt as good as it looks. i read about some guys who were really looking forward to it, and thought that it ended up being crappy. hope they're wrong, cuz it looks fun

 

[Sebastos]

Question, what is Chris Jericho's role in this movie?

 

[The Dark Defender]

from what i've heard so far, this movie isnt as good as it looks. i read about some guys who were really looking forward to it, and thought that it ended up being crappy. hope they're wrong, cuz it looks fun

I've heard the precise opposite, almost every early fan and website review I've read was overwhelmingly posititive.

 

[The Dark Defender]

Question, what is Chris Jericho's role in this movie?

I think he's one of the guys that works for Giamatti.

I think the only people in the film for the most part are Clive, Monica, Giamatti and his goons, and the woman from the beginning that gives birth to the baby Giamatti is after.

 

[Venomfan]

I've heard the precise opposite, almost every early fan and website review I've read was overwhelmingly posititive.

good, crappy movies suck

 

[X-Punisher]

Looks like a great action movie. Don't really give a crap what the story is about.

 

[xwolverine2]

if you're in for the story then get out..lol

 

[블라스]

What about the baby in this picture...

 

[블라스]

First review, and it's a good one!
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http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33821

Hey Drew,

Caught a screening for SHOOT EM UP last night. I was totally surprised just how much i like it cause I heard a lot of hype and kind of wasn't feeling it. Consider me proved wrong. Here's my review and hope you're taking it easy man. Thanks!

SHOOT EM UP

This movie is bananas.

It's wicked violent, it's bad ass, it's kind of funny, it's out of control, it's not another snatch/lock stock rip-off, and it's a hard R, so basically it's everything that's been missing from action movies lately. I tip my hat to writer/director Michael Davis for putting together something that works far better than it really should. Going into it I was expecting something a bit more along the lines of Stephen Chow's KUNG FU HUSTLE, with more of an emphasis on the cartoony aspect (Note: I really liked Kung Fu Hustle). Fault the trailers or whatever on that misconception because it's surprisingly got some balls. We really get more of a straight forward action flick, that just happens to be very aware of it's loonier tendencies.

SHOOT EM UP lives and dies on the success of Davis's even tone. You can tell he's playing fast and loose with this film, but in comparison to something like the complete cluster**** of chaos that is TRANSFORMERS, he sets a very clear feel for the entire duration. It's admirable to see Davis launch full-throttle into value-eschewing (yet not amoral) territory and revel in his subject matter of gun porn, shotgun wounds, and fetishism while some how never making it feel too smarmy. I recommend seeing this one with a good crowd who will be up for this kind of thing, cause there are several stand up and cheering moments.
Obviously, a big part of SHOOT EM UP's success is due to Clive Owen. He plays it straight and the man is the consummate professional who has probably garnered more goodwill from me with one persona than any other actor I can think of. He does the guant male lead better than anyone today and with a more human sensibility (ssssssorry Christian Bale). In regards to Paul Giamatti, I was probably expecting too much but he's hardly a weak link or anything. Surprisingly, Monica Bellucci does more than play Monica Bellucci's breasts. While heavily featured, I bet many will overlook how her emotional seriousness lends the film a necessary weight.

Usually I don't mention director Q+A's in reviews cause it's something that you can't get in the movie so why bother? But the director directly accounted for my biggest complaint in the film. That complaint being that SHOOT EM UP features there are so many bad one liners that just aren't funny (it especially hurts Giamatti). I was really wondering why it couldn't have been done any better. Turns out, the director originally had very few of them in the picture, but it really messed up the tone. He said it came across much too serious, so he kept them in to maintain that crucial sense of levity. He said you could literally see the audience respond to it, no matter how stupid. So I give it a pass cause he was sacrificing for the sake of something I really loved about the film. Kudos I guess.

Also, there's a killer title card in this one. I love when that kind of thing is done well.

Enjoy!
J-Skell

 

[Sebastos]

Nice.

 

[xwolverine2]

cool cant wait!

 

[Green Goblin 1964]

Wow, great review I also can't wait to watch it!

 

[hammerhedd11]

What about the baby in this picture...

Sweet Jesus! Those are monsters!

 

[L0ngsh0t]

that is a sweet review

 

[블라스]

I seriously cannot wait for this movie.
It's the first movie I'm watching after I move to Canadaland in 3 weeks

 

[블라스]

Another GREAT review!

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/33848

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Massawyrm Calms Down The 13 Year Old In Him Long Enough To Talk About SHOOT 'EM UP!!

Hola all. Massawyrm here.

You know, there are some films that you dream of that there is just no possible way that they can ever live up to the dream in your head. There was a point, somewhere in the 90's, that I dreamed of this movie. We sat around, drunk off of a whole series of John Woo and Tsui Hark and Stephen Chow films – films starring unknown (to us) foreign gods like Jet Li and Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung and Chow Yun Fat – and we all said the same thing. If only we could get these guys over here we could make the best movies, like, ever. Man. For some reason, we always punctuated it with Man. It was the 90's. Man.

We all dreamed of the day, and we knew it was coming. 1997 baby! Communist China was going to take over Hong Kong and all of our unknown foreign gods would flood the American market with films so badass that it would take years for other Americans to even be able to process them. It was going to be glorious.

Let me spoil the end of the story for you. It didn't work out so well. We brought our new idols to our soil and it turned out to be some sort of talent Kryptonite. We teamed up brilliant directors with the "Muscles from Brussels" and their movies sucked. We put Jet Li in a ****ing Lethal Weapon movie. I don't even want to talk about what we did to Jackie Chan. It wasn't all bad, but it was never what we dreamt. But there was always that dream, that distant hope that an American director could make a film with that kind of action, with a level of violence that transcended language, transcended story, hell, transcended common sense, and became something so glorious to look at that you could barely lift popcorn to your mouth for fear you might miss a single moment of action.

Well, someone finally made that movie. And they called it Shoot 'Em Up.

The first thing you need to know going in is that, no, Shoot 'Em Up is not serious. Quite the contrary. Shoot 'Em Up is a comedy, a comedy written in the language of extreme, implausible violence. But instead of what we're accustomed in most of the parodies and comedies of this day and age, Shoot 'Em Up refuses to wink at the camera. It refuses to take a moment and say "You know this is a joke, right? We're only kidding and we know how silly this all is." It just plows along from set piece to set piece, each scene becoming more and more ridiculous than the scene before it, ramping up the action and humor with a cast that couldn't be more straight faced. And it wouldn't work otherwise. This movie wants to make you laugh, make you cheer, make you clap at just how over the top it gets. See that? See the top? Oh that's so far below where we're stopping. Just wait until we get to the next scene it seems to say with every break in the action. When there is a break, that is.

And there's not much of a plot to speak of. There's just enough background and story to get you from point A to point B without it being nonsensical. The action is linked together in a credible fashion, but it just exists in a different universe than you and I. A far off, very distant universe with completely different laws of physics. And it never takes itself too seriously nor apologizes for that fact. It just begins kicking ass within the first few minutes and then never stops.

The best way to describe it is as if you sat a thirteen-year-old down with a bowl of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream covered in Nestle Quik and pixie sticks, then let him wash it down with Jolt Cola and had him watch about a half-dozen John Woo movies. Then you asked him to write his own screenplay afterwards. THIS is the movie that kid would try to explain to his mother afterwards. MOM! MOM! LISTEN! First there's these guys and they like want to kill this baby and then this guy shows up and he's all like POW! POW! POW! And then he jumps out a window with the baby and he's shooting like everyone like a hundred times each and then the lactating hooker shows up and there's this part with an airplane and a helicopter, but that's after he sets up all the guns with strings on the triggers!"

That's Shoot 'Em Up. It is a completely insane amalgam of all the Hong Kong movies you've ever seen – except that it never blatantly steals from any of them. The influence is obvious. One look at this and you know that someone was high or drunk or buzzing to the gills with caffeine while watching Hard Boiled and wanted to know what it would be like if someone made a movie about just the baby sequence. But you never feel like you've seen it all before. Quite the contrary, this is a film made by someone who wanted to make a movie with everything he HADN'T seen on film before. This is a film made by someone who LOVES the material, and is making a comedy not to laugh at the genre, but rather to tell jokes with it. He knows the language of these films and speaks it fluently. And that's what's so funny about it.

This is not a serious action film. It's a seriously funny comedy for those folks who are just as fluent. This thing is a hell of a lot of fun and everything the trailer promises to be. If the trailer got your blood pumping and very interested in this, odds are you're gonna enjoy it, and for those it comes Highly Recommended. If however it just looked silly, stupid or just plain ******ed, this is Not Recommended for you. As much fun as this is, it's not going to make a convert out of anyone. It is very upfront about what it is and it never deviates from that. At all. Which is what you will either love or hate about it.

Until next time friends, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.

Massawyrm

 

[aaron]

That's one lucky f***ing baby!

 

[aaron]

And plus... that kid's one helluva player.. what?.. is he one?!.. And he's already feelin' up Monica friggin' Bellucci!?!?

That baby is a god among insects, I tell ya!

 

[TNC9852002]

I've seen a lot of people expressing anticipation over this movie at work. I can easily see this movie doing #1 opening weekend.

-TNC

 

[aaron]

Duuuude

I never expected you to look like that

 

[terry78]

Starring Monica Belluci's breasts. You'd think she's pushing them up in every scene via bras or something, but nope. Those mother****ers are just shaped like that.