Saturday, December 10, 2011

MIX PACK FROM HOLLYWOOD-WEEKLY MOVIE GUIDE (what to watch and what to miss in Cinema)


MACHINE GUN PREACHER    (inspiring story line,not so inspiring execution)
Genre                  Action/Crime
Release Date       9th December
Director               Marc Foster
Duration              123 minutes
Cast                    Gerard Butler,Michelle Monaghan,Michael Shannon
Pluses                 Intense and effective real life story,lead cast performs good enough,direction is top notch
Minuses              Screenplay is third rate,Butler is good but never rises above his own persona into such a complex multi shade character
Verdict               2.5/5 (watch it for inspiring story based on life of Sam Childers)
Box Office Predictions 2 cr nett lifetime in India
Did you know     Sam Childers, a hard-drinking, drug-abusing biker thug from Minnesota who ‘got religion’ in the late 1990s and flew out to East Africa on a charity mission. While there, he became an unsettling mix of aid worker and vigilante: half on fire for Jesus, half setting bad guys on fire for Jesus.
NEW YEAR'S EVE   (avoid it)
Genre                  Comedy/Romance
Release Date       9th December
Director               Garry Marshall
Duration              118 minutes
Cast                    Sarah Jessica Parker,Jessica Biel,Ashton Kutcher,Robert De Niro,Halle Berry,Hillary Swank,Jon Bon Jovi
Pluses                  Huge star cast
Minuses              Pathetic stories (there are 9 sub plots),direction is amazingly bad,actors are sleepwalking
Verdict               1/5 (watch it if you had not suffered through this director's last release 'Valentine's Day' )
Box Office Predictions 2.5 cr nett lifetime in India
LARGO WINCH 2-THE BURMA CONSPIRACY   (headache guaranteed)
Genre                  Action/Adventure/Thriller
Release Date       9th December
Director               Jerome Salle
Duration              119 minutes
Cast                    Tomer Sisley,Sharon Stone,Ulrich Tukur
Pluses                  Performances are top notch from Tomer and Stone
Minuses              Direction and writing is unintentional funny and stupid,holes in screenplay (no guards in ICC in night-kidding me!),action looks fake
Verdict               1.5/5 (watch it if you end up watching silly action movies anyways )
Box Office Predictions 1.5 cr nett lifetime in India

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