Inside Llewyn Davis | Out of the Furnace | The Last Days On Mars
A few big releases as studios figure Catching Fire is vulnerable at this point, but are still going to tread cautiously by using movies that don't directly covet its demographic. It's also the rare week where I can find appeal in all 3.
Inside Llewyn Davis
At this point, you know if you like the Coen brothers or not. You've watched Fargo, or The Big Lebowski, or No Country for Old Men, and you've figured whether their style is to your liking. I actually think The Big Lebowski is overrated and Burn After Reading is underrated, but regardless, their style is so well-defined that you can watch a movie they haven't done, like Killing Them Softly, and detect a sort of homage to their work. This movie features a similarly uninteresting premise that I'm sure won't do it justice: a week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961., but I'll still be seeing it. Even if you're not a fan, this is another good shot for Justin Timberlake to do some respectable acting.
Best Case Scenario: Fargo, but less people die.
Worst Case Scenario: I'm as uninterested in this as I am in folk music, and I'm wishing more people died.
Out of the Furnace
Christian Bale as a blue-blood, hard-working family man who wants revenge for the death of his little brother? Woody Harrelson as a redneck member of a group of hillpeople who probably killed him? This sounds amazing, and the trailer makes it look Oscar-worthy. So why are the reviews coming in so middle-of-the-road? At a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing, that's a little alarming, but the talent involved is too great to not want to see it,
Best Case Scenario: Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson do their own Death Sentence.
Worst Case Scenario: Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson do their own Shooter.
The Last Days On Mars
Live Schreiber is coming home to the loving arms of sci-fi. Well after my favorite appearance of his in Sphere, he's doing a movie that sounds like it could evoke more than a few comparisons. A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars. The early reviews have been pretty brutal, but I'll probably still wind up seeing it, just out of curiosity.
Best Case Scenario: Sphere in Space!
Worst Case Scenario: a non-found-footage Apollo 18.
Inside Llewyn Davis
At this point, you know if you like the Coen brothers or not. You've watched Fargo, or The Big Lebowski, or No Country for Old Men, and you've figured whether their style is to your liking. I actually think The Big Lebowski is overrated and Burn After Reading is underrated, but regardless, their style is so well-defined that you can watch a movie they haven't done, like Killing Them Softly, and detect a sort of homage to their work. This movie features a similarly uninteresting premise that I'm sure won't do it justice: a week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961., but I'll still be seeing it. Even if you're not a fan, this is another good shot for Justin Timberlake to do some respectable acting.
Best Case Scenario: Fargo, but less people die.
Worst Case Scenario: I'm as uninterested in this as I am in folk music, and I'm wishing more people died.
Out of the Furnace
Christian Bale as a blue-blood, hard-working family man who wants revenge for the death of his little brother? Woody Harrelson as a redneck member of a group of hillpeople who probably killed him? This sounds amazing, and the trailer makes it look Oscar-worthy. So why are the reviews coming in so middle-of-the-road? At a 53% on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing, that's a little alarming, but the talent involved is too great to not want to see it,
Best Case Scenario: Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson do their own Death Sentence.
Worst Case Scenario: Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson do their own Shooter.
The Last Days On Mars
Live Schreiber is coming home to the loving arms of sci-fi. Well after my favorite appearance of his in Sphere, he's doing a movie that sounds like it could evoke more than a few comparisons. A group of astronaut explorers succumb one by one to a mysterious and terrifying force while collecting specimens on Mars. The early reviews have been pretty brutal, but I'll probably still wind up seeing it, just out of curiosity.
Best Case Scenario: Sphere in Space!
Worst Case Scenario: a non-found-footage Apollo 18.