Well, I really don’t like being so negative but… Here we are. This weekend gives us a couple of middling studio movies (which I haven’t seen yet, but one I will be reviewing soon). At least there’s some independent fare, including a last-minute theatrical run for one of the Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. So there’s that.<\/p>\n
The biggest movie opening this weekend, or at least the most incessantly promoted during late night television, is the Farrelly Brothers’ ‘Hall Pass<\/strong>‘. It’s a high concept comedy about a doofus (played by Owen Wilson, who used to be a real actor) who is given a “hall pass” from his wife (Jenna Fischer) \u2013 a week off from being married. So he joins forces with his horndog best friend (Jason Sudeikis, who used to date January Jones \u2013 no, I don’t know why this is important) to try to score a bunch of chicks. Conceptually, this really rubs me the wrong way, particularly the idea of marriage being a prison that is SUCH A BUMMER, DUDE. It’s generally pretty offensive. That said, the movie does hold a certain amount of intrigue. The supporting cast includes Ricky Gervais’ writing partner\/BFF Stephan Merchant and Richard Jenkins, who looks like he plays some kind of ladies’ man mentor to the two dumb-asses. <\/p>\n I’ve heard from a friend of mine that it’s absolutely awful, which isn’t outside of the realm of possibility. The Farrelly brothers haven’t had the best track record of late. (‘The Heartbreak Kid<\/a>‘, anyone?) But I sort of think that ‘Stuck on You’ is underrated. What? Who said that?<\/p>\n Moving on…<\/p>\n The other biggish movie is ‘Drive Angry<\/strong>‘, which the trailers assure us was “Filmed in 3D.”<\/em> (As opposed to being hastily converted after-the-fact a la ‘The Last Airbender<\/a>‘ or ‘Clash of the Titans<\/a>‘.) ‘Drive Angry’ looks like absolute trash. With that said, it looks like incredibly entertaining trash. Nic Cage (that bastion of good taste) plays a guy who breaks out of hell to save his baby daughter from the claws of some evil so-and-so (Billy Burke). Keep in mind that William Fichtner, erstwhile character actor, plays “The Accountant,” a Satanic agent. Super hot lesbian Amber Heard plays a Southern belle femme fatale. I mean, this has “F-U-N” written all over it. Hopefully it’ll be the kind of guilty pleasure kick that ‘Piranha 3D<\/a>‘ also projected, all over the audience’s collective face.<\/p>\n On the indie side of things, we have ‘Heartbeats<\/strong>‘, a French-Canadian movie (zzzzz) and ‘Of Gods and Men<\/strong>‘, which played last year’s New York Film Festival (missed it) and is nominated for this year’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (missed all my subsequent screenings). It’s about monks. Yes, I know what you’re thinking: CROWD PLEASER!!!<\/p>\n Well, there’s some cool stuff coming out next week. I promise!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I really don’t like being so negative but… Here we are. This weekend gives us a couple of middling studio movies (which I haven’t seen yet, but one I will be reviewing soon). At least there’s some independent fare, including a last-minute theatrical run for one of the Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,743],"tags":[198,2383,2285,2382,2379,2407,2381,2415,791,2406,2380,134,2384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12112"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12285,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12112\/revisions\/12285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}