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I gave in and saw the trailer. Good God, I was already interested. Now I'm there day one if there is such a thing as day one.
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The Grey (Joe Carnahan and Liam Neeson's A-Team Re-Team)
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Melchiah
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The idea reminds me of The Edge:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119051/
Enjoyed that one, so I'm keeping an eye for this one.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119051/
They also end up being
hunted by a bear.
Enjoyed that one, so I'm keeping an eye for this one.
Discotheque
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Zoramon089 said:
He is a good actor but please don't tell me he was of any substance in TDK.
beelzebozo
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AgentChris said:
the fuck is this shit. you watch A-TEAM until you like it.
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NotTheGuyYouKill
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This movie sounds cool. I'll check it out.
Hunted by aliens would have been cooler.
Discotheque
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you've been playing too many videogames son. Wolves are a huge threat in the wilderness, especially if you're already weakened enough by the elements.
it does sound pretty hilarious when you put it that way though.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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I love that movie.
AgentOtaku
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Since I used to live there, I always get a kick out of films that take place in Alaska. Why? because the majority of the time, they aren't actually filmed there.
Like this one, lol
Looks rad though!
Like this one, lol
Looks rad though!
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WascallyWabbit
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SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
I can't believe the majority of the film seems to be people fighting wolves. So awesome.
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Screened at BNAT:
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sazabirules
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How does a wolf become rogue?
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@Massawyrm:
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Oh boy, this film is not much like the trailer at all. I mean that in a good way, personally. I expect general audiences will be pissed.
YESSSS.
<3 Liam. I was going to see it just because of him but if you enjoyed it then all the better. I usually tend to agree with your opinions on films.
TheKaeptain
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This movie is going to be awesome. Can't wait.
cutmeamango
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Dave Salmoni will be walking out of the theater. Goddamn wolves don't act that way.
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I didn't love it (repetitive and thin characters), but some great setpieces and Carnahan really nailed the atmosphere on the head. The cinematography and sound design is incredible. I really liked how it is totally not like Taken with wolves, much more of a bleak as hell survival story.
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Oh man, if this is everyone's sole reason for seeing the movie I can't wait to see the reaction.
Nappuccino
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Anton Sugar
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Expendable.
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That is correct.
FYI: There is a scene after the credits.
But it still doesn't show any wolves vs. Neeson. It is a great fuck you to the audience.
Nappuccino
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Holy shit. Low blow.
Although the idea of him fighting off wolves is completely and utterly absurd... so I guess that isn't too surprising. is the mini vodka bottles bit even used at all?
Expendable.
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MASSIVE SPOILERS:
He preps the mini vodka bottles, etc...faces the wolf...lunges at him and then it cuts to black.
Nappuccino
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Huh... well that isn't as bad as it could have been. At least that bit is in there unlike some other trailers that show what isn't even in the movie.
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petethepanda
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What happens after the credits? I had stuff to go to after the movie so I bailed during the credits, didn't hear ahead of time that it had a stinger. Can't seem to find an actual description of it anywhere.
it's good that my interest in videogames prevents me from reading everything about movies and watching trailers because I have no time for this. May be that's why I'm so pleasantly surprised with most movies I watch.
T.M. MacReady
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A-Team hate can only be from skeptics who haven't seen it or pessimists who cant enjoy a fun movie. Brilliant, silly action and perfectly cast.
As for The Grey, I'm in.
As for The Grey, I'm in.
Yes.
sixteen-bit
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That woman with the Drive lawsuit to have another target?
A-Team is awesome.
This movie seems great too & I'm glad it's not entirely as it appears in the trailer.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
AO Scott went balls out nuts in his review:
That sounds like some shit I gotta watch.
http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/movies/liam-neeson-in-joe-carnahans-thriller-the-grey.html?hpw“The Grey” continues what has become a welcome seasonal movie tradition. For the past three winters, just when the Oscar nominees you’ve missed are trying to dazzle and guilt-trip you with visions of Importance, a lean and angry Liam Neeson shows up at the multiplex, out for righteous payback or at least the paycheck that no one would dare begrudge him. Buy a ticket, punk! Having paid his quality biopic dues as Oskar Schindler, Michael Collins and Alfred Kinsey, Mr. Neeson has, at least for now, turned to the rougher and perhaps more lucrative work of action heroism. It takes nothing away from his earlier achievements to note that he’s really good at it. He conveys a ferocious and absolute seriousness even when the going gets silly, and he finds the soul in each new angry-everyman cipher he is asked to play.
In “Taken” and “Unknown,” he explored the genre in its fast-moving, super-twisty cosmopolitan thriller mode. Those were glib entertainments improved by their star’s natural gravity. “The Grey,” directed by Joe Carnahan from a script he wrote with Ian Mackenzie Jeffers (based on Mr. Jeffers’s story “Ghost Walker”, is something else entirely: a stripped-down, elemental tale of survival in brutal circumstances, as blunt and effective — and also, at times, as lyrical — as a tale by Jack London or Ernest Hemingway. It’s a fine, tough little movie, technically assured and brutally efficient, with a simple story that ventures into some profound existential territory without making a big fuss about it.
The geographical territory the film stakes out is a bleak, frozen and harshly beautiful corner of Alaska, where Mr. Neeson and a bunch of other excellent actors are stranded after surviving a plane crash. Mr. Neeson’s character, Ottway, is part of a tribe of brawlers, drinkers and lost souls who work in the Arctic oil fields. His job is to roam the tundra with a high-powered rifle, “a salaried killer for a petroleum company,” picking off the predatory animals that menace the other workers. Ottway doesn’t say much, and we know nothing of his background other than that he once had a wife (played in flashbacks by Anne Openshaw). His melancholy voice-over narration early on is a letter to her.
The sentiments he expresses there hint at a core of tenderness behind his gruff, hangdog demeanor. It is clear that he is a man of violence with a keen, ruthless survival instinct, but also that he harbors deep reservoirs of sorrow and compassion. Shortly after the crash, tending to a badly injured passenger who clearly won’t make it, he eases the man’s passing with breathtaking gentleness.
That is not a phrase you would ordinarily associate with Mr. Carnahan, whose directing résumé includes exquisite delicacies like “Smokin’ Aces” and “The A-Team.” The sadistic, macho bluster of those movies seemed, at best, a gesture of mock rebellion, something to make football fans and beer drinkers feel like warriors. Such extreme, noisy fantasies of embattled pseudo-manhood might work as parody if they showed any genuine wit.
But “The Grey” unfolds in a mood of grim earnestness and is grounded in an idea of masculinity under duress that is no less authentic for being thoroughly sentimental. The survivors are all guys, every one possessing his own special blend of insecurity, bravado, courage and stupidity. They are bundled up in parkas, their faces obscured by stubble, snow and blood, so their personalities emerge through action and interaction.
Some live, some die, and rather than divulge their fates, I’ll list the names of the hardy souls who trudge off into the woods with Ottway: Burke (Nonso Anozie), Henrick (Dallas Roberts), Talget (Dermot Mulroney) and Diaz (Frank Grillo). One is a cynical ex-con, another a God-fearing father, but Mr. Carnahan doesn’t overplay their differences or push the actors — all excellent — toward caricature. He respects their individuality and the specific life-or-death predicament each must face.
Pursued by wolves, the men start to replicate the pack behavior of their predators. At one point, just out of sight, they hear howls and yelps that Ottway explains are the sounds of the alpha putting down a challenge to its authority. A few minutes later he does the same thing, dealing with someone foolish enough to question his wisdom and instincts.
Not that Ottway is in control of the situation. It is hard, in this cozy, wired-up, GPS world, to imagine circumstances in which human beings would be so completely at the mercy of nature, but Mr. Carnahan constructs a persuasive picture of primal danger. The wolves (designed by Greg Nicotero and Howard Berger) are an unremittingly, unromantically hostile presence, in part because the world into which Ottway and the others have tumbled belongs so completely to them. Their imperative is to hunt, eat and finally destroy the intruders, and every other natural force, from gravity to the weather to blind chance, seems to be on their side.
Which means that much of “The Grey” is devoted to the practical details of problem-solving: building fires, improvising weapons, securing food, keeping watch. Such details are the building blocks of suspense and also the scaffolding for the big themes that hover in the wintry air.
Action movies, including Mr. Carnahan’s earlier films, often turn death into sport, numbing pain, fear and desolation with the visceral rush of violence. “The Grey,” meticulous in its choreography of fight and flight, and questionable in its depiction of wolf behavior, is notable for the thoughtfulness and sensitivity with which it addresses the thorny ethical and metaphysical matters of mortality. It takes death seriously, and partly as a consequence, every moment, every frame, feels alive.
“The Grey” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). Nature red in tooth and claw; men cursing a blue streak.
That sounds like some shit I gotta watch.
sazabirules
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This movie was great. I didn't think I'd enjoy it very much.
vitaminwateryum
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I wasn't aware Carnahan directed A-Team. Need to see this, and A-Team.
Nappuccino
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That is one hell of a review
MrToughPants
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WTF is a vicious pack of rogue wolves...
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