The cavalcade of shit begins with Vacancy, a suspense thriller with a bad premise and an annoying cast (since when was Ethan Embry still working?) Its unfortunately named Hungarian director, Nimród Antal, made a movie a few years ago called Kontroll that won some awards. Thank god he's in Hollywood making shit now! We can't let those foreigners (probably communist ones, too) compete with us. They must assimilate to our level of cinema.
The good news about Fracture is that Ryan Gosling is in it. The bad news is that it's supposed to be a "smart legal thriller" according to the Village Voice. Good review in the Voice notwithstanding, this is the kind of movie that is always around and I have zero interest in. Ryan Gosling is going to be an 100 more movies in the near future, so I'll wait until something less uninspiring comes out.
And: a movie I actually want to see. Is that I sign of the apocalypse? Although I didn't like Shaun of the Dead as much as I hoped to, Hot Fuzz looks better and funnier. And hopefully it will be. The producers are linked to all sorts of awesome British Comedy, the reviews are good, and I'm probably an idiot for having high expectations.
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Haha, Fracture is all about being a legal thriller. As in, the thrill comes from a legal technicality at the climax of the film. Why did I see it? I do not know.
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