Jarhead (2005) - Mendes flops with frustration-themed Marine drama

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A young soldier with no uniform on his top half marvels at a barren oilfield in a foreign land on this poster for Sam Mendes' Jarhead

A young US marine gets deployed to First Gulf War (1990), against his own ill and without much understanding of the situation. 

Jarhead is written by William Broyles Jr. (Apollo 13 (1995)), adapting the same-titled 2003 autobiographical book by Anthony Swofford (Exit (2007)), and directed by English master filmmaker Sam Mendes (American Beauty (1999)), whose 3rd feature it is. The title is a Marine slang term for themselves.

Definitely not a typical war genre movie, Jarhead is a kind of study of the anticlimax of war and frustrations that war - and life in general - entail.

Jake Gyllenhaal (Wildlife (2018)) very skillfully portrays the young protagonist marine. The images of the Iraqi desert are handsome, (cinematographer Roger Deakins (A Serious Man (2009))), and the film is underlain with music typical of its period. SPOILER The film revolves around the almost poetical dilemma that the young men think they get sent to war, but instead they wait around for 175 days in 45 degrees heat, before the war ends and they get to return home without having fired a single shot. The lack of plot is still somehow remarkable in Jarhead.

 

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1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess
American Beauty (1999) or, Escape by Death

Watch a TV spot for the film here

Cost: 72 mil. $

Box office: 97 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.34 times its cost)

[Jarhead premiered 27 October (Hollywood) and runs 123 minutes. Gyllenhaal was paid 3 mil. $ for his performance in the film. Shooting took place from December 2004 - ? in Arizona, New Mexico, California and in Mexico. The film opened #2, behind Chicken Little, to a 27.7 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent one more weekend in the top 5 (#5), grossing 62.6 mil. $ (64.5 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 9.5 mil. $ (9.8 %) and Germany with 4.7 mil. $ (4.8 %). Roger Ebert gave it a 3.5/4 star review, translating to a notch over this one. Mendes returned with Revolutionary Road (2008). Gyllenhaal returned in Zodiac (2007). Jarhead is fresh at 53% at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Jarhead?

Any Given Sunday (1999) - Stone's bloated sports epic is mostly for football fans

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+ Best Actor's Breakthrough of the Year: Jamie Foxx

 

Al Pacino's screaming, massive face among the faces of his co-stars in a background of dark-toned American football imagery makes up this poster for Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday

The Miami Sharks' football team are under scrutiny during a dramatic season: The passionate coach, the owner, the city rulers, the quarterback star, the injuries, the fights ...

 

Any Given Sunday is written by John Logan (Hugo (2011)) and great New-Yorker co-writer/director Oliver Stone (Seizure (1974)), with Daniel Pyne (The Hard Way (1991)) contributing story elements.

It is a an enormously turgid, macho football movie with more shower scenes than many other sports pictures put together, - but it might also be an accurate portrayal of NFL football. It gets near to parodying itself as a sports epic, where the sprawling, character-focused, plot-less structure gives an eclectic experience of the football culture, where a game can feel like a life or death event, more important than anything else in the world.

The film has big, mannered performances (Al Pacino (Bobby Deerfield (1977)) goes berserk); a sexy and well-acting new star (Jamie Foxx (The Great White Hype (1996))); and Stone's cinematic grip on techniques and pizazz, which lifts Any Given Sunday a knee cap over strict banality. 

 

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1999 in films and TV-series - according to Film Excess 

Born on the Fourth of July (1989) or, Beautiful Struggle 

 

 

Watch a trailer for the film here

 

Cost: 55 mil. $

Box office: 100.2 mil. $

= Big flop (returned 1.82 times its cost)

[Any Given Sunday premiered 16 December (California) and runs 162 minutes with a director's cut running 156 minutes. Stone went through several writers and books in the course of developing and refining the script. Cameron Diaz (Knight and Day (2010)) was paid 500k $ for her performance in the film. Shooting took place from January - April 1999 in Texas, including Dallas, and in Miami, Florida. The film opened #1 to a 13.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it remained in the top 5 for another 2 weekends (#5-#4) and grossed 75.5 mil. $ ( 75.3 % of the total gross). Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to 2 notches over this one. Stone returned with Commandante (2003, documentary), America Undercover (2003-04, documentary) and theatrically with Alexander (2004). Pacino returned in Chinese Coffee (2000); Foxx in Bait (2000); and Diaz in Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her (2000). Any Given Sunday is rotten at 52 % with a 5.60/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

 

What do you think of Any Given Sunday? 

Law Abiding Citizen (2009) - Gray and stars are in trouble with this jumbled revenge thriller

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+ Worst Poster of the Year

The two male stars are pitched against some murky, grey plumes of debris on this sullen poster for F. Gary Gray's Law Abiding Citizen

A family father's family gets murdered by home invaders, but one of the culprits is released from jail due to legal circumstances. The man for several years plans a bizarre revenge for this systemic error.

Law Abiding Citizen is written by Kurt Wimmer (The Recruit (2003)) and directed by great New-Yorker filmmaker F. Gary Gray (Friday (1995)).
The plot is a hodgepodge, which starts out alright but is later completely lost, as I began wondering what all the good forces involved here are doing in this mess.
- None of the extremely violent revenge murders carried out by Gerard Butler's (The Phantom of the Opera (2004)) vigilante father here are justifiable, and yet they lead to genuine reflection for the legal world as it is portrayed here. Law Abiding Citizen suffers from this type of completely derailed, poorly rationalized logic. It is a morally objectionable botch job.

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Butler gives an interview about the film here

Cost: 53 mil. $
Box office: 126.6 mil. $
= Minor flop (returned 2.38 times the cost)
[Law Abiding Citizen premiered 23 September (Urbanworld Film Festival, New York) and runs 118 minutes. The roles were originally intended to be reversed with Butler playing the attorney and Jamie Foxx (Valentine's Day (2010)) playing the vigilante dad, and Frank Darabont was hired to direct but left over 'script differences' in what was termed an 'ugly' parting. Shooting took place in Pennsylvania, including Philadelphia, from August 2008 - January 2009. The film opened #2, behind Where the Wild Things Are, to a 21 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it spent another 2 weeks in the top 5 (#4, #3) and grossed solid 73.3 mil. $ (57.9 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were the UK with 9.8 mil. $ (7.7 %) and Italy with 6.5 mil. $ (5.1 %). Roger Ebert gave the film a 3/4 star review, translating to two notches higher than this one. Gray returned with the great Straight Outta Compton (2015). Butler returned in The Bounty Hunter (2010), Foxx in Valentine's Day (2010). Law Abiding Citizen is rotten at 26% with a 4.3/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Law Abiding Citizen?

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014) - Webb's Spidey sequel squanders time and money in boring blind alleys

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The two male stars of Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man 2 stand amazingly close in the rain before a giant phallus on a poster that promises to end a time of secrets - but please don't get your hopes up

Peter Parker fights bad memories and a new Russian criminal in New York, when engineer Matt Dillon suffers a freak accident that turns him into super-villain Electro!

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is the sequel to The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). It is written by Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek Into Darkness 2013)), Roberto Orci (Star Trek Beyond (2016)) and Jeff Pinkner (The Beast (2001), TV-series), with James Vanderbilt (Zodiac (2007)) contributing story elements, and directed by returning great filmmaker Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer (2009)).
The film has some action sequences that look expensive (and truly were), but they most often make one think of computer games, and they made me want to play that game much more than watch the film.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 clearly wants to appeal to young teenagers, and Webb makes a puppy-eyed Andrew Garfield (Hacksaw Ridge (2016)) and Emma Stone (Gangster Squad (2013)) play well below their actual ages. The chemistry between them is slight, and it is in stern contrast to Garfield's scenes with Dane DeHaan (Two Lovers and a Bear (2016)), who plays Parker's childhood friend Harry Osborn here. They lend their scenes together an erotic magnetism, SPOILER until DeHaan becomes the ghastly-looking Green Goblin. Sally Field (Lincoln (2012)) is tiring as aunt May in several scenes in which the only thing on her mind seems to be Spidey's dirty underwear. Sexy Jamie Foxx (Ali (2001)) is made to look unattractive as the engineer, - an ambition that's hard for me to accept, - and the super-villain he turns into is a poor and incomprehensible heavy. Finally Paul Giamatti (Sideways (2004)) is slightly agonizing as the film's third bad guy, the screaming simpleton Rhino.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffers from a messy structure, incoherent plotting and being just plain boring.

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The Amazing Spiderman (2012) or, The New and Unimproved Spidey
(500) Days of Summer (2009) or, Cute & Cuter

Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: Estimated 200 mil. $ - possibly as high as 293 mil. $
Box office: 708.9 mil. $
= Some uncertainty, but likely a minor flop (and a big flop if also figuring in the colossal marketing budget)
[The Amazing Spider-Man 2 premiered 10 April (London) and runs 142 minutes. Filming took place from February - June 2013 in New York and California. Shailene Woodley shot scenes as Mary Jane Watson, but these were scrapped by Webb, who wanted to focus on Peter's relationship with Gwen Stacy. The Times Square action scene in the film was incredibly tedious to make, with computer designers working a full year to complete it. The film was shot on 35 mm film and converted to 3D in post production. The marketing budget was reportedly 180-190 mil. $, which would put the film's success point at around 1 bil. $, if the budget was indeed the enormous, reported 293 mil. $. The film opened #1 to a 91.6 mil. $ first weekend in North America, almost 30 mil. $ higher than the first film. It stayed in the top 5 for 3 more weeks (#2-#3-#5) and grossed 202.8 mil. $ (28.6 % of the total gross) domestically. The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets were China with 94.4 mil. $ (13.3 %) and the UK with 40.4 mil. $ (5.7 %). The 2014 North-Korean hack on Sony Entertainment revealed in leaked e-mails that Sony had courted Sam Raimi to return for a new trilogy of Spider-Man films. Plans for a 3rd and 4th film were scrapped following the disappointing performance of the film, and the Spider-Man film rights befell Marvel exclusively after negotiations, with a new Spider-Man seeing the world in Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017). The Amazing Spider-Man 2 is rotten at 52 % with a 5.8/10 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of The Amazing Spider-Man 2?

Baby Driver (2017) - Wright's coky Elgort love letter is mostly for excited teens

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A stylized and cool-to-look-at poster for Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, - but don't the speed stripes in front of the red car indicate that it's speeding backwards, and soon right into at least two other cars? - What's going on?

Baby is a uniquely skilled driver, who is driving for a serious crime kingpin to work off his debt, as he falls for a young waitress and comes to realize that his chances of leaving the criminal path he is on might be very small.

Baby Driver is a hip and happening film this summer according to many critics and audiences, (though their number isn't up there with the tentpole monsters it competes against.) It is written and directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead (2004)). As a fan of good heist, car and action movies, I enjoyed some of the car chases in the film, especially one after a heist in which an incensed army veteran takes after the criminals and tries to stop them. The action and chases are well-done, though with no chance of going down in cinema history as something extraordinary.
Through the film, - which to me seems youth-eschewed to the point where I'd label it a youth movie (besides a romance, action, heist and car movie), - I felt strongly that Wright must have been on drugs while doing it, likely cocaine. The exhaustive pace, shallow playfulness and incredible love the film seems to have for itself throughout, coupled with its technical astuteness, were what made me jump to this personal conclusion, (I have no way of knowing if it's in any way true.)
The film revolves around Ansel Elgort (The Fault in Our Stars (2014)), whom Wright and his camera seems positively infatuated with. Elgort does fine, I think; I just felt too old to really get into this fantasy, where someone who mostly looks like an average teenager is a key player for a band of hardened criminals. I might have swallowed it whole, if I were one myself, but what exactly is supposed to be the attraction in this for adults? Perhaps Wright knows something I don't see; or perhaps he is just a teenager at heart still, and I am not. Elgort falls for Lily James (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)), who is pretty but fast forgotten here in a movie romance that recalls countless past movie romances in a pretty self-satisfied, referential style and is very neat and didn't succeed in raising my heartbeat for even a second.
Jon Hamm (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)), Jamie Foxx (Stealth (2005)) and Kevin Spacey (Shrink (2009)) are all excellently cast heavies here, but they function mostly as adult eye candy in a universe so stylized and far off that unless the very combination of them here in this dazzles you, or you're an enthusiastic younger movie lover (aged 12 - 19), it may feel like a distant revisitation of the Quentin Tarantino-ruled 1990s school of filmmaking.
The film is hailed for its artist-filled soundtrack, just as Tarantino's works often, and in some cases rightly, have been and are, but it isn't all that it's cranked up to be, and many of the songs are only dropped very briefly in the rushed narrative.
Baby Driver is a gimmicky ride from a talented filmmaker who seems intent on his own juvenile fixations (and might be doing tons of coke.) Maybe it will be more for you than it was for me.

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Watch a trailer for the film here

Cost: 34 mil. $
Box office: 70.8 mil. $ and counting
= Too early to say
[Baby Driver premiered 11 March (SXSW Film Festival, Austin, Texas) and runs 113 minutes. Wright conceived the idea for the film in 1994, when he was 20 years old (!), and managed to get backing for this 20-year-old dream after leaving directing Ant-Man (2015), - which was then directed by Peyton Reed. Michael Douglas and Emma Stone were in talks for parts eventually filled by others. Filming took place in New Orleans, Louisiana and in Georgia, including in Atlanta from February - May 2016. The film opened #2, behind fellow new release Despicable Me 3, to a 20.5 mil. $ first weekend in North America, where it has now in its second week fallen to #3 and already grossed 56.8 mil. $. It will open in several large foreign markets from now until September and is likely to gross way past 100 mil. $, perhaps ending as high as 150. A sequel is already proposed. Baby Driver is certified fresh at 97 % with an 8.1 critical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Baby Driver?

Dreamgirls (2006) - Rousing star turns in unreal and sentimental musical

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Beyoncé Knowles looking swanky between foolish-looking Jamie Foxx and Eddie Murphy on the poster for Bill Condon's Dreamgirls

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Three female vocalists fight for a breakthrough in the 1960s and get it as backup singers for one of the decade's major singers, Jimmy 'Thunder' Early. But internal disagreements, romances and money trouble their cooperation, as they grow popular.

Dreamgirls is the screen version of the same-titled 1981 Broadway musical, adapted from Tom Eyen's same-titled book for the musical by writer-director Bill Condon (Mr. Holmes (2015)). The film is especially inspired by Detroit's Motown label and The Supremes.
The main problem of Dreamgirls is that it takes place in a version of the world which never approaches appearing real, which inhibits real investment in its characters. To clarify, this is mostly a problem because the film obviously want us to believe that it takes place in the real world of yore.
Beyoncé Knowles (Obsessed (2009)) is excellent; Oscar-nominated Eddie Murphy (Beverly Hills Cop (1984)) has a party with his role; Jamie Foxx (Ray (2004)) plays the uniformly unreasonable man that the saint-like women have to overcome. Oscar-winning, debuting Jennifer Hudson (Black Nativity (2013)) is emotional out into the hysterical, which is a realm that Dreamgirls generally inhabits.
Dreamgirls is attractive and at times swinging entertainment yet also sentimental slush.

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Watch the trailer for the film here

Cost: 80 mil. $
Box office: 154.8 mil. $
= Big flop
[Dreamgirls premiered December 4 (Ziegfeld Theatre, NY) and runs 130 minutes. An adaptation had been in the works for decades, with talents such as Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill and Joel Schumacher involved at different points. Condon got the job due to the success of Chicago (2002), which he wrote. Hudson, who was chosen out of 783 tryouts, gained 20 pounds for her role, while Knowles lost 20 pounds for hers during production. Shooting lasted from January - April 2006 in LA, Detroit, Miami and New York. The film is the biggest budgeted film to date to star only African-American actors. Some music numbers were cut from the film after test screenings. The film opened to a standing applause in NY, and played a 10-day roadshow in NY, LA and SF, accruing 0.8 mil. $ before its wide release. This hadn't been done so since Man of La Mancha (1972). Dreamgirls opened #3 to a 14.1 mil. $ first weekend behind Night at the Museum (36.7 mil. $) and The Pursuit of Happiness (19.3 mil. $) in North America, where it grossed 103.3 mil. $ (66.7 % of the total gross). Dreamgirls became the most nominated film at the 2007 Oscars with 8 nominations, however, it also became the first film in Oscar history to receive the highest amount of nominations yet not be nominated for Best Picture or Director. Dreamgirls was nominated for Best Supporting Actress (Hudson), Supporting Actor (Murphy), Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound Mixing and three nominations for the songs Listen, Love You I Do and Patience. It won 2 statuettes, for Hudson and for its sound mixing. The film also won 3 Golden Globes (out of 5 nominations), AFI's Movie of the Year award and dozens of other awards. Due to its huge budget, the film was unsuccessful theatrically, - but it made an additional 94.9 mil. $+ on domestic DVD and Blu-ray sales, which, if added, makes it a success. Dreamgirls is certified fresh at 78 % with a 7.2 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Dreamgirls?

Due Date (2010) or, Riding with Tremblay

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Robert Downey Jr. and Zack Galifianakis are the odd couple of Todd Phillips' Due Date

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A businessman is caught in the countryside, when he finds himself on a 'no-fly' list due to a moron he runs into, who subsequently becomes his driving partner back to Los Angeles.

I had to give in to Due Date pretty early in the film. - It's funny. Funny writing and amusingly played by Robert Downey Jr. (Wonder Boys (2000)) and Zack Galifianakis (Youth in Revolt (2009)) with Juliette Lewis (August: Osage County (2013)), Danny McBride (This Is the End (2013)) and Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained (2012)) doing great in funny supporting roles.
The film is co-written by Alan R. Cohen (American Dad (2010-12)), Alan Freedland (King of the Hill (1997-02)), Adam Sztykiel (Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip (2015)) and great Brooklynite co-writer/director Todd Phillips (The Hangover (2009)), inspired by the classic comedy Plains, Trains and Automobiles (1987)). 
Once again Phillips is putting something out in the world about the great difficulties of being a middle-aged, well-off, white male in America. - It's incredible he can make it float! Meanwhile there's a dark, almost misanthropic core to Due Date, - in which every one is simply ridiculous. I found it frequently hysterical.

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Watch the trailer for the film here, - if you don't find it amusing at all, the film isn't for you

Cost: 65 mil. $
Box office: 211.7 mil. $
= Box office success
[Due Date premiered October 31 (at the Night Visions film festival in Helsinki) and runs 95 minutes. Due Date was shot on location in New Mexico, Georgia and Alabama. The movie opened #2, behind Megamind, to a 32.6 mil. $ opening weekend in North America, where it grossed 100.5 mil. $ (47.5 % of the total gross). The 2nd and 3rd biggest markets for the film were the UK with 16.3 mil. $ (7.7 %) and Germany with 13 mil. $ (6.1 %). Due Date is rotten at 40 % with a 5.2 critical average on Rotten Tomatoes.]

What do you think of Due Date?

Django Unchained (2012) - Tarantino's gutsy, colorful 'Southern'

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The potent, black-white-and-red poster for Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained

Django is a slave, who has been sold away from his wife Broomhilda. He is now bought free from a strange, German bounty hunter; together they are to kill wanted men and find and rescue Broomhilda!

Django Unchained is not quite like any other film. It is like a modern piece of blaxploitation, but in epic length (165 minutes), which is justified by the film having a mission which the majority of the old spaghetti westerns it pays homage to didn't: Unchained entertains while exposing slavery as the epitome of depravity that it was.
The film is technically astute, with unusual musical choices and first-class performances from several cast members: Oscar-winning Christoph Waltz (Carnage (2011)), who, however, is perhaps just being himself, more or less; Kerry Washington (Scandal (2012-15)) is stunning; Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wold of Wall Street (2013)) is formidable; Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction (1994)) has probably never been better than he is here as the ultra-low slave handler Stephen; and Jamie Foxx (Ray (2004)) just is Django!
The film also has fun cameos and overly bloody shoot-outs, which may appeal more to some than master writer-director Quentin Tarantino's (Reservoir Dogs (1992)) beautiful dialogs that also elevate the film. He won the Best Screenplay Oscar for his work here.
Django Unchained is a filthy, undeniably still a bit overlong raised middle finger to racism and slavery.

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Watch the trailer for the film here

Cost: 100 mil. $
Box office: 425.4 mil. $
= Big hit
[Unchained is Tarantino's highest-grossing film to date. It was shot in 130 days in California, Wyoming and Louisiana. Its premiere was moved a couple of weeks due to the Sandy Hook Elementary Shooting, so Unchained came out on Christmas Day. It was criticized for its violence, handling of slavery and use of the f-word, but became a huge crowd-pleaser anyway, grossing 162.8 mil. $ (38 % of the total gross) in North America, following a 30.6 mil. $ first weekend. It is Tarantino's first film that was approved by the Chinese authorities for release in the country. Besides the two Oscars for Tarantino and Waltz, Unchained was also nominated for Best Picture, Cinematography and Sound Editing. Additionally, the sale of DVD and Blurays of the film has accrued more than 62.2 mil. $ in North America alone.]

What do you think of Django Unchained?