It's time to root through some trailers. What sorts of wonderful things will be alluded to today?
Gotta love the uplifting sports movie, don't ya? You gotta especially love the ones that feature a once mighty giant returning from obscurity. Those stories are always riveting, aren't they! Too bad they are all mired by cliche and over exaggeration, but, who cares! The underdog wins, damn it!
The Fighter traces the ascent of Mickey Ward, a lowly Bostonian who sweeps streets by day, pounds faces by night! He is trained by his cracked out brother, Dicky Eklund. When Dicky becomes too much a liability, Mickey leaves him behind as he gains fame! There's a love interest and a promise of redemption!
Mark Wahlberg is getting a lot of Oscar buzz for his portrayal of Mickey! He looks ready to impress, especially since he has gotten consistently better as of late. The real stand out looks to be Christian Bale as Dicky! Bale is almost at Machinist levels of thin for this film, having lost all his beef to convincingly play a crackhead! If Bale is anywhere near as good as we know he can be, and Oscar nom is definitely incoming! Amy Adams is the love interest. Whatever.
Ok, the film. Not interested. Sure, Wahlberg and Christian look ready to for Oscar gold, but this just looks like ripoff of every other sports film of its kind! There's definite shades of Rocky, and especially of The Wrestler in this trailer. If the movie can bring enough to the table to warrant a look, fantastic! But, it just looks to be treading old ground. SHENANIGANS!!
I hadn't even heard of this movie, and Christian Bale is almost unrecognizable. It could be just my kind of movie, or it could be dreadful. If there's Oscar buzz, I'm guessing on good.
ReplyDeletea friend saw it in a screen test at the beginning of the year and he really like it:it's full of drama,very funny and entertaining . Bale, Adams & Leo are great(Walhberg is well-casted but Bale steals the show on his opinion)
ReplyDeleteHe don't understand how the studio can do a so conventional trailer
a friend saw it in a screen test at the beginning of the year and he really like it:it's full of drama,very funny and entertaining . Bale, Adams & Leo are great(Walhberg is well-casted but Bale steals the show on his opinion)
ReplyDeleteHe don't understand how the studio can do a so conventional trailer