What to see, December 6th, 2013

What to see, December 6th, 2013

Things are looking a bit sparse this week in terms of new films. But that’s okay because there’s some seriously great films still in the theater right now. I mean, you’ve got The Hunger Games: Catching FireThor: The Dark WorldThe Book Thief... what more could you need?

New This Weekend

Out of the Furnace — R

There’s a few well known — or at least I know them — names behind this film: Christian Bale, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe on the acting side, Ridley Scott and Leonardo DiCaprio on the producing side of things. Despite those big name, the initial trailer and promos…

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4 Clips from Upcoming ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’

4 Clips from Upcoming ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’

Despite my lack of love for the first installment in The Hobbit story, I’m still looking forward to this quite a bit. And we don’t have long to wait now, just a few days really.

The film opens on December 13th. I have no doubt that it will be long and bloated but I’ll try to enjoy it anyway. To whet our appetites, here are 4 clips from the upcoming film.

A Clip from the Upcoming ‘Veronica Mars’ Film

A Clip from the Upcoming ‘Veronica Mars’ Film

I have never seen a single episode of the TV show but a lot of people sure loved it. And I loved that they went and got crowd funding to put more of something people apparently loved on the screen. While I don’t know anything about the show I can appreciate that. And I can also appreciate that there’s definitely some sarcastic humor going on in this clip — almost (but maybe not quite) of the Joss Whedon sort.

The film was shot in 23 days and is in post production now. It features the same cast returning from the TV show. Veronica returns to her hometown of Neptune, California, after 10 years…

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‘300: Rise of an Empire’ Trailer 2

‘300: Rise of an Empire’ Trailer 2

I’m probably not in a great position to speak to this trailer or the 300 franchise in general just yet since I have not seen the first one. This is a problem I intend to rectify before this second film comes out, although given my schedule right now I don’t know when that will be.

I’ll tell you this though, this looks like it’s a film about slow motion — and lots of it. Seriously, this film and its predecessor look like extremely stylized films. This can be done well, or it can be done poorly. This second installment is written by Zack Snyder, who directed the first film and Man of…

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Universal Halts ‘Fast & Furious 7’

Universal Halts ‘Fast & Furious 7’
Kevin Jagernauth — The Playlist

Remember how I posted earlier this week that Fast & Furious 7 would be moving forward? Well, not so fast apparently:

The death of Paul Walker — an obviously key figure in the mega-sequel (and franchise) “Fast & Furious 7” — makes the future of the movie and series completely unclear. Production on the James Wan directed movie was supposed to continue this week in Atlanta following the Thanksgiving holiday, and additional filming with the entire cast in Abu Dhabi in January. Clearly, things are in flux and while this past weekend a conference call between suits and director tried to figure…

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Michael Bay Criticizes His Own Transformers Films

Michael Bay Criticizes His Own Transformers Films
Germain Lussier - /Film

Michael Bay, once again, is his own worst critic.

In 2011, the action director used the word “crap” to describe the mystical storyline ofTransformers: Revenge of the Fallen. At the time, he was confident the third film, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, would be better. Fast forward to 2013 and, discussing the upcoming fourth Transformers installment, Transformers: Age of Extinction, Bay has once again criticized his previous work, this time saying the third film was “a bit too goofy.”

The full quote come from an set visit done by Yahoo Movies:

I wanted the first Transformers to be very…

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‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ SIX MINUTE Trailer

‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ SIX MINUTE Trailer

I hope you are less bored watching this six minutes of drudgery than I was. Seriously, wow. I can think of far better and less excruciating ways of spending six minutes. I don’t know what my problem is with this film exactly. I can usually pinpoint how and why I feel the way I do about films and/or film trailer (that is what I do after all), but this film has not interested me in the slightest since I saw the first trailer and I think my sentiment towards this film is going in the wrong direction.

But I continue to post about it because I know many of you are interested in this film and are…

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‘Her’ Trailer 2

‘Her’ Trailer 2

Raise your hand if you’ve every fallen in love with a computer rather than a real person…

Yeah, me either. But apparently Joaquin Phoenix does that in Her, a film which looks extremely strange to me. Scarlett Johansson provides the voice for this Operating System with which Phoenix’s character falls in love, and the film also features Amy Adams and Rooney Mara.

As far as I can tell, this film is taking its concept of a man falling in love with an Operating System quite seriously. Again, as far as I can tell, it’s being posed as a real love story — which is just weird. But, you know, maybe…

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‘Fast & Furious 7’ Will Be Going Ahead

‘Fast & Furious 7’ Will Be Going Ahead
Ben Child - The Guardian

Paul Walker’s final Fast & Furious film remains on course for a cinema release, despite the death of its 40-year-old star in a road accident on Saturday.

Sources told the Hollywood Reporter that production on Fast & Furious 7 would be delayed, with the shoot in Atlanta unlikely to resume until today or tomorrow at the earliest. There were no plans to abandon the film, for which Walker had shot the majority of his scenes. However, the cast were due to travel to Abu Dhabi in January for an additional shoot and the movie was likely to be delayed beyond its planned July 2014 release…

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‘Bourne’ Without Bourne Come to Theaters in 2015

‘Bourne’ Without Bourne Come to Theaters in 2015
Germain Lussier - /Film

Can you believe it? Yet another franchise sequel has been set for the summer of 2015. This time it’s the as-yet-untitled fifth Bourne film, directed by Justin Lin and starring Jeremy Renner. Universal also dated Luc Besson‘s thriller, Lucy, starring Scarlett Johansson as a trained killer; read more about both below.

At this point it seems like completely suicide to schedule pretty much any film, much less a completely questionable one any time in 2015. I mean it’s getting pretty crowded over there. And I’ll tell you what too, I can’t wait to not see this film. The first installment in the…

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