Michael Bay may have cut the "Teenage Mutant" part out of the Ninja Turtles, but not to turn his back completely on juvenile, chemically-manufactured freaks, he's brought us another trailer for Pain & Gain. In the film, Mark Wahlberg gets back to his roots in enthusiastic lunk mode, teamed with an entourage of fellow bicep-holders Dwayne Johnson and Anthony Mackie. The three meat-head trio kidnaps and extorts Tony Shalhoub, and because they are doofuses, things run afoul. And because this is a Michael Bay movie, all of that looks like a late '90s rap video:
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Michael Bay has taken a break from his toys to direct a true story about real humans that don't turn into cars, but the change in subject sure hasn't changed his shooting style much. High contrast, oblique angles, low shots of giant creatures (The Rock, in this case), prominent American flags, slow-motion strutting, scantily-clad women, fast cars, and, yes, explosions abound in this first trailer for Pain and Gain, starring Bay's new muse Mark Wahlberg.
In Wahlberg's classic, always-enjoyable big dummy mode, he plays a workout-obsessed personal trainer who recruits fellow meatheads Rock and Anthony Mackie to kidnap a rich criminal client (Tony Shalhoub) and make him pay his own ransom. Shalhoub ends up surviving the ordeal and sends Ed Harris after them, and as is quickly revealed below, things don't turn out so well.
If you can see them through the Bay sheen, the performances all look pretty fun, and the lack of any obvious ethnic caricatures is encouraging, so this could be worth watching when it hits theaters next April. Who knew?
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Here's Gangster Squad's new trailer--the one unofficially dubbed "the trailer where there isn't all that shooting-up-a-theater stuff, because, well, you know." In light of the Colorado shooting, all the scenes involving gunfire in a theater have reportedly been removed from the picture, but this trailer should assure everyone that, otherwise, Ruben Fleischer's film seems to have its heavy violence in tact, with pretty much every non-sex scene involving some kind of Tommy gun, shotgun, handgun, exploding car, beating, and/or whatever violence happened to make Sean Penn's face look like that.
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Finally, my generation gets its completely inconsequential The Big Chill, with Channing Tatum, with 10 Years, in which we visit a ten-year high school reunion that gathers together friends, spouses, and exes that include Tatum, the real-life Bride of Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Justin Long, Oscar Isaac, Brian Geraghty, Ari Graynor, Anthony Mackie, Kate Mara, Max Minghella, Scott Porter, Park & Reccers Aubrey Plaza and Chris Pratt, Ron Livingston, and some others to drink booze from baby bottles and indulge in some anodyne dramedy. We had to do something with all the 26 to 33-year-old actors who wouldn't fit in a superhero movie, right?
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Featuring the various growls and old-fashioney tough-guy voices of Ryan Gosling, Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Michael Peña, Anthony Mackie, Nick Nolte, Robert Patrick, and more (seemingly anyone who would put on a mustache and/or fedora, plus Emma Stone, to look good), Ruben Fleischer's 30 Minutes or Less follow-up, Gangster Squad, follows a group of cops working outside the system to run New York mobsters (mostly Penn's Mickey Cohen) out of Los Angeles. They accomplish this mostly by smashing, burning, and shooting things. Also, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone sleep together right under Sean Penn's weird nose, because a love as crazy/stupid as theirs cannot be limited to a single Steve Carell comedy.
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- Earlier today, writer/director David Wain took part in a reddit AMA (ask me anything), where he confirmed he is indeed writing Wet Hot American Summer 2. He also dutifully answers the question, "What's up with the nose job?"
- If you're a fan of the manga/anime Bleach, get ready all worked up about something: Warner Bros. has bought the live-action rights to the series, and Peter Segal is attached to produce and possibly direct. (Note: Segal's filmography includes three Adam Sandler films and a Nutty Professor sequel.)
- Anthony Mackie is in talks to join Mark Wahlberg and Dwayne Johnson on Michael Bay's bodybuilding crime film, Pain and Gain. Johnson, meanwhile, is in talks to take the title role in Brett Ratner's Hercules. And that's today's Reviled Directors and their Muscly Actors.
- Idris Elba is going to play Nelson Mandella. Sure, why not. (via)
- And for your ears: Terry Gilliam's Barbecue Plagued By Production Delays.
The Notorious B.I.G. movie has a new trailer, so as per usual, here is that to watch. I doubt it's going to bring the Oscar buzz of other recent music biopics, but it does look good enough that if it were on VH1 as a TV movie special event, and I spent two hours watching it from my couch, I would not feel that bad about myself.
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