Archive for July, 2008

My buddy, Geordie, wanted to do a guys movie night to see Wanted and he wanted Greg, Dan and me to go. We wanted to. He wanted John to join us, but John just wanted to have dinner since he saw Wanted last week.

Director, Timur Bekmambetov got the cast he wanted for Wanted. You got yer Morgan Freeman who’s been excellent in everything since Electric Company. You got yer Angelina Jolie who I’m pretty sure could beat up anyone I know whenever she wanted even at her current fighting weight (what’s below featherweight?). And then you got Mr. Tumnus himself, James McAvoy. One the most wanted young actors out there.

The movie wanted to capture the angst of Fight Club with Edward Norton’s voice over explaining how he wanted more from his worthless life and then gracefully mesh it with the physics defying action of the Matrix. It wanted to. Unfortunately, I just felt like I was being jerked back and forth between 2 types of movies (and not how I wanted).

I really wanted to like Wanted. But no matter how much I wanted to like Wanted it just kept falling short of what I wanted. I wanted my money back. But Greg bought my ticket. That might explain why he’s spooning me in this photo.  The movie did have some pretty sweet action scenes.  I guess I didn’t hate it (the movie, I hated the spooning).