Fracture Filled With Hot Fuzz This Friday
There are three movies coming out this Friday that I am interested in seeing. They are Fracture, Hot Fuzz and In the Land of Women. I think I will leave the Vacancy unfilled. I tried to use In the Land of Women in the title of this post, but however many permutations I tried along with Hot Fuzz, Fracture or even Vacancy, they all just sounded dirty.
It looks like it will be a Fracture Friday followed by some Hot Fuzz on Sunday. A vacation In the Land of Women will be had near the end of the summer when it’ll probably be out on DVD and then gets added to my Netflix queue.
I am hoping to be a bit more thrilled by Fracture than last week’s Perfect Stranger. I should have gone to see Disturbia like most everyone else who went to the movies last weekend.
My favorite movies are of the action genre and if you can throw in a little comedy, all-the-better. So, when I heard the tag line for Hot Fuzz: “From the guys who watched every action movie ever made,” I just new I was going to have to go see it. So, now I am.
Of the four big movie releases this weekend, which one will you be going to see?
The Pathfinder Sets a Course to Disturbia with a Perfect Stranger
This is quite the weekend for the suspense thriller, as Disturbia, Perfect Stranger and Slow Burn all hit your local cinemaplex. We have the up and comer cast of Distubia vs. the been there done that really well cast of Perfect Stranger with the some of us have been there, but not all of us have done that cast of Slow Burn somewhere in the middle.
As for other offerings this weekend, we have an R-rated cartoon, a guy running around with a sword killing Vikings invaders and bunch of beautiful 20-somethings driving and crashing fast cars. As I don’t watch Aqua Teen Hunger Force
That left the three suspense thrillers as options for New Movie Friday this week. Disturbia is a maybe someday, if there is nothing else on and I am bored out of my mind and I see it has been added to the On Demand movie listings, then I might check it out. Slow Burn will be a definite addition to the Netflix queue when hit comes out on DVD.
That narrowed the field down to one, Perfect Stranger. So, it looks like Halle Berry and Bruce Willis will try and thrill me, while holding me in suspense.
What movies hitting the big screen this Friday will get you out to the theater this weekend?
House of the Grind to be Visited This Friday
Five movies came out that are at a theater near me, but only two start on Friday. The Hoax and Grindhouse were really the only choices. Going to see Ice Cube get whacked and smacked and fall through things or a stunt dog save the day, is not my idea of big screen entertainment.
For the family audience out there, with older children, Are We Done Yet? might be the best choice. For those with smaller ones, a smart and heartwarming dog story, Firehouse Dog, will always hit the spot.
I guess I could have chosen The Reaping to go see, but it seems like a movie I have already seen many times, just without as good a cast.
So, that leaves The Hoax, which is an interesting story or Grindhouse. Neither strike me as, “wow I want to see that” kind of movies. Well, Grindhouse almost does for the curiosity factor of what directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez have done with their halves of this two hour and 45 minute movie.
I mean, a girl with a gun for a leg, a stalker with a death proof car, a guy with a jacket full of machetes, zombies, terror, explosions and that is just what they have shown you in the trailer. What have these two come up with that couldn’t be shown on TV in the ads or has been left out of the trailers.
The curiosity grows as I write this. Hopefully, it will be as good as the hype has portrayed it to be. What do you think of Grindhouse? Will you be catching it this weekend?
On The Lookout for Blades of Glory
That is right; Blades of Glory with Will Ferrell and Jon Heder will be this Friday’s pick. None of the movies opening this weekend would normally get me to a theater to see them. These types of movies usually don’t get watched until that little red envelope from Netflix arrives or about this time next year when they hit HBO or one of the other premium cable movie channels.
Something had to be picked for the last Friday in March and a comedy, especially one with Will Ferrell, looks like the best option. I will wait for The Lookout and Peaceful Warrior to hit DVD before I see them and Meet the Robinsons has a good shot of never being seen at all.
So, tomorrow I will head out to the theater with my funny bone intact and hope for the best. As I heard someone say today, “I hope it isn’t one of those comedies where after seeing the trailer and then the movie, I leave the theater feeling like I have seen it twice.” That is never a good thing. You can come back Friday and find out what New Movie Friday thinks of Will Ferrell’s latest effort, or if any effort was made at all. Is it funny and worth hitting the theater for? Stay tuned.
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