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Week of November 25, 2010
Following the crowd is too crowded. First up…
Eat Pray Love
Ding-ding-ding! What are three things you do at church: Eat McGriddles, Pray to Santa and make Love in the confessional.
Oops. Apparently this isn’t a game show, but one woman’s journey of self-discovery that finds her traveling the globe.
After her divorce, Elizabeth (Julia Roberts) decides she needs to find herself. In this case, however, “herself” happens to be eating in Italy, meditating in India and flirting in Bali.
At each of her destinations, Elizabeth ascertains a new life lesson from one of the men (James Franco, Richard Jenkins, Javier Bardem) she encounters along the way.
Based on the popular novel, Eat Pray Love is an overwrought production that caters to chick flick fans and the self-help crowd. Egocentric, placid and long-winded, Eat Pray Love is most peoples' life in a nutshell.
As for those who cannot afford a yearlong sabbatical to find themselves, dropping acid gets the same results. 0
The Expendables
The reason there are no senior citizen mercenaries is because when they bite the pin from the grenade, they pull out their dentures instead.
Fortunately, the senile action stars and newbie bad-asses in this movie don’t need bifocal scopes on their guns.
When Barney (Sylvester Stallone), the head of a crew of contract killers, accepts a mission to overthrow a dictator, he assembles his team (Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren) and embarks on a simple job…or so he thinks.
Propped up by an ex-CIA agent (Eric Roberts) and his muscle (Steve Austin), the foreign despot proves more problematic for Barney and his boys.
With cameos from Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke, The Expendables is a throwback to the glory days of action movies – that, unfortunately, includes the acting and dialogue. Thankfully, the action is gratuitous.
As for the best way to kill a dictator: poison their military fatigues. 0
***The Pied Sniper***
The Day of the Jackal
The reason world leaders like to wear military uniforms, while in office, is that they remind the populous that their president has killed innocent people before and could easily do so again.
And while the French President does wear his general’s threads here, he is not the one employing violence in this spy-thriller.
After he gives Algeria independence, an upset group of French radicals plot to assassinate Charles de Gaulle (Adrien Cayla-Legrand).
Following a number of failed attempts, the faction finally decides to hire a contract killer codename: The Jackal (Edward Fox) to carry out their hit.
From the hire to the kill shot, The Day of the Jackal is an in-depth and engaging account of the methodical preparation that goes into an assassination plot.
The worst part of sniping someone from afar with a rifle, however, is convincing the target to wear that bull’s eye t-shirt you gave them.
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