by Sumner Strickland| Staff writer
A lot of movies are opening this Friday and, surprisingly, not all of them look bad.
When I first saw this trailer I really wasn’t all that interested or impressed but, recent reviews have surfaced saying it’s worth seeing however I’m not really swayed. ‘Dredd’ is set in a futuristic society who have the authority to act as judge jury and executioner. A cop teams up with a trainee to take down a gang that deals a reality-altering drug “SLO-MO.” So, my position still stands that I believe it’s just a rudimentary action movie with little to offer the audience, but I’ve been wrong before.
After seeing the commercial, I was instantly reminded of the coming of age classic “Almost Famous,” and the similarities the two possess to each other; fifteen year old kid, unsure of his place in the world, goes out searching for it. In ‘Perks of being a Wallflower’ Logan Lerman plays Charlie, an adolescent freshman who goes under the wings of two seniors (Emma Watson and Ezra Miller) who show him the real world. It could go either way, I am a bit weary of seeing another movie made from a book but it doesn’t look like it’ll be bad, I like Emma Watson and Logan Lerman and I have faith in there abilities as actors to bring this to life.
Well, it’s another ‘Training Day’ replica. In ‘End of Watch’ Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena play partners who discover a drug ring in L.A. that leads to them becomming the hit of a drug cartel. Very standard, very tired premise and it’s really not even worth getting into, so just spare yourself from this one.
Brad Pitt in the past few years has realized what the audience craves. Gritty, dirty violence and of course, Pitt himself. In ‘Killing Them Softly ‘(obviously a rip from the Roberta Flack song in the early seventies) Pitt plays Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who is hired to investigate a heist taken place during a mob poker game. Pitt’s film choices are nothing less than impeccable these days, and along with Ray Liotta, James Gandolfini, and Richard Jenkins, I’ll expect this to be be nothing less than an extremely high quality finished product.
