What The Fuck Have You Done With Your Life Lately
For most of my life, I've been saving the world. I've wielded sword and firearm and even moreso than weapons--I've used my own instinctual cunning. I've had friends assist, I've gone it alone, I've watched those who tried to help die. I watched most of the world get blown into a post apocalyptic nightmare that only the strong and the chosen could hope to survive. For most of my life I've been someone that matters. in those hours when I close my eyes and dream, at least.
So it was no large shock to me that I ended up loving the movie Wanted. To put things in the simplest of terms, Wanted is the story of an everyday man named Wesley Gibson who is one day contacted by a woman called Fox and snapped into a new reality as his birth father's son and a supernaturally trained assassin. In my mind, it's a powerful two hour respite from the painfully droll real world for those of us who have always dreamed of being something more than just another cog in a big, broken machine. Action buffs will drool over the car chases and Angelina's still perfectly toned ass. Movie fans will cheer on the well crafted timing and killer sountrack equally manned by songs from Trent Reznor and a score from Danny Elfman (okay, srsly, DE? do you make music in your sleep like one of those new touchscreen phone commercials? if you were ever to die you would put about thirty other people into a job). Comic boy fans will marvel (no pun intended) at the effortless narration and uncanny moments that play masterfully as a live action interpretation of J. G Jones' cells.
Maybe my view is biased. Maybe I'm just so wrapped up in the sick murk of everyday that I'm blinded by how easily this movie swept me up and floated me into that mystical world of relevance people like me hope exists behind the scenes of society. Maybe its that the cast reads as if I had made a list of some of my most badass movie heros. James McAvoy, Angelina. Morgan Freeman. Common. Terance Mothafuckin Stamp. Maybe I was distracted by the not so thinly veiled Fight Club references. Or maybe I'm just a big enough movie buff and comic book geek to know a damned good film when I see one. No matter my own personal preferences, I can't think of a person I wouldn't recommend this movie to with the highest of accolades.
Wanted is good. Wanted is great. Wanted is funny. Wanted is sad. Wanted proves that there is no greater revenge against a cheateing ex than Angelina Jolie. Wanted is action packed like whoa. Wanted is making me try very fucking hard to not give away the entire plot so that I can, in turn, rave about it's poignant efforts to wake us all up from the sad mediocrity we are all so very willing to accept as our lives. Wanted made me feel like I was cheating on Batman Begins, I loved it so very fucking much. Wanted all and all is just plain a great, grade fuckin A movie.
So it was no large shock to me that I ended up loving the movie Wanted. To put things in the simplest of terms, Wanted is the story of an everyday man named Wesley Gibson who is one day contacted by a woman called Fox and snapped into a new reality as his birth father's son and a supernaturally trained assassin. In my mind, it's a powerful two hour respite from the painfully droll real world for those of us who have always dreamed of being something more than just another cog in a big, broken machine. Action buffs will drool over the car chases and Angelina's still perfectly toned ass. Movie fans will cheer on the well crafted timing and killer sountrack equally manned by songs from Trent Reznor and a score from Danny Elfman (okay, srsly, DE? do you make music in your sleep like one of those new touchscreen phone commercials? if you were ever to die you would put about thirty other people into a job). Comic boy fans will marvel (no pun intended) at the effortless narration and uncanny moments that play masterfully as a live action interpretation of J. G Jones' cells.
Maybe my view is biased. Maybe I'm just so wrapped up in the sick murk of everyday that I'm blinded by how easily this movie swept me up and floated me into that mystical world of relevance people like me hope exists behind the scenes of society. Maybe its that the cast reads as if I had made a list of some of my most badass movie heros. James McAvoy, Angelina. Morgan Freeman. Common. Terance Mothafuckin Stamp. Maybe I was distracted by the not so thinly veiled Fight Club references. Or maybe I'm just a big enough movie buff and comic book geek to know a damned good film when I see one. No matter my own personal preferences, I can't think of a person I wouldn't recommend this movie to with the highest of accolades.
Wanted is good. Wanted is great. Wanted is funny. Wanted is sad. Wanted proves that there is no greater revenge against a cheateing ex than Angelina Jolie. Wanted is action packed like whoa. Wanted is making me try very fucking hard to not give away the entire plot so that I can, in turn, rave about it's poignant efforts to wake us all up from the sad mediocrity we are all so very willing to accept as our lives. Wanted made me feel like I was cheating on Batman Begins, I loved it so very fucking much. Wanted all and all is just plain a great, grade fuckin A movie.