Wanted!
This past Sunday, I went to the movies with Ryan. My options were Wall-E or Wanted. Since I did not want to make Ryan, who I could tell was not in the mood to see a children's movie suffer, I opted for Wanted.
First, I would like to say that I did enjoy this movie. The action sequences were very cool and well done.
The plot, however, suffered. It seemed to be there for the sole purpose of explaining how everyone pulled off their insane shit and then giving an impetus for more insane shit to be done.
The high points of the plot are:
A secret society of weavers are all told by a loom who to kill. (Kill 1, save 1,000) or some crap like that. I mean HONESTLY...how do WEAVERS learn to kill people??
Which leads me to point two...because their hearts can beat over 400 beats a minute, allowing them to see things moving fast and do things like curving bullets around objects to their targets.
Angelina Jolie is hotter than you. Thank you movie, I had almost forgotten.
Young boys will do almost anything, no matter how insane it seems, if there's a pretty girl with them and they've led a very boring, pointless life up to that point. This includes killing people BEFORE they are given any sort of answer as to why it may be necessary.
When Morgan Freeman swears, he sounds JUST like Sam Jackson.
If things are foreshadowed (say...like using thousands of rats with small explosives strapped to them) that makes it TOTALLY OK to use as the "really cool plan" at the end of the movie.
Plot twists...actually...I didn't see this one coming. This may be due to the fact that I was busy being dazzled by bad-assery...but go figure. At least it wasn't M. Nightshamalamadingdong lame.
So...it was basically an action flick. Very little plot to speak of, but it doesn't matter becasue everyone knows that's not the reason you went. You went to watch people get killed in new, interesting, and unique ways. And Wanted served up many.
First, I would like to say that I did enjoy this movie. The action sequences were very cool and well done.
The plot, however, suffered. It seemed to be there for the sole purpose of explaining how everyone pulled off their insane shit and then giving an impetus for more insane shit to be done.
The high points of the plot are:
A secret society of weavers are all told by a loom who to kill. (Kill 1, save 1,000) or some crap like that. I mean HONESTLY...how do WEAVERS learn to kill people??
Which leads me to point two...because their hearts can beat over 400 beats a minute, allowing them to see things moving fast and do things like curving bullets around objects to their targets.
Angelina Jolie is hotter than you. Thank you movie, I had almost forgotten.
Young boys will do almost anything, no matter how insane it seems, if there's a pretty girl with them and they've led a very boring, pointless life up to that point. This includes killing people BEFORE they are given any sort of answer as to why it may be necessary.
When Morgan Freeman swears, he sounds JUST like Sam Jackson.
If things are foreshadowed (say...like using thousands of rats with small explosives strapped to them) that makes it TOTALLY OK to use as the "really cool plan" at the end of the movie.
Plot twists...actually...I didn't see this one coming. This may be due to the fact that I was busy being dazzled by bad-assery...but go figure. At least it wasn't M. Nightshamalamadingdong lame.
So...it was basically an action flick. Very little plot to speak of, but it doesn't matter becasue everyone knows that's not the reason you went. You went to watch people get killed in new, interesting, and unique ways. And Wanted served up many.