The fifth installment of the Die Hard franchise is not true to form of the first one, but its true to what the series has become. A loud outlandish shoot em up fest has replaced the more nuanced action film of 1988. While I love well thought out plots and great acting, part of me is still 12 years old inside. This is where A Good Day to Die Hard (Die Hard 5) lives, in our guts not our minds.
Rian Johnson’s Looper shows us that the sometimes you have to save the best for last. Coming in after a mega blockbuster summer, Looper shows it can still please the crowds during the slow roll into Oscar season. Time travel is the easiest concept to screw up and yet the most intriguing to tackle as a director. If you get it right the crowds rejoice. If you get too complicated and confuse the audience then your film, no matter how good, will just be thrown to the waste side. Fortunately for Rian Johnson he struck the proper cord and delivered a great sci-fi romp through time.
Here is a brand new trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation. Everything that we have seen so far has been pretty fantastic. This movie needs to be as far over the top as humanly possible. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t mean nanobots over the top just insane action and ninja on ninja battles. So far, all the character images have lived up to what I am hoping is a stellar summer blockbuster popcorn movie. Check out the latest trailer, and let us know what you think in the comments.
Time travel has always been something that has intrigued me since my father took me to see Back to the Future back in good ole’ 1985. I think it is the possible paradox of meeting yourself. Just such a paradox occurs in the upcoming film Looper from writer and director Rian Johnson. Johnson was the director of the films Brick and The Brothers Bloom.