Just watched this tonight, and damned if writer/director Michael Davis didn't sit down and make a list of all of the cool things you could do with guns in an action movie, cut 'em out, rearrange 'em, then come up with a storyline that (sort of) links 'em all together. But I don't care that the storyline is shaky, because this is one pretty amazing list of things you can do with guns in an action movie. We've got gunplay during sex. Gunplay in a whorehouse. Gunplay mid-air. Gunplay with moving vehicles. Gunplay at childbirth. Gunplay above a death metal club. Gunplay with parachutes. Gunplay in an ice cream parlor. Gunplay in a gun warehouse. Gunplay with diaper changing tables. Gunplay with carrots. Motherfucking gunplay on the motherfucking plane.And on top of all that, Shoot 'Em Up gives us the apex, the zenith, the peak, the ne plus ultra of gunplay:
Gunplay with Paul Giamatti.
Of course I loved it.
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I saw it on the big screen last fall. Greatest collection of gunfight p0rn ever assembled in one movie.
BTW, I picked up The Blonde at a local bookstore last week; I'm looking forward to reading it.
For the first 40 minutes I thought the movie was great. I laughed, enjoyed the over the top nature, but then lost interest. Very similar to The Blonde. Of which I purchased, Enjoyed the first half, lost interest and returned to Borders. And not because I have some mental disease. But because of lazy writing.
John D: Thanks.
Anonymous: Well, that's a shame, because I saved all of the non-lazy writing for the second half. Ah, well.
I guess the kind of person who takes anonymous snipes at writers is the same type who returns books after reading and enjoying the first half of them.
You missed a great ending buddy.
Umm...the apex of Shoot 'Em Up is Monica Bellucci...period.
Don't get me wrong. I great, silly, funny, movie. Just wanted to be clear on the "apex."
SHOOT EM UP might be the stupidest thing I've ever seen on screen. And it was friggin' cool.
"Oh my God, that is twisted! That sick son of a bitch! Oh, that sick son of a bitch suckered us again!"
"Umm...the apex of Shoot 'Em Up is Monica Bellucci...period."
Agreed, but what's this world coming to when Monica Bellucci plays a lactating prostitute and doesn't take her top off?!?!?
I'm still hoping for an unrated director's cut.
That was Giamatti? I thought it was Dave White.
Anonymous, I really hope you come back and check this, because I'd like you to see something:
This is me, Marcus Sakey, calling you a douchebag.
Notice how I used my name?
Sheesh. Guy not only has the nerve to hide behind a pseudonym, but he reads the blog of the guy he's insulting. Prick.
Total fanboy insult. Love it. So angry, so juvenile.
Duane Swierczynski is a GOD.
Mark it down.
I dunno, I kind of expect that kind of snide criticism to be unsigned.
But as a guy whose written stuff that has been reviewed both for good and ill, I wish the criticism was more, well, coherent.
It's a great book, very enjoyable and then...it's lazy. So lazy he had to take it back.
What the heck does this mean? Did the author grow lax in his ability to finish his sentences? What did he do wrong? What would have made it better?
Does the critic have a serious point he's trying to make?
Or maybe all the critic really wanted to do was be snide, in which case, mission accomplished.
Haven't yet, but a friend who saw it sayd he wish these people had done the Punisher movie.
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