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Jedi-Ant
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6/29 8:36pm
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RE: Wanted (2008): Starring (James McAvoy,Morgan Freeman,Angelina Jolie)
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I so want to see this movie!!  James McAvoy is amazing, and the trailer looks fantastic!!  Now I just have to wait for it to be released here in Oz. *drums fingers*
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The2ndQuest
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Well, now, that was a damn summer movie! That was a real blast- a mixture of the Matrix, Fight Club, Office Space, Shoot 'Em Up and a little Terminator. Outside of Iron Man and Dark Knight, this is the movie to beat this summer.
Nice touch with the final cubicle scene having the nameplate/card of "J.G. Millar".
Can pretty much guarentee that bullets-blocking bullets will be the next thing copied by a thousand subsequent movies, much like bullet-time post-Matrix.
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\(Though, lots of folks are gonna be quoting Morgan Freeman's "Aw, ****!!" from this flick\
Actually, I think more people got a kick out of his "kill this ************" line at my showing. Also had some dude in the audience let out a gasping "oh my god" as Jolie was kissing James that had everyone laughing.  That woman is amazing. 
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RX_Sith
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Very, very awesome movie. The way that he has such control over the final shot is amazing. Simply out of this world. I wonder who the dummy was?
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RX_Sith posted:
I wonder who the dummy was?
They prefer the term "Decoy American".
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I see. Anyway, sorry to see Jolie's character Fox honor the code towards to end. I guess she felt like she had no life worth living anyway with Sloan's lies.
Also, that machine sequence, when Sloan states that you only can go inside it one time: Why does he get to go in more than once besides to pre-arrange all of the hits. Also, the bullet on bullet thing was pretty weird to me.
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Jango10
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It was ok. It tried too hard to be groundbreaking like The Matrix or 300 was.
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Wanted was a fun movie, but not a good movie. But of the problem for me was that it went too over the top. I have no problem with the bending of the bullets because in this universe that has been represented as the special power of sorts. However the car knocking over a bus and then riding off the side of it or Jolie catching up to a train in an old jalopy were all beyond what I am able to accept and instead of adding to the fun of the movie detracted from it for me.
Some parts of the story were cool, but the training montage was a bit mundane and not all that realistic in the sense of him all of a sudden becoming as good of an assassin in a matter of weeks as those that have trained for years and years.
I really didn't like Jolie's character simply because they treated her as this ultimate form of hotness, when she really isn't anymore. She's a damn stick figure and was actually hard for me to look at through most of the movie. I'm sorry but watching someone entire spinal cord move around as they walk away is not hot.
Probably my two biggest gripes would be the stupidity of a loom that tells fate and Jolie's death scene. Great unbelievable acts have to draw me in to make me believe them and Jolie's bending bullet that killed everyone else in the room felt forced and rushed, like they didn't know of any other way to get out of the dilemma they wrote themselves into.
All that being said, it was a fun movie, not good or even great, but a fun waste of a couple of hours.
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However the [color=black]car knocking over a bus and then riding off the side of it... were all beyond what I am able to accept and instead of adding to the fun of the movie detracted from it for me.
Most of the people I've talked to went nuts for the bus scene (I actually thought it was rather nifty too- somehow nit feels alot much more plausible than had they found someway to flip over the barricade and land by itself).
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The2ndQuest posted:
Bill-Thompson posted:
However the [color=black]car knocking over a bus and then riding off the side of it... were all beyond what I am able to accept and instead of adding to the fun of the movie detracted from it for me.
Most of the people I've talked to went nuts for the bus scene (I actually thought it was rather nifty too- somehow nit feels alot much more plausible than had they found someway to flip over the barricade and land by itself).
Oh, it was nifty looking, but I don't think it worked in the sense of keeping me in the realm of the world of Wanted.
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I dunno- it happens so early on, being the introduction to Fox and the abilities her kind can do for both the hero and the audience, it strikes me as a moment that is still establishing/defining the world of Wanted, so it can't break the viewer out of of that world since that world isn't there yet.
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Wanted Trilogy in the works?
With the stellar box-office of the uber-violent hit "Wanted" guaranteeing a sequel, Cinema Blend has dropped in this interesting rumor about where the franchise is headed.
The site claims that two more sequels are already being planned out with both James McAvoy and Terrence Stamp a lock to be back.
Flashbacks will also apparently explore the past of Angelina Jolie's Fox character, and allow us to meet the man who trained and recruited her - that person becoming the major villain of the sequels.
The sequels are also said to be going more international with McAvoy's Wesley fighting Fraternity cells all over the world with many of Sloane's peers not too happy with the young assassin.
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Well, that is indeed some great news. So, would the next sequel be titled "Wanted Again" and the next one after that be "Wanted Again and Again"?
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No; "Wanted Harder"
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Darth-Lando
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I saw it this weekend and enjoyed it. It's great for mindless popcorn fun. It is drastically different from the comic. Mainly because in the comic he isn't drawn into a world of assassins but a secret society of superpowered villians.
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RX_Sith posted:
Well, that is indeed some great news. So, would the next sequel be titled "Wanted Again" and the next one after that be "Wanted Again and Again"?
You are missing the obvious one: "Wanted Dead: or Alive".
Theme music is already picked out! 
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