Willing Suspension of Physics
I went to see the movie Wanted today, mainly because I am home alone and tried to pick the movie I was least likely to take my wife or kids to.
If you like non-stop action movies with computer game physics and lots of CGI close-ups of bullets drilling through people's skulls that were fired by a smoking-hot assassin babe played by Angelina Jolie who actually had to add tats rather than hide them for this role (and, really, who doesn't?), then you will probably enjoy the movie. The lost opportunity in the film was the very beginning, which sortof tried to be Office Space without being nearly as good. But there is certainly a big hint that Office Space was on the director's mind - don't miss the red stapler, though it didn't look like a classic Swingline.
As an additional note, I see from the previews that someone has done a remake of Death Race 2000, though it seems to bear about the same resemblance to the original as the Running Man did to the original Steven King / Richard Bachman book. The whole fight-against-the-dystopic-state thing seems to have been lost. By the way, can't they find any actor other than Jason Statham to portray someone who drives cars fast?
As a final shout-out to SF geeks out there, trolling around on IMDB led me, via Morgan Freeman of all people, to this page which seems to imply a Rendezvous with Rama movie is in the works.
Postscript: I will never be mistaken for a social conservative, but I did find it odd today that in a preview that was supposedly "approved for all audiences" there were numerous F-bombs dropped. Update: OK, I can't be sure that this particular preview was "all audiences." All the ones that followed were, but it may be they have grittier versions of previews they show before R-rated features.
Clarification: Sorry if it was not clear, but I actually did enjoy the movie. Sort of a guilty pleasure. Fixed Jason Statham's name, thanks to commenter.
