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This Weekends Movies Actually Offer Some Great Options…Especially When Compared to Last Weekend
Here is What I'd See
When you look at last weekends movies (wide releases anyway), this weekend is great. Actually, even if you weren’t to compare this weekend to such a weak weekend like the last one, it is still very good.
This weekend is all about a nice variety of choices. You’ve got the psychological thriller of “The Stepfather”, the action and mystery of “Law Abiding Citizen” and finally (for the whole family) “Where the Wild Things Are”.
Even though I’m an adult with no children, I was actually contemplating going to see “Where the Wild Things Are” because I remember reading the book as a child…and then seeing Spike Jonez vision of that book in the previews (which look absolutely amazing) made me want to see it for some reason….it is pulling at my childhood memories I guess. That is going to be a huge selling point for this movie when it comes to families. The children are going to want to see it and the parents are going to want to see it (that is always good for business).
However, after watching the preview for “Law Abiding Citizen” (and the enjoyment I get out of Gerard Butlers acting) I think I may have changed my mind to wanting to go and see that instead. I’m not a terribly big fan of Jamie Foxx, but it looks as though he is really starting to build up some credibility. The plot looks great, and I don’t think the movie is going to be terribly predictable or cheesy.
“The Stepfather” will probably be an alright movie, but it isn’t really anything new. The “word on the street” is that it is a lot like “Disturbia” from a while back. I mean, you can kind of do a movie highlight without even going to see the movie:
Dad Moves in…Dad seems great…Dad does something eerie (but it was probably nothing)…Dad goes crazy…Dad almost kills somebody…”somebody” doesn’t die…Dad gets killed.
So, with the plot easily figured out ahead of time, it is really going to have to be about the way the movie is shot and how well the actors pull it off and how predictable everything actually turns out to be.
