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Well, today’s the day! In many countries, Wanted opens in theaters today. It’s been getting some pretty good reviews. MSN Movies gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars, while Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 74% (which is actually pretty good for RT!) and calls it a “fast-paced, crackling thrill ride tailor-made for the Summer audience”.
I agree with that. It’s the perfect Summer blockbuster extravaganza to me. I like movies with a deep and meaningful story, movies like The Kite Runner; I like artsy foreign films like Amelie. But sometimes I just like to sit back and enjoy a high energy action flick with impossible story lines and stunts that would leave real people dead. I like to just let go of reality and watch a movie that is laced with adrenaline, and every trailer or clip I have seen promises that Wanted is exactly that.
I can’t wait to see it. Our weekend is too packed to see it now, but I’m hoping to see it next weekend. My birthday is coming up in less than two weeks so I’ve already decided that would be one fun thing to do to celebrate.
Who’s going to see it this weekend? If you do see it, please leave your review here in the comments, but please be sensitive about any spoilers for the people who are still going to be waiting awhile before watching it.
(Ha, I just heard the preview for the movie on my local radio station as I was uploading the photos. Angelina Jolie has such a distinctive and seductive voice.)
Images used with permission: Splash News Online
795 days ago
@Passerby
LOL you helped Wall-E by paying for it only to sneak into Wanted!
At least you could have given the money to KFP and then snack into Wanted. That way Angie would still have benefitted… hehehe.
It’s a pity about Wall-E the concept is good, but it sounds boring. Particularly with no dialogue for almost 1 hour. But it is Pixar and am sure it was beautifully drawn. Hope to see it this week!
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795 days ago
@Passerby
LOL you helped Wall-E by paying for it only to sn%ak into Wanted!
At least you could have given the money to KFP and then gone to Wanted. That way Angie would still have benefitted… hehehe.
It’s a pity about Wall-E the concept is good, but it sounds boring. Particularly with no dialogue for almost 1 hour. But it is Pixar and am sure it was beautifully drawn. Hope to see it this week!
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795 days ago
Last night I saw wanted for the third time. This time I took my sister to see it also. She was absolutely enchanted. After the movie I wanted to say something to her and she said “please, be quiet”:))) “don’t talk to me now. I have to realize what just happened”. I believe that she was very shocked about what fox did:)) then she told me that this is the best movie she’d seen in tha past yearor more. And she also told me something, the same thing that I felt after seeing wanted, that she doesn’t want to see any movie for a while, because anything else will seam very bad:))) She was sorry that that was the final representation for that day (we went in the evening) because she wanted to see it again. Somebody knows when it will be released on DVD?
About that blog, I accidentaly run into it quite some time ago and I had the same reaction. Mary Ann, Angie changed her ways of thinking about what was important in her life during the second tomb raider when she addopted maddox. This travel log was recorded some time after. Have you seen beyond borders? I strongly recommend it. Whwn she read the script, a few years before tomb raider was when she began to wonder and to try to find out everything she couldabout the refugees, when she plyed in the first tomb raider and visited cambodgia was when she began to see it for herself and during the second TR she addopted mad and began to work with UNHCR. Even though she read the script for beyond borders several years before the tomb raider series, the film was shot after those two. That’s why it is even more realisticbecause angelina was beginning to work with the UN at that time and you can relate even more to her character. It is one of my favourite movies.
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795 days ago
i don’t know why but i just couldn’t get the “cheeseburger-eating scene” in WANTED out of my mind. LOL! it fascinates me!:)
‘beyond borders’ is one of my favorites too. it’s close to my heart coz i want to volunteer for UN or MSF someday. i hope it happens next year.:)
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795 days ago
timi, I also want to do that soon. because it’s what angelina said, we are citizens of the world and if we were in their places (the refugees), with no home, no place of our own and with all our loved ones gone, it would be nice to know that there is someone out there who cares. I hope angelina knows that she really brings awareness. At least she brought it to me.
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795 days ago
Is it my imagination, or the lights, or have they blonded Angelina’s hair?
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794 days ago
@BlessBrangelina
I should have gotten a Kung Fu Panda ticket instead. >_< It was hard to think when the cashier was demanding an ID.
Yeah Wall-E was almost completely dialogueless. But it was one of those awwwww that was cute movies while Wanted is one of those DAMN that was Amazing movies.
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794 days ago
[...] been eagerly reading everyone’s reviews of Wanted and I’m glad so many of you enjoyed it. Some of you mentioned that you had trouble [...]
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794 days ago
Seemed sort of mindless and souless to me. McAvoy is a great actor. I thought she looked hot but seemed more like she was posing rather than acting. The plot was really kind of silly. Some of the action was cool, but the plot left a lot to be desired. Liked the music. I would say overall it was not her best.
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794 days ago
Did anyone hear one of McAvoys interview where he was asked about the kissing scene if he was nervous, one interview, he stated that he was uncomfortable due to bad breath, not Angie, but him. Then the other interview, can’t recall if it was access or extra, McAvoy made a comment that he felt like he was kissing a grandmother, now that’s way out of line. Angie is far from being his grandmother and that was not a nice thing to say about a co-star. I can honestly say that, if Angie was not in the movie, I don’t think it would make that much. I’ll try to check which interview that was…
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794 days ago
i think it was an interview for BBC radio. angie’s interview was already posted here (i couldn’t remember which topic). she replied to the ‘like kissing his grandmother’ comment. she didn’t take it badly. in fact, she found it so funny! she knew that james mcavoy was just kidding. so i don’t see any problem.:)
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794 days ago
jhoey27, I would disagree. I think McAvoy is very very much the star of this film, and it is very much his talent and range that is on display here. I think the Fox role could have gone to any number of beautiful actresses who have action talent. That said, I think a lot of people will see it because of her… I did… but he’s going to be a very big actor because he is very talented.
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794 days ago
Carrie, his talent has nothing to do with it, I guess, due to his young age, he’s quite tackless in his interviews. I just did not like his choice of words referring to kissing Angie like kissing a grandma. That is not a nice comment, Angie is not that old.
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794 days ago
Carrie,
Could you name the beautiful actresses who have action talent you have in mind?
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794 days ago
How young is he really? as a grandmother myself I know kissing Angie can’t be like kissing a grandmother (I wish) Angie is very young herself. Sometimes it is hard to express yourself across cultures even when the language is the same. So perhaps he meant something else and couldn’t quite express it in American english :) I do hope 33 is not considered old these days geez.
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793 days ago
Jhoey
He was joking, trying to downplay the nosiness of the press. I think tha’t the only quetsion they ALL prepared to ask him. Ridiculous people.
@Carrie
LOL really, any beautiful actress? Where did she pose? You do realise posing requires deliberate stance(s). Don’t agree mate! At all! Angie’s talent was very evident, James was fabulous and so was Angie.
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793 days ago
@ carrie just for discussion who among the beautiful actresses in hollywood could play FOX as good as angelina! fyi angelina is the only female star in hollywood who does 80% of her stunts when doing an action film! also if angie would just pose in a movie she will not get an oscar or will not be able to command $15 mil per film!
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793 days ago
i don’t think james meant anything bad by the grandma kissing comment. i believe he just meant that for filming purposes the kiss was so strategic that any passion or, for lack of a better term, juiciness was drained out. i’m having a hard time explaining things right now … but just to get on point, i think it just wasn’t a comfortable situation because they were snogging in front of a film crew, and while they were kissing, the director was probably telling them to move their heads a certain way so the camera can get a good shot from interesting angles. so yeah, it would be hardly romantic. i’m sure under different circumstances, james would have enjoyed angie’s lips. but they made the kiss look very good, despite james’ discomfort about his breath. hehe.
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