That doesn’t seem to have translated into much interest from film critics, however, who are mostly kind of unimpressed. While I haven’t seen a single episode of Murphy’s shows, I gather he is associated with a certain degree of offbeat innovation and has clearly touched a nerve on two on the small screen. I don’t think that’ s just because I’m male. It’s an adaptation of a memoir about a divorced woman going on a worldwide physical and spiritual “journey of self-realization.” I don’t know about you but when I hear “self-realization” and especially “journey of self-realization” I check out completely. If you do as well, you might want to check out the salute to the sturdy sub-genre posted over at the Bullz-Eye blog.įor the more femininely chromosomed, this week’s big draw is supposed to be “Eat Pray Love” from director Ryan Murphy, best known as the creator of TV’s “Glee” and “Nip/Tuck,” and starring an actress you may remember named Julia Roberts. I do have an affection for the ensemble action film genre. For me, Stallone’s career peaked 35 years ago with his hilarious performance in “Death Race 2000” - “Rocky” has never done much for me and “Rambo: First Blood 2” did even less - but I still might be checking this one out at some point. Critics, for the most part, aren’t overly impressed, though a sizeable enough minority are treating the film as a campy, action-packed good time. Of course, when I speak movies of aimed at us penile-Americans, I speak of the R-rated mega-macho ultraviolent action fest, “ The Expendables.” The ensemble-action flick is directed, cowritten and co-starring Sylvester Stallone and features Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, and assorted other manly men who are masculine males in supporting roles and cameos.Ĭinema prognosticators Ben Fritz and good old jolly Carl DiOrio seem to think this movie will easily take the top spot for Lionsgate to the tune of about $30-35 million with its appeal to males of all ages. If we are to believe the prognosticators this weekend, testosterone will rule in a weekend which could turn out to be the most exciting movie three-way showdown since the climax of “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.” The impression is that it really does threaten to send the genders, and possibly even the generations, on their separate ways at the nation’s multiplexes.
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