It's a slower
weekend, quantity-wise, than we've seen recently. The quality level,
though, may be on the higher end of the spectrum, if some of the
early word on both movies turns out to be true. With that in mind,
let's see what's in store for us this weekend.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Director: Guy
Ritchie
Writers: Guy
Ritchie, Lionel Wigram, Jeff Kleeman, David C. Wilson
Starring: Henry
Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, Elizabeth Debicki
You know who's
really good looking? The entire cast of this movie. That appears to
be at least part of the point of this ode to '60s television and
James Bond, in which secret agents fight, then team up, then bicker a
little before beating the real enemy. That's a straightforward
plot and it's more than okay to go ahead with it, because the movie
will butter its bread with how well the performers can push the
“charming” and “witty” buttons while punching people and zip
lining over the Berlin Wall.
Plus it's directed
by Guy Ritchie, who is a nifty little action filmmaker I will forever
associate with putting Jason Statham in a silly long-hair wig.
Straight Outta Compton
Director: F. Gary
Gray
Writers: Jonathan
Herman, Andrea Berloff, S. Leigh Savidge, Alan Wenkus
Starring: O'Shea
Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Neil Brown Jr.
I won't pretend
that I know a bunch about the history of N.W.A. But I'll tell you,
that trailer has me curious to learn more. As all biopics are, it
will likely be overly simplified from reality, with some heavy “our
heroes vs. the world” symbolism. But the hip-hop group was part of the culture that the government felt it just had to censor with the music rating system, lest the youth fall into a state of misbehavior. So it really is
them against a big enemy trying to make them be quiet. That's
powerful stuff well worth celebrating. Hopefully it doesn't go too
far into hagiography like most biopics do, but for some reason I
think it will mostly avoid those traps.
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