Showing posts with label Brad Pitt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brad Pitt. Show all posts

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Top Ten Movies I Want To See Based on Trailers

Wow, that's an unwieldy title.
Okay, so here's what this is all about. Most of the time, the reason I see a movie is because an actor I like is in it, or I like the director, or someone cool told me it was awesome, etc. I don't usually just decide to see a movie based on a trailer. So I took a look at twenty some trailers of movies that I want to see (but haven't seen yet), and then made a list of the ten that I would choose to see based JUST on the trailer. Here we go in order:

Thursday, October 14, 2010

Se7en (1995)

Se7en is not a movie for the faint of heart. It's not the most disturbing movie ever, far from it, but it contains a bit more than it's share of chilling murder scenes. There are two homicide detectives working together in a high crime city. Brad Pitt plays a younger, headstrong, reckless detective. Morgan Freeman plays an older, jaded, tired detective who's seen to much and is retiring in seven days. Both actors do a good job, but Freeman's performance is blatantly superior, as he uses his considerable acting heft to lend belief to his character. Both are helped along by the few supporting characters and overall the incredibly cliched characters manage to become believable.