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• warren oates says:

  January 25, 2012 at 2:45 am

  Totally excited to see this. And I say that as a super huge fan of sur­viv­al thrillers in gen­er­al. And a big fan of – I know, I know – SMOKIN’ ACES. And a kind of fan of NARC.

• BobSolo says:

  January 25, 2012 at 9:06 am

  I’ll second the enthu­si­asm for ACES and NARC. They’re both per­fect pulp that have a refresh­ing intern­al consistency.
  Facebook has been inund­ated with ads the last month that ask some­thing along the lines of “do you want to see Liam Neeson kick some furry ass?” And, as much as I hate to admit it, I do. I reaaly do.

• sleepyirv says:

  January 25, 2012 at 2:09 pm

  The pre­view show­ing Liam Neelson cov­er­ing his fists with broken mini­ature con­di­ment bottles to fist fight wolves sold the movie to me in a way noth­ing ever had before.

• Bettencourt says:

  January 25, 2012 at 4:15 pm

  Liked Narc, loathed Smokin’ Aces. If this is any­where near as good as the Tamahori/Mamet The Edge, I’ll be very impressed.

• Graig says:

  January 25, 2012 at 4:24 pm

  You know, I once read an inter­est­ing book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame.

• Oliver_C says:

  January 25, 2012 at 5:18 pm

  Of course, ‘The Edge’ benefited from an actu­al (and acclaimed) ursine, Bart, but how much of the ‘Grey’ wolves is merely pixels?

• Victor Morton says:

  January 25, 2012 at 5:46 pm

  I’d want to see the Werner Herzog remake, com­plete with Liam Neeson and his com­pli­ant girl­friend being eaten on camera.

• Stephen Bowie says:

  January 25, 2012 at 6:07 pm

  But you’d only get to see Werner lec­tur­ing you how he’s not going to let you hear Liam get eaten by the wolves. No fun.

• Ryland Walker Knight says:

  January 25, 2012 at 6:47 pm

  Waron Zevon FTW, as they say

• Tony Dayoub says:

  January 25, 2012 at 7:35 pm

  I saw THE GREY last night, and found it to be sur­pris­ingly sat­is­fy­ing… miles bey­ond what Neeson accom­plished in TAKEN (which I liked). My own review will post tomor­row, and I’m a bit more open about the spoil­er you avoid dis­cuss­ing in your review (a bene­fit of being less widely read than you). But I plan on return­ing to this thread to talk about it (after the reg­u­lars here have had a chance to see it) because I def­in­itely expect it to be the most widely dis­cussed aspect of the film.

• Dan Coyle says:

  January 26, 2012 at 10:04 pm

  Would have liked Narc but for the totally unne­ces­sary and stu­pid final plot twist (Oak’s part­ner­’s death is ruled a murder by the brass early on, and we dis­cov­er in the final scene that’s all he wanted/needed, so why did he both­er try­ing to pin it on those two guys, except that he did­n’t like them? He could have just dis­ap­peared them and saved him­self a big headache).
  Smokin’ Aces is fun, if some­what offens­ive and very overwritten.
  I don’t ever want to talk or think about A‑Team ever again, except to say that Brian Bloom stole that movie.
  BRIAN BLOOM.

• Betttencourt says:

  January 26, 2012 at 10:17 pm

  Brian Bloom (aka BRIAN BLOOM) co-wrote A‑Team, so if he stole it it was an inside job.

• jbryant says:

  January 27, 2012 at 12:50 am

  Dan Coyle: Your descrip­tion of the NARC plot twist reminds me (and Glenn might appre­ci­ate this) of a MURDER, SHE WROTE epis­ode I saw the oth­er day, with Pat Hingle as a newly-retired cop who vows to keep invest­ig­at­ing his only unsolved case, a ten year old murder. Turns out he com­mit­ted the crime him­self, and would’ve totally got­ten away with it if he had just let it lie. Instead, he tried to pin it on someone else, thereby pulling that nosy Jessica Fletcher into his orbit. I’m still try­ing to fig­ure out why the heck he did that.

• DV says:

  January 27, 2012 at 6:07 am

  Just caught a late night show­ing. It’s a sur­pris­ingly effect­ive film. Incredibly bleak but also has some real human­ity to it. After read­ing some reviews online, it seems like crit­ics are pre­tend­ing it dumber/cornier than it is. Im guess­ing alot of these crit­ics also LOVED Drive.

• dave clark says:

  January 27, 2012 at 7:49 pm

  saw “The Grey” today was very pleased with the action and sus­pense and the scenery of the wil­der­ness was breath­tak­ing. We felt the wolves could have been more real­ist­ic or life­like look­ing and the end­ing left us bewildered and won­der­ing why did the movie end this way ? it did abruptly and left us want­ing the cli­max of a won­der­ful fin­ish. whatever sus­pense and excite­ment was cre­ated dur­ing the movie was flushed down the toi­let with the fin­ish. i give it a 3 out of 5. Liam was awe­some as usu­al in his act­ing though!!!

• Dan Coyle says:

  January 28, 2012 at 11:28 pm

  Jbryant: but it’s even worse in Narc: Oak did­n’t murder his part­ner, his part­ner shot him­self (with his own gun, which makes me won­der why that was­n’t caught by forensics), there­fore his wife, whom Oak cares for like a daugh­ter, won’t get his pen­sion, that’s why he has to have it con­firmed as a murder rather than a sui­cide. Yet… every­one believes it’s a murder to begin with! It’s not like the part­ner­’s wife won’t get the pen­sion if the killers are not caught. A case of the writer throw­ing in A TWIST without think­ing, because it was way too obvi­ous from the start Oak wanted to Cover Something Up.
  Smokin’ Aces has a sim­il­ar prob­lem in that the final reveal is obvi­ous from the moment it’s hin­ted at, but at least Carnahan stuck to it.