Comments on: Hunter Stephenson’s Movie Review: Wanted

By: Thumb

Thumb — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:34:09 +0000

Dear Matrix,

Allow me to move my penis a bit to the left so you can lick my balls.

Yours in radness,

Wanted

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:37:41 +0000

@Amy
I wasn’t really satisfied with the story either. If the narration wasn’t there it would’ve been a long 2hrs. The humor, quirkiness, cinematography, and action were the highlights for me.
I loved Crank and Shoot Em Up so you could say I’m a wee bit bias in this genre. :)

By: john

john — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:25:18 +0000

Angie Jolie is the ugliest woman i have ever seen.

By: edog

edog — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:11:23 +0000

I thought it was pretty sick — though the first hour is cribbed straight from Matrix I and the “inspiration” doesn’t end there. The opening sequence and the run through the loom house was worth the $10.50.

I’d definitely recommend renting Nightwatch and Daywatch if you liked the director’s visual play. They’re a fun take on the vampire story.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:53:06 +0000

Haha - fair enough… i DID enjoy the action sequences they were rad, i was just expecting amazing action AND amazing story-line. asking too much? perhaps…

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:45:17 +0000

@Amy
Maybe you went to the wrong action movie. I went to the one where bullets curve, people run at 80mph, bombs are strapped to rats, snipers can shoot people from miles away, and people get execution notices from fucking looms.

By: Amy

Amy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:32:31 +0000

The movie was terrible… the “Loom of Fate” - REALLY??!

By: MaK

MaK — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:41:48 +0000

I don’t get it, why are you mad at guy for helping a kid??
Is that something wrong in America!!!?

By: Aqualeo

Aqualeo — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:14:59 +0000

loved it! it’s a lot like fight club for twenty year olds w/guns

By: Quan

Quan — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:23:46 +0000

@Brian
Same thing happened when I went to see it. Someone brought a baby to the movie and it cried so much they eventually had to leave early.

By: DrafthouseGuy

DrafthouseGuy — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:12:46 +0000

Saw both WallE and Wanted this weekend. Enjoyed both, liked Wanted much better though. See both films on the big screen this summer…

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:37:14 +0000

My gf and I enjoyed it. After my stressful week it was just fun to watch something that crazy and fun. Both her and I agreed that it was not a perfect film but again it was fun. I just love the last line of the movie “What the fuck have you done to day!” Just love how it was just a big fuck you to the world and how it is. Now the insane part about going to see ‘Wanted’ for me and my was a 20year old couple that brought their damn 3yr old daugheter to see it! My gf was pissed she was going to yell out something at them but I stopped her that one.

By: Mira

Mira — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:36:18 +0000

Personally, I enjoyed it. It was even better than I thought it would, and I already thought it would be good… I like this new underdog-as-the-hero thing going on in movies nowadays.

By: Claude

Claude — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:03:20 +0000

Bleh… I was very disappointing with this movie. All the action sequences were really good but the problem was that there were not enough of them. I mean seriously when I go to watch a movie like wanted I’m just looking for some cool action why they wasted so much time on lame exposition is beyond me. The whole first hour with the introduction and the training was very boring. I felt that the intro stuff went on for way too long. I enjoyed the first 10 mins of iintro to Wesley but it kept going on and on. The story was lame and I don’t hold that against the movie… what my problem is that they wasted too much time on the story not on action. That is the reason movies like Cloverfield and Shoot em up are much better, they knew what they were trying to do and did not was time on obligatory exposition… they got straight to the meat where as this one does not… oh well whatever.

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:53:47 +0000

@ jerry butler

No sure what happened to your first comment, to answer your new comment (that needs to be approved)…

“with ticket prices @ ~$12, would you recommend going out to see this flick, or will torrent do fine?”

Yeah, I’d recommend going to see it in a theater. The scope of the stunts/assassinations is worth the ticket price. Also, it will be a while before an R-rated comic book film hits the screen again, especially one that is this cocky and swimming with kinetic violence.

By: Jerry Speelberg

Jerry Speelberg — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:31:11 +0000

She adopts balck children, so the answer is clearly……yes.

that’s whats up with all the tats. She’s begun her flesh color transformation……..one piece of skin pigment at a time.

this convo just begs for a photochop job of Jolie as a black person. or…not.

By: wakeup123

wakeup123 — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:21:21 +0000

Shame on you Jolie this is a black female role, not a white one, do you want to be black, what’s up with this!!!!

By: Jerry the man the myth Butler

Jerry the man the myth Butler — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:17:15 +0000

As far as the film, with ticket prices @ ~$12, would you recommend going out to see this flick, or will torrent do fine?

By: Hunter Stephenson

Hunter Stephenson — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:44:51 +0000

@ jerry butler

hello. to clarify, i don’t think the fat guy buying candy was up to anything illegal. if anything he was a sugar molester.

@ IndieFilm

The next Repo Man? Cult classics open to $50 mill+?

By: The Jezzus

The Jezzus — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:29:19 +0000

The review was fun to read…

I guess I kind of feel the same. I’m all for mindless violence as long as it “looks” cool, but as a person that grew up in the “Die Hard” days of action, I can only agree that these new action movies are falling short.

The advancement of CGI tircks, and other computer generated stuff I think is the culprit because it gives the director an excuse to be cheesy at the expense of telling a good scene/story.

Cult classic? Maybe, but this film just pulls 9/10 elements from other movies, and just matches them, and one-ups them at times. No too much originality. If the hero and the story could match the action, then we could be talking about a next-gen action flick that might give McClane a run for his money.

Watching Wall-E today. What a contrast….