{"id":8967,"date":"2010-07-08T22:47:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T03:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:43:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:43:05","slug":"new-releases-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/08\/new-releases-july-9\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong><\/a>1.<\/strong> Despicable Me (Universal, 3, 474 Theaters, 95 Minutes, Rated PG): <\/strong>For the longest time, I had no idea what this film was about. Every poster I saw had those minion things on it and I couldn’t understand what they had to do with the film. Did the film chronicle their lives in some strange otherworldy place? Was it a film about sentient bacteria?<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that they are minions of an evil scientist who has fallen on hard times. He has been dealing with stiff competition from a rival evil scientist and has lost his standing in the evil scientist community. But he has a plan to gain back his swagger–to steal the moon! Only one hitch. A trio of adorable orphans enter his life and teach him that there are\u00a0more important things than stealing the moon. Like being a good dad.<\/p>\n

This is done by Universal’s CGI animation department, so it is not a sure bet like Pixar or Dreamworks. Steve Carell is great in everything he does, so his lending his voice to the film can’t be anything but a good thing. This is the film I’ll probably see in my rare day out. But I am holding out judgement.<\/p>\n

Although,\u00a0I have to say, I am a little more encouraged after reading FBOL’s John Gibbon’s review of the film. If you want the opinion of the person who actually saw this film, please click here<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/strong><\/a>2. Predators (Fox, 2, 669 Theaters, 106 Minutes, Rated R): <\/strong>I’m am unabashedly a fan of the first Predator<\/strong>. I love the way it turned from an action movie\u00a0to a\u00a0Ten Little Indians-<\/strong>like thriller. I would have to say it ranks with Commando <\/strong>and Terminator <\/strong>as some of Arnold’s best work.<\/p>\n

The sequel? Well, not so much. I only saw Predator 2 <\/strong>once, and I found it kind of boring. Moving the monster to the concrete jungle instead of the leaf and mud jungle was a mistake, and seemed to take the suspense out of the story idea.<\/p>\n

So, when I heard this film would erase that film and replace it as the next-in-line sequel to Predator<\/strong>, I was very happy. And when I heard that Robert Rodriguez was involved and the premise behind it, I was even more stoked.<\/p>\n

The plot is that a group of the most feared hunters Earth has to offer–a Yakuza assassin, a mercenary, a serial killer and others–are kidnapped and taken to the Predator homeworld to be hunted themselves.<\/p>\n

It’s a premise that put an interesting spin on the plot of the original while adding something new. Hopefully, the end result can match the potential.<\/p>\n

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