Posts tagged Matthew McConaughey
The Lincoln Lawyer – Movie Trailer
Mar 30th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Movie Trailers
Matthew McConaughey stars in this legal thriller as a low-rent defense attorney named Mickey Haller. Most of the time, Mickey barely keeps his head above water, representing low-life clients and working out of the back of his car. He thinks he’s landed the case of a lifetime when he’s hired to defend a rich playboy (Ryan Phillippe) who stands accused of rape and attempted murder, and eagerly accepts his new client and the massive payoff that’s sure to come with him. But Mickey soon discovers that he’s become ensnared in a twisted plot where no fee in the world is high enough to pay for the deadly workload, and his only hope of survival may just lay in his own skills as a long-practiced double-crosser.
“The Lincoln Lawyer” Surprise Endings
Mar 30th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
“Surprise Endings”
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
THE LINCOLN LAWYER stars Matthew McConaughey as Mick Haller, a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles who works out of the back seat of his chauffeur-driven Lincoln town car.
Earl is Mick’s chauffeur, because Mick lost his driver’s license, but at one point in the movie, Mick tells Earl that he got his license back three month’s earlier.
So, is Mick kind? Vain? Flush with money?
For all we know, Mick might be all three, because at the beginning of the movie, his Lincoln is pulled over by a motorcycle gang whose leader pays Mick $10,000 on top of a previous $5,000 he had paid to get one of the gang’s members out of jail.
The leader of the gang is played by country-music singer Trace Adkins, and the gang will play an important part in the story later in the movie.
And as Mick says, “Rule 1: I get paid, or I don’t work.”
However, the important case of Mick’s that makes up the bulk of the movie is defending a wealthy kid, Louis Roulet, who is accused of assault and attempted rape of a woman he met in a bar.
Mick takes the case even though his investigator, played by William H. Macy, tells Mick that the kid feels “wrong” to him.
Marisa Tomei is also in the movie as Maggie, Mick’s ex-wife who is also a prosecuting attorney. However, Maggie doesn’t have much to do with Mick’s big case, but is more there as someone Mick can go out with at night and they can have a drink together.
So, you can see that Mick has a fairly complicated personal life, and it gets more complicated when the case goes to trial and Mick discovers that his client, Louis, is playing mind games with him.
Louis refuses to take the deal that he is offered by the prosecutor, and everything gets even more interesting when Mick starts playing mind games with Louis after Mick learns some information that might have some bearing on the current case.
At one point you will even ask yourself whose side is Mick on, anyway?
To say that the movie has a surprise ending is an understatement.
THE LINCOLN LAWYER is very entertaining, and it has two surprise endings– no, make that three surprise endings–no, make that four.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”
“Tropic Thunder” Movie Disguised as Another Movie
Sep 4th
Posted by Channel 1 Networks in Hotshots Movie Reviews
Movie Disguised as Another Movie
“Hotshots” looks at a movie!
TROPIC THUNDER is an R-rated comedy that is a spoof of war movies, of Hollywood actors, and of Hollywood itself, but the best thing in it is a famous actor spoofing himself that you might not even recognize.
And, no, I am not talking about Robert Downey, Jr.
Nor am I talking about Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Nick Nolte, or Matthew McConaughey, who also appear in the movie.
The story is about the modern-day making of a Vietnam war movie, and it is one of those disastrous efforts in which everything that can go wrong does go wrong, and then even more goes wrong on top of that. In fact, after just five days of shooting in Southeast Asia, the project is already one month behind schedule.
The studio wants to shut down the production, but the director comes up with a novel plan to save time and money. He sets the five main actors down in the middle of the jungle, tells them that they have to reach a certain destination on a map, explosions will go off around them, hidden cameras will record the action, and the scene won’t be over until they reach their final destination.
Unfortunately, something goes horribly wrong right at the start and the production shuts down, but the actors don’t know that and keep following the plan.
One of them is Kirk Lazarus, an Australian five-time Oscar winner who is the epitome of method acting. He is playing a Black sergeant, has undergone a skin treatment that actually turned his skin dark, and he stays in character, he says, until he does the DVD commentary for the movie.
In fact, he says, “I’m the dude playing the dude, disguised as another dude.”
So, the movie becomes a one-joke movie: lost in the jungle without a clue.
But the actors fight among themselves, one gets separated from the rest, and it becomes a two-joke movie.
Then they encounter a drug gang whom they mistake for actors playing enemy soldiers, and it becomes a three-joke movie.
Finally, back in Hollywood the foul-mouthed head of the studio is ranting and raving, the lead actor’s agent is trying to negotiate perks for his client, and it becomes a four-joke movie.
TROPIC THUNDER is best described as a movie playing the movie, disguised as another movie.
I’m Dan Culberson and this is “Hotshots.”