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Savages: by Thadeus K. Brown
Every time Oliver Stone comes to the big screen, the nostalgic thought comes to mind, (Wall Street), which is a great made film, and (Platoon) which won stone his first oscar win for best director. With a fantastic resume, Can Savages live up to the expectations of previous stone films?
Chon, played by (Taylor Kitsch) is part of a drug rising and selling business with his best friend Ben (Aaron Johnson). Together, they have an empire of marijuana. Also, in their empire, they are both in love with O (Blake Lively, who plays a true slut, Haha). Mexican Cartel leader Elena, played by the ever so beautiful, (Selma Hayek), who plays a very passionate cartel leader, who when seeing her on screen, you know she has complete power. Elena wants to work with Chon and Ben, and use their knowledge of the drug business to make one huge profit. Along the way we are introduced to Lado (Benicio Del Toro), who steals every single scene in the movie with such a charismatic style, and Dennis performed by (John Travolta), who personally I’m not a fan of, plays a surprisingly good part as a wacky, but intelligent C.I.A agent. With both Chon and Ben not accepting the generous offer from Elena, O is kidnapped and all hell breaks lose, with Chon and Ben doing whatever they can to get her back in their arms, and I mean will do “ANYTHING” to get her back.
Savages have fine performances all around, from Aaron Johnson, all the way to Travolta. Taylor Kitsch has had one horrible flop of a year. John Carter, and Battleship. I haven’t seen Battleship, but saw John Carter which I thought had a tone of potential, but just ended up being average. Both these two films have been major cinema flops. So, Kitsch has had a very unfortunate year. In Savages, I thought Taylor Kitsch had one of the finest performances, and enjoyed him a lot in his third leading role of the year. Overall, I believe Kitsch needs to stick to this type of realistic hard knocks role. The movie is very entertaining, with a good plot and good twists and turns. There are a couple of very eye opening action scenes, But those action scenes are only in the movie so the film can keep at a steady pace, especially with all the plot twists going on. Overall, Savages was high on my expectations list and I enjoyed this movie a lot. Defiantly one of the better movies I have seen this year. Glad to see Oliver Stone turned to the dark side of film. Savages is a very violent film, that works so well. Back to the question, does Savages live up to the resume of previous Oliver Stone film? I will happily say that Savages is Oliver Stone's better work in recent years, but no where near his best.
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FULL PRICE
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Comment by Thadeus K. Brown on August 13, 2012 at 12:21am -
yeah i guess these type of movies just aren't popular? i do know that it was not advertised very well like you said, and i wish people would give this flick a chance because it is a lot of fun to watch. maybe it will do better on DVD? but, boy does Del Toro still every scene?
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Comment by Alex Zambrano on August 12, 2012 at 12:33pm -
I definitely agree with your rating of this movie. It is a sheer full price. Unfortunately, this movie hasn't made any money and has not been received well by critics and audiences. I was pretty shocked to hear about this because Savage is an awesome movie. I'm not sure where the movie went wrong because the acting was exceptional (especially Benicio Del Toro), and the movie is alot of fun to watch. Maybe the violence in the movie deterred audiences, but that's never a good reason, so I don't know how this movie didn't get the praise it deserved. I enjoyed this movie alot. I do think however that they didn't advertise this movie enough because most people didn't even know it was playing in theaters. I also did have my doubts before I saw this movie but I was pleasantly surprised by how good it was.
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Comment by Arsène Lupin the Third on August 7, 2012 at 4:55pm -
The main reason I don't want the studio to think "well it sucked in theathers but did great on dvd so if we make a sequel maybe the dvd crowd may go out and see it."
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Comment by Thadeus K. Brown on August 7, 2012 at 4:46pm
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true. i believe battleship comes out on dvd soon.
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Comment by Arsène Lupin the Third on August 7, 2012 at 4:32pm
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No I'm avoiding it for a few reasons (1.the only way to currently see it involves me paying someone beside comcast)
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Comment by Thadeus K. Brown on August 7, 2012 at 4:31pm
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yes, i agree. i liked him alot in john carter, he defiantly was'nt the reason why that movie was'nt good. have you seen battleship?
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Comment by Arsène Lupin the Third on August 4, 2012 at 10:50pm
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He can do the fantasy epics but needs a good director
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