{"id":4387,"date":"2010-03-30T22:41:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T02:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2014-12-15T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T21:39:05","slug":"shoot-em-up-2007-michael-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/4387","title":{"rendered":"Shoot &#8217;em Up (2007, Michael Davis)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take Clive Owen and give him a gun and you&#8217;ve got <em>The International<\/em>, I guess.  But give him and everyone else lots and lots of guns and you have this, which must be an improvement.  I don&#8217;t know how Davis (director of two dorm comedies and a monster-truck thriller) landed Owen, Paul Giamatti as a sneering baddie, or the budget to make a big-ass action movie, but he&#8217;s made the most of it &#8211; ambitious, gleefully unrealistic action scenes &#8211; and good thing, too, since it might be his last chance (it died at the box office).<\/p>\n<p><em>Did anyone even envision Paul Giamatti appearing in a scene like this?<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/shootemup1.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n<p>Clive rescues a baby (hello, <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/180\">Children of Men<\/a><\/em>) which is possibly a clone of a senator who backs gun control, so a gun company (led by <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/3556\">Pontypool<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s Stephen McHattie) is trying to have the clone-baby killed?  Something like that.  Anyway, Clive kills two people with carrots (he has a thing for carrots) so I&#8217;m not thinking the plot details make a big difference.  Besides the carrots, it&#8217;s full of terrible 80&#8217;s-throwback one-liners, and terrible 80&#8217;s-throwback gender politics &#8211; any women are either moms (Ramona Pringle, killed early) or prostitutes (Monica Bellucci of those <em>Matrix<\/em> sequels).<\/p>\n<p><em>I love the low-tech tape deck they use for the ol&#8217; fake-baby trick:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image10\/shootemup2.jpg\" alt=\"image\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take Clive Owen and give him a gun and you&#8217;ve got The International, I guess. But give him and everyone else lots and lots of guns and you have this, which must be an improvement. I don&#8217;t know how Davis (director of two dorm comedies and a monster-truck thriller) landed Owen, Paul Giamatti as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[369,404,655],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-clive-owen","tag-paul-giamatti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9658,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/9658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}