This was moved up from fall to the middle of the summer. Apparently it's that good. I doubt anything with that guy from John Carter and that girl from Gossip Girl can be any good. But who knows? <div style="background-color:#000000;width:520px;"><div style="padding:4px;"><iframe src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:756222/cp~vid%3D756222%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A756222" width="512" height="288" frameborder="0"></iframe><p style="text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;">Get More: <a href="http://www.mtv.com4725" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Emile Hirsch</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com10126" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Blake Lively</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com3560" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Benicio Del Toro</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com13517" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Aaron Johnson</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com2555" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Uma Thurman</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com2722" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Salma Hayek</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com2557" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">John Travolta</a>, <a href="http://www.mtv.com/movies/trailer_park/" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Movie Trailers</a>, <a href="http://moviesblog.mtv.com/" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">Movies Blog</a></p></div></div> Here's the synopsis: Three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller Savages, featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch and Demian Bichir. The film is based on Don Winslow’s best-selling crime novel that was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of 2010. Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry—raising some of the best mar1juana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Lively). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town…until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them. When the merciless head of the BC, Elena (Hayek), and her brutal enforcer, Lado (Del Toro), underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon—with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (Travolta)—wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.
The book was pretty good. Winslow can spin a tale. The movie will probably suck though, but I'll keep my hopes high.
I don't know the book or anything, but something seems a little unseemly to make some kind of fantasy out of the Mexican drug cartel violence. I think a story about California hippies resisting Mexican hitmen that doesn't end in decapitations within the first 15 minutes will strain credulity.
Winslow knows cartel. I don't know if Stone does. The Power of the Dog is a good peek into just how the cartels arose from 40 years of US bumble**** intervention into the Mexican drug trade.
Looks like every R-rated movie from the mid-to-late nineties. Without examining to closely I'm guessing there's light-hearted extraneous dialogue, stylized, stop-motion shootout scenes; sympathetic villains, unsympathetic or bumbling cops, and quasi-cameos galore.
Full Trailer. Turrible! <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KC2zbOwbeEs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
In addition to being a fan of weed, one of the two main characters is navy seal who has a hardon for violence.
