According to the International Movie Database, Michael Greenspan’s debut movie,
Wrecked grossed under $5,000 at the box office. For its lead star, Adrien Brody (Best Actor Academy Award for 2002’s
The Pianist), this is a far cry from the early part of the decade when his movies like
The Village (2004) and
King Kong (2005) were each earning over $110,000,000 at the box office. Brody has made some terrible movies since 2005. These have included
The Darjeeling Limited, The Brothers Bloom, and
The Experiment. The trailer for Wrecked looked intriguing enough. I also wanted to know if Brody had the ability to do what Tom Hanks (
Cast Away) and Will Smith (
I Am Legend) were able to do successfully…star in a movie in which he is (for a majority of the film) the only actor. After watching the film, there is a reason why
Cast Away and
I Am Legend each earned $233,000,000 and $256,000,000 at the box office, respectively, while
Wrecked brought in less than $5,000.
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Everything Must Go was not Will Ferrell’s (Old School, Blades of Glory) first attempt at anything more than silly humor. He did a great job as a socially awkward and isolated IRS agent in Stranger Than Fiction. In more of a subdued role (Winter Passing), Ferrell plays a would-be musician. This movie could have been better, and Ferrell looked out of place. While he can still crank out $100 million laugh-out-loud comedies (2010’s The Other Guys, 2008’s Step Brothers), he is still trying to show the world that he can do more than make people laugh. He does just that in Everything Must Go, a movie with a few subtle laughs but one with its lead character not delivering the joke. In this regard, the film did an excellent job.
After watching 
I was hoping for a good western movie. I didn’t get it. I was looking for some quality actors to shine in roles I hadn’t seen them in before. I did not find that, either. The talented Sam Raimi’s (Spider-Man, For Love of the Game) The Quick and the Dead failed in many aspects. This movie had never been on my “must-see list” but had been on my “hope-to-see list” for the last 15 years. I was hopeful but not optimistic that I would find the movie rewarding. For a western, I have not much happened in this one. The film was very predictable. It was one of those movies with too many stupid coincidences to take seriously.
I don’t know enough about the Thor story coming in, so there were parts of this movie when I wasn’t as confused as I was surprised. I saw Thor after seeing Captain America (even though Thor was released a few months ago). I liked the World War II storyline of Captain America. I also liked the mythology storyline of Thor. However, I was not a fan of the back and forth between and present day. I know that many probably liked this aspect of the movie, but I was so engrossed with the movie’s first 15 minutes that I didn’t want to leave this story to enter “the realm” of the present day.