Friday, July 22, 2011
FOR YOUR GENDER-PROGRESSIVE OWNAGE NEEDS
Ah, Steven Soderbergh. You do genre pictures so gloriously well. And, let's not forget, he has a history with getting good performances out of non-professional actresses in lead roles. There was Debbie Doebereiner in Bubble, who was the manager of a KFC in West Virginia before they made the movie, and was fucking awesome in it (seriously, Bubble is terrific and you all should see it). There was Sasha Grey in The Girlfriend Experience; a lot of people gave her shit for her flat line readings but she held the center of that movie and it was a lot better than most people gave it credit for (and really, a considerable amount of the scoffing was people's prejudice against porn stars in particular and sex workers in general). And, of course, there was Julia Roberts in Erin Brockovich (BOOM HEADSHOT no but seriously Julia Roberts was really good in Erin Brockovich).
So, Gina Carano. She has IRL martial arts skills, which gives her a (quite shapely) leg up on Angelina Jolie. I have optimism. But also, I'm looking forward to seeing the performance Steven Soderbergh manages to coax out of Bill Paxton. Am I actually going to be forced to admit that Bill Paxton gave a good performance in something? I'll salute Soderbergh and writer Lem Dobbs because, damn, that'd be an achievement.
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Did he make this at the same time as CONTAGION? How the HELL did he have time to do that? I mean, this is two movies coming out within FOUR MONTHS of each other. Is that why this is coming out in January, Hollywood's dumping ground? Because there's no Oscar pretension in this thing whatsoever? Or because they want to distance it from the other one? I want answers to my questions, and I want them STAT. (Soderbergh rocks)
ReplyDeleteJanuary's gettin' gentrified. The occasional good picture comes out every couple years or so, though I do wonder why this couldn't have been that proverbial good March action picture. Still, I'm excited.
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