It is important to consider the context of “Zero Dark Thirty” before you view the movie. Director Kathryn Bigelow and her crew were already in pre-production on The Battle of Tora Bora, once believed to be a hideout for Osama Bin Laden. When the real-life S.E.A.L. Team Six raided a compound in Pakistan and killed Bin Laden in May of 2011, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal started from scratch and decided to focus on the decade long search for the terrorist mastermind… (Continue Reading at Examiner.com)
Political messages are no stranger in today’s Hollywood. Republican or Democrat, actors and filmmakers can’t help but integrate their personal message into their movies, especially when it comes to the environment. In “Promised Land”, Damon plays Steve Butler, a salesman for Global Crosspower Solutions, a natural gas company. His job, along with his partner Sue Thomason (Frances McDormand), is to go into small towns with a big smile on his face and convince people to sell their land to allow for the drilling of natural gas. He is, maybe without realizing it, a puppet con artist. He smiles, shakes hands and offers these people, who are struggling already, the promise of possibly millions of dollars in return for the right to tear up their land.
Based on the crime novel “One Shot” by British author, Lee Childs, “Jack Reacher” begins with a lone gunman picking off innocent civillians — a scene that may hit close to home for some. Pittsburgh police are on the scene quickly and a quick investigation points to former military sniper, James Barr (Joseph Sikora). Barr is quickly detained but instead of confessing to the five murders, he asks only for Jack Reacher (Cruise), a former military cop who isn’t so much into asking a lot of pointless questions as he is in just bring bad guys to brutal and painful justice.
It is important to consider the context of “Zero Dark Thirty” before you view the movie. Director Kathryn Bigelow and her crew were already in pre-production on The Battle of Tora Bora, once believed to be a hideout for Osama Bin Laden. When the real-life S.E.A.L. Team Six raided a compound in Pakistan and killed Bin Laden in May of 2011, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal started from scratch and decided to focus on the decade long search for the terrorist mastermind… (Continue Reading at Examiner.com)
