It’s exasperating when a talented enough cast and crew turn out such a spiraling mess of a film. In Johnny Depp’s latest, The Rum Diary, that’s pretty much what you get: a good looking/sounding mess, but a mess all the same that overstays its welcome with little payoff to the characters, let alone the viewers.
Occasionally, a film opts to tell the story of a theory rather than historical fact. Furthermore, real-life conspiracies often make their way into films. In honor of Anonymous hitting theaters this weekend, let’s take a look at five other films that dealt with conspiracies.
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It makes the world go
round, some people got to have it and you can buy a new car, caviar – a four
star daydream. Sometimes however – as is the case with this weekends new
release In Time – value can be linked
far more closely to life and death than cool coins in your pocket. In honour of
that sci-fi thriller, in which actual time is the currency of the future,
Player Affinity will look at how that green manifests itself in some other
futuristic adaptations.
Margin Call does for business what The Ides of March did for politics. It tells a familiar, high-stakes story about people making difficult and morally-questionable decisions. And like George Clooney’s film from earlier this month, rookie writer/director J.C. Chandor’s film isn’t afraid to get very technical on its viewers. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the basic causes of the financial crisis, you very well might get lost, but this talky thriller is surprisingly tense, features a number of exceptional performances, and is certainly worth 100 minutes of your time.
The film opens on Eric Dale’s (Stanley Tucci) last day on the job at an anonymous (but presumably large) Wall St. financial firm. He’s been laid off, along with dozens of others, and on his way out, he leaves his protégé, Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto), with a memory stick and a message: “Be careful.”
The Farrelly Brothers want Jeff Daniels and Jim Carrey to reprise their roles as the not-so-smart best friends, Harry and Lloyd. Sean Anders and John Morris, who collaborated to write Sex Drive, Hot Tub Time Machine, and Carrey-starrer Mr. Popper’s Penguins, have been brought on to pen the script.
Paul Walker, star of the popular “Fast and Furious” franchise, is in talks to star in Brick Mansion, a remake of the 2004 French action film District 13. Acclaimed filmmaker Luc Besson, whose recent writing credits include the original District 13 and 2009’s successful Liam Neeson vehicle Taken, will be penning the American adaptation.
