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Watch SHOOT 'EM UP with the Director - Then Shoot Real Live Human Targets For Fun!!!
Hey folks Harry here with a cool as Clive Owen shooting all types of shit for a couple of hours can be. That's right - we're doing a SHOOT EM UP screening with director Michael Davis - who has a special, just for this screening treat he's been personally working up - and then afterwards - you get to shoot people... INCLUDING - Tim League... and possibly QUINT or MASSAWYRM! I'd volunteer, but it's harder shooting the side of a barn, than shooting me. Anyway - here's the details below...
New Line Cinemas, Fantastic Fest and Ain't It Cool News present:
Shoot Em Up! Sneak preview with live human target afterparty!
Director Michael Davis live in person!
Alamo Drafthouse Village
Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:00 PM
The Movie:
A gritty, fast-paced action thriller, Shoot 'Em Up kicks into high gear with a memorable opening scene and never relents. Clive Owen stars as Mr. Smith, a mysterious loner who teams up with an unlikely ally (Monica Belluci) to protect a newborn baby from a determined criminal (Paul Giamatti) who hunts them throughout the bowels of the city.
The Event:
I don't know about you folks, but after watching this level of relentless ballistic fury, there's only one thing that can cap off the evening correctly: tipping back a few beers and unleashing a few rounds at a live target.
Join us after the screening for the "live human target" afterparty. Successfully shoot the live human target (with paintball rounds) and win fabulous prizes. Everyone at the screening will have a chance to shoot at three live human targets who will be heckling your abilities while trying to avoid your fire. The human targets will also be tossing around a baby. Shoot the baby for a chance at the grand prize! (Note, targets will be live humans, but in the interest of safety, the baby will not be alive).
Tickets for the Shoot 'Em Up sneak preview are available on a first come/first serve basis to Fantastic Fest badge holders. Tickets are free, but if you are a registered Fantastic Fest badge holder, you can reserve your seat by prepurchasing a food and drink voucher at the Alamo Website. If there are still tickets available, they will be made available to the general public on Wednesday, August 29.
Fantastic Fest is an 8 day Film Festival co-presented by Ain't It Cool News and held at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas. Fantastic Fest boasts a lineup of 60 features and 40 shorts: all action, crime, sci-fi, fantasy, horror, Asian and all-around badass cinema. Festival passes are on sale now at the Fantastic Fest website.
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FPS live video gorgeousness!!! The sooner the better for me,this is gonna rock summat awful!
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To me it looks like Z-grade crap that should be starring Lucy Liu.
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So I could go to this thing. I'm pretty good at paintballing, so I wonder if I could use my own to shoot?What kind of protection will they be wearing, 'cause I'd be aiming for the eyes or the gonads.
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The baby isn't alive? Wouldn't you say its not a real human being or its a fucking beanbag, not "The baby isn't alive?" Someone help!! It's a dead baby being paintballed!!
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i pray that this is the movie Smokin Aces should have been.
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The adults will be alive but the baby wont be. Shooting paintballs at a flying dead baby. Sounds like a great time.
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Saw it at the Comic-Con premiere. And no, I'm not a freaking plant.
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...only in LALA Land. I wonder where you Americans get the inspiration to shoot each other all the time?
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Does indeed rule!
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It'ssssssssss AWWWWWWWRIIIIIIIGHT!!!
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Like vich1, I saw this movie at comic con too! Needless to say, If you're able to make to the screening, get prepared to have some serious fun!!!!! This movie kicks asses the size of Harry's!!!!!!
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for yourself! Only Clive Owen could make eating a carrot bad-ass!
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Strangers stop and laugh at you on the highway is what I heard.
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I mean sure, it has it's perks, but so much cool shit happens in Cali, and though I never thought I'd say it, Texas.
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If u have the chance do check it out. I was also one of the few who saw the 2nd screening at ComicCon this year. The director is cool as hell, had a brief chat with him after the Dvd Producers panel where he showed a bit of footage. The first screening was sold out, so they added at 2nd show at midnite and Mike Davis was cool enuff to come out at chat to folks waiting 2 hours for the next showing.
As others have said, this movie is such great fun, some of the most inventive action sequences i've seen in years. The crowd ate this film up definitely one to see with a packed auditorium. Funny after the 1st screening, we saw all these folks walking by with carrots, and couldnt figure out what the hell was going on. Once you see the film, you will know why the theatre was giving them out after the screening.
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So I sent this in to Harry a few weeks ago, and he never ran with it. No worries, it's his site and all, but still...this was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I figured you guys should be warned. If somebody offered you free tickets to see this train wreck, you should ask for a discount. Anyways....my review:
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So there's a scene in the film "Shoot 'Em Up" where Clive Owen tells another character that she should eat more carrots, as they're good for her eyes. That's kind of funny, because by the end of the movie I wanted to run to the nearest sharp object and gouge my eyes out.
It should be said that this is my first time writing in to Ain't it Cool. I've seen plenty of screeners since moving to New York, but this is the first one I've seen where the audience was treated so poorly, and the film so viciously offensive that I've felt required to write a review.
Maybe I should start from the beginning.
The line into the showing was only the beginning. I'm a professional photographer, and normally carry around a forty year old Nikon F. When I got to the bag check, a security guard told me that I'd have to leave it behind. Now, for the non photographer among us, the Nikon F is a 35mm still camera, so I asked him what he thought I might do with it.
"Well, you could pirate the film." I looked down into the bag at the two rolls I'd brought with me, and told him "I don't think I brought enough film."
Snarkiness, apparently, will get you nowhere, as I was pulled aside and searched again. These guys seemed to have trained with either Mossad, the CIA, or the MPAA; because I had to go through two more searches, one with a hand held metal detector. My asshole still hurts.
Then there's the movie...I'm not going to bother with a spoiler warning, because that would imply a plot to this story. There might be one there, but if so I couldn't find it. Regardless, it opened with a shootout involving a carrot fetishist Clive Owen, a pregnant woman (where, I shit you not, Owen's character shoots the umbilical cord) and a gaggle of faceless bad guys, and ends with a brutally unfunny, slumming Paul Giamatti feeling up the (now dead) pregnant woman's tits.
That pretty much set the mood for the rest of the film
I've seen some pretty bad movies; I sat through Showgirls, Battlefield Earth, Silent Hill, and once accidentally flipped to the Lifetime Network. Nothing compares to this cinematic abortion. And throughout the film, between sneaking peeks at the night vision equipped security goons I couldn't help but thinking....Clive Owen? The same acting genius from Children of Men? The same skeevy bastard from Croupier? Didn't he learn his lesson from King Arthur? And Paul Giamatti? What the hell were they thinking? At what point did somebody think it would be a great idea for a flick to have a shootout where the main character's holding a 9mm in one hand, a baby in another?
The dialogue was worse then awful, the humor wandering between unfunny and grotesque, the action scenes were terrible....the only redeeming thing I can think of is....well...
....give me a minute...
....well, I suppose the lighting was only slightly better then amateur.
Anyways....if somebody gave you the option of watching this or spending an hour and a half rubbing your eyes with sandpaper, pick out a good beer, some coarse grain paper and start rubbing, because you'll have twice as much fun doing that then sitting through this movie.
C.S.
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Look, I'm willing to suspend reality as much as the next guy for a good action flick, but from what I've seen in the trailers, this one gets abit out of hand. Crashing his car head on so that he goes through the bad guys car? Sliding the entire length of the floor? C'mon, how about a drop or two of realistic physics?
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All i can say is watch the film. Its fun. Didnt say its 'realistic' at all. We could spend all day ripping apart films for unrealistic physics.
But for the record, he doesnt slide all the way across the floor..maybe a 20 feet, obviously helped by a huge oil spill which he creates by shooting a hole in a tank or something. That could totally happen, right? ;-) I'm a HUGE John Woo fan but none of that stuff is remorely realistic either...the film has a great tone, and dark humour, which i think some folks will enjoy. As far as the bad screening experience, that kinda sucks, but the ComicCon tickets went kinda overboard ecplaining that you need to leave cameras in your car, dont bring them, etc, etc,. Then they didnt check anyone. I understand studios are very worried about folks taping films in screenings, especially with all the new phones that can record an entire film. Oh well.
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There are two types of people in this world. The first group of people hear: "Clive Owen plays a homeless James Bond type, shoots an umbilical cord, has a shoot out during sex, and the whole movie is like Hard Boiled meets Looney Tunes." They laugh and think that sounds like a ton of fun. The second group of people hear that and think it sounds like crap. Who gives a shit what they think? Or you? Sorry you decided to bring a camera with you, but comparing this movie to Battlefield Earth is just about the most hyperbolic bullshit thing I've ever read on this site. This movie is a ton of fun and why the hell wouldn't Clive Owen want to play this character? He's one of the biggest badasses in action movies ever.
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Muncy- face it- you're just an asshole who doesn't get any action. The film rocks hard. Your family hates you. Eat shit and die.
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I love action films, even some pretty dumb ones (don't tell me Commando was smart), but this film was REALLY dumb.. and not very interesting...
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that review is dead on.. this movie is pretty bad. I hope this movie doesn't do well, because if it becomes a blockbuster I will have lost ALL faith in humanity.
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Here is a great, long interview with the director of Shoot Em Up that gets pretty raunchy.
http://www.iklipz.com/MovieDetail.aspx?MovieID=4f396ec2-37b9-4e7b-a521-55c9de3abe88 -
"Why do we have so much gun violence?"
Well, start by looking at how much you glorify the fucking things in your culture. For fuck's sake. -
Hey Fartgod...did we go to High School together, or something?
And in response to TequilaMocking; As far as "Hard Boiled meets Looney Tunes?" As far as I'm concerned, this was amongst the lowest form of entertainment, and the people from that first group you mentioned are likely the sort who enjoy American Idol, cable access wrestling, and Nascar racing.
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Please don't over simplify a complex social and cultural issue. Guns are glorified in cinema and various mediums throughout the world. And as far as gun ownership to gun violence ratios it varies from nation to nation, with some of the safest nations in the world are those with an armed populace. Before I get attacked on that statement I am merely offering it as a counter example, I in no way mean to imply that guns create safety either.
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I know. I am one. However, Americans are also generally very comfortable at war. The violent movies are a symptom of our 60-some year war fever, but they are not the cause. After all, the major genocides occuring today are happening in places where electricity, let alone televisions, are accessible only to the wealthy and powerful.
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The mother must be extremely pissed!
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The second you lumped this film in with Nascar is the second you became a dick. The thing I keep noticing is that the FEW people that didn't like this movie also hated Crank.
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I'll lump this movie in with Nascar, pork rinds, ultimate cage fighting, rerurns of Cops and hip tattoos of Taz; because the kind of person who enjoys this movie are probably the same kind of assholes who enjoy the bits mentioned above. Look, I actually kind of dug Crank, because it had things that this flick didn't, namely creativity. Where Crank actually felt like it had a pulse; a spark of something unique, this movie just feels like a by the numbers, numb and soulless directing. It reminds me of a crappy video game adaptation of an already crappy film. You mentioned Looney Tunes and Hard Boiled before....if I had to guess the geneology of this flick, I would have picked it out as the semi retarded, bastard child of Last Action Hero and the worst parts of Formula 51 (which was pretty much every part.)
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Does Monica get naked? if not a sex scene with her during a gun fight in a rated R movie would kinda suck. I can't believe the hate for this movie. Can nobody just grab a pile of popcorn and enjoy the crazy stupid antics. It looks like a hilarious movie full of action. I can't wait to go see it.
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I will be aiming for the dead baby!
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Neither do I...but I LOVE this movie.
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Well said. The WEIRD thing I'm hearing about Shoot Em' Up is that the movie has some big pro-gun control message, which sounds like a huge crock of shit to me. Not that anti-gun people can't enjoy guns in movies, but should a movie that makes a big deal about glorifying guns and their use then turn to the audience and say "support gun control"? It's like making a sex comedy and then turning to the audience and saying "Sex is bad, practice abstinence."
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What were you expecting from a movie called SHOOT 'EM UP?
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Wait until you see the film. It actually works in context and is smartass enough to not be pretentious.
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The gun control message is going to have to be VERY cleverly done for it not to seem like one of the lamest messages in cinema history.
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It's not a message movie.
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Porn for the plot? I'm the kind of dick who watches for production value, lighting, camera angles, costume design, etc.
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source Superbad when you're ripping it off, CSMuncy.
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...This year's CRANK, by which I mean this year's ultra violent amoral balls-to-the-wall smackdown. And yes, I am a plant. Of the potato variety.
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