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Watch SHOOT 'EM UP with the Director - Then Shoot Real Live Human Targets For Fun!!!

Don't forget .. by krack	Aug 25th, 2007 08:04:37 PM
Don Murphy is producing this. And he's an A-number-1 asshole of biblical proportions and has zero respect of the AICN community. So, I don't care if this turns out to be Citizen Kane, it should be boycotted out of general principle.
This IS by Lukin	Aug 25th, 2007 08:09:39 PM
FPS live video gorgeousness!!! The sooner the better for me,this is gonna rock summat awful!
Don Murphy you say? I'll sneak in. by Kurzinski Valentine	Aug 25th, 2007 08:25:05 PM
Eat it, two-chins.
I don't understand the hype for this by reflecto	Aug 25th, 2007 08:33:55 PM
To me it looks like Z-grade crap that should be starring Lucy Liu.
I wish I had more time... by The Dum Guy	Aug 25th, 2007 08:49:34 PM
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.
WTF?? by BetaRayBill07	Aug 25th, 2007 08:59:36 PM
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!!
I'm quite stoked to see this by Charlie Murphy	Aug 25th, 2007 09:10:36 PM
i pray that this is the movie Smokin Aces should have been.
did read this correctly? by werewolfbynight	Aug 25th, 2007 09:13:16 PM
The adults will be alive but the baby wont be. Shooting paintballs at a flying dead baby. Sounds like a great time.
Shoot 'em Up was great... by vich1	Aug 25th, 2007 09:16:36 PM
Saw it at the Comic-Con premiere. And no, I'm not a freaking plant.
I'll defend Smokin' Aces with my non-alive baby by Kurzinski Valentine	Aug 25th, 2007 09:55:26 PM
that movie fucking rules and you KNOW IT BITCHES.
This event really is bad taste by LeadMagnet	Aug 25th, 2007 09:58:20 PM
...only in LALA Land. I wonder where you Americans get the inspiration to shoot each other all the time? But the movie looks great!
Smokin aces by supersize	Aug 25th, 2007 10:07:56 PM
Does indeed rule!
They'll be tossing around a DEAD BABY? by godoffireinhell	Aug 25th, 2007 10:19:38 PM
It'ssssssssss AWWWWWWWRIIIIIIIGHT!!!
I'm not a plant either!!!! by lobo44319	Aug 25th, 2007 10:45:00 PM
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!!!!!!
I wonder if he'll give it a positive review... by El Scorcho	Aug 25th, 2007 10:58:44 PM
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If he doesn't give it a good review, go and see it by lobo44319	Aug 26th, 2007 12:11:17 AM
for yourself! Only Clive Owen could make eating a carrot bad-ass!
Kurzinski the Creepinski by Fartgod The IRSTard	Aug 26th, 2007 12:41:24 AM
Strangers stop and laugh at you on the highway is what I heard.
Goddamnit, I hate living in NY by DanDelion	Aug 26th, 2007 12:45:18 AM
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.
This Movie ROCKS! by winman43	Aug 26th, 2007 02:37:36 AM
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. Win
Oh my god, donny talked to me!!! by Kurzinski Valentine	Aug 26th, 2007 04:22:22 AM
I feel like I need a shower now.
A review by CSMuncy	Aug 26th, 2007 07:15:29 AM
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: ---------------------- 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.
This movie looks alittle ridiculous by GrandMuffTarkin	Aug 26th, 2007 08:18:00 AM
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?
Well... by winman43	Aug 26th, 2007 09:53:13 AM
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. Win
CSMuncy by TequilaMocking	Aug 26th, 2007 10:50:26 AM
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.
CS Muncy Movie Pirate by Fartgod The IRSTard	Aug 26th, 2007 12:10:10 PM
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. (what kind of retard brings a camera to a screening? A Muncy!)
too bad this movies wasn't very good by evilmasterfoo	Aug 26th, 2007 05:13:41 PM
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...
i'm with muncy by evilmasterfoo	Aug 26th, 2007 05:17:41 PM
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.
Michael Davis Interview by insidethebox	Aug 26th, 2007 06:45:10 PM
Here is a great, long interview with the director of Shoot Em Up that gets pretty raunchy. http://www.iklipz.com/MovieDet ail.aspx?MovieID=4f396ec2-37b9 -4e7b-a521-55c9de3abe88
Fucking Americans by jonnyweir	Aug 26th, 2007 06:56:19 PM
"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.
Oh Jesus by CSMuncy	Aug 26th, 2007 07:37:06 PM
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.
jonnyweir by PurityOfEssence	Aug 26th, 2007 08:08:23 PM
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.
Americans love guns. by Premiere Warlord Bush	Aug 26th, 2007 10:37:35 PM
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.
DINGOES SHOT MY DEAD BABY! by MrMysteryGuest	Aug 26th, 2007 11:03:19 PM
The mother must be extremely pissed!
CSMuncy by TequilaMocking	Aug 27th, 2007 02:56:26 AM
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.
I'll lump this movie in with by CSMuncy	Aug 27th, 2007 06:44:43 AM
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.)
[/Rant] by Trooperof3	Aug 27th, 2007 07:55:10 AM
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.
Got my tickets by thereviewer	Aug 27th, 2007 11:21:45 AM
I will be aiming for the dead baby!
You know what I hate... by Bohemian3740	Aug 27th, 2007 12:57:16 PM
Neither do I...but I LOVE this movie.
PurityofEssence by beardo	Aug 27th, 2007 03:52:17 PM
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."
CSMuncy... by Darkman	Aug 27th, 2007 06:26:30 PM
What were you expecting from a movie called SHOOT 'EM UP? I bet you watch pornos for the plot, don't you?
PurityofEssence by TequilaMocking	Aug 27th, 2007 07:06:31 PM
Wait until you see the film. It actually works in context and is smartass enough to not be pretentious.
TequilaMocking by beardo	Aug 27th, 2007 07:37:39 PM
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.
Beardo by TequilaMocking	Aug 27th, 2007 07:51:52 PM
It's not a message movie.
Porn for the plot? I'm the by CSMuncy	Aug 28th, 2007 12:57:13 AM
Porn for the plot? I'm the kind of dick who watches for production value, lighting, camera angles, costume design, etc.
At least by TequilaMocking	Aug 28th, 2007 01:03:07 AM
source Superbad when you're ripping it off, CSMuncy.
Shoot Em Up looks fantastic... by spud mcspud	Aug 28th, 2007 08:52:31 AM
...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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