The Legend of Hercules
In 2012 it was Snow White. Last year it was The White House under attack. This year it's Hercules.
That's right, this is the first of two major Hercules movies this year. Hollywood has a really bad habit of making two similar movies at the same time, and usually it hurts both and one (or both) ends up being forgotten. It's very simple how this happens. Both movies go into development and a few months in they find each other out, and instead of one of them backing down they both just say, "We can take 'em," and carry on. Extra credit if you can name the "other" movie about toys that came out around the same time as Toy Story 2, the "other" movie about 19th century magicians that came out around the same time as The Prestige, and the "other" movie about the whole world watching the life of one man that came out around the same time as The Truman Show - do your best in the comments!
I'll start by giving you a hint. This is the one that will be forgotten. It's directed by a guy named Renny Harlin. He's been in the action movie business for a long time now, and has some tricks up his sleeve. He's known for generating very inventive action sequences, so the action scenes in this one are sure to keep you awake. That said, this movie kind of looks like it wishes it had a bigger budget. Every movie does, but this one shows it - even in the trailer. The special effects look a little cheesy. And there is no star power here. Likely the only one you've seen is Hercules himself, portrayed by Kellan Lutz. You know him as the buff vampire from the Twilight movies.
The real bad news for this movie is that the other Hercules movie likely got the budget it wanted, Brett Ratner is directing it, and none other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be playing Hercules. Brett Ratner is a much more high profile director. We don't love him so much because of what he did to our precious X-Men movies back in 2006, but he's okay. He did, after all, direct Rush Hour! This other Hercules movie comes in the mid-summer.
I would see this movie if someone paid for me, for whatever that's worth. A good excuse to eat popcorn for two hours.
The one. The only. Big Shot Critic
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ReplyDeleteOk, after 2 unsuccessful attempts at commenting I finally got it. When you first started talking about this subject I was instantly reminded of The Prestige/The Illustionist movie combo. The Illustionist was a great film but largely overshadowed by the success of the Prestige (which happens to be one of my favorite movies). Someone even set out to see the Prestige but went and saw Edward Norton as the magician instead of Hugh and Christian.
ReplyDeleteThen I kept reading and saw that you mentioned the moving pairing above. If I'm not mistaken the two other movies are Small Soldiers (which I would have thought came out MUCH sooner than Toy Story 2) and ED TV (which I thought would have come out much AFTER The Truman Show).
And Trevor is the winner! You get your extra credit in the form of me congratulating you.
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