The Green Inferno
The Green Inferno is rated R for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use.
I wanted to lead with the rating this time so I can discuss something. I had to look up the word "aberrant". It means "departing from an accepted standard". So - literally by definition - Eli Roth is setting a new standard of violence in horror movies. Stupid. Having the word "aberrant" in the ratings information is as good as admitting that this movie is going for one thing and one thing only: shock value.
The Green Inferno is about a group of rich American college kids who travel to the rainforest as activists. But they get captured by the natives instead. Plain and simple.
Hotel Transylvania 2
Lord knows how the first one got a sequel, but it did. There are two kinds of computer animated movies these days. Cheap laughs for kids or quality entertainment that happens to be animated. This appears to be the former. I gather that the main conflict in this movie is that the vampire has a grandson who might move away with his (the child's) mother and the vampire doesn't want that. Not exactly a compelling foundation for a story, is it?
Hotel Transylvania 2 is rated PG for some scary images, action and rude humor. I'd still see this over Green Inferno.
The Intern
Robert De Niro is great but I have trouble with Anne Hathaway. Any role she plays I either love or hate - there is no middle ground on this point. And I can never tell which one it's going to be.
De Niro plays the title character, an intern at Anne Hathaway's company out of New York. I don't know how he ends up being an intern, but I do know that a lot of the movie is based around the fact that he's unusually elderly for an intern. It's advertising itself as sort of a feel good dramedy.
It's worth mentioning that writer/director Nancy Meyers also wrote and directed The (Lindsay Lohan) Parent Trap and Something's Gotta Give. Obviously this will be closer in tone to Something's Gotta Give. But to overcomplicate things, I always get Something's Gotta Give confused with As Good As It Gets. Bottom line The Intern looks okay.
The Intern is rated PG-13 for some suggestive content and brief strong language.
Everest (expanding to wide release)
This movie looks so sweet. It looks like my kind of disaster movie with big, broad brushstrokes of awesomeness. And Jason Clarke in a leading role - always a good thing.
Everest tells the true story of two teams that set out to climb to the top of Mt Everest in the summer of 1996 and ended up facing a very dangerous storm. As I understand it the two teams came together to survive.
Did I mention the cast is loaded? Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sam Worthington, Kiera Knightley, Robin Wright, and Josh Brolin among others. Obviously Jake Gyllenhaal is a big deal, but there's something about Jason Clarke and Josh Brolin on the screen that just makes me want to pay attention and watch.
Everest is rated PG-13 for intense peril and disturbing images.
See it in IMAX 3D if you like.
Big Shot Critic
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