Maximum Impact: Potential For Maximum Violence. September 28, 2018

This is obviously slapped together quickly to take advantage of the fans of violence, sexy Asian girl and Kung Fu taking place in Russia. So Russian spies are probably involved too. Looks like it aims to promise a mish mash of gratuitous sex, bad men, a heist, lots of gun violence and  crazy martial arts in the midst.

September 21, 2018. No Movie Posters With Guns.

Yay! I don't see a movie poster with guns depicted. So that's good. Of all the movie openings this weekend, I think I'd like to see The House With a Clock In It's Walls. Seems like a fun creepy fantasy.

Gun Movies Post: Final Score, September 14, 2018

It's been exactly three years since I updated this site.  I decided to check the status of movie posters of films that came out just this week to see if things have changed.  This week, there are a few new movies that came out that seem interesting and with no signs of gun violence, and one that does.  I am interested in the movie "A Simple Favor" with Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively. To be honest, I saw a preview of the movie a couple of weeks ago first before I ever saw the poster. The movie seems to be a smart thriller more than one based on mindless gun violence cliches featuring men and their weapons.  So, it might be interesting.

The one movie out this week with the "man with gun" poster is Final Score, featuring the mugs of a trio of toughies: Pierce Brosnan, Ray Stevenson and Dave Bautista.  (I don't know who the latter two are. Maybe new faces to watch). The movie is about "35,000 people held hostage in a stadium. The clock is ticking." Okay, the poster says it all and leave nothing to the imagination.  Our hero must save the hostages from certain bombing death. I just am not sure which one is the hero. Pierce, or Dave. Ray Stevenson looks like the bad guy.

The fact that I haven't heard anything about the movie probably indicates that it's going straight to video (or DVD, or Netflix, whatever the graveyard of the low box office is known as these days).

Exporting Gun Violence To Foreign Movies.: September 7, 2018

While this week there doesn't seem to be any domestic U.S. release of new movies featuring posters with gun, it was not the case for foreign movies that came out.

Five Fingers For Marseilles, a South African film that showed to critical success at international film festivals in London, Palm Springs, Toronto and Korea. The story about violence in modern day  South Africa seems somewhat interesting, but it's hard to say whether I'll ever go see it.  It sounds like using guns and violence to entice a new generation of movie goers from an African country to see movies based on violence and chaos. Thugs shoot thugs movie. We are exporting movies that aggrandize gun violence.

Is there some social commentary about modern day South Africa? Maybe.