Posters with Guns: Weekend of April 17, 2015. Monsters: Dark Continent

This is apparently an American GI fighting aliens kind of story. Default weapon for brave men to save the world? Guns! Oh, just read the description. It's an "absolute must see", directed by Brent Bonacorso and Jesse Atlas. 

Supposed to be an epic sequel to Gareth Edwards' cult sci-fi hit, Monsters. I haven't seen that one, and most likely won't see this one either.

Starring

Posters with Guns: Weekend of April 10, 2015. Kill Me Three Times, Broken Horses

Biiiiig gun and small.

Looks like this is an Australian film, starring another one of the Hemsworth bros and a few others.
Directed by Kriv Stenders. Can't seem to get too excited by this movie.

Sub-tle! Gun is not carried by anyone but is the biggest thing looming as a shadow. Artsy!

 Now, I just saw this one, billed as "A Tail of Brothers, A Trail of Blood". Given the fact that both James Cameron and Alfonso Cuaron gave it their endorsements and that it's directed by Vidhu Vinod Chopra and maybe an Indian director's interpretation of the American Western story, intrigue me.  I might rent it on DVD one of these days.

Posters with Guns: Weekend of April 3, 2015. Cut Bank

 

 

 

 

He's the sheriff, so must carry gun.

 

 

 

 

 

Billed as an "All American Thriller", starring Liam Hemsworth the Australian, John Malkovich, Bruce Dern, Billy Bob Thornton and Theresa Palmer (who?). Directed by Matt Shakman.

Here is another of my pet peeves. Have you noticed that too many movies are billed as "American this" or "American that"? I guess America (meaning the United States, we're not talking about Canada, or any of the countries in South America, I don't think.) with all its' supposedly unique indiosyncracies, sells to the world, and to itself.

Posters with Guns: Weekend of March 27, 2015. Man From Reno

Several movies are coming out this weekend, and to my surprise, none of them seem to have a poster featuring guns toting folks. But wait. Here's one. Man From Reno, apparently an indy film, features a gun on its poster, albeit not too prominently. A quick search, I find that this film started with a Kickstarter funding, an indy indeed.

As I look at the poster, I notice that is is an Indy movie by David Boyle, the guy who directed White On Rice, a really funny movie featuring an Asian cast, including one of my favorite leading ladies, Lynn Chen, The poster is actually quite intriguing, prominently featuring a mysterious Asian woman with a damsel in distress look. It stars Ayako Fujitani and Pepe Serna, neither of whom I know, so at least that's different from the movies that always try to cast the same-ole same-ole. I think I might check out this film at some point. In fact, I really want to check it out now.

Posters with Guns: Weekend of March 20, 2015: Insurgent, Gunman

Of course, gotta carry that big gun to show you're the gunman.

Movie Posters with Guns: Weekend of March 13, 2015: Run All Night

Okay, this looks the same as all the posters depicting Liam Neeson playing reluctant badass. Getting stupid. I used to like Liam Neeson but beginning to lose respect for his movie choices.

Movie Posters of Characters with Guns: March 6, 2015: Bad Asses On The Bayou

Bad Ass 3. This means there is a Bad Ass 2 and a Bad Ass 1! Poster depicts unattractive people that nobody wants to see. These characters are not in a  war zone. They are just regular bubba's in military fatique and wearing a fanny pack on the bayou doing something unappealing to me. Must be doing well for them to make these sequels, but I will skip it. Looks like a waste of time. I'd feel like I'm an ass if I watched this!

Directed by Craig Moss.