Showing posts with label Alex Cross. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alex Cross. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Our Preview of This Week's New Releases (for Friday, October 19th)


Andrew: Hello readers! It's been a little busy for us this week so we apologize for the lack of new posts, but it's time for our weekly preview and you can be sure we're gonna get this one out today!

It's actually a bit of a slow weekend for new movies as we only see two wide releases with the fourth installment in the Paranormal Activity series and the new thriller Alex Cross, starring Tyler Perry (of Madea fame) in the title role.

Sarah, let's start with the one I know we're both going to see and that's Alex Cross. It's the third film to be adapted from James Patterson's Alex Cross novel series, which is a personal favorite of ours.

Sarah: I really have gotten into the Alex Cross series over the past couple of months! When I saw that they were turning it into a movie, I was pretty excited. But here's the thing...I'm really not a huge fan of who they got to play Alex. When I think of Tyler Perry I only think of a man in drag.

Official Trailer for Alex Cross


And now we find out that our beloved series is being totally butchered by taking place in DETROIT! What?! Did they not think Washington, D.C., the 16th most dangerous city in the country according to Forbes, wasn't badass enough? Apparently not, because they moved it to Detroit, Forbes’ #1 most dangerous city in America.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The First Trailer for "Alex Cross" Is...Interesting, To Say The Least

Andrew: Hello readers! It was a review-heavy weekend for us here at Two Tickets For... and we're looking to keep that going with a new review tonight, but for now I wanted to post a trailer that SHOULD have made me excited but instead left me a little disappointed.


I'm talking about the trailer for this fall's Tyler Perry/Matthew Fox thriller Alex Cross. It's based off of the novel "Cross" by James Patterson, one of his many novels about Washington, D.C. criminal profiler Alex Cross. It's one of my favorite book series (in fact I just bought the latest one, "Kill Alex Cross" on paperback) and I enjoyed the two Alex Cross films starring Morgan Freeman, Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider, so I got excited when I heard they were making a new one.


But now that I've seen the trailer, my enthusiasm has waned a little bit. I think it's mainly that Tyler Perry is NOT who I would have cast in the role. I really wish Idris Elba (Prometheus) , who was originally supposed to star, had been able to do it because he would've been perfect. Oh well.


Take a look at the trailer to watch Matthew Fox look super crazy and Tyler Perry act as someone other than Madea: