Andrew:
Hello readers! It's been a busy week for us here at Two
Tickets For... both from a standpoint of trying to crank out more fresh content
but also balancing that with out day jobs. It's also going to be a busy weekend
what with FOUR brand-spanking new wide releases hitting theatres plus Sarah
starts a new job this weekend. So while we may not be able to see all of the
movies we'll talk about in this post by this weekend, don't fret - we'll try to
find time somewhere.
Sarah, as I just mentioned we see the
release of four new films in theatres that cover a fairly broad spectrum of
genres. The most prominent film coming out this weekend is the latest
directorial effort from Ben Affleck, Argo, but we also have a new horror
movie in Sinister, a new family comedy in Here Comes The Boom
starring Kevin James, and a wackier, R-rated action/comedy in Seven
Psychopaths.
(Let's take a second right now to mention that we were
fortunate enough to be invited on the As You Watch podcast the other day and we
talked about all four of these movies with Nick from The Cinematic Katzenjammer, Joe from Two Dude Review and Vern from Vern's Video Vangaurd. We
posted about it the other day HERE and we wrote down the different time codes
for the different segments of the podcast in case you'd just like to listen to
the part where we discuss these films.)
So Sarah, let's talk about the big movie this weekend,
Affleck's Argo, which has been garnering a LOT of Oscar buzz already.
It's based on the true story of the 1979 Iran hostage situation in which
supporters of Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini stormed the American embassy in Tehran
and took 52 hostages. Six embassy workers were able to escape and take refuge
with a Canadian ambassador but were still in danger, so CIA "extractor"
Tony Mendez (played by Affleck) concocts a scheme to fly to Tehran, have the
six hideaways pose a Canadian film crew for a fake sci-fi film called “Argo”
and get them out alive. Sounds heavy, and the trailer makes this look amazing.
What are your impressions of Argo?
