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Luc Besson returns to sci fi - Lockout

Deckerd

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I have to confess the Fifth Element is a favourite of mine. It's quirky, good to look at, and just good old-fashioned fun.

Now he's doing Lockout and I'm really hoping it doesn't turn out to be Escape from New York in space.

Guy Pearce is good value for money at least.
 
Well I suppose so [grudgingly]. Pearce says he does play a character who doesn't give a shit but needs the money. If they put a bomb on a timer in his bloodstream I'll be a bit pissed off though.
 
Escape from New York in space.

I'm sold.

The only thing better would be if Besson can get Liam Neeson to drop by to kill a few dozen space sex traffickers.

I loves me some Fifth Element, but this doesn't sound like it's going to have too much in common with that, though.
 
I am in. love the fifth element all ways watch it when it's on even though I have the blu ray.
 
Peter Stromare?!

He'll always be that guy who fed Steve Buscemi into a woodchipper in Fargo for me.

I'm sure he can also play non-woodchipper related roles. Or possibly a woodchipper will be provided for in an outer space prison.

Or maybe he'll just airlock a guy.

Look just promise me Stomare kills somebody and I might be half-interested.

Anyway, the Fifth Element was pretty great.

I never really got the film's love, honestly. Chris Tucker was easily worse than Jar-Jar Binks by a factor of, let's say, ten.
 
Chris Tucker was easily worse than Jar-Jar Binks by a factor of, let's say, ten.

chris-tucker-fifth-element_rsz.jpg
 
Anyway, the Fifth Element was pretty great.

I never really got the film's love, honestly. Chris Tucker was easily worse than Jar-Jar Binks by a factor of, let's say, ten.

See, I'm pretty embarrassed to admit it, but The Fifth Element is the one time I feel like Chris Tucker was actually entertaining. I think it's all in how Corben (Willis) treats him, that is, like a complete albatross. Also, he's limited to about ten minutes of screentime.
 
See, I'm pretty embarrassed to admit it, but The Fifth Element is the one time I feel like Chris Tucker was actually entertaining.

I actually only know him as that guy who was awful in Fifth Element. That his character isn't as memorably loathed as Jar Jar Binks is, I suspect, for the same reasong Wing Commander does not occupy a place of dishonour along with Phantom Menace: If it isn't Star Wars, people don't really care as long.
 
See, I'm pretty embarrassed to admit it, but The Fifth Element is the one time I feel like Chris Tucker was actually entertaining.

I actually only know him as that guy who was awful in Fifth Element. That his character isn't as memorably loathed as Jar Jar Binks is, I suspect, for the same reasong Wing Commander does not occupy a place of dishonour along with Phantom Menace: If it isn't Star Wars, people don't really care as long.

Wing Commander makes The Phantom Menace look like Citizen Kane. It doesn't hold the same place of dishonor because it's (fortunately) completely forgettable.

I agree with Myasishchev on Chris Tucker in The Fifth Element; I thought he was hilarious, but I can easily see how he would be annoying as hell to others at the same time (which is really kind of the point of the character, anyway).
 
You can't really go wrong with Luc Besson. I mean, Fifth Element, Nikita, Leon, Angel*a, etc. The guy rarely turns out a bad one.
 
Peter Stromare?!

He'll always be that guy who fed Steve Buscemi into a woodchipper in Fargo for me.

I'm sure he can also play non-woodchipper related roles. Or possibly a woodchipper will be provided for in an outer space prison.

Or maybe he'll just airlock a guy.

Look just promise me Stomare kills somebody and I might be half-interested.

You're kidding shurely. Who could forget his "Ees Russian Spacestation!" No but seriously Constantine was an okay film with some good moments and one superb moment when Stormare's Satan turned up.
 
http://www.joblo.com/movie-news/new...ne-maximum-security-formerly-known-as-lockout
Here's the first trailer for the film. I have to admit it looks impressive. Guy Pearce has come so far from "The Time Machine" remake.


http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/01...kout-like-escape-from-york-by-way-of-fortress

Well, it's not exactly the "first" trailer. The movie has also been titled as "MS One Maximum Security" and there were a couple of trailers released while it had that title. I guess it's correct to call it the first trailer under this title as it's the first time that I've seen a trailer using it.
 
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