Do you wanna see "Haywire"???

[Harvey]

Steven Soderbergh has never made a film that wasn't interesting. Sure, he's made films that weren't any good -- but they were still interesting. I'm hoping this will be one of the good ones, though with the cast, I'm expecting it will be one of the experiments that doesn't really work.

 

[TemporalFlux]

I've seen the commercials, and all I ever think is, "I think I saw this movie when it was called Salt". They could easily be very different movies, but it just doesn't strike me that way.

Anyway, not interested in seeing something that I feel I just saw a couple of years ago.

 

[T'Baio]

That's like saying you don't want to see Batman Begins because you just saw Batman & Robin a couple years ago.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

It's Steven Soderbergh. It's Michael Fassbender. It's Ewen McGregor. I'll see it.

It's Channing Tatum, so it might suck.

But I'll be seeing it.

 

[Joe Washington]

I would like to see it. Mostly because of the big star faces in the movie and the rest to see the actress playing the spy character in action.

 

[Captain Craig]

Ok, bets on what the gratuitous skin scene will be.

-shower
-changing clothes
-injured
-sleeping

 

[KB24]

Yes I'd like to see it. For a film that was delayed over a year, it is going to be in the mainstream cinema here, unlike the last few shows I've seen which were strictly art house. My husband saw the trailer and thought it was cool, up until he saw Fassbender.

" %^%&^*#, Man is he in *everything*!!"

I tried to explain, without spoilers, that his role is supporting, but to no avail.


I like the idea of a kick ass realistic chick, though I was disappointed recently to hear that they altered Carano's voice for the film. Kind of strange that they don't say she was dubbed, they make it sound like it is okay to just digitally synthesize someone without telling anybody. Which, I mean that isn't that bad, but why go through all the trouble of hyping someone so real and then change her voice?

Although I also cannot abide Channing Tatum. Why is his face always so squashed. I can imagine that somewhere out there, there is a director who wants squashed Tatum and squinting Taylor Lautner to be in a show together! <shudder>

 

[Base_Delta_Zero]

Wait, they dubbed her voice? Like, with her own voice in a studio or someone else completely?

 

[Skywalker]

It's her voice, they just altered it slightly to make it a little more high-pitched.

 

[TemporalFlux]

That's like saying you don't want to see Batman Begins because you just saw Batman & Robin a couple years ago.

Nah; Batman, Star Trek, etc are not generic movie with spy girl.

 

[Trekker4747]

I saw a trailer for this last night when I saw "Contraband."

It looks like it might be good. But I think I saw this originally a few years ago with the "Bourne Identity." (Never saw Salt.)

The main actress is hot and kicking ass so that's enough for me to go see it.

 

[Goliath]

Huh. Haywire is currently rated 82 per cent "fresh" at rottentomatoes.com. Sounds promising.

 

[Admiral2]

Saw it yesterday. Here's my gut reactions:

-Gina Carano's not a great actress. Not surprising, considering her first real role was on American Gladiators. I'd still take her over January Jones in "First Class".

-That said...Mallory Kane would kick Lisbeth Salander's ass up and down Sweden. Her and her Dragon Tattoo. And then Mallory would go to the Underworld and make Selene her vampire bitch. Just sayin'.

-Who else was hoping her dad would say something like "Game Over, Man!" when the bad guys invaded his house?

Overall, Okay lead, okay story, compensated for by ridiculously bad-ass fight scenes.

 

[Gaith]

The whole concept is meh.. highly trained special operative is betrayed by someone from within, is on the run while fighting off pursuers and then gets to the truth of the thing and takes out the bad guy who betrayed them.

This. The story sounds dull as rocks, so I'll skip it.

 

[PsychoPere]

Saw this last night with a few friends. Yes, the story is one that we've seen a hundred times before - but this is from Soderbergh, so that doesn't matter. Gina Carano was indeed not very good in her role, but I got the impression that the character wasn't supposed to be very emotive anyway, so that didn't bother me all that much either. Everything about this film felt like classic Soderbergh; the film isn't one of his better efforts, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Douglas and McGregor turned in solid performances that mitigated Carron and Tatum's performances. The fight scenes are, of course, superb, but so are the music score and the editing choices.

 

[Gaith]

Box Office Mojo:

Haywire debuted in fifth place with an estimated $9 million. That's a bit off from recent similar female-oriented action movies Colombiana ($10.4 million) and Hanna ($12.4 million), though in just one weekend it almost earned as much as Domino did in its entire run ($10.2 million). The audience was 55 percent male and skewed a bit younger (64 percent under the age of 35), and it was 54 percent non-Caucasian. As reported yesterday, the movie received a terrible "D+" CinemaScore.
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So-ooo.... a female-centered action movie fails to make much of a commercial splash, and has a weak story/emotional core. Color me surprised?

 

[Harvey]

I'm surprised this movie opened in so many theatres; despite being an action film, it really feels like one of Soderbergh's more experimental efforts.

 

[PsychoPere]

It definitely felt more along those experimental lines, rather than a more traditional mainstream movie. In conversation with friends after the movie, I described that feel as seeming like it was halfway between The Girlfriend Experience and a more typical action movie.

 

[23skidoo]

I haven't seen anything to make me interested in seeing this. Carino is hot, but if I want to oogle her I just have to boot up Command and Conquer on my PS3 (she plays one of the FMV characters). Otherwise nothing I've seen thus far, including that preview that came out, makes this look any different than Angelina Jolie's Salt or your average episode of Nikita. I might check out the DVD later.

Alex

 

[T'Baio]

-That said...Mallory Kane would kick Lisbeth Salander's ass up and down Sweden. Her and her Dragon Tattoo.

What a strange comparison to make.