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Post by elsa on May 19, 2023 0:34:45 GMT -5
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Post by elsa on May 19, 2023 13:25:44 GMT -5
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Post by lolita on May 20, 2023 14:32:15 GMT -5
channel TNT is showing GOE and the trailer for Kandahar just played. This is the first time I have seen it.
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Post by Deleted on May 20, 2023 20:06:55 GMT -5
Great article posted on GALS site that hasn’t been on a U.S. site yet.. “Mission Kandahar”: Gerard Butler, hero but not superhero begins with this description of the movie .. In 2013, Tom, a CIA agent working undercover in a hostile area of Afghanistan, sees his true identity made public overnight. Here he i s, accompanied by an Afghan translator whose head has been put on a bounty, tangled behind enemy lines.
Then begins a perilous race against time through the desert. Written by Mitchell LaFortune, a former US military intelligence officer, the spy thriller Mission Kandahar(V.F.) marks the third collaboration between actor Gerard Butler and director Ric Roman Waugh.
“I've seen, like everyone else, a whole bunch of films set in the Middle East. Mitch's screenplay stood out because he worked in the field for ten years, during the war on terror [in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001],” explains Ric Roman Waugh, contacted in Los Angeles.
Mitchell LaFortune was inspired, among other things, by his own experiences in the said field in the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations.
“What Mitch was able to do with his script is a little bit equivalent, I think, to what the movie Sicario did with the war on drugs, which was to give us the human factor in all the camps concerned. Kandahar Missionis not limited to the only Western point of view in the face of one-dimensional Middle Eastern villains. The film looks at each faction in a way that offers a more three-dimensional portrait of the situation. All this, in a context of action that does not let up for a moment.Check out the entire article he talks about Gerry.. 😊👍 thetimeshub.in/mission-kandahar-gerard-butler-hero-but-not-superhero/ |
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2023 18:04:29 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2023 18:46:07 GMT -5
New Additional international releases -
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United Arab Emirates
May 25, 2023
Israel
May 25, 2023
Russia
May 25, 2023
Ukraine
May 25, 2023
Lithuania
May 26, 2023
Taiwan
May 26, 2023
United States
May 26, 2023
Netherlands
June 8, 2023
Spain
June 16, 2023
Hungary
June 22, 2023
Portugal
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Post by elsa on May 23, 2023 1:43:29 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2023 5:15:56 GMT -5
long feature on Gerry in New York Times talks about his career and Kandahar., you have to read this article.. can’t really tell if they liked the movie. Not sure about description “limps nobly on” No rating for the film.. SCREENLAND The Campy Masculine Pleasures of Gerard Butler The action-flick Everyman limps nobly on in “Kandahar.” www.nytimes.com/2023/05/23/magazine/gerard-butler-movies.htmlyou may hit a pay screen to read this article.. It is a long article here is the first 2 paragraphs.. It is one of those articles that Gerry gets a good review only later to see film critic to follow up with their review.hope that will be good.. Midway through Gerard Butler’s new movie, “Kandahar,” is maybe the coolest sequence I have ever seen in a Gerard Butler movie. It’s the middle of the night in the middle of a desert, and Butler’s C.I.A.-operative character is racing with his Afghan translator to a distant extraction point. Because they are trying to avoid Pakistani, Iranian and Taliban bad guys who are pursuing them, their lights are off, and Butler’s character is wearing a pair of very stupid-looking infrared goggles. Suddenly there is a sound, one we only learn is a helicopter when those loopy goggles alight on it. The lengthy firefight that ensues is mostly just flashes in the darkness with occasional infrared — a beautiful tableau, like a Vija Celmins painting, that feels weird to enjoy only if you look too closely.
Butler’s movies are best when you don’t look too closely. This is already the second one gifted to us this year. I say “gifted” because it truly is a gift, in 2023, to receive such films — throwbacks not only to late-1980s action movies but to their stars, actors like Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson. In a market saturated by superheroes, Butler has been making nostalgic, midbudget action films so steadily, for so long, that he has perfected his own formula. A middle-aged Everyman (made of “bourbon and poor choices,” per his character in one series), often with military training, goes rogue against a system that is failing to protect his family or his translator or the president. These movies may be, like much of their genre, unseasonably macho, riddled with casual brutality and kind of misogynistic; they have also been accused of varying degrees of racism, jingoism and xenophobia. But their appeal is broader than you might think. Butler’s main concern is not necessarily ideological. He’s interested in nobility, loyalty, courage and strength — qualities that, in Hollywood, often manifest in martial form. And it’s through this faithful portrayal of a rumpled-but-honorable masculinity, in rotating all-American settings, that a Scottish dude has become a kind of heartland hero. |
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Post by Deleted on May 23, 2023 8:34:21 GMT -5
Another article about the screen writer, very insightful. quote - In his words, the movie is his “thank you” to Afghan allies, interpreters, Special Forces and the veterans who fought a war lasting a lifetime.
“For the rest of our lives, millions of people will be affected by the withdrawal from Afghanistan. I can’t control anything in regard to U.S. foreign policy. I wish I could reverse a lot of things but I can’t. For me, this is my love letter of thanks to everyone involved,” LaFortune said. “This is a different kind of action movie in terms of authenticity as a spy film. All of the characters are based off of real people I interacted with. I think Afghanistan is going to be represented in a way that’s never been seen before.”This 82nd Airborne veteran is the writer behind ‘Kandahar’, a new Gerard Butler feature film
www.wearethemighty.com/entertainment/kandahar-movie-gerard-butler-mitchell-lafortune/ |
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Post by elsa on May 24, 2023 8:26:39 GMT -5
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Post by elsa on May 24, 2023 12:14:13 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 24, 2023 13:48:35 GMT -5
Thanks, 🥲 reviews on RT are all rotten now, unfortunately.. I think doing those early screenings has been a mistake because once an audience responds negatively rarely does the critics reviews go positive. I am not going to look again. Gerry has never had a zero for a film even Las Seen Alive got 14% and playing for keeps had a 7%.
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Post by elsa on May 25, 2023 0:58:09 GMT -5
The screenings, the biggest mistake. I think they decided to have screenings instead a proper promotion, maybe, because he is filming in EU, but still it's not an excuse for me.
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Post by elsa on May 25, 2023 2:26:36 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 7:19:24 GMT -5
The screenings, the biggest mistake. I think they decided to have screenings instead a proper promotion, maybe, because he is filming in EU, but still it's not an excuse for me. Definitely agree, but I think the important early pre-production screenings must have shown the film’s flaws and that the critics would be negative. So they just went to the pre- screenings to save investing money they won’t get back. I still can’t wrap my head around Gerry not being out there to promote the movie via virtual interviews like he usually does. He still has not done one junket type of interview, the only time I saw that was the straight to video/streaming Last Seen Alive. I still wonder why no one has asked about Gerry’s participation in promoting the film.. I know those critics are sometimes swayed to give better reviews when Gerry gives them a good interview. So much mystery on Gerry’s health he is just not his normal self. |
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Post by lolita on May 25, 2023 8:16:00 GMT -5
I hope they are not comparing Kandahar with the Covenant like they did with OHF with White house down. The Covenant has not done well and maybe that is why this has such a weird promotion for Kadahar. The only thing that troubles me it looks like Gerry is not promoting his own film properly, like it isn't important enough to him. I really wonder who is filling his head with info on the film.
The why bother attitude. The man this story is based on is promoting it so maybe that will help to bring in special forces.
Gerry has a knack of picking films that always has some drama attached to them. It would be great if the drama was positive.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 9:26:20 GMT -5
Yes, they are comparing it to The Covenant.. the term they are using is “ the superior” Covenant. I can’t read another review no matter how positive they start in the end the critics are giving it a rotten rating on RT. What bothers me the most is that one Military magazine site is blasting the movie for an inaccurate portrayal of commitment of servicemen.
do you ladies think Ric is facing the critics because Gerry isn’t up to doing it or do think there is a possibility that Gerry and Ric had a falling out over his editing of the film since maybe Gerry was not well enough to contribute. . Ric promised in a tweet after they completed the film not to screw up the editing of the film. No matter though, it is what it is another missed opportunity for Gerry to increase his good run of back to back good movies.
when I think that Gerry’s next film won’t be out until 2024, it feels like excitement for his movies could stall with out Angel Has Fallen #4 to boost it. Look at the Fast and Furious franchise even with 10 sequels it has made $300 million internationally in one week. The potential for the Has Fallen series faltered due to Gerry’s lawsuit, it looks like Avi won unfortunately.
just feeling a bit blue.. Gerry works so hard to keep his career moving forward and there seems to be so many obstacle.
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Post by elsa on May 25, 2023 11:09:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2023 12:13:38 GMT -5
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Post by elsa on May 25, 2023 14:52:22 GMT -5
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