Shoot 'Em Up (6 comments)
During our work lunches, some of my co-workers (Mike in particular) and I have fun planning the menu for a hypothetical restaurant called "That'd Be Awesome." The basic theme is that if one of us has an idea for an over-the-top food and everyone else agrees that it would be awesome, it's on the menu. I shouldn't share too many specifics, but there's generally a lot of deep frying involved and we've discussed the engineering difficulties of providing every table with a centrally-fed nacho cheese pump.
I watched Shoot 'Em Up on Friday and I'd imagine that it was born from a similar series of conversations:
Writer: "He takes a bite from his carrot and jams the rest in the gun's trigger guard before he lobs the gun over his barricade towards the bad guys. It bounces around on the floor in front of them, shooting bullets in every direction on full-auto."
Friends: "Oh man, that would be awesome!"
The movie is ridiculous in the best way possible. Clive Owen is Bugs Bunny and Paul Giamatti is Elmer Fudd, except that they're both really angry and well-armed and living in the dirty part of town. Everything about it is awesomely over-the-top, and I love that sort of movie (recall my enthusiasm for Sin City), so odds are pretty good that I'll end up owning this on DVD. It's comically inflated rage and ultraviolence, and that works for me.