September 2009
(as seen in the Scottsdale Airpark News)
Movies in theaters are alive and well as Hollywood
continues to release some very exciting films. Why see these films
in a theater instead of at home on your great home theater system?
Some movies are best experienced on a massive screen with amazing
sound, with audience interaction, or maybe that guilty pleasure
-- with hot liquid butter poured all over that big bag of popcorn.
There could be one annoyance though -- deciding just what to see,
given there are often four or more new movies released every week.
So with your busy life, if you could see just one newly released
movie per week, which four in September should they be?
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For the
weekend of September 4, it is “Gamer”,
starring Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Alison Lohman, Kyra
Sedgwick, Ludacris, and John Leguizamo, directed by Mark Neveldine,
Brian Taylor. Genre: action / adventure, sci-fi thriller,
rated R. Plot: In the near future, Kabel (Butler) is a death
row inmate who has unwittingly become a pop culture hero.
Every week, millions worldwide tune in online to watch him
and hundreds of other convicts battle in Slayers, an ultra-violent
multi-player online game where humans control other humans
in mass scale, an invention created by technology genius Castle
(Hall). To the wealthy young gamer who controls his every
move, Kable is just a simulation character. To the resistance
group that opposes Castle's games as high-tech slavery, he
is a critical element in their battle to take down the inventor.
Caught in the crosshairs of two opposing forces and under
the command of a teenager's remote device, Kable must use
his extraordinary fighting skills to escape the game, bring
down Castle and overthrow the system.
The other four movies opening this weekend are: All
About Steve, Carriers, Extract
and No Impact Man: The Documentary. |
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For the
weekend of September 11, it is “9”,
starring Elijah Wood, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connelly, Martin
Landau, and Christopher Plummer, directed by Shane Acker.
Genre: animation, adventure, fantasy / sci-fi, rated PG-13.
Plot: When 9 (Wood) first comes to life, he finds himself
in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is
only by chance that he discovers a small community of others
like him taking refuge from fearsome machines that roam the
earth intent on their extinction. Despite being the neophyte
of the group, 9 convinces the others that hiding will do them
no good. They must take the offensive if they are to survive,
and they must discover why the machines want to destroy them
in the first place. As they'll soon come to learn, the very
future of civilization may depend on them.
The other three movies opening this weekend are: I
Can Do Bad All By Myself, The September Issue,
and Sorority Row. |
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the weekend of September 18, it is “The Informant!”,
starring Matt Damon, Joel McHale, and Scott Bakula, directed
by Steven Soderbergh. Genre: crime drama, comedy, rated
R. Plot: The U.S. government decides to go after an agri-business
giant with a price-fixing accusation, based on the evidence
submitted by their star witness, vice president turned informant
(Damon).
The other five movies opening this weekend are: Cloudy
with a Chance of Meatballs, Jennifer’s
Body, Love Happens, Pandorum,
and Splice.
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For the
weekend of September 25, it is “The Surrogates”,
starring Bruce Willis and Ving Rhames, directed by Jonathan
Mostow. Genre: action / adventure, sci-fi thriller, rated
R. Plot: Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation
and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced
to leave his home for the first time in years in order to
investigate the murders of others’ surrogates.
The other four movies opening this weekend are: Astro
Boy, Coco Before Chanel, Fame,
and Whiteout. |
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Furthermore, gong to the movies still gives you the most entertainment
“bang for the buck” when compared to a similar two hour
venture at any professional sporting event, play or music performance.
See you at the movies!
Note: While the release dates & ratings for
these movies were correct at the time of printing, studios sometimes
make last-minute changes. If this happens, we apologize for any
inconvenience.
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