SubscribeI love me a good poster as much as I do a good movie. Been a while since the artwork for a movie got me all stirred up, but this poster for THE AMERICAN is just about perfect:
I would have maybe added the word ‘motherfucker’ after the release date, but that’s all.
I was chatting on Twitter the other night how Matt Damon had kinda crept up on me as one of my favourite actors and as such he’s the anti-Clooney – George being an actor that I’ve been following closely since ER. They’re kinda linked because of the work they’ve done together and (especially) Soderbergh, but for some reason I’ve never given Damon the same kind of attention. Dumb of me.
Anyway… One of my fave Clooney turns comes in THE PEACEMAKER. It’s still the best thing Nicole Kidman’s been in and the car chase sequence that ends with Clooney putting a bullet in some bastard’s chest is the real precurser to both BOURNE and Craig’s Bond for badassery.
Badassery. I need to blog more just to get words like that out of my system.
THE PEACEMAKER also has one of my favourite onscreen relationships between the two leads. They get the whole movie out of the way and then only hint at the possibility of getting together in the movie’s coda. No shoehorning of romance for Mimi Leder.
Kinda wished I’d brought a copy with me on the train…
Anyway – this was just to give the bluetooth keyboard, iPad and mifi combo a test run in the wild when I’m actually on the move.
Seems to work pretty fucking well…
Yep, awesome poster. Trying and failing to remember what it reminds me of. Something with Michael Caine perhaps?
Oh and the tech seems to work too
Agreed. Stinks of cool. Like it.
Cheers, someone else thinks THE PEACEMAKER is cracking movie. The ripping I take from my mates about that.
Not so sure about Damon though, really liked as Bourne but some of the other movies I find him wet.
The poster is excellent, Clooney running with a gun and serious some fucker is going to die scowl on. That’s all I need to see. It’s old school. Reminds of the poster you would have seen in the 60s. Bullitt and the like.
Great poster.
Got to agree with you on The Peacemaker too. Its a top notch thriller that spends a lot of time on getting the technical texture right. While it is definitly an action movie you can trace its lineage back through thrillers that work on suspens rather than an over reliance on explosions.
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