BY MICHAEL GOODPASTER
This movie is going to be awesomely bad. I’m not even excited about it for the right reasons. I feel like this movie is going to so cheesy and bad that it’ll be good. This whole thing reminds me of the recent movie “Stand Up Guys”. They take a few older awesome actors and put them in a movie so they can reference being old, complain about kids these days, and have over the top scenes to prove how much of a bad ass or “good guy” they are. I’m sure this movie has the same formula. The twist is that it’s a boxing movie! Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro play old boxers who decide to get together and settle their grudge after 30 years. So they have one big fight to promote and the movie centers around that and their past. The rest of the cast is made up on Jon Bernthal, Kim Basinger, Kevin Hart, and of course Alan Arkin. I’m sure there will be a scene where they reference someone being youthful and crazy only to reveal them as old and sleeping. There will be a scene where someone is rude or mean to a young woman and the old boxer will step in and defend her. Someone won’t recognize them. Their age will be in question and the words “remember when…” will be used too much. At the end, they’ll have their battle and somehow all will be well. Lessons will be learned, laughs will be had, and this will be forgettable basic cable fodder for years to come. I think we need to make this a drinking game movie. Take one drink every time you’re thirsty.
RELEASE DATE - 12/25/2013
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