See the official website, movie poster, photos, synopsis and release date. He says it’s a lot of fun and gives it a grade of B+. I’d go with “Pinker” myself. Of course, those specific franchises were more faithful than average (probably because the producers were afraid they’d be lynched in the public square by crazed Tolkien/Rowling geeks if they too too many liberties). And let's not forget an entire sequence that's shamelessly devoted to showcasing the homes in the Palm Beach area. Westlake established long ago that the only reason Parker didn’t mug people or go after smaller businesses is that it just wasn’t worth all the trouble. They have to go for at least sexual tension of the standard Hollywood variety. It's an overlong, arduous caper, drawn from the work of thriller writer Donald E. Westlake much as a patient's tooth might be extracted with much banter and minimal anaesthesia. Decoding Annie Parker follows the incredible, irreverent and heartwarming story of how the paths of cancer survivor Annie Parker (Samantha Morton) and geneticist Mary-Claire King (Helen Hunt) intersect. Best Netflix Shows and Series To Binge (January 2021), The 100 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (January 2021), 100 Best Movies on Amazon Prime To Watch (January 2021). Which is what they did. If you can let go of the preconceptions there is a very good movie here that should bring DEW a big new audience of readers – who can then imagine for themselves who Parker really is. I’m not so sure, because the recent track record for EVERYBODY in this movie is pretty damned mediocre. Directed by Marc Hampson. But opening weekends matter and we’re the only people other than diehard Jason Statham and Jennifer Lopez fans who are likely to be at all interested in seeing this film, so this is damage control, in its classic form. By not playing the established character, you’ve already alienated a share of your audience. He is not romantically involved with Leslie (Jennifer – in a stunningly good performance). They probably have either cut out or greatly minimized the parts of the story where he’s robbing and terrorizing honest citizens. But when his latest robbery turns deadly because of a careless crew member, he declines to join crime boss Melander (Michael Chiklis) and his gang for another heist. We here, at least most of us, are the hardcore. They’re just interested in the main conceit–professional thief sets out to take away the proceeds from a robbery committed by other professional thieves who cheated and nearly killed him. He’s an antihero born of a different time and the kinds of guys who diercted movies like this: Don Seigel, Sidney Lumet, Jean Pierre Melville, Jules Dassin, John Huston are all dead and gone. “Westlake…liked Ignon’s work and blessed the series. Can it be that much worse than Payback, or The Split? That “personal code” stuff is kind of deplorable, but again, it’s Hollywood, they have to make the main character palatable for the mass audience. He meets an attractive real estate agent who becomes his ally. That’s being generous. And I will just bet you that the producers of EACH AND EVERY ONE of those films would defend them in exactly the same way Les Alexander does–I mean, if you went by producers, there’s never been a bad movie in the history of movies. “dedicated to the memory of Donald E. Westlake”. I thought it was cynicism, but it’s really just knowing how Hollywood operates. How can I if I haven’t seen it? Surely not the FX one where they call the character Frank Parker and give him a brother. Daring, ruthless and meticulous, Parker (Jason Statham) is one of the most successful thieves in the business. As a very low budget thing, they could have been more faithful–it’s not like Statham hasn’t made some lower-budgeted films, and a faithful adaptation wouldn’t need to cost more than a few mil (like nobody’s jumping out a skyscraper window in a faithful adaptation). Trailers are showing us the scenes the producers think are their best selling points. Parker movie trailer revealed. These guys are just attempting to sew a lot of worn-out action movie cliches onto the mangled skeletal remains of another man’s story. Not here, where we know who Parker IS. Like where he robs the movie theater, and threatens the lady who works there–did anybody think THAT was making it in? I see a crapload of movies and trailers in my job (I’m a film reviewer), and this looks like a trailer designed to tick pretty much all the boxes for a Statham movie, not a Parker movie. Directed by Scott Coffey. |, March 8, 2013 Parker International Trailer Drops: It's Payback. I don’t think they go off into the sunset together. Jason Statham is game as usual, but Parker is a thoroughly generic and convoluted heist movie. But then it devolves into uninspired plotting, an undeveloped romance between the Statham and Lopez characters and a finale that's not as disappointing as it is unbelievably dumb. Jason Statham stars as a thief with a code of honor who seeks revenge on his own near-murder This video is no longer available. Works well enough to prove [Statham] has more than physically demanding stunts in him. Directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis and Wendell Pierce. Movie times, buy movie tickets online, watch trailers and get directions to AMC Twenty Mile 10 in Parker, CO. Find everything you need for your local movie theater near you. All Critics (109) Submissions without photos may not be accepted. Watch the Parker movie trailer, starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez and Michael Chiklis. | Rating: 3/5 Watch the movie trailer for Parker (2013). Mix that with an undeveloped script and the result is a pointless action film that fails. drama, Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events Incentive Filmed Entertainment, And has a brother? Was Star Wars like what people had seen before? New Peter Parker Actor in Spider-Man: Miles Morales Trailer Mocked by Fans The new Peter Parker makes his first appearance in a Spider-Man: Miles Morales clip … We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. Nick Nolte as a concerned father-in-law of sorts? The wire strip-search scene was but a flashback in the book, illustrating that Parker’s only interest in seeing her unclothed was to see if she was wired and that was it. With Helen Hunt, Samantha Morton, Aaron Paul, Rashida Jones. Since he finds the whole set-up of their heist too risky to consider participating in it, this really tells us something about the way his mind works. Directed by Steven Bernstein. ;). That’s also about stealing stolen valuables. See hot celebrity videos, E! I will still see the movie. You could use it for the Gary Coleman movie based on “Jimmy the Kid”. According to the January 15, 2002 issue of Daily Variety: “The Parker novel series, which Westlake wrote under the pen name Richard Stark, has been acquired for series treatment by FX net entertainment prexy Kevin Reilly….” Alexander Ignon adapted The Green Eagle Score for the pilot. Chris is right; cable TV is full of amoral characters that audiences love. If we get a bad movie that casts discredit on the Parker novels, and uses Parker’s name WITHOUT DONALD WESTLAKE’S PERMISSION (which he withheld all those years for damned good reason, and NOBODY has made any legally binding promise to Abby Westlake that all the books or half the books, or a single other book other than Flashfire will be adapted, and right now the odds ain’t looking good that there’ll be even ONE more Statham Parker movie, because again, it’s opening in JANUARY), then we have a right to be pissed. It’ll be an original caper for Parker and will be written in the vein of The Sopranos and Heat, with the idea that a massive heist will be perpetrated over the course of a season, the setup building over episodes until the actual crime is perpetrated.”. Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Bobby Cannavale, Nick Nolte in Parker. I’m a bit bothered by the actress playing “Claire” being so much younger than Statham. Worth seeing if you like his films. Spoiler Alert! action, Sierra/Affinity, ;-) lol That alone is reason for me to pray to Yahweh, Jesus, Moses, Buddha, Vishnu, Allah, Zeus, etc. that the film is good. Krystal Parker's life fell apart when she discovered she couldn't have children. Just confirm how you got your ticket. My only comment to Mr. Alexander is if you are going to take a literary character, change key elements about him/her, and make a film, then what is the point of using that character? Watch fullscreen. Dishonest, you say? But if you don’t have that level of talent, style, and commitment to your idea–then yeah–you have to sell out–bigtime. Watch Parker movie trailer and get the latest cast info, photos, movie review and more on TVGuide.com. Poor J-Lo: there was a time when she co-starred with George Clooney, but 15 years on from Out Of Sight she's just a third wheel in this uninspired vengeance caper wherein The Stath is shafted by the Mob and vows payback. I understand wanting to be fair, but what was so fair about people connected to the film prevaricating about how that ‘code of ethics’ thing wasn’t really in the movie? Was the Godfather? I mean, really. 1 Dec 20, 2018 - A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Voice over actors: provide a link to your professional website containing your reel. What we have here is a film that lacks in what it tries to do. When they make all these changes to Westlake’s stories, what they’re really saying is “Not that many people read these books, so we can do what we like with them, and only a handful of obsessives will even notice.” Ahem! And I think they’ll all sleep like babies. I never saw him as shaven-headed, either. There, he joins forces with an unlikely ally (Jennifer Lopez) to hijack the gang's next big score. Connect with her on these social platforms. That’s why opening week is so important–the studio gets the largest share of the gross in the first week, but still not all of it. That’s exactly what I’d like to see happen–preferably on HBO, which tends to hire the best showrunning talent, give them the time and resources they need, and plenty of time to find an audience. It Came From YouTube: New, Improved Parker Movie Trailer 2 Submitted by RD Reynolds on Sat, 26 January 2013, 10:26 For sure this film would have been better had I directed it. You change one thing, you have to change something else, and etc. He’s what existed in nature long before us humans ever cooked up our highly compromised and self-contradictory moral codes. I’ll save my cash, because A) it’s not Westlake’s Parker (again, why even call it that), and B) I’m not a Jason Statham fan. And obviously Lopez is the love interest. At least that. While Statham isn’t setting the box office on fire at the moment (which is a shame, as I thought Safe wasn’t completely horrible), he’s still easily the most saleable aspect of this film and so it’s no surprise they want the trailer to look like a Jason Statham film. |, February 9, 2019 Rest in Peace. These types of movies are a dime a dozen. And then Melander(Michael Chiklis) double crosses Parker, taking all the loot and leaving Parker for dead by the side of the road. Let’s just consider the wild possibility that if they thought they have to make the trailer look like a Statham vehicle to sell tickets, they also thought they had to make the actual movie look that way. Parker is a thief -- but he has scruples. Parker Trailer (2013) Fresh Movie Trailers. And it’s pretty insulting, seeing as we were already told “Oh that stuff about the code of ethics isn’t in the movie, that’s just a misunderstanding”, and now it’s in the goddam TRAILER. ;-) lol. It looks like a fun action flick. And thanks for not calling me an idiot, Chris;-) lol Although for someone to not consider all of the above and revise a fixed opinion may give some cause to think that person is a… never mind. I am encouraged by it. ;). Didn’t the first Parker adaptation where he was called Parker deserve better than this? Plus, I noticed he says the “code” nonsense while he’s reassuring the “civilians” during the Heist. I don’t believe fans of the Parker novels will make or break this movie–I think it’ll make or break itself, and probably the latter, but that remains to be seen. By Trent. Dec 14, 4:29 pm. Things get off to a flying start, but you just know your luck isn't going to hold. Westlake would have been fine with the money. You predicted this fiasco from the first. :). Directed by John Cromwell. Maybe the trailer makes it look worse than it is–but seriously, doesn’t the trailer almost always make a movie look BETTER than it really is? Well, folks, here it is. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. And of course, as I said months ago, they were looking for a story where Parker only steals from other thieves (or from ‘people who can afford it’). I’d gladly overlook the obvious fact the actor is British and not American if they would just spend the multimillion dollars on something worth paying to go see. The only reason to watch this movie is to laugh at Statham's hilarious attempt at a Southern accent, and even that isn't that funny after a while. He doesn’t understand it. You’ve read Flashfire, but you have not seen this movie, so there’s no point saying it follows the story well–the trailer indicates otherwise to me, but there’s really no way of knowing without seeing the film. 'The Stath' gets to don a couple of silly costumes in the trailer for Parker, including a disguise as a grey-haired priest and a Texan playboy with a ten-gallon hat. Sign up. For a film to break even (once marketing is taken into account), it usually has to make three times its budget back. They made a ton of changes to the story, and that’s obvious just from the trailer, which means there’s a bunch more changes we don’t know about yet. Check out the first official movie trailer of Parker, the upcoming crime thriller movie directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, and Nick Nolte: Parker Movie – In theaters: January 25, 2013. And yeah, I can’t tell where they’re going with the relationship. But I will. crime, Of course Westlake knew that the best adaptation isn’t necessarily the most faithful one, but it’s one thing to not be faithful to the letter, and quite another to not be faithful to the SPIRIT, as “Point Blank” was, and “Parker” clearly is not. Check out the first official movie trailer of Parker, the upcoming crime thriller movie directed by Taylor Hackford and starring Jason Statham, Jennifer Lopez, Michael Chiklis, Wendell Pierce, and Nick Nolte: Parker Movie – In theaters: January 25, 2013 Parker Is A Skilled Thief With A Very Specific Moral Code; Never Kill Anyone Who Doesn't Deserve It And Never... Watch Parker trailer at Contactmusic.com. But no–they have to soften him up so he’ll appeal to the average boob who think Mr. Popper’s Penguins is the height of good cinema. I hope not. Either way, Parker was made for cable TV. You're almost there! Trent, if this is the first you’ve seen of Les’ email, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind you placing it’s contents into a post of it’s own, so all the VWOP regulars can see it, especially members who may miss it here in the comments section. Somehow that’s even worse than the trailer makes it out to be. It looks like a fun action flick. Sarah Jessica Parker has responded to the question that every Sex and the City fan had following Sunday’s announcement that a new version of the show will soon debut: How does she feel about the absence of actress Kim Cattrall, who played the bold and often hilarious Samantha Jones?. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Posted by Trent on October 3rd, 2012 | Tags: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Nailing down the Westlake sleaze catalog, part I: The Midwood books (part I), Hard Case Crime to release Donald Westlake’s, Trent goes off-topic (Trent's other site), 50 Years of Parker and Character Guide (U of C), University of Chicago Press (current home of the Parker novels), Darwyn Cooke's Parker comics (IDW Publishing). But just as there is a pretty good supporting cast on hand; Wendell Pierce gets to do too little and Jennifer Lopez way too much. 2 years ago | 342 views. ;-) lol. I’ll watch it once it comes out on DVD unless I just can’t stand the wait. Okay, that was never going to happen, but they didn’t have to tell us ANYTHING. Goodfellas? A hilarious comic portrait of a young woman's struggle for integrity, happiness and … Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. Joe, Sin City is a freaking EXCELLENT adaptation. too bad for the code thing wonder why they make this part so important, other than that it doesn’t look half bad, I’ve read Flashfire a few months ago and it really seem to follow the story well, and I don’t think there is anything romantic between Lopez and Statham character in the film, at least Lopez said there isn’t a few month ago in an interview, people just think it’s her in the shower when it’s actually Parker’s girlfriend Claire. No, trailers show us the scenes the marketing guys think are their best selling points they can get across in 90 seconds or so. Not because the film looks bad. All Parker(Jason Statham) wants to do is rob the Ohio State Fair with no hiccups and nobody getting hurt and then go home to his girlfriend Claire(Emma Booth) and have hot passionate sex. Search. Just going by the trailer, I’m sure it will have decent ticket sales, and everyone will get their precious money and points for it. Firebreak? Parker. The first credit after the last frame of the movie and the screen goes dark is A lot of you are going to be disappointed. Let’s just acknowledge that studios don’t generally open movies they have a high opinion of in January. And hardly anyone has seen it–it was a miserable flop, and guess what? Think of all the actors now starring on Showtime who got their start on HBO–even Claire Danes was largely forgotten until the Temple Grandin movie she did for HBO, which renewed interest in her, which led to her starring role on Homeland. Parker is a professional thief who lives by a personal code of ethics: Don't steal from people who can't afford it and don't hurt people who don't deserve it. Coming Soon. Just another pretty good Jason Statham movie lol.

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