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...were necessary to succinctly describe the reputability of Kevin Smith’s latest buddy-cop venture “Cop Out,” it would be best to default to a typical line from Tracy Morgan’s character in the movie: “I set records with my shit-turds!” Unfortunately, “Cop Out” represents a literal cop out by Kevin Smith in the production of a “shit-turd” of a film...
Everyone loves a buddy-cop film. Whether it’s Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker together in “Rush Hour” or Martin Lawrence in “Blue Streak,” “National Security,” or “Bad Boys,” the normally-funny dynamics of characters and plot lend themselves to successful films. With hysterical love/hate relationships between the partners, the usually high-paced and unrealistic save-the-world plots, goofy slip-ups, and ass-kicking repartee, the genre has always offered a lot to audiences...
...devised for the page, not the eye. Yet its psychological twists and the sense of emotional despair at its core were bound to attract moviemakers. It landed a big one: Martin Scorsese, fresh off his belated Oscar win for The Departed, the 2006 thriller starring DiCaprio as a cop with a double identity. (See the top 10 Sundance film festival hits...
...makes occasional forays into genre territory. He's done romantic comedy (Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), Merchant-Ivoryish period drama (The Age of Innocence), a musical (New York, New York) and a thriller remake (Cape Fear). Even The Departed is an American version of a Hong Kong cop movie. Now Scorsese has taken on psychological horror, adding a filigree of frissons from Stanley Kubrick's The Shining and Val Lewton's artful B movies of the 1940s to Lehane's already dense thicket of chills and tricks. (See the top 10 Oscar-nomination snubs...
...Shutter Island, $22.2 million; $75.1 million, second week 2. Cop Out, $18.6 million, first weekend 3. The Crazies, $16.5 million, first weekend 4. Avatar, $14 million; $706.9 million, 11th week 5. Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief, $9.8 million; $71.2 million, third week 6. Valentine's Day, $9.5 million; $100.4 million, third week 7. Dear John, $5 million; $72.6 million, fourth week 8. The Wolfman, $4.1 million; $57.2 million, third week 9. Tooth Fairy, $3.5 million; $53.9 million, sixth week 10. Crazy Heart, $2.5 million; $25.1 million, 11th week...