Stretch (Joe Carnahan)

[Dukefrukem]

I thought we had a thread.

http://www.screenrelish.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Patrick-Wilson-in-Stretch.jpg

[Dukefrukem]

This sneaked into my top 10 of the year. Wow. Watch on Netflix now. Go go go go go! Oh my Chris Pine. Great Hasselhoff cameo.

[eternity]

It's kind of funny.

[Ezee E]

I thought I made a thread too.

[Dukefrukem]

I thought I made a thread too.

Did it get lost in the reinstall?

[Weems]

Yikes, I like most of Carnahan's films to some degree, but I thought this film was hella incompetent. And I've never seen the very reliable/talented Chris Pine used so badly.

[Ezee E]

Did it get lost in the reinstall?

Or maybe I just didn't make it?

[Ezee E]

Yikes, I like most of Carnahan's films to some degree, but I thought this film was hella incompetent. And I've never seen the very reliable/talented Chris Pine used so badly.

I've hated A-Team and Smokin Aces about as equal as this one.

[Dead & Messed Up]

This one built on me as it went, with things really taking off once Wilson offers his riff on the Jamie Foxx improv in Mann's eerily similar LA ferryman project. I didn't much care for the confrontation at the end that cites the old alpha / beta male binary, mostly because that's sort of a crock theory best left to red pill men's rights dickheads, but given that it's coming from the villain, I guess it's not really worth trusting. And given that Stretch ignores the potential for alpha asshole behavior during his evolution (he moves past an ex instead of a revenge-bang, he sacrifices money he needs at a key point to save lives), the film may be more of a slight satire on machismo, confidence trumping dominance, strength defined by confidence rather than dominance. It's a fine line. Some of the best work of Wilson's career, who gets into the outsized absurdity with real eagerness.