Friday, February 1, 2013
Film Your Weekend at the Movies with Old Guys
Posted by Jesse Hassenger on Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 3:00 PM
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Stand Up Guys: Another possible spawn of the Expendables series: the even-older all-star ensembles. Stand Up Guys boasts Pacino, Walken, and everham (and current Oscar nominee, entirely for hamming) Alan Arkin, while the upcoming Last Vegas boasts Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas, and, uh, Kevin Kline (clearly wandering away from his true calling: starring in the comedy version of this type of movie with Steve Martin and Rick Moranis). Then again, maybe all of these movies are just ripping off Space Cowboys, which you may have noticed I find a way to mention in this column at least once a month. Stand Up Guys got an inexplicable and possibly contractually obligated Oscar-qualifying Los Angeles run in December; now it's back for a possibly contractually obligated semi-wide run in fewer than 500 theaters nationwide. I get the feeling that as Pacino and his generation of actors age, they're checking each other off of lists: Walken and Pacino haven't costarred together before, so let's get it done! An Alan Arkin/Robert De Niro shtick-up can't be far behind.
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