It’s not the kind of thing most moviegoers are itching to see.
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The inaccuracies in “Last Vegas” fall somewhere between “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “Con Air” for its climactic crash scene.
It’s being positioned as “The Hangover” for the stooped over. A raucous “Cocoon” in a casino. But “Last Vegas” isn’t that movie.
Nevada’s capital city and its immediate environs has had a long relationship with the film industry, both in abstract and hands-on ways.
Once the producers of “Last Vegas” had assembled the actors, there were still two key roles to cast: the hotel that represented the Vegas of old, and the resort that symbolized the new, sleek Vegas.
He captured Robert De Niro strolling alone on New York-New York’s Brooklyn Bridge. He maneuvered De Niro, Michael Douglas, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline, unmolested, up and down the Strip and through the McCarran baggage claim.
With his first screenplay, Cormac McCarthy and director Ridley Scott have unleashed what’s either a soon-to-be-legendary misfire destined for a midnight cult audience or a work of staggering genius that operates on a level too advanced for me to grasp.
There’s plenty to stare and shake your head at in “The Counselor,” the sexually charged, love-it-or-loathe-it crime drama from Cormac McCarthy and director Ridley Scott.
Star power and Oscar aspirations are reigning at the box office, where the space adventure “Gravity” and the Somali pirate docudrama “Captain Phillips” are holding off all comers.
Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak presented the stars of “Last Vegas” with a key to the Strip on Friday. Kevin Kline, Mary Steenburgen, Morgan Freeman, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas and the film’s director, Jon Turteltaub, each received a key during a ceremony in front of the fountains at Bellagio. Mayor Carolyn G. Goodman also presented each of the cast with the key to the city of Las Vegas.
Impressive work from Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl can’t keep the WikiLeaks saga “The Fifth Estate” from feeling hollow and unfocused. But these seven web-based movie ideas are sure to be blockbusters.
By now, raving about Benedict Cumberbatch has become as commonplace as chatting about the weather or complaining about that thing Miley Cyrus won’t stop doing with her tongue.
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