The interesting Peppermint trailer.

Will Peppermint work? Depends:

…how crazy can Jennifer Garner be on the screen? I mean, it’s an interesting use of the Snow Crash Narrative:

Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Colombian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I dropped out and devoted my life to being bad.

…only this time they put a woman in the starring role of this wish-fulfillment fantasy*. Which is interesting! And if Jennifer Garner can pull off The Crazy, it will also be watchable. If she cannot, then it will not be.  I look with some interest to the reviews.

Moe Lane

*Sometimes I wonder if Hollywood really groks that every street gang and criminal cartel in America instinctively understands that drive-by shootings using automatic weapons would pretty much guarantee the swift annihilation of whichever idiots did that. I’m guessing that it does not.

8 thoughts on “The interesting Peppermint trailer.”

  3. Pretty sure we’ve seen most of the important plot points in the trailer, I’m guessing the movie is just 87 minutes of that. The final act will be a showdown with the cartel leader, possibly with a final “twist” reveal that it was the judge (or someone similar) calling the shots all along.

  4. We know Garner can do action. She spent a good chunk of her career doing just that on the very successful TV series ‘Alias’. So I’m optimistic. What’s perhaps more interesting to me is that the film industry is essentially bankrolling yet another vigilante flick. From what I understand, most of the people in Hollywood really don’t like that sort of thing. And yet, it seems like there’s been more than usual lately.

    1. Zeitgeist.
      In times when the government is ineffectual (or worse, uninterested) in the defense of its citizens, the appeal of the vigilante increases.
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      And well, we’re living in a time when the “murder of Buckwheat” skits are not nearly as ludicrous as reality.

      1. They’re not opposed to vigilantism .. or to doing anti-illegal-immigration stuff either.
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        pro tip: zombie movies are about immigration and Walking Dead is ridiculously popular/profitable .. and you can tell when they tried to tweak Walking Dead to make it less about immigration because the ratings tanked.
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        I’m kind of “meh” on this movie .. mostly because it’s all been done already .. but I’m not surprised to see … I’m waiting for Los Angeles (or maybe Seattle) to get a “Taking of Pelham 123” remake ..
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        Mew

        1. I see BigGator5’s point about this film’s potential, though. The “And then I’ll pretty much wing it from there” bit piqued my interest; it suggests a combination of rage and chaos that *could* be highly watchable. Guess we’ll see.

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