Michael Ahr Dave Vitagliano Oct 12, 2018
For the October early edition of G! News, we cover the news coming out of New York Comic Con, plus Chin Han of Skyscraper.
G! News, our Den of Geek podcast, continues with the first half of September 2018. Twice a month, the hosts pull some of the more discussable topics from the recent goings-on in movies, television, comics, and gaming to add their own commentary while directing listeners to where they can read more about the entertainment news they talk about.
Read and download the Den of Geek Nycc 2018 Special Edition Magazine right here!
It's New York Comic Con season, and quite a few of our stories come from panel announcements and interviews. We have news from a Mortal Engines interview with Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and director Christian Rivers. A surprising casting announcement came out of a panel for The Boys on Amazon Prime Video as well,...
For the October early edition of G! News, we cover the news coming out of New York Comic Con, plus Chin Han of Skyscraper.
G! News, our Den of Geek podcast, continues with the first half of September 2018. Twice a month, the hosts pull some of the more discussable topics from the recent goings-on in movies, television, comics, and gaming to add their own commentary while directing listeners to where they can read more about the entertainment news they talk about.
Read and download the Den of Geek Nycc 2018 Special Edition Magazine right here!
It's New York Comic Con season, and quite a few of our stories come from panel announcements and interviews. We have news from a Mortal Engines interview with Peter Jackson, Philippa Boyens, and director Christian Rivers. A surprising casting announcement came out of a panel for The Boys on Amazon Prime Video as well,...
- 10/12/2018
- Den of Geek
Michael Ahr Oct 2, 2018
Although Skyscraper banks on a familiar action-adventure formula, the genius millionaire played by Chin Han is wholly unique.
Skyscraper has been described as a hybrid of Towering Inferno and the Die Hard franchise, but none of those movies featured a character quite like millionaire visionary Zhao Long Ji, played by Singaporean actor Chin Han. With the upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release of the film on October 9, 2018, Chin Han looked back on the unique nature of his character who, although he exhibited hubris in designing such a massive artistic structure, was neither villainous nor directly at fault for the peril of Dwayne Johnson’s Will Sawyer and his family.
Despite the differences, Chin Han acknowledges the influence of earlier disaster films but also argues that Skyscraper updates the concept. “When I read the script it evoked a lot of memories from all those films, so yeah, I do love this particular genre of movie,...
Although Skyscraper banks on a familiar action-adventure formula, the genius millionaire played by Chin Han is wholly unique.
Skyscraper has been described as a hybrid of Towering Inferno and the Die Hard franchise, but none of those movies featured a character quite like millionaire visionary Zhao Long Ji, played by Singaporean actor Chin Han. With the upcoming Blu-ray/DVD release of the film on October 9, 2018, Chin Han looked back on the unique nature of his character who, although he exhibited hubris in designing such a massive artistic structure, was neither villainous nor directly at fault for the peril of Dwayne Johnson’s Will Sawyer and his family.
Despite the differences, Chin Han acknowledges the influence of earlier disaster films but also argues that Skyscraper updates the concept. “When I read the script it evoked a lot of memories from all those films, so yeah, I do love this particular genre of movie,...
- 10/2/2018
- Den of Geek
Chicago – The Dwayne Johnson formula is what it is, as it seems for about three to five films a year. A disaster strikes, but the Johnson character has loved ones among the victims, and in his background there is enough expertise to rescue them. “Skyscraper” is the latest.
Rating: 3.0/5.0
“Skyscraper” had to be the easiest “elevator pitch” in film history… “Die Hard” meets “The Towering Inferno.” In this one, Johnson is ex-FBI and a security expert for the tallest building in the world… in Hong Kong. So when a fire gets lit in that high tower, and Johnson’s family is trapped inside, well, the rest of it becomes the formula. It still works, in a “B” movie kind of way, because even though the formula is in place, it’s always weirdly fascinating as to how it’s going to work, and often it is Dwayne Johnson – and...
Rating: 3.0/5.0
“Skyscraper” had to be the easiest “elevator pitch” in film history… “Die Hard” meets “The Towering Inferno.” In this one, Johnson is ex-FBI and a security expert for the tallest building in the world… in Hong Kong. So when a fire gets lit in that high tower, and Johnson’s family is trapped inside, well, the rest of it becomes the formula. It still works, in a “B” movie kind of way, because even though the formula is in place, it’s always weirdly fascinating as to how it’s going to work, and often it is Dwayne Johnson – and...
- 7/13/2018
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Alright, it’s roughly the Summer midpoint, so let’s escape the “dog days” by heading into the cool confines of the local multiplex and catch a flick that practically screams, “big, loud, blockbuster”. This isn’t a new thing, for the past several decades (maybe since the late 70’s), the Summer action extravaganza has been the domain of several stars that seem to be playing much the same character in every flick (that’s the case with “movie personalities” since the dawn of cinema), who seem to have almost been biological engineered for such “heavy lifting”. For the seventies it was Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson, then with the 80’s they “flexed” their talents to greater heights with Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Toward the end of the decade we got TV stars like Bruce Willis and martial arts masters such as Jean Claude Van-Damn and Steven Seagal. Now...
- 7/13/2018
- by Jim Batts
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In an age of remakes, reboots, and rehashes, it’s suddenly become refreshing to see homage — especially the self-aware kind. If you’ve seen the alternate posters for Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Skyscraper that crib off the designs of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno, you understand how the filmmakers have embraced comparison due to their love for those genre classics. It’s this love that allows them to take a step back and create their own story in those images, at once honoring the past, updating for the present, and creating something wholly new. Nobody going to see the comedic-minded Thurber’s foray into straight dramatic thrills is doing so with the intent to be blown away by anything more than the special effects, crazy stunts, and tailor-made sets for mayhem.
And he delivers all three from start to finish with Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) at center. A retired...
And he delivers all three from start to finish with Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) at center. A retired...
- 7/11/2018
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
People do ridiculous things in movies all the time. In “Skyscraper,” terrorists purposefully set a 240-story building on fire in order to get at a flash drive locked away in the billionaire’s penthouse on top. That seems like an awful lot of trouble for a heist, and yet, it’s nothing compared with the extravagant lengths Dwayne Johnson’s character, Will Sawyer — a security consultant with a prosthetic leg and the world’s strongest finger muscles — will go to, to save his family, who are trapped inside.
Ridiculous is the name of the game in “Skyscraper,” an eye-rolling action movie delivered with a straight face by “Dodgeball: An Underdog Story” director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who recognizes that no one wants to watch a realistic rescue story when they can have “The Rock’s Wife and Kids Nearly Burned to a Crisp in Blazing Building.” On the scale that ranges...
Ridiculous is the name of the game in “Skyscraper,” an eye-rolling action movie delivered with a straight face by “Dodgeball: An Underdog Story” director Rawson Marshall Thurber, who recognizes that no one wants to watch a realistic rescue story when they can have “The Rock’s Wife and Kids Nearly Burned to a Crisp in Blazing Building.” On the scale that ranges...
- 7/10/2018
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
“Skyscraper” doesn’t expand the scope or the rules of the summer action blockbuster, but it does follow the recipe in a supremely satisfying way.
So yes, you’ll recognize the DNA of other movies here — not just obvious antecedents like “Die Hard” and “The Towering Inferno,” but also “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” and even “The Lady from Shanghai” — but that familiarity won’t interfere with the vertiginous thrills, the breathtaking stunts (and CG), and the near-constant state of adrenaline-fueled action.
Writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Central Intelligence”) sets up the pins to knock them down later: there’s nothing we learn in the first 10 minutes of the film that won’t come up again in the last 10 minutes. Still, he sets up an impressive array of obstacles, as well as characters who are solid enough to overcome them.
Watch Video: 'Skyscraper' Trailer Shows Dwayne Johnson Can Still Kick...
So yes, you’ll recognize the DNA of other movies here — not just obvious antecedents like “Die Hard” and “The Towering Inferno,” but also “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol” and even “The Lady from Shanghai” — but that familiarity won’t interfere with the vertiginous thrills, the breathtaking stunts (and CG), and the near-constant state of adrenaline-fueled action.
Writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Central Intelligence”) sets up the pins to knock them down later: there’s nothing we learn in the first 10 minutes of the film that won’t come up again in the last 10 minutes. Still, he sets up an impressive array of obstacles, as well as characters who are solid enough to overcome them.
Watch Video: 'Skyscraper' Trailer Shows Dwayne Johnson Can Still Kick...
- 7/10/2018
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
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