Smoking Aces had its premier last night in Hollywood at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Stars in attendance included Ben Affleck, Ryan Reynolds, whiny Kanye West, Elizabeth Banks, Jenna Dewan, Alicia Keys, Amanda Peet, Chris Pine, and Andy Garcia.
I’ve never heard of this guy Chris Pine before, but he is fine. Also, isn’t Amanda Peet pregnant? I would have liked to see some bump pictures. She is so cute on Studio 60.
Here’s the plot summary from IMDB:
An FBI agent (Reynolds) hunts for a Las Vegas stand up comedian (Piven) who has decided to squeal on the mob but, before he heads off for protective custody, decides to go to the casinos at Lake Tahoe for one last good time, drawing a crowd of assassins (including Affleck and Keys).
I wonder why Jeremy Piven wasn’t photographed at the premiere?
And here’s a teaser trailer:
Advance buzz is not good for this film, which is said to be overly violent and unoriginal. Smoking Aces is out in theaters on 1/26.
Update: pictures removed due to end of subscription agreement with photo agency.
Where’s Alanis? Did Ryan really dump the talented but fugly Ms. Morissette?
Ben Affleck in a bomb of a movie? What a shocker…
Seriously, this whole ‘too-cool-for-school’ assassin/mob/heist/revenge flick type movie was starting to wear thin when Kill Bill was out but then they had to really drag that dead donkey home and make stuff like Layer Cake (only decent because of Daniel Craig but horrible everywhere he was not), Revolver, anything with Jason Stantham, and Lucky Number Slevin to slam that tombstone that much more into the ground.
I can already visualise the kind of jump cuts this film is going to use.
Do they realise Pulp Fiction and The Usual Suspects came out over a decade ago? Let it go, reinvent the genre, or use it to tell a unique story.
And please avoid resurrecting/re-envisioning/re-vamping any graphic novels while you’re on your way there.
This is getting tired.
re: Affleck – he has *always* picked horrible films, or made just passable films horrible. This isn’t just because he dated J-Lo, this pre-dates J-Lo. Him being married to Jen G isn’t going to change this. People need to accept this because no amount of Lopez -loss, bloat loss and designer styling is going to change it either.
If he’s smart he’ll start picking astute parodies of what he’s already doing so people can laugh with him rather than at him. He always looks like he’s going to start laughing when he’s ‘acting’ anyway.
Come on people! Lets disguss the really hard hitting issues here like how the heck are they going to disguise Alicia Keys’s cankles in the film? Seriously, that girl has some shockers. She needs to see a good dermatologist as well.
They could do the same thing they did with Olivia Newton John in that superlative piece of film artistry, Xanadu and get her to wear legwarmers / pants / boots the whole time – anyone remember that?
I suppose Affleck got nominated for a golden globe for not acting. Yeah – that makes sense.
Come to think of it – he lost along with all those other lousy actors like Brad Pitt and Jack Nicholson = get off his case fool = ponding him is what’s over.