Middle Men, will be in Theatres in the United States this weekend in these cities and their surrounding areas: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas Fort Worth, Austin, Seattle and San Francisco. For those of you who live outside of these areas, the film will open nationwide on August 20th.
This looks like one of those movies that just gets dumped in a few theaters before going to DVD. I am surprised it wasn't straight to DVD. I think it was done a couple years ago and been in some kind of studio limbo. I saw some blogs talking about how they had to cut from an orgy scene to get an R rating and saw Luke Wilson on a late night show.
I've read a few reviews of it and they all skew favorable, I was like you, assuming this was a straight to DVDer that made a wrong turn into semi-wide distribution, but more than one reviewer has mentioned the Scorsese noir-ishness of it. Film Noir was a pretty bad ass genre back in the day and despite the last 4 or 5 films prior to The Departed if it was said you were even sniffin' Scorsese's panties would be a huge compliment.
i caught it friday...obviously some things were exaggerated but overall it was ok
lessons from the movie:
1. be creative
2. dont go into business with cokeheads or russians
3. cover your ass if you decide to ignore #2
2. dont go into business with cokeheads or russians
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Now thats just fucked up. LOL. Being a Russian my self I'd have to agree with that statement.