Saturday, January 28, 2012

The grey

  • Any casual reader of Jack London will get a stab of recognition from the portrayal in the movie "The Grey" of battered survivors defending with flaming torches against snarling, snapping wolves. After all, the opening stanza of Mr.
  • (The Christian Science Monitor)
  • The Grey is looking like box office gold. The film, starring Liam Neeson, took in $6.5 million at the domestic box office Friday, and is on track to take $18.6 million for the weekend. While thats nowhere near the $25.
  • (TheWrap)
  • A new action movie starring Liam Neeson features snarling villains hunting people in packs in snowy, desolate Alaska - a misleading portrayal of wolves according to wolf experts.
  • (Pioneer Press)
  • In a two-week span, two movies about Alaska will make their big-screen, big-budget debuts. The Grey, starring Liam Neeson, comes out nationwide Friday and tells the story of oil workers who become stranded when their plane crashes in the Alaska wilderness.
  • (Alaska Dispatch)
  • Its a cramped, ugly, bare-bones flight, packed full of oil-rig workers. Then it hits a blizzard. Then it crashes in the middle of an Alaskan wasteland even Todd Palin would steer clear of.
  • (nola.com)
  • The Grey strives to be something different, turning what could have been a piece of mid-January claptrap into a far more satisfying experience. There is no yarn older than that of man vs. nature. It's part of our ancestral make-up and homo sapien heritage.
  • (Popmatters.com)
  • The Grey is one of the most intense movies to come along in a while. Writer/director Joe Carnahans movie is half survival tale, half horror film and thoroughly riveting.
  • (Gainesville Times)
  • The Grey is poised to take the top spot at the weekend box office (Jan.27-29) and director Joe Carnahan is already working on his next project. Hell be writing and directing a remake of the 1974 vigilante film Death Wish.
  • (Zap2it.com)
  • Liam Neeson took on a pack of wolves and bloodied himself in leading The Grey to an opening day victory at the North American box office on Friday.
  • (TheHDRoom)

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