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13 Trailer: With This Cast, It's Gotta Be Good... Right?

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (14)

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Now here’s something interesting.

Below is the trailer for 13. It’s a remake of relatively well-received 13 Tzameti, the French film made by Georgian (the one in Eurasia, not the one down south) director Géla Babluani — who also directed this American remake. Weird, eh?

What’s weirder is the cast, which is actually pretty damn impressive — Jason Statham, Sam Riley, Ray Winstone, Mickey Rourke, Natasha Lyonne, Ben Gazzara, Emmanuelle Chriqui, and Michael Shannon. Oh, and Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson — I guess Babaluani ran out of actors or something.

More interesting is the plot:

A naive young man assumes a dead man’s identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.

Basically a group of desperate men engage in a fucked up version of Russian Roulette. It sounds interesting. Except that apparently it’s fucking awful. It’s opening next month in LA and New York, and then whoosh! Off to DVD land. Yeah. And that’s assuming it can find a distributor. Even more amusing is that Mickey Rourke, who, mind you, has been in some pretty lousy movies (Passion Play anyone?) has said that the movie is terrible. Here’s his exchange in a recent interview with Vulture:

Vulture: You [and 50 Cent] are in a movie together, right?
Rourke: A really bad movie, yeah.
Vulture: What?! Is it out?
Rourke: No, it’s so bad it can’t get out.
Vulture: Tell me why you made it.
Rourke: For the money.
Vulture: But you think the movie’s bad.
Rourke: Terrible.
Vulture: Why?
Rourke: You have to watch it.

You have to admire his candor. Either that, or it’s some crazy reverse psychology shit, and knowing my fascination with shitty movies, it’s probably going to work on me. Damn your leathery ass, Rourke.

Watch the damn trailer:




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Comments

Does Fiddy take them to the candy shop? Does he let them lick the lollipop? Do they keep going till they hit the spot? Whoa!

Posted by: admin at September 21, 2011 11:09 AM

If Michael Shannon wanted to, he would lick the lollipop whether anyone ‘let’ him or not. And if Michael Shannon didn’t want to lick the lollipop, then nothing you could say or do would make him lick the lollipop. FORGET IT, FIDDY, IT’S SHANNONTOWN!

Posted by: zeke the pig at September 21, 2011 11:21 AM

Vulture: But you think the movie’s bad.
Rourke: Terrible.
Vulture: Why?
Rourke: You have to watch it.

Gotta love that, despite saying the movie is awful, he's still selling it and telling people they should go see it. It's a new marketing strategy. "You thought you had seen feces on screen before? Come see how deep into shit we can wade." They already do this, kind of, but I'm not sure anyone has just said it so plainly before, and still told people to go see the movie.

Posted by: Socrates_Johnson at September 21, 2011 11:38 AM

Ben Fucking Gazzara?

Run for your LIFE!

Posted by: , at September 21, 2011 11:39 AM

I thought this was released on dvd something like a year ago....?

This just has the *STENCH* of a pile of crap.

Posted by: Alex the not so odd at September 21, 2011 11:55 AM

I didn't think it looked that bad. Honestly.
Besides it's a Staham movie so you expect crap. He wouldn't recognize a quality movie if Spielberg introduced him to it.

Posted by: logan at September 21, 2011 11:55 AM

Caught this one off the torrents like a year ago and Rourke isn't kidding. It's REALLY bad.

Posted by: Repo at September 21, 2011 12:12 PM

It's like " The Long Walk" but russian roulette style

Posted by: Frank B00th at September 21, 2011 1:43 PM

Holy crap Pajiba has discovered time machine technology. You must use this power to stop crappy remakes from being made throughout history.

Posted by: googergieger at September 21, 2011 1:44 PM

This movie is horrible. I love Michael Shannon, and I wish him all the best, but his acting in this movie is atrociuos. He does everything wrong, he could do wrong. He is annoying and he ruins almost every sceen he's in. Mickey Rourke and Jason Statham are barely in the movie. And the ending? naah.

Posted by: Albert at September 21, 2011 5:36 PM

Wait, you said Natasha Lyonne is in this....not in the trailer though...she's still alive? I thought she was dead or in rehab or hiding from Michael Rappaport or something,

Posted by: JenVegas at September 21, 2011 5:42 PM

PS I always just refer to Michael Rappaport as "Zebrahead" and most of my friends know who I'm talking about. I actually had to go look up the movie on IMDB to remind myself of his real name so I could reference him here.

Posted by: JenVegas at September 21, 2011 5:43 PM

Yes, horrible, dull, movie. It was on this internet thing about a year ago. Avoid. Unless your life is as pathetic as mine, and you have lots of time to kill.

Posted by: Sean at September 21, 2011 10:55 PM

Yeah, started watching this last year, it was available through a certain online resource. It was RUBBISH. didn't even give it half hour. Terrible start, badly shot.

Posted by: thallen at September 22, 2011 6:16 AM