#Timur Bekmambetov

[justaholesir]

JAMES MCAVOY as Wesley Gibson Wanted (2008) dir. Timur Bekmambetov

[roseartsandfics]

Happy 15th Anniversary 9! 💚

Happy 15th anniversary to a beautiful, haunting and epic 2009 film of 9!

Here we got 9 running playfully and Rose LaBelle (my OC) holding a bouquet of flowers, probably running along with him ❤️ Just some brotherly sisterly bond 💚 I was going to add 5, but I didn't want to re-layer or give myself a hard time or create more delayed time to get it done. So this just the two of them ^^;

This is kinda rushed, because I was about to do it last night, but got busy with FFVII Ever Crisis, which they had a 1st anniversary since it's released. And (spoiler maybe ^^;) I got like A LOT of cool things to grind some stuff fast without even going to battles over and over for items that'll take FOREVER to grind. I actually came up with plans to actually get through the mobile game on my computer since I got extras from the login in item charts, and I was really glad I got to do most of them since I'm levels up high and grinding faster. :)

Anyways, back to this topic, I did watch 9 today after dinner, just after getting home from school. I finished it right before watching the movie, and started on it this morning before heading to the bus, and to continue on the bus before getting home and finished it after dinner. I liked how it turned out :) This film brought me so much joy, and very surprised it turned 15 today, for the fact I hadn't known it at a young age until 2021 when I got into it very much!

Hope y'all had a great day and a great 15th anniversary! 💚

9 (character) and 9 ©Shane Acker, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Focus Features

Rose LaBelle and artwork ©RosePrincessArts

No copyright infringement is intended

Used: Sketchbook app from iPad

[heavenlycinema]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

Timur Bekmambetov (Dir)

“I need you, Mary.”

[adamwatchesmovies]

Wanted (2008)

If Wanted is your favorite film, it might be because you’re the kind of person who dreams of shooting up a school. You think I’m exaggerating. “Come on Adam; sure this film might glorify violence and gunplay, but don’t most action movies?” Yes, but Wanted takes it a step further. The film has such a hard-on for firearms and is so mean-spirited its nastiness will be obvious to everyone. Or it would be if it weren’t drowned out by an idiotic plot with no identity of its own, Maxim Magazine-like titillation, and admittedly dynamic action scenes.

Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) is a nobody loser. He has no money, no future or aspirations and worst of all, no will to do anything about it. Everything changes when he crosses paths with Fox (Angelina Jolie). She reveals to him his identity as a member of The Fraternity and the son of the world’s greatest assassin. His crippling panic attacks are actually superhuman killer instincts trying to break out. Daddy’s been murdered and only Wesley can avenge him. Leaving his cheating bitch of a girlfriend, his crummy job and the boss he hates behind, he begins training and prepares to take his revenge.

I am not a fan of the comic book that inspired Wanted. While I admire writer Mark Millar’s vision of a world secretly ruled by supervillains - actual supervillains who gleefully indulge in crimes even the most evil and demented monsters our history has ever produced could dream of - six issues about a rapist who does nothing but shoot innocent people in the face and then laugh about it loses its appeal pretty quickly. In theory, this means I should like the softened-up movie more than the mini-series… but I don’t. Gone are the costumes, the references to well-known works and the amorality of the protagonist. This film has so little in common with its progenitor it’s almost unrecognizable. Instead, it’s a rather by-the-book leather-clad gun-wielding assassin movie… until it becomes so dumb you can’t believe it was written by adults.

To its credit, the film firmly establishes itself as taking place in a world that's not ours. Guns can shoot around their targets if the wielder swings their arm the right way. The chases and stunts prove Wesley and the other members of The Fraternity are indeed the world’s greatest killers. The climax is an orgy of mayhem and bullet holes so well done it makes you forget everything you hated about this movie, if only briefly. Say what you will about Wanted, but it's not boring.

While Wanted may seem like nothing but harmless escapist fantasy, certain aspects make it more than a little distressing. When we meet Wesley, his life belongs at the bottom of the trash can. His girlfriend is having an affair with his best friend so he’s got no friends and no sex life. His boss, an overweight woman (Lorna Scott) has no redeeming qualities (they couldn’t make her just overweight or unbearable, she had to be both). His mother is unimportant and Wesley doesn't know his father. Everything changes when he picks up a gun. Suddenly, Wesley’s looking up Angelina Jolie’s skirt, he’s got millions in the bank, he’s respected, and he’s saving the world… by killing people in ways no one else could. The better he gets at killing, the more fortunes are heaped onto his lap. Even when he loses everything, he has learned to kill and that makes his existence better than ours. He breaks the fourth wall to tell us so.

Perhaps I’m looking too deeply into the importance of the gun in Wanted. I’m sure you’ll nonetheless grant me that this whole Fraternity thing is pretty dumb. Mr. Sloan (Morgan Freeman) interprets the “Loom of Fate”, which weaves a fabric that - once in a while - contains errors. If a strand is misplaced in this way, it’s a 0. In another way, it’s a 1. Through this binary system, the Fraternity has been finding targets for 1,000 years. You read that correctly. At some point in history, some bored weaver looked at a piece of cloth through a microscope, decided - for yucks - to write down the errors in the fabric and realized it could tell us who would turn out to be evil. Wesley just accepts this without batting an eye. Now, when Mr. Sloan is revealed to be corrupt and we learn he’s been lying to our protagonist the whole time, you might think the whole thing’s been made up, but no. In fact, he’s something that’ll bake your noodle: At one point, Fox is assigned to kill Wesley because he will cause the death of thousands… and he does. In his quest for vengeance, Wesley causes a train full of innocent people to derail and fall down the deepest canyon you’ve ever seen. Every single person on that train except for him and Fox dies. Of course, our lead character is too self-obsessed to even think about that tragedy.

Wanted might have some stylish elements in that “curving the bullet" thing and this might also make it memorable in a way, but once you start thinking about this movie, it becomes more than a little uncomfortable. Not helping is the supremely unlikable protagonist. Wanted barely even makes an attempt to emulate the work that inspired it. Some people might say that's a bad thing. Some might not. It just means any way you look at it, this film is dreadful. (June 24, 2022)

[brokehorrorfan]

Missing will be released on Digital on March 7 and on Blu-ray and DVD on March 28 via Sony. The 2023 screenlife thriller is standalone sequel to 2018’s Searching.

Searching editors Will Merrick & Nick Johnson write and direct. Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long star. Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching) executive produces.

Special features are listed below.

Special features:

Audio commentary by writers-directors Will Merrick and Nick Johnson

Storm Reid and the Challenge of Missing featurette

Misdirects, Online Crimes and the Social Media Mystery featurette

The Screens that Rule Our Lives featurette

Hunting for the Missing Easter Eggs

Deleted scenes

When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers... and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.

Pre-order Missing.

[roseprincessarts]

Would you rather?

Have 1 wearing a hat and cape

Have 1 wearing just a cape

Have 1 wearing just a hat

Have 1 wear nothing at all

I like all :D

[watchingmoviesandshit]

Profile (2018)

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[rye-views]

Ben-Hur (2016) dir. Timur Bekmambetov. 7.4/10

I would not recommend this movie to my friends. I would not rewatch this movie.

The horse tripping like that in the beginning was crazy.

I like how this movie expounded more on the relationships before Messala left to fight. It makes it more intimate. I though the love is our true nature quote was astounding. Like, I never think that. I like the Messala face to ear cut. These horses are beautiful. Judah's haircut did wonders.

I feel a stronger juxtaposition between Judah and Jesus in this movie than in the og, but the og feels more classic. The og race was better imo. But, this one was so intense.

This cleaned up too nicely. Like, idk, i wouldn't forgive Messala, but I guess I didn't gain from the moral of the story.

Omg these poor horses.

Here's Gossip Girl's Sage.

Memorable Quotes: "Love is our true nature."

[streamondemand]

Angelina Jolie is a holy assassin in 'Wanted' on Peacock

After a career of serious British dramas, James McAvoy took his first steps as an action hero in Wanted (2008), a wildly absurd and just as wildly entertaining action fantasy about a secret society of assassins who take their instructions from a supernatural loom. We meet Wesley (McAvoy) as an office drone with a soul-sucking job, a cheating girlfriend, and crippling anxiety attacks. Faster than…

[roseartsandfics]

Happy 14th Anniversary of 9!

💚 Happy 14th anniversary of Shane Acker's 9, all you 9 peeps! 💚

Here is an artwork I have finished last night (kinda rushed ^^;) of our savior 9 holding his light staff and my lovely OC Rose LaBelle holding a rose as the petals flew gracefully 🌹

I was listening to Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria (the music from the trailer) and the 9 soundtrack while getting this artwork done before today , and I am planning on watching the movie later on ^^

This was quite fun to do! Enjoy 9 day everyone!

What y'all think?

9 (character) and 9 ©Shane Acker, Tim Burton, Timur Bekmambetov and Focus Features

Rose LaBelle and artwork ©RosePrincessArts

No copyright infringement is intended

Used: Sketchbook app from iPad

[cringefailnarwhal]

this thing..

[sawaisanna]

Wanted (2008) dir. Timur Bekmambetov Mamushi - Megan Thee Stallion (2024) dir. Kevin "Onda" Leyva

[facesofcinema]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (2012)

[brokehorrorfan]

From the minds behind Searching, Missing will make you wonder how well you know those closest to you when it hits theaters on January 20. I’m giving readers in the Boston area the opportunity to see it early - and for free!

Broke Horror Fan is sponsoring an advance screening of Missing at AMC Boston Common in Boston, MA on Thursday, January 12, at 7pm. Click here and follow the instructions to download complimentary passes while supplies last. Seating is first-come, first-served and not guaranteed, so be sure to arrive early!

The 2023 screen life film is written and directed by Searching editors Will Merrick & Nick Johnson. Storm Reid, Joaquim de Almeida, Ken Leung, Amy Landecker, Daniel Henney, and Nia Long star. Timur Bekmambetov (Unfriended, Searching) executive produces.

When her mother (Nia Long) disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find her before it’s too late. But as she digs deeper, her digital sleuthing raises more questions than answers...and when June unravels secrets about her mom, she discovers that she never really knew her at all.