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Sunday, June 27, 2010 at 4:42AM First Look at Paul Bettany in 'Priest'
I hate knowing a year ahead of time that a movie's going to blow, don't you? Take Priest, the first official image for which popped up on Entertainment Weekly and looks suspiciously like the photo below.

So why will Priest suck? There are a couple reasons. The most obvious is the shuffled release date. It was set to fire in January, itself not the best time for a genre movie like this. And then Screen Gems (there's strike two, incidentally) had to move it when the just-as-3-D-and-male-oriented Cabin in the Woods was pushed to the exact same release date, meaning Priest would have to go somewhere else. A reader told us March, which isn't bad, but now the film is scheduled to open May 13h. Hey, hey - summer!
But here's the thing: The second week in May is the only off week that entire month, and it's been that way for a while. There's usually a second-tier event movie that weekend and a bunch of garbage opening next to it as counterprogramming. In the past five years, the following movies have been in the garbage category: Just Wright, Next Day Air, Georgia Rule, Delta Farce, Just My Luck, and Mindhunters. Yep: Lindsay Lohan twice and Larry the Cable Guy.
If you need a fourth reason, how about the fact that this is directed by the same dude who made Legion, which was never at any point more compelling than its concept. See? Paul Bettany or not, I know Priest is going to suck and we have 11 months to kill before it does. Depressing.



Reader Comments (2)
Please Paul Bettany....you're better than this.
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