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Im stoked will be checking this movie out, seems to have potential!
 

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Savages

Release Date: July 6, 2012
Studio: Universal Pictures
Director: Oliver Stone
Screenwriter: Shane Salerno, Don Winslow, Oliver Stone
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: R (for strong brutal and grisly violence, some graphic sexuality, nudity, drug use and language throughout)
Website: Savagesfilm.com | Facebook

Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch, Demian Bichir

Plot Summary: Three-time Oscar®-winning filmmaker Oliver Stone returns to the screen with the ferocious thriller "Savages," featuring the all-star ensemble cast of Taylor Kitsch, Blake Lively, Aaron Johnson, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Benicio Del Toro, Salma Hayek, Emile Hirsch and Demian Bichir. The film is based on Don Winslow's best-selling crime novel that was named one of The New York Times' Top 10 Books of 2010.

Laguna Beach entrepreneurs Ben (Johnson), a peaceful and charitable Buddhist, and his closest friend Chon (Kitsch), a former Navy SEAL and ex-mercenary, run a lucrative, homegrown industry—raising some of the best marijuana ever developed. They also share a one-of-a-kind love with the extraordinary beauty Ophelia (Lively). Life is idyllic in their Southern California town...until the Mexican Baja Cartel decides to move in and demands that the trio partners with them.

When the merciless head of the BC, Elena (Hayek), and her brutal enforcer, Lado (Del Toro), underestimate the unbreakable bond among these three friends, Ben and Chon—with the reluctant, slippery assistance of a dirty DEA agent (Travolta)—wage a seemingly unwinnable war against the cartel. And so begins a series of increasingly vicious ploys and maneuvers in a high stakes, savage battle of wills.

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every scene with Selma Hayek and Benicio was really entertaining, Travolta was decent... but I just could never get behind the two leads... and the ending... well... the less said the better.

mildly entertaining, but that's about it with a huge copout of an ending.
 

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Big stone fan but appeared something ill watch casually once it is easily obtained through streaming or redbox.
 

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I read the book. It was pretty out there; I imagine it's even further out there with Stone calling the shots.

It's a movie I'll see, but I'll rent it.
 

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I read the book. It was pretty out there; I imagine it's even further out there with Stone calling the shots.

It's a movie I'll see, but I'll rent it.

out of curiosity, how did the book end?
 

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out of curiosity, how did the book end?
To tell the truth, I kind of forget.

I think they basically mostly win after a few double-crosses within the ranks of the bad guys. The white-guy hero is fatally wounded, though, so they have a three-way suicide by morphine OD?"
 

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To tell the truth, I kind of forget.

I think they basically mostly win after a few double-crosses within the ranks of the bad guys. The white-guy hero is fatally wounded, though, so they have a three-way suicide by morphine OD?"

man... the ending is just a total cop-out then.
 

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The movie is different? Or, the ending in both the book and the movie is a cop-out?

the ending in the movie has that ending... then all of sudden everything rewinds and the girl says in voiceover "that's what I hoped would happen"... or something like that, then a completely different ending happens where all three live happily ever after
 

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the ending in the movie has that ending... then all of sudden everything rewinds and the girl says in voiceover "that's what I hoped would happen"... or something like that, then a completely different ending happens where all three live happily ever after
Oofta. Yeah. HUGE copout.

It was all a dream! Awesome ending when you're in the 2nd grade.
 

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These were three of the most annoying characters ever in a film. I agree with you guys about the ending, pretty lame.
 
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