The trailer for Jennifer Aniston’s latest movie has just been released, and it’s not bad at all. Of course, I prefer the original adaptation of this story, which was Ruthless People (God, I love Bette Midler). But Life of Crime tells the story in a more Elmore Leonard-ish way (it’s an adaptation of one of his novels). Jennifer is part of an ensemble that includes Tim Robbins, the always-brilliant John Hawkes, Will Forte, Isla Fisher and Yasiin Bey (previously known as Mos Def). Yasiin looks like the standout to me, and I love Hawkes in everything he does. Isla looks great, and I think the early ‘80s styling (??) really works on Aniston, although there does seem to be an emphasis on “Aniston is not the star, she’s part of the ensemble.” Here’s the trailer:
I wouldn’t see this in theaters, but I would watch it on TV. Okay, I might see at the dollar theater.
In other Aniston news, Radar says that she’s trying to lose weight before the wedding. I guess we’re supposed to be judging her on the set photos from Cake, but I swear to God, I think she’s wearing padding in that film. I’m guessing she still has the same yoga-toned body she’s always had.
Jennifer Aniston has one of the best bodies in Hollywood, but she wants to drop an extra 10 pounds before her wedding to Justin Theroux, RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned.
“No way is Jen getting married at this weight,” a source close to the star told Radar. “She’ll lose another ten pounds before she’ll walk down the aisle.”
Aniston, 45, and Theroux, 42, got engaged in August 2012 and fans have been wondering ever since when the wedding will take place. As Radar previously reported, sources said Theroux has suggested having an alcohol-free affair, they definitely want to have the “funniest Hollywood wedding ever.” But now there’s a new stumbling block as the actress has vowed to lose weight first.
“Jen’s besties, including Chelsea Handler and Courteney Cox, have been informed of Jen’s weight loss plan and support it,” the source added. “Which, sounds terrible, but is absolutely how Jen operates among her peer group.”
Don’t most brides want to lose weight before their weddings? I don’t know, it just seems like an obvious tabloid story. I’m including some pics of Justin Theroux on his bike yesterday in NYC too. It seems like they’ve been in separate cities for most of this year. Huh. Ten bucks says Clooney walks down the aisle before Theroux.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
The losing weight part didn’t catch my eye, it’s the engaged in 2012 part.
Anyway, I would watch this.
I would watch Yasiin Bey in anything, he’s so smooth.
Yeah, but he’s starting to be difficult to keep track of with all the name changes.
Yeah, agree with you both. I had to back it up when I saw his name to double check. He is pretty great though.
I loved him in Something the Lord Made. I just googled him to see why he’s changing his name, and I’m appalled to learn he’s been a polygamist and at one time refused to pay child support.
co-sign. I would record a laxative commercial is Yasiin was in it.
What about a Valtrex commercial? How far will your love for Yasiin take you?
Again with the herpes jokes. They keep coming back like…well, herpes.
Yaasss Mos. I mean, Yasiin I guess. This looks pretty good, a good cast. Is it weird that Aniston is the least appealing cast member? I think I’d be more interested if there was a different actress cast in her part.
She’s the main reason I’m watching, she really shines in these kind of roles.
Totally with you Davy.
Aniston is by far the least appealing cast member. I don’t know that I will go see it with her “Racheling” her way through the film.
It’s getting even more difficult to watch her lately while trying not to see the fillers and botox, etc. I find that stuff very distracting in a movie. Meh.
Given that Aniston has a much bigger part (I’ve read the script), I wonder why the trailer features Isla Fisher more than her.
Oh really? From the trailer, all I got was she didn’t really do anything. I guess, maybe, she engineers her own escape–but that’s the only thing I can see happening with her character.
Yeah, I read an early draft, but I think she has a bigger part in the book, too. And if you read the reviews of this movie from TIFF, Isla is barely mentioned. I noticed because I’m a fan of hers and think she’s underused in Hollywood – or at least, not cast in interesting roles.
How books and scripts have stories play out doesn’t mean the final cut will be the same. Aniston can sink a film if others aren’t carrying it.
She simply isn’t a draw in films for at least the states. Movies that do feature her haven’t done well.
She really needs to give up on being infront of the camera.
@FLORC
I wish she’d sink her money into that production company and direct or produce more. ESPECIALLY since she’s rolling in dough with her ‘Living Proof’ line–I’m sure you’ve all noticed the paid advertisements on this site???
And it’s not even that she had to do serious/artistic films–Drew Barrymore’s directorial debut was ‘Whip It’…I love that movie. I wish she would do that. Just produce a cute little romcom or two a year….they are so freaking cheap to make, it would be very, VERY easy for her to get her money back. What does her producing partner (Kristin Hahn) do all day? Get paid to do nothing but drink margaritas and bitch?
one guess
A Jennifer Aniston movie, even in the ensemble? Sorry, no.
Agreed! See her in any movie, on purpose? No. Way. Bleecchh.
Yeah, no. Sorry. I can’t stand her in anything. Isn’t she rich enough to retire?
I can’t help it-I just like it when I see celebs riding bikes.
This story is so YAWN. Women always seem to go crazy with the diets before their weddings-not unusual.
Also, if I’m being honest, I’m not going to an alcohol-free wedding, unless they promise to bust out the bong–then maybe I’d reconsider.
Right? Or wear a camelback full of vodka (it’s only slightly awkward).
Awkward for who? Not me.
And I’ll be too drunk to GAF about what the other guests think of me.
Carry a flask or two, one strapped to the leg and the other shoved in a purse. Although if it is a dry wedding folks might look at you funny when you start slurring a few words.
Yeah, that’s boring as hell and it sounds cheap. Even if you don’t enjoy drinking, maybe your guests do/will.
Exactly. Is Justin straight-edge or in recovery or something?
Why alcohol-free?
Hmm. Don’t know. Still… Maybe if it was an early day wedding and was over quickly, it would be okay. Weddings are so GD boring to begin with, this just doubles down on that aspect.
Wasn’t Justin heavily addicted to something? Like heroin?
I went to a wedding that had a cash bar. NO JOKE.
supposedly, a lot of the bride’s family members were big drinkers (to the point of embarrassment and fighting) so they figured this would slow them down, I guess.
our solution? we went to the liquor store, bought a couple of cases, filled one of our hotel room’s tubs with ice and made visits when necessary.
That’s probably only part of the reason. I’ve been told (don’t know how true it is) if you have an open bar and someone who was at your wedding leaves and gets hurt or hurts someone else that the bride/groom could be held liable. With a cash bar, it doesn’t apply.
hmmmm, interesting, I had never heard that! I would think the venue would be more responsible for actually serving you.
as in, how can the bride/groom monitor or be responsible for everyone’s drinking?…that’s really more the job of the bartender/manager.
I actually said the same thing and was told that since the bride/groom are the ones to pay for the venue and the bartender/wait staff it would ultimately be their responsibility.
edit: you are completely right Kiddo, no idea why they’re going the dry route.
@blue marie, But when you have mega-bucks, you can have your wedding on a weekend and spring for hotel rooms for all the guests. This way no one has to get behind the wheel.
blue marie, they’re also paying for the booze, so what you’re saying makes sense.
I’ve been to weddings with cash bar only & you should have heard the whisperings of the downright annoyed people saying how cheap & tacky the hosts were.
I also think that tabloid write-up of Justin wanting a no alcohol wedding is BS.
Place I worked had a staff family bar-b-q once a year. Drinks were free until someone got hurt, and tried to sue the business. To cover their butts, the powers that be had to charge us for the booze. Beer and cider were a dime, drinks were .25
I L♥VE John Hawkes. That is all.
Me too!
More John Hawkes please!!!
Actually that movie looks good, I’d see it.
Justin Theroux is just so annoying though. Fake wannabe hipster nonsense.
I think Justin is hot & not annoying in the least. I do agree with you about the movie looking good. I loved Ruthless People. Bette Midler was superb. We’ll see how this shakes out.
i love his shoes.
Me, too! <3
No motorcycle boots on Theroux?! Well, as I live and breath… he finally upped his footwear game.
I’m going to watch this. It looks really good, I love Elmore Leonard, I love the actors and Mos Def is really hot.
Jennifer looks great with this styling.
Mos Def is really hot and an AMAZING rapper-one of the best for sure. Solid actor too.
I would watch this. I think Isla is going to be a scene-thief in this. Justin is giving me bike envy.
I am going to watch this. Love the casting.
Great cast for sure.
Yes and yes.
Totally! I also have to say that I like Jennifer Aniston as an actress.
Isn’t this Ruthless People?
@Diane, who wrote: “Isn’t this Ruthless People?”
Yes it is. I can’t imagine it will be any where ‘near’ as good (or funny) as “Ruthless People.”
Won’t be nearly as funny. Just another film remake hoping to make money, but not make a better version.
It says it’s a remake of Ruthless People in the article.
“It says it’s a remake of Ruthless People in the article. ”
which is incorrect.
Ruthless People, as I’ve stated, is an adaptation of a short story from 1910.
The Switch was released in 1978 (or around that time). though Ruthless People came out AFTER the book was released, the book was a rip-off of the 1910 short story. the plot lines are remarkably similar so I’m wondering why Leonard never faced any claims of plagiarism (that I’ve heard).
Diane – as I posted below, Ruthless People was an adaptation of a 1910 short story written by O. Henry, and this is from an Elmore Leonard book that seems to have a VERY SIMILAR plot.
so, as I wondered below, is there some reason that Leonard got away with “stealing” a story idea? or are they different enough that Henry’s family or estate didn’t care?…
if anyone knows, please share…
Leonard’s novel pre-dates Ruthless People is my understanding.
Tulip Garden: RUTHLESS PEOPLE is an adaptation of a short story from the 1920s. It’s embarrassing that Elmore Leonard used the same story idea with no acknowledgement. No wonder he didn’t sue the RUTHLESS PEOPLE producers.
Thoughts:
I love John Hawkes. This made me want to watch Ruthless People because Bette Midler and Danny Devito are just fabulous even if this is probably a more gritty and faithful retelling.
Good for Jen for jumping slightly out of the box but she looks a bit lost. Oh and Isla is doing a poor mans’ Amy Adams in American Hustle but she’s having fun.
This looks good! I’ll watch it.
so, I’m confused…this movie is an adaptation of an Elmore Leonard book but Ruthless People was an adaptation of a 1910 story written by someone else, right?
I love Elmore Leonard but how is it that he didn’t get busted for stealing a story idea? is there more to this than I know?…
in any case, this is apparently getting a lot of buzz as a good movie and it allegedly was positively received at the Toronto Film Festival…so, I might watch it on “cable”. there are SO FEW movies that I’d actually spend $10-12 to see in a theater, and they’re usually ones that are meant to be seen on a big screen. (LOTR, Star Wars, etc.)
When it was making rounds at the film festivals, I read a lot of ‘so-so’ reviews that said it was (basically) a little sloppy and rushed–that it all didn’t come together very well. The movie looks okay, but not GREAT to me. I also get the feeling that it’s a lot more serious than is portrayed in the trailer (or what the trailer gives you a sense of), and I hate when people do that….you go in expecting the movie to be funny, and you just get sad.
well, Leonard books combine the comedy and “the dark” pretty well, so hopefully they’ll put it off.
but I know what you mean…I expected much more of a “stoner comedy” from Pineapple Express and was really surprised at how violent it was.
Trailers are made by marketting companies hired by executive producers. Very rarely do directors actually have major input on the tone of a trailer. In fact the vast majority of trailers are put together before the final product is complete, while it is in post-production. As a result, the guy making the trailer is usually just working with a script and some scoreless scenes. His job is to make that exciting enough that people go to the cinema. Its not his problem that you expected a horror and ended up with a drama. His job was to get you to view the film and as far as he is concerned, he succeeded. For example, the trailer maker knows that people have no interest in seeing Seth Rogen the Action Star but they do want to see him be a Stoner with a heart of gold. So you end up with the trailer for Pineapple Express.
This by the way is why trailers give away the entire plot. Or post all three funny scenes in the trailer so that theres nothing funny left in the film. And its the reason there can be such a discordance between the trailer and the film.
Source: Someone who makes movie trailers for a living.
Interesting chem, and that explains a lot.
(like why all the funniest parts of a movie are often in the trailer, and why sometimes you see a scene in a trailer that winds up getting cut from the actual film.)
Thanks for sharing!
ooooh, justin is riding a bike without a helmet. how bada$$ of him.
those two are not getting married. period.
This movie looks like another winner.
I heard it’s a prequel to “Jackie Brown”.
Did Justin lose his driver’s license? I haven’t seen any recent photos of him on his trusty motorbike.
it does have the “Ordell” character (played by Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown) so that makes sense.
I remember this movie , it was at Toronto movie festival and the critics did not like it .. am right?
actually, what I read was that it was “well received” but that was the ONLY review I’ve seen.
oh, and the last article I read about it said it was at 78% on Rotten Tomatoes.
There’s a mistake on RT. There were positive reviews that were for a different movie – MANAKAMANA and another movie shown at TIFF.
This looks good, I like Tim Robbins….I would watch it…but would wait for DVD/Redbox
I love RUTHLESS PEOPLE. J. aniston makes no impression whatsoever in this trailer.
I know right! They could have cast a piece of toast in her part and it would have been just as exciting to watch.
I think it looks good. I like Elmore Leonard’s style so much, if they’re able to translate it half as well as Justified has, it will be entertaining. Good cast, and I’m glad to see Isla Fisher again too, I’ve always liked her.
No I wouldn’t. Maybe if it was on TV but I wouldn’t pay to see it.
It is also being released VOD video on demand so I may watch at home.I have some free VOD coupons.
No helmet laws for riding a bicycle there? Don’t live there so just wondering?
Could somebody please clue me in?
Pretty hard to top Ruthless People. Danny and Bette were hysterical in that movie.
Jennifer Aniston starting to morph into Teri Garr? Or it it just the 80s look that makes me think that?
hmmmm…I think it’s the styling but I see where you’re coming from. I love Teri Garr, by the way.
She was so good in Young Frankenstein & also, perfectly cast as Phoebe’s Mother on Friends.
I love the outfit she’s wearing, EXCEPT for that scarf/ascot thing that’s tucked into her blouse. WHY? That’s little old lady styling–Jennifer is only in her mid forties…my mom’s fifty and she wouldn’t be caught dead wearing that.
Straight to dvd?
This movie looks like the kind I watch in bed to help me fall asleep fast.
Theater and VOD release on Aug 29th.
Jennifer Aniston’s in it? Then no. I won’t watch it. She’s irked the f out of me since Friends days.
@ least he’s not wearing those awful boots!
Yay! Life of Crime is not a rom com. I’ll check it out.
Mos Def? YUM! That said, I’d definitely watch if it came out on Netflix, but don’t think I’d bother paying full price at the theatre. But then again, enjoying MD on the big screen…hmm, decisions, decisions…maybe a matinee.
Does she really not think she’s thin enough at her weight? I lost weight leading up to my wedding (3 kilos) but now I’ve gained it all back due to stressing. 🙁 But I decided too bad, the wedding is this Saturday and it’s too late to freak out about it now!
I wonder why all these celebs have long engagements. Usually long engagements in real life are due to financial constraints. But these guys don’t have that as an issue. Who knows…
This movie looks good, I’ll watch it in tv. They seems like an awesome cast, we’ll see if Aniston is up to the part and the ‘ensemble’.
Great cast; looks funny enough, but probably will wait for cable unless it got crazy great reviews but then again I don’t go to the movies that much unless it’s Disney so you can’t go by me 🙂
Is Ruthless People the film where Bette Midler ends up exercising for most of the film and ends up looking fabulous at the end?
Anyway … this is mid to late 1970’s fashion … not 80’s …
This is a second class remake of Ruthless People. With exciting movies out on DVDV like “Savages” or up coming movies like “Gone Girl” this one looks to be a giant yawn fest despite some decent actors like Robbins, Fisher and Hawkes. Guess more talented female actresses passed on this so you get the people who want to switch over from romcoms and overacted, raunchy comedies. Boring.