Soul Survivors (2001)
Sep 9, 2001Haunting
This is essentially The Sixth Sense rehashed as a teen horror film and conducted without any finesse - you can see the twist ending coming miles in advance
Luke Wilson
Around the World in 80 Days (2004)
Aug 21, 2014Jules Verne Comedy Adaptation
Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel is turned into a comedy vehicle for Jackie Chan. One of Chan’s biggest flops, an overblown turkey packed with celebrity cameos and replacing Verne’s adventure with incredibly unfunny slapstick
Idiocracy (2006)
Aug 28, 2010Future Ruled by Stupid People
A film about stupid people that for once actually is funny. This a raucous but often biting satire where Luke Wilson wakes up in the year 2025 to find that the stupid have inherited the future
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
Nov 10, 2006Stalker Superheroine Comedy
Unfunny Ivan Reitman comedy with Luke Wilson being stalked by his psychotic superheorine ex Uma Thurman
Battle for Terra (2007)
Jan 8, 2014Animation/War Between Human Colonists and Aliens
Animated film that has a remarkable number of similarities to Avatar – even though it was released before. A simplistic variant of the same human colonists vs alien natives plot conducted with corner-cut CGI animation
Vacancy (2007)
Jun 15, 2008Remote Motel Torture and Sadism
Reasonable film influenced by Hostel with Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale as a married couple who sign into a backroads motel used to shoot snuff movies
Meeting Evil (2012)
Apr 11, 2018Road Trip with a Killer
A surprisingly good variant on The Hitcher (albeit set in urban environs) where Samuel L. Jackson does the unique Samuel L. Jackson sarcastic badassery with demoniac results as a psychopathic stranger who takes hapless family man Luke Wilson for a ride leaving a trail of bodies
Approaching the Unknown (2016)
Sep 26, 2016Expedition to Mars
This comes with the clear influence of The Martian, telling a similar but more low-key story of a lone astronaut having problems on the way to Mars. This is less about science ingenuity that his fracturing mental state
Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Jan 3, 2020Zombie Comedy
Zombieland has been elevated to the status of a classic of the zombie genre; I found it enjoyable but probably overrated by people who haven't seen enough other works in the genre. The question going into this sequel is whether it can strikes the same notes.
Merry Little Batman (2023)
Dec 24, 2023Animation/Batman Christmas Film
A real head-scratching oddity, a Batman animated Christmas film