Former women's MMA champion Gina Carano's new film career focus appears to be off to quite the start with "Haywire." The reviews so far have been very good and as this video shows, she's now getting mobbed by fans after events surrounding the movie.
Give it a watch:
The reviews, as previously stated, are good for the movie and for Gina's performance.
A handsome, black-haired hardbody who wears an evening dress as easily as she does a hoodie, Carano exudes the sort of self-confidence and physical wherewithal that leaves no doubt she can prevail in any situation. This is essential because the film rides upon one's certainty that her character, Mallory Kane, an international troubleshooter assigned to off-the-books missions, can take out virtually any guy in mano a mano combat. Soderbergh shoots her half-a-dozen or so fight scenes without doubles or cheat editing, emphasizing his star's abilities to the extent that the semblance and extremity of the combat's reality becomes the film's entire raison d'etre.
Carano has real screen presence. She's awesome to watch in action, and unique as a movie character. She's beautiful and I love the dark hair hanging over the cheeks, but she looks like she's been in some fights, maybe had her nose smashed a few times and that's awesome. She carries herself as a practical businesswoman not caught up in all the movie plot devices that require other heroes to act like idiots.
The fights are fantastic. She uses the wall and momentum for her leg grips. She uses the environment but not like a prop, just as a way to calculate her attack. We get to see Carano fight in an evening gown and choke a dude out. The fights are fair, so she gets hit too. Tables don't break away, rather opponents roll over them and keep fighting. Against men in body armor, Carano herself is a better weapon than any gun.
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Damn.
She is SO done with MMA.
LenBarson - January 10, 2012
unfortunately
you are probably exactly right.
she’s gonna Cung Le way better than Cung Le could have (evidently).
oxala75 - January 10, 2012
Story on TMZ.....
Gina Carano is the REAL DEAL in the world of MMA … but there are allegations she’s not totally the real deal on the big screen … because her voice in the new movie, “Haywire” … may NOT be her voice at all.
Sources connected with the production tell TMZ … the folks behind the movie didn’t like the way Carano sounded when they filmed the flick … so they changed it in post. It’s unclear if they used fancy electronics to alter Gina’s vocal quality, or whether they dubbed in another female voice.
Monday night, Carano was at The Grove in L.A. … where she totally spoke with us … and sounded great … at least that’s our opinion.
We placed multiple calls to the production company … so far, no comment.
RECE ROCK - January 10, 2012
I was wondering that after watching the trailer.
Rundownloser - January 10, 2012
Like Bale's Batman?
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Went to the cinema today...
..saw the trailer. It looked good, like “a good film, building up to a cool finale”, not “cool action film”, not “crap mma/fighting/action film that is ‘good’ due to it being so big/bad”.
Did feel the urge to shout RETIRE ALREADY at the screen, but the large number of elderly people sitting around me was strong discouragement.
ToffeeA - January 10, 2012
Was she using an inhaler?
TheLastEmpress - January 10, 2012
Biting finger nails
Damon O. - January 10, 2012
She bites her finger nails?! Oh man that's it, I'm breaking up with her.
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Wow I went to Rotten Tomatoes expecting to see the movie get slaughtered but it's sitting pretty (for now) at 100% positive ratings (not all 10/10 reviews but all reviews are above 5/10)
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Me too…i’m really surprised
phantom5691 - January 10, 2012
I though Salt was utter garbage and unbelievable
i hope this isnt the case with this flick, even james bond gets hurt sometimes
elmojo - January 10, 2012
Salt was garbage because Angelina Jolie is anorexic and looked like wax lips and a wig glued to a 1" dowel
Whereas with Gina it’s easier to believe she is an asskicker with strength and all that stuff.
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
I still don't get the appeal of a random autograph
If there’s some story behind it, I can see it. But what is the point of just collecting people’s signatures?
joker24 - January 10, 2012
yeah, you dont get it.
its a scribbled name. on paper. which is AWESOME!!!!!
im with you, rather have a picture to show off on BE.
gspmademegay - January 10, 2012
Sell'em on eBay
Damon O. - January 10, 2012
Same principle
Why buy Gina Carano’s scribble?
joker24 - January 10, 2012
Fapping. (duh)
Ziggy325 - January 10, 2012
lulz
Damon O. - January 10, 2012
Dear god, her A’s are perfect…
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
i was more impressed by her Cs
Cunny - January 10, 2012
The people that do this are not fans
They are professional autograph hounds and they sell this stuff. If you look closely, one guy who gets one of his things signed quickly puts it away to reveal a duplicate under it that he then tries to get signed as well. They try hard to make it look like they are regular fans and it’s hilarious. I can be hanging out with an actor friend, one who’s not even all that big of a name and go to the Arclight theater in Hollywood to check out a movie and by the time we get out there will be a small group of people with glossy photos of her asking for her autograph. The shit is creepy.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
Someone help me out here...
Bite the lip!
Andy Davis - January 10, 2012
Our Bovine Public - January 10, 2012
or
pl4tinum - January 10, 2012
With her friends
dandeman - January 10, 2012
Why is everyone surprised that this with probably be a decent popcorn flick?
And why have so many people been bagging it leading up to its release? Soderbergh has made a bunch of great movies and it has a good cast. Why not just give it a chance?! There are plenty of other terrible movies to crap on out there!
LiuLang - January 10, 2012
Elitists approve of only Indie flicks and craft beers you've never heard of
Skoobs - January 10, 2012
I’ll take a miller light and bloodsport
Brent Brookhouse - January 10, 2012
Steel Reserve and Supreme Champion
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Unless it’s a special occasion and I have to bust into the leinenkugel
…or a can of PBR
I’m cheap and from the country. What?
Brent Brookhouse - January 10, 2012
Why is PBR so goddamn expensive now?
HIPSTERS!!!!!!!
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Yeah, that’s pretty frustrating actually. It became trendy hipster cheap beer which meant it had to go up in price. Instead of being “the beer my grandpa would slip me when I was 12”
Brent Brookhouse - January 10, 2012
As much of a beer snob I can be sometimes,
Hipsters in general really piss me off. They have a way of sucking the life out of something you love.
pud333 - January 10, 2012
PBR is actually expensive now? SMH
This of course means true hipsters have to move to something else… I nominate “Simpler Times” available at Trader Joe’s.
Rob Young - January 10, 2012
PBR is still cheap in Vegas. Theres a bar we frequent here does two large pitchers of PBR for 9 bucks. Also at most Chevron gas stations you can get 18 packs for < 12 bucks.
NickaG - January 10, 2012
Miller light?
Jeebus. What some of you put into your bodies. There are so many better American beers out there. But I’ll certainly take Bloodsport. That shit blew my mind when I was a kid.
pud333 - January 10, 2012
It’s always cheap, it’s always available at whatever shit store I have to go to and it says light so I don’t have to worry about my girlish figure
Brent Brookhouse - January 10, 2012
I’m a beer snob, but not so much that I will turn down a Miller Light if a buddy offerred it to me at his house. I hate when people do that. I can understand if you’re not drinking, but don’t turn your nose up at something I offer you. A have a friend who does that all the time: you offer her a beer, she’ll ask what it is, and then make a face if she finds it disgusting. Who gives a shit? It’s a free beer! Get out of my house.
pud333 - January 10, 2012
Pretty much, beer is beer unless you're the host.
When I have gatherings of people over I buy 3 tiers of beer.
Top Tier – Dogfish Head IPAs for my inner circle (hidden in cooler in bed of truck in garage)
Middle Tier – Sam Adams for their +1’s (in fridge)
Bottom Tier – Miller Lite / Bud Lite for the “I hope you don’t mind that I brought” which is stashed in ice filled tub near living room.
Works pretty well, sometimes uninviteds take from the fridge but the inner circle stash continues to be a closely guarded secret (on penalty of exile)
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Word.
Tiers is how I do things at my house also.
Top – IPA’s and ESB’s (Dogfish Head, Dechutes, etc).
Middle – Howesound, Phillips, R&B.
Bottom – Granville Island, Molson Canadian, Kokanee – pretty much our Canadian versions of Miller and Bud.
Also have various wines – mostly red, but some white for the random two or three people that drink white wine.
Honestly, this is the only way I can get most of my friends to come watch a PPV with me. Free beer and food; you just gotta sit for three hours and listen to me scream at the TV screen. Top three most commonly screamed phrases by yours truly:
- OH SHIT!
- TAP MOTHERFUCKER!
- FUCK! NO! FUCK FUCK FUCK! NO! NOOOOO!
pud333 - January 10, 2012
I got completely spoiled at Chico State not that long ago.
Sierra Nevada was only $4.99 a six-pack in town! It was crazy! Ruined me for cheap beer for years, but I eventually came back.
Machiel Van - January 10, 2012
Americans have it awesome for beer prices.
Here in Canada, if I buy Dechutes, a six pack is like $14-$18 depending on where you can find it. Dogfish Head they only sell in singles at like $2.50 per bottle. No joke.
pud333 - January 10, 2012
If it’s nasty, why should she drink it? Sorry, but that’s just ridiculous.
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
I think he's commenting on her reaction
A simple “no thank you” without the snobbery would be nice.
Genki Sudo's Choreographer - January 11, 2012
Can't wait to see "Are throwaway popcorn flicks bad for MMA?" at MMA Nation
:-)
KJ Gould - January 10, 2012
You’re equating MMA with movies, which we know are fake! We’re doomed! Would you tell a girl you’re into movies!? No!
Sorry, Mr. Nelson. Just jokes.
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
The bigger joke is ...
You’ve mixed up two Lukes.
KJ Gould - January 10, 2012
Damnit. You people with the real names… I demand a pithy, inside-joke screenname so I can keep everyone straight.
thirdparty - January 10, 2012
Bloodsport, yes.
Miller Lite (and most American beers) taste like canned piss. And I’m a live in Oklahoma, home of the Red-Blooded AMURICANS
Andy Davis - January 10, 2012
I live*
Andy Davis - January 10, 2012
Hey, I love my shitty CBC Radio 3 indie music, thought Melancholia was great and prefer my laundry organic and small batch, but sometimes there’s nothing better than a silly action flick. And if I get to watch Gina for 90 minutes as well? Well, that’s just a bonus.
LiuLang - January 10, 2012
Do you only like MMA ironically and have a communal wardrobe with your girlfriend?
My fist is cocked back in anticipation of your answer.
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
I won't make a Seattle joke
Skoobs - January 10, 2012
Amazing.
LiuLang - January 10, 2012
It’s really interesting reading the reviews, especially because of each bizarre description of what I assume is a mounted triangle choke she performs. One review called it a leg lock, the crave article above mentions “leg grips”, and another compares her to a contortionist because of it. I’m not making fun of them; ignorance mitigates culpability. But it is interesting seeing how people look at things like this without the filter of MMA/BJJ/etc. know-how.
Rundownloser - January 10, 2012
I wish someone would just call it “that move Mel Gibson uses at the end of Lethal Weapon”
Brent Brookhouse - January 10, 2012
Meant to rec this,srry Brent!
I Lol’d at this though
KidCanada - January 10, 2012
You mean this move?
“[Riggs’] way of winning a fight is to force his rival to the ground and attempt to crush him between his knees.” -The New York Times
Jeflee - January 10, 2012
When I introduced my dad into modern MMA (he'd seen some of the old pre-zuffa UFCs) he made up all sorts of (unintentionally) hilarious names for the submissions
Triangle choke became “Choking him Indian style”
RNC (with hooks in) was “that Princess Bride sleeper hold”
Guillotine was “playground headlock”
I can’t remember most of them because they weren’t as goofy, just confused.
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
That's friggin' hilarious.
There should be a DVD series…menckenstein’s dad teaches you submissioning fight grapples!
gzl5000 - January 10, 2012 via mobile
If anything is right in the universe...
“Choking him Indian style” will be the new name for a triangle choke.
OldBoomBap - January 10, 2012
I will use it in the live blog Saturday if the opportunity presents itself.
Brent Brookhouse - January 10, 2012
I'm going to call it that from now on, and it's totally PC because I'm part dirty drunk redskin.
You all get a pass, I made it OK.
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
Boom. menckenstein said so on January 10th 2012.
pud333 - January 10, 2012
Rec for your dad!
taptomyarmbar - January 10, 2012
That's awesome
I second the DVD series. Or just a riff-trax-esque series were you have an audio track of him providing play by play to various fights.
Rundownloser - January 10, 2012
I just might try to do that.
Put a headset on him, download some fights from UFC vault and give it a go. Probably won’t pan out but if it does I’ll upload the audio for everyone and post about it here.
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
I don't even know why "Choking him Indian style" is so funny but i can't stop laughing.
Rec!
Magaca - January 10, 2012
'Princess Bride sleeper hold' FTW! Still LOLing at that one. =-)
taptomyarmbar - January 11, 2012
God the way those people fawn for her attention...
Makes me want to drop kick the lot of them. GINA!!! GINA!!! GINA!!!! >_O
Reminds me of that Family Guy segment where Peter tries to get Katie Couric’s attention:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kw-26b9zL4
eyeIess - January 10, 2012
Or this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8
menckenstein - January 10, 2012
LOL
Yeah exactly. It’s like…god damn give it up.
eyeIess - January 10, 2012
Starfuckers are lame.
pud333 - January 10, 2012
LOL at those fans.
People need to video tape themselves more often, if only to see how silly they look.
Luke Nelson - January 10, 2012
She had a big interview in Empire this month and came across really well.Also the film got 4 stars and praised her performance
Our Bovine Public - January 10, 2012
They should bring in Cyborg Santos in the sequel to play the villain… she’ll have the time, plus let’s see if Gina can avenge her loss to her!
Shnak - January 10, 2012
Hey Gina
hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina, hey Gina…… that shit would get old real quick!!!
TruthSeeker1223 - January 10, 2012
Who the hell waits for 6 hours to get someone's name on a paper. Geeez.
Magaca - January 10, 2012
I’m actually looking forward to this movie, looks like fun. Also: GINA CARANO!
Horselover Fat - January 10, 2012
Gina
Meh-rano
nicey - January 10, 2012
So happy I’m not famous.
T.C. Engel - January 10, 2012
Chuck Palahniuk made me cynical...
now I think everything is staged.
cokemachinebaby - January 11, 2012
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