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Cacator posted:It's considerably less historically accurate than I was expecting, and I wasn't expecting much in the first place. It basically looks like 300: Samurai Edition. Does there really need to be another gigantic deformed guy with weapons though? Yeah, I was completely expecting a Hollywood-ified action movie version of the story. That wouldn't have bothered me so much as the apparent complete abandonment of the themes that have made the 47 Ronin resonate over the centuries. You can have a story of extreme honor, loyalty, and vengeance that's at the heart of the history (and the centuries of pop culture that's surrounded them since the actual events) and a crazy martial arts fantasy but the "free the land from the oppressive tyrant" and "he made you a slave" cliches that the trailer pushes as the driving motivations tell me that this is an adaptation that's going very wrong. I think it's a safe bet that (spoilers for three hundred year old history) they won't kill themselves at the end of the movie. Edit: Actually, a second look at the trailer showed a blip of a scene that might be their mass suicide, but I still suspect that they'll be interrupted and not go through with it. It's not impossible that this will be a good movie (though the trailer gave me little hope of that as well), but it's not going to be the 47 Ronin movie I want to see. Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 01:20 on Jul 25, 2013 |
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I actually don't think I read anything about this movie when it was in production that indicated it would be a fantasy movie, I was expecting a more 13 Assassins type deal (which had a supernatural element that was tastefully handled).
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Jul 25, 2013 01:17
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I'm also baffled about that 47 Ronin trailer, I could have lived with Keanu being one of the 47 Ronin if it had been somewhat true to the original story but him being the only one who can save Japan is just too much.
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The first thing I thought I saw Keanu fighting a cave troll was "It can't get any dumber than this, can it?"  I'm going to go watch Michael Lonsdale's description of the actual legend from the DeNiro/Reno film Ronin to try to undo some of the damage that trailer did to my brain..
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Jul 25, 2013 02:32
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CaptainHollywood posted:That looks good... really good- but I can't help but feel it was made because of the success of Django Unchained. There is a run of movies "like this" being made to commemorate the 150th anniversary of slavery ending I believe.
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Jul 25, 2013 02:38
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Cacator posted:It's considerably less historically accurate than I was expecting, and I wasn't expecting much in the first place. It basically looks like 300: Samurai Edition. Does there really need to be another gigantic deformed guy with weapons though? Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g1fr5vk72M
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Democratic Pirate posted:The depth in that Gravity trailer was really cool, but the astronauts all looked really fake to me and I couldn't get into the trailer. Seeing it on the big screen would change that opinion though.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Can you explain what makes you think they look fake? Their movement looks like really bad CGI. Everything appears to be moving at non-natural speeds, like a video running slightly too fast, especially for zero gravity. It's comical how much they ignore the impact small movements in zero gravity make.
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Jul 25, 2013 14:21
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And why are they not wearing their sun shields? I thought you always wore that down when you're outside?
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Obsurveyor posted:Their movement looks like really bad CGI. Everything appears to be moving at non-natural speeds, like a video running slightly too fast, especially for zero gravity. It's comical how much they ignore the impact small movements in zero gravity make. I didn't really have that "this looks like CGI" in the IMAX 3D trailer, but in that youtube one I got that feeling a couple of times when Clooney was floating around. Maybe it's just the tiny screen.
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Obsurveyor posted:Their movement looks like really bad CGI. Everything appears to be moving at non-natural speeds, like a video running slightly too fast, especially for zero gravity. It's comical how much they ignore the impact small movements in zero gravity make.
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A Single Shot - Sam Rockwell https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXW_Z9lXNQY
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Obsurveyor posted:Their movement looks like really bad CGI. Everything appears to be moving at non-natural speeds, like a video running slightly too fast, especially for zero gravity. It's comical how much they ignore the impact small movements in zero gravity make. I agree. The CGI isn't bad but the animation isn't completely natural. The rest of the spectacle made up for it though
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PaganGoatPants posted:A Single Shot - Sam Rockwell Oh man, this looks good. Though I'll see anything with Sam Rockwell in it.
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ShadeIncarnate posted:Here is the latest trailer for the movie "Gravity." Here's two more clips from Gravity, for those of you who can't wait for the full movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV-UEca2W9U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QQGVvt_iW8
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God drat I really can't wait to see that on IMAX.
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Jul 25, 2013 18:51
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For the past two weeks I've heard this being cut down the hall and it just sounded like Sandra Bullock having an orgasm over and over.
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kiimo posted:For the past two weeks I've heard this being cut down the hall and it just sounded like Sandra Bullock having an orgasm over and over. Do you plan to see it two or three times, kiimo?
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Jedit posted:Do you plan to see it two or three times, kiimo? I've already watched all the trailers like 20 times each. 
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I love Alfonso Cuaron, but I think Gravity looks like poo poo - mainly because I hate the casting. If he'd cast unknowns I would've bought into it much more, but then I also guess the film wouldn't of got made. Simply put though I can't imagine a better fate for Sandra Bullock than drifting off into the abyss of space.
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PriorMarcus posted:I love Alfonso Cuaron, but I think Gravity looks like poo poo - mainly because I hate the casting. If he'd cast unknowns I would've bought into it much more, but then I also guess the film wouldn't of got made. How can you hate the casting when by its own admission its giving you EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT!!!
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PriorMarcus posted:I love Alfonso Cuaron, but I think Gravity looks like poo poo - mainly because I hate the casting. If he'd cast unknowns I would've bought into it much more, but then I also guess the film wouldn't of got made.
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Deadpool posted:So, here's the trailer for the Japanese remake of Unforgiven. I will definitely watch this. Had no idea this was happening, and it makes too much sense. Unforgiven happens as civilization is catching up to the frontier, and the old cowboy days are slowly disappearing, which has a great parallel to the Meiji era of Japan. Come to think of it, it's like a serious version of Rurouni Kenshin 
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Steve Yun posted:Had no idea this was happening, and it makes too much sense. Unforgiven happens as civilization is catching up to the frontier, and the old cowboy days are slowly disappearing, which has a great parallel to the Meiji era of Japan. I wonder if there are Japanese fans of the original Unforgiven are up in arms and angrily posting on 2ch over a Japanese remake of it.
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Dexo posted:I wonder if there are Japanese fans of the original Unforgiven are up in arms and angrily posting on 2ch over a Japanese remake of it.  "Why do they need to remake Unforgiven? Just because we Japanese are too lazy to watch a movie that's not made in Japan?"
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Jul 26, 2013 22:44
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It's only fair to turn a western back into a samurai movie for a change. (samurai-ish)
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I've done a 180 on Sandra Bullock after seeing The Heat, the same 180 I did on Channing Tatum after 21Jump Street. She's legit and I'll dig her in Gravity.
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Jul 27, 2013 03:31
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Sandra Bullock's always been legit.
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Jul 27, 2013 12:24
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Bullock has been legit since Speed 1 and 2.
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The Net. Legit.
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Lenina Huxley all day long, son.
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When did the big budget action/adventure movies stop having narrators in the trailer? I was watching old trailers on YouTube for things like Escape From New York and Waterworld and they've got the whole "In a world where..." "One man..." "An epic motion picture event" and the like. I remember seemingly every trailer having narration like that in my childhood. Now it seems to be restricted to low-budget comedies and family feel-gooderies. What happened?
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Sagebrush posted:When did the big budget action/adventure movies stop having narrators in the trailer? I was watching old trailers on YouTube for things like Escape From New York and Waterworld and they've got the whole "In a world where..." "One man..." "An epic motion picture event" and the like. I remember seemingly every trailer having narration like that in my childhood. Now it seems to be restricted to low-budget comedies and family feel-gooderies. What happened? Well, the original "In a world" guy died. Edit: I can't find it online but at the movies today I saw a trailer for Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which was pretty cool.
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muscles like this? posted:I can't find it online but at the movies today I saw a trailer for Ben Stiller's The Secret Life of Walter Mitty which was pretty cool. They've been trying to remake Mitty for literally twenty years. The idea of there being a trailer out is surreal.
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Sagebrush posted:When did the big budget action/adventure movies stop having narrators in the trailer? I was watching old trailers on YouTube for things like Escape From New York and Waterworld and they've got the whole "In a world where..." "One man..." "An epic motion picture event" and the like. I remember seemingly every trailer having narration like that in my childhood. Now it seems to be restricted to low-budget comedies and family feel-gooderies. What happened? Think about it. Those movies were all about INTRODUCING a new character. When the last time you've seen that? In fact who is the last ICONIC character introduced by film?
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Don LaFontaine dying was a huge blow to trailer voiceovers.
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Max22 posted:They've been trying to remake Mitty for literally twenty years. The idea of there being a trailer out is surreal. I looked it up a little bit ago when I was trying to find the trailer online and I was really surprised to see that Stiller directed it himself, it looked more like something from Gondry.
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CaptainHollywood posted:Think about it. Those movies were all about INTRODUCING a new character. When the last time you've seen that? In fact who is the last ICONIC character introduced by film? I suppose this is true, but thinking back on the last action/adventure trailers I remember seeing that involved new properties (Pacific Rim, Elysium, and that Tom Cruise thing with the shiny white glider hovercraft whatever), none of them had narrators. And thinking back, I remember trailers for stuff like The World Is Not Enough having Don LaFontaine's narration, and everyone in the entire world knows who James Bond is.
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