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feedmyleg posted:I'm all for a balls-out approach to mythic storytelling (hell, I'm one of the few people Immortals worked for from the visuals alone) but the story, dialogue, and characters of Exodus just seem so cliche. I'm not sure what you could do with the story and characters. I'm not saying this in a snarky contrarian thing, and this is probably why I'm not a filmmaker, but yeah, I dunno. The closest thing I could think of is maybe trying to pull a Noah and add in a lot of stuff, but I think the story of Exodus just has a lot more dramatic potential than Noah's. I still couldn't help but keep thinking of The Prince of Egypt while watching that trailer, though. Movie looks great visually despite how whitewashed it was. That shot of the horse against the coming wave is still great.
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feedmyleg posted:Boy oh boy does this new Exodus: Gods and Kings trailer look generic. And ugly. And still very full of white people. Man, where in Exodus did it say anything about alligators?
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Yoshifan823 posted:Man, where in Exodus did it say anything about alligators? quote:Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘The Lord says this: “Let My people go, so they may worship Me. But if you will not let them go, I will bring trouble to your whole country and you will be up to your rear end in alligators."
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When you are up to your rear end in alligators, it is too late to worry about whether you should have irrigated the Nile Delta.
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Oct 2, 2014 18:33
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None of those things make me hate Exodus. It's how Joel Edgerton looks that drives me mad. How did they turn that rich Great Gatsby jock into Ricky Gervais? Awful.
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Replacing the frogs with alligators would have made the decision to let them go much easier. Wait, aren't those crocodiles?
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kiimo posted:None of those things make me hate Exodus. Anything that makes Joel Edgerton look like a joke just bums me out 
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Yoshifan823 posted:Man, where in Exodus did it say anything about alligators? Nowhere. Crocodiles on the other hand...
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Oct 2, 2014 19:47
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LesterGroans posted:Anything that makes Joel Edgerton look like a joke just bums me out Him shouting about being a god in the trailer makes me hopeful for him acting his heart out as Ramses though.
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Oct 3, 2014 06:25
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Exodus looks great. As a big Ridley Scott fan I can't wait to get the far superior Director's Cut without studio meddling on blu-ray months after it comes out in theaters.
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Clint Eastwood's American Sniper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItGoIxoVGk
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Saw that trailer in front of Gone Girl and the audience reaction was first silent tension, then quiet laughing and murmuring at the name, then open laughing when the Christmas release date was shown.
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The MSJ posted:Clint Eastwood's American Sniper drat, this looks good. I've found that I've really underestimated Bradley Cooper as an actor.
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I'm 95% down with that trailer and the last 5% is only because THE MOST LETHAL SNIPER IN AMERICAN HISTORY sounds like it should be the tagline for an 80s movie called ACTION SNIPER FORCE or something.
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MeinPanzer posted:Saw that trailer in front of Gone Girl and the audience reaction was first silent tension, then quiet laughing and murmuring at the name, then open laughing when the Christmas release date was shown. To be fair, it's the name of the book. e; assuming you're talking about American Sniper here
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American sniper Stay away from me American sniper Mama let me be
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The MSJ posted:Clint Eastwood's American Sniper This trailer is very tense and dope
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Pierson posted:I'm 95% down with that trailer and the last 5% i only because THE MOST LETHAL SNIPER IN AMERICAN HISTORY sounds like it should be the tagline for an 80s movie called ACTION SNIPER FORCE or something. Agreed. Everything up until that point was great. The title does leave something to be desired as well, but it's not a deal breaker.
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The MSJ posted:Clint Eastwood's American Sniper So Eastwood has really gone around the bend.
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sbaldrick posted:So Eastwood has really gone around the bend. You mean him rambling to an empty chair at the RNC didn't tip you off?
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A friend of mine once told me that "I totally shot this kid/veiled woman when they pulled out a grenade/mortar" is the number one made-up story snipers tell to freak out civilians, so that trailer made me laugh pretty hard.
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The Key Art Awards nominations came out today. I highly doubt anyone cares but here they are. http://www.keyartaward.com/winners/2014/av/ We got nominated for Edge and Prisoners for these... http://www.keyartaward.com/winners/2014/av_trailers/entry.cfm?entryid=501410158&ispartofcampaign=0&index=20 http://www.keyartaward.com/winners/2014/av/entry.cfm?entryid=501411855&ispartofcampaign=0&index=25 Nothing is beating Gravity though so just forget it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k59gXTWf-A Trailer for Brad Bird's new movie, Tomorrowland. Looks real good.
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muscles like this? posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k59gXTWf-A I'm down as gently caress for this.
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Lindelof is also attached so... consider me extremely cautiously optimistic.
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BonoMan posted:Lindelof is also attached so... consider me extremely cautiously optimistic. I saw the trailer at their Comic Con panel. They also showed an extended sequence that culminated in Clooney's character and the girl from the trailer trying to escape a group of creepy, smiley androids trying to kill them. If nothing else, it's pure, uncut Bird.
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DivisionPost posted:I saw the trailer at their Comic Con panel. They also showed an extended sequence that culminated in Clooney's character and the girl from the trailer trying to escape a group of creepy, smiley androids trying to kill them. If nothing else, it's pure, uncut Bird. Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof doing a movie version of the Itchy & Scratchy Land Simpsons episode has my full attention.
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Disney's been cutting a lot of their trailers like short films recently, and it's a terrific decision.
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morestuff posted:Disney's been cutting a lot of their trailers like short films recently, and it's a terrific decision. I think this is Pixar's influence.
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LesterGroans posted:Brad Bird and Damon Lindelof doing a movie version of the Itchy & Scratchy Land Simpsons episode has my full attention. its westworld dumbass
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Judge Clayjar posted:its westworld dumbass I'm hoping a Disney movie might be a little goofier than Westworld though.
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BonoMan posted:Lindelof is also attached so... consider me extremely cautiously optimistic. Oh boo hoo.
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GonSmithe posted:Oh boo hoo. He ain't wrong. It does looks sweet as gently caress, but then again I'd watch Brad Bird make a movie out of the phone book.
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muscles like this? posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k59gXTWf-A Yes, please.
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GonSmithe posted:Oh boo hoo. Lindelof hasn't been able to do anything good in my opinion. Interesting ideas, but he seems unable to write characters with decent motivations. He basically has an idea and will just brute force a character to meet that idea regardless of how ridiculously idiotic it makes their actions. He's terrible. Now Brad Bird is amazing, so I do hope he more than evens out Lindelof's contributions.
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BonoMan posted:Lindelof hasn't been able to do anything good in my opinion. Interesting ideas, but he seems unable to write characters with decent motivations. He basically has an idea and will just brute force a character to meet that idea regardless of how ridiculously idiotic it makes their actions. He's terrible. Prometheus and The Leftovers are both pretty great but it's fine if you disagree and don't like him in general! It's just that the "ugh, Lindelof" any time one of his projects gets brought up is a little grating.
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BOAT SHOWBOAT posted:Prometheus and The Leftovers are both pretty great but it's fine if you disagree and don't like him in general! It's just that the "ugh, Lindelof" any time one of his projects gets brought up is a little grating. That's because Lindelof defenders and haters don't seem to feel anything about him by half. I'm firmly in the "he's loving awful" camp, but I agree that the discourse that comes up every time one his projects is brought up is very grating.
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