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Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Noxville posted:

You are literally 100% wrong

Not exactly. He's a good director of lovely movies.

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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
That's a great way to describe him and his work.

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

We are standing right on the edge of movies being set in the 70s becoming intolerable.

Alehkhs
Oct 6, 2010

The Sorrow of Poets
John Cusack, Adrien Brody, and Jackie Chan bring you a film about the Romans trying to wrest control of the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2628TiTyw

Sure. Why not?

Alehkhs fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Dec 27, 2014

Carthag Tuek
Oct 15, 2005

Tider skal komme,
tider skal henrulle,
slægt skal følge slægters gang



kiimo posted:

Hey everyone, I'm really proud of this teaser that makes a bad movie look kind of decent ha.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz2HyCgUWh4

I watched that show so my word is nil, but that is imo a great trailer. Only need is more angry Ari.

Shanty
Nov 7, 2005

I Love Dogs

Alehkhs posted:

John Cusack, Adrien Brody, and Jackie Chan bring you a film about the Romans trying to wrest control of the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2628TiTyw

Sure. Why not?

Brody looks so baller in this, but wow the rest of it looks baaaad.

ReV VAdAUL
Oct 3, 2004

I'm WILD about
WILDMAN

Alehkhs posted:

John Cusack, Adrien Brody, and Jackie Chan bring you a film about the Romans trying to wrest control of the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2628TiTyw

Sure. Why not?

Has Chinese cinema used the Romans as a stand in for America/the West much before?

I wonder if the Parthians will show up as a people protected from Roman imperialism by Han benevolence or just not show up at all.

Chewy Bitems
Dec 25, 2012

PIIIISSSSSSSS!!!!

Alehkhs posted:

John Cusack, Adrien Brody, and Jackie Chan bring you a film about the Romans trying to wrest control of the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2628TiTyw

Sure. Why not?
weirdly at the 1.22 mark in that trailer, Cusak seems to be saying "spare me" but the subtitles read "spare him".

and is there somebody called Chopsticks in that cast?

Dragon blade is a rubbish name too.

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010

ReV VAdAUL posted:


I wonder if the Parthians will show up as a people protected from Roman imperialism by Han benevolence or just not show up at all.
I dunno, but I definitely saw Arabs...

kiimo
Jul 24, 2003

That looked like a fake trailer from Tropic Thunder.

Byzantine
Sep 1, 2007

I'm just interested in a movie about Romans that's not set in Britannia.

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
getting the Mad Max Fury Road Dies Irae trailer in theaters in imax 3d while fully high
:wth:

G-III
Mar 4, 2001

Godfrey Ho should come out of retirement and put Adrian Brody in one of his Ninja movies, headbands and all.

Hey man, these washed up hollywood gweilos need to earn a living somehow.

G-III fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Dec 31, 2014

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD
Sep 14, 2007

everything is yours
Godfrey Ho needs to come out of retirement in general.

achillesforever6
Apr 23, 2012

psst you wanna do a communism?

Alehkhs posted:

John Cusack, Adrien Brody, and Jackie Chan bring you a film about the Romans trying to wrest control of the Silk Road from the Han Dynasty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ2628TiTyw

Sure. Why not?
A shame that it's going the fantasy route, when there is a pretty good story to be told of the Romans that actually traveled to China
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Roman_relations
But of course those drat pesky Parthians had to get in the way :argh:

Nerdietalk
Dec 23, 2014

I'll give Marvel some points for this one, that was a cute joke. Not jaw-dropping, but I chuckled.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQjhJf1R4k4

Happy Noodle Boy
Jul 3, 2002


It's no Aqua Teen Hunger Force movie.

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

What you will see if you zoom in on that teaser trailer.

emgeejay
Dec 8, 2007


GOD DAMMIT

Cacator
Aug 6, 2005

You're quite good at turning me on.


:golfclap:

twoot
Oct 29, 2012

Big Game: POTUS Samuel L Jackson crashes in the Finnish wilderness and a boy has to protect him from terrorists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdNg9kjtOU8

Looks fun.

twoot fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Jan 5, 2015

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

Here's a trailer for an entirely first person action movie with Sharlto Copley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnURHXFhuE

morestuff
Aug 2, 2008

You can't stop what's coming

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Here's a trailer for an entirely first person action movie with Sharlto Copley.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMnURHXFhuE

It's kind of sad they couldn't come up with enough interesting stuff to fill a three-minute proof of concept video

morestuff fucked around with this message at 00:04 on Jan 6, 2015

PriorMarcus
Oct 17, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT BEING ALLERGIC TO POSITIVITY

morestuff posted:

It's kind of sad they couldn't come up with enough interesting stuff to fill a three-minutes proof of concept video

Yeah. That was pretty awful, and filming it with a fish eye lens makes it ugly as well.

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

morestuff posted:

It's kind of sad they couldn't come up with enough interesting stuff to fill a three-minute proof of concept video

Yeah, I can't imagine a whole movie of that.

f#a#
Sep 6, 2004

I can't promise it will live up to the hype, but I tried my best.
Bad Motherfucker was a music video that did more clever things with it, eesh. Also, way too much CGI blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY

Apparently the same director, look at that!

f#a# fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Jan 6, 2015

The MSJ
May 17, 2010

PriorMarcus posted:

Yeah. That was pretty awful, and filming it with a fish eye lens makes it ugly as well.

But with a fish eye lens, you don't have to know how to act and direct!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbvxlvSIIww

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

Yeah, I can't imagine a whole movie of that.

It seems that every 5-10 years people forget that first person POV dramatic filmmaking (i.e. non-art film / found footage) doesn't work because audiences either completely tune out or vomit after the first 5 minutes. It's one of the better produced and most watchable POV clips I've seen, but I can't imaging sitting through more than that.

CaptainHollywood
Feb 29, 2008


I am an awesome guy and I love to make out during shitty Hollywood horror movies. I am a trendwhore!

Dillbag posted:

It seems that every 5-10 years people forget that first person POV dramatic filmmaking (i.e. non-art film / found footage) doesn't work because audiences either completely tune out or vomit after the first 5 minutes. It's one of the better produced and most watchable POV clips I've seen, but I can't imaging sitting through more than that.

I think the reason part of this movie works is that it's not playing off "This is found footage from what happened etc etc." I want it to be good.

penismightier
Dec 6, 2005

What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

It's like all the worst parts of all the worst video games.

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost

CaptainHollywood posted:

I think the reason part of this movie works is that it's not playing off "This is found footage from what happened etc etc." I want it to be good.

First person POV dramatic has always had problems keeping an audience's attention for whatever reason. Not sure if it's because there's a lack of empathy for the main character because you can never read emotion in their face, or because it's like you're playing a video game but you have no control so you tune out, or something else. I'm a big Sharlto Copely fan so I hope it does well, but I can't think of any successful films or TV shows that were shot 100% in first person (again, found footage doco-style like Blair Witch and art films like Enter the Void not withstanding)

penismightier posted:

It's like all the worst parts of all the worst video games.

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Dillbag posted:

It seems that every 5-10 years people forget that first person POV dramatic filmmaking (i.e. non-art film / found footage) doesn't work because audiences either completely tune out or vomit after the first 5 minutes. It's one of the better produced and most watchable POV clips I've seen, but I can't imaging sitting through more than that.

Counterpoint: Maniac (either version).

Dillbag
Mar 4, 2007

Click here to join Lem Lee in the Hell Of Being Cut To Pieces
Nap Ghost

Renoistic
Jul 27, 2007

Everyone has a
guardian angel.
They were not even trying to not make it look like a video game. They even have a silent protagonist! The part where the british guy tells him to use a grenade could be straight a tutorial in any COD game.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

penismightier posted:

It's like all the worst parts of all the worst video games.

The opening credits and intermission are going to be loading screens.

Alfred P. Pseudonym
May 29, 2006

And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

^^^ If it had an intermission, I'd see it just on principle.

Renoistic posted:

They were not even trying to not make it look like a video game. They even have a silent protagonist! The part where the british guy tells him to use a grenade could be straight a tutorial in any COD game.

Yeah as soon as Copley started talking my mind went straight to Soap McTavish.

penismightier
Dec 6, 2005

What the hell, I'll just eat some trash.

It's definitely playing as a Call of Duty game level 1, but it's not funny and it doesn't seem to be making some kind of point so... whyyyyy?

The MSJ
May 17, 2010


Is James Wan producing this?

penismightier posted:

It's like all the worst parts of all the worst video games.

We need movies made out of the best parts of the best video games. Like a Lord of The Rings movie where the protagonist ranger and his elf ghost partner construct a Mordor orc hierarchy chart to determine who he should kill and who he should mind control and then promote to the top of the leadership ladder so that it can backstab the orc general.

bows1
May 16, 2004

Chill, whale, chill

f#a# posted:

Bad Motherfucker was a music video that did more clever things with it, eesh. Also, way too much CGI blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY

Apparently the same director, look at that!

This one is way better
:nws:http://www.vevo.com/watch/swedish-house-mafia-vs-knife-party/Antidote-(Explicit)/GB1201100110 :nws:

bows1 fucked around with this message at 02:27 on Jan 6, 2015

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teagone
Jun 10, 2003

That was pretty intense, huh?

f#a# posted:

Bad Motherfucker was a music video that did more clever things with it, eesh. Also, way too much CGI blood.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgox84KE7iY

Apparently the same director, look at that!

One trick pony.

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