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Yeah I believe it was prior to the weightloss. If you see the new MW 3 commercial with Sam Worthington he looks a lot thinner.
I haven't seen any of Twilight movies (or read the books, for that matter), only a couple of trailers and clips, and I got a similar vibe from those. Not a coincidence either, I believe. I'm beginning to suspect that their target audience is the Twilight crowd.
And the Hunger Games series has it's fair share of critics (Mockingjay in particular has a bad rep), but I guess that's best kept for another thread.
Yeah. Oscar-bait biopic + great acting = easy win.
Is she going to have any stiff competition this year? I can't think of a lot of Best Actress contenders, except for that Marilyn Monroe movie, and I haven't heard whether that's any good or not.
There is a "love story" in the midst of it, but it's downplayed compared to horrible emotional trauma.
and yeah, I thought the story only really got interesting once the actual games startet
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Oh man, I had such an at-the-time-age-appropriate-crush on the viking hat girl back in the day. I have no idea why, except that she was wearing a viking hat and was therefore cool.
The 80s just took more joy in their generic popcorn movies. They were still garbage, but there was something about them...
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I think you nailed it. 80s and early 90s weird movies are just WEIRD. No apologies. They're weird as fuck and yet somehow they get green-lit. Late 90s and 00's people got a little more sane, or maybe it's just they were doing less crack or something. Now even when it's a weird movie, they're still sorta trying to make some inroads to the mainstream.
On the good side, there were a lot of freaky-as-hell, why would you let a child watch this 80s children movies that freaked me out, and kids movies today are totally better.
This one?
It was written by Pierre Gerwig Langer.The Name of it is 'Call for Heroes.'
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I was wrong. I was so so wrong.
Where to begin? Lame puns ("Snow way!")? Weak jokes with pop-culture winks to the audience ("Say hello to my little friend")? Julia Roberts with an wandering accent that might let the Costner/Robin Hood combo off the hook? Pick your poison.
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I guess Pixar wanted to prove me wrong:
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/disney/brave/
That was a breath of fresh air.
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The art in that trailer is so, so gorgeous. I can't wait.
That said, I mean... how long can this keep up? Every company makes a dud eventually, right? Right? How long can Pixar continue to kick the odds squarely in the nuts? I thought, upon seeing the initial trailers, that Up might have been that film... then I saw it and it was fantastic. Someone needs to launch an investigation. I strongly suspect that everyone at Pixar is actually a genetically engineered superbeing.
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Apparently you missed Cars 2?
Though honestly the theme the trailer is going for in the Brave seems a little tired. Could just be the trailer, but its not exactly new territory for fantasy films/films that cater to children.
Yep, it's not exactly new, even for Disney (ringing some Mulan bells there), but Pixar can take something generic and craft it so well that it works.
I doubt we would ever see it in this age, but I would have liked to see the idea flipped on its head, where the girl comes from a family of warriors who wants to be a princess. It's always a princess who wants to live a normal life or be a tomboy, just flip the idea a bit. We always have the princess be established as one, or she was the princess all along but was hidden away or somesuch, this would be a nice change of pace. Of course this would have some people cry foul simply because it would embrace gender roles or something where no intent was implied. Oftentimes what is considered the convention has been replaced by the twist so that going back to the original idea is actually the new twist, if that made sense.
Yeah this seems like a young adult version of that movie. And the movie isn't even that old.
Hoping Hunger Games gives me that.
Some one mentioned where she and her opponents are running at the beginning of the game. That part looked great.
Yeah, I am getting a bit bored with the "just be yourself - as long as you're a tomgirl." As half the time it ends up kinda implying if you're a girly-girl then you're just not being yourself. Not that I think Pixar will be that unsubtle, but it IS getting a bit rote by now (And granted before now we had about 1000 years of fictional girls being princesses waiting to be rescued, so fair enough, but still...).
I have read both books and seen the Battle Royale movie as well. Really they have some similarities but really really they are mostly superficial. Hunger Games actually is a really excellent series even if it young adult. Battle Royale is kind of young adult just not the typical American meaning of that idea.
Really though I have complaints about the trailer but they go more towards casting and kind of missing some major points that I don't want to say much for folks who haven't read the book.