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[Trailers] Solidifying Iron-Clad Opinions in 2:30 or Less
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I like the genre.
Younger Stranger Than Fiction. Which I'm perfectly okay with.
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The book is about a guy in a limo.
Actually the guy who won an oscar for writing LMS - Michael Arndt - has only written one other move. He has the sole screenwriting credit on Toy Story 3 (!)
And right now Arndt's rewriting the script for a Phineas and Ferb movie. Huh.
I saw this at a film festival, it's fun.
Now that I've had to a chance to see this trailer...
um.
Is that it?
I'm just not impressed. I think it's the tagline about being 'the first movie about the new millenium.'
When all I see is the same Hell Hole New York shtick that people have been ballyhooing for the last fifty years.
Wait, they're doing another one?
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Meaning, I'm excited for 2 where 1 made me go "What the fuck is this?"
When I just glanced at it for a second, I honestly thought the preview image was Emma Thompson in Stranger Than Fiction.
Actually watching the trailer, it looks pretty bland considering the premise. It really has that faux-indie vibe to it, which isn't something I'm a fan of.
Same here. They seem to be getting back to the "fantastic" elements of the original toy commercial.
No one can tell me those colorful ninja segments of the trailers didn't scream "HEY! NINJA FORCE!"
All the vehicle/costume designs also seem to to be throwbacks as well, gives it a much more nostalgia/GI Joe vibe than the first.
Kinetic bombardment absolutely qualifies under that heading.
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Huh? Why?
One was so bad I don't think I'll even give two a chance. I am fine with some dumb action, but my god was the first one atrocious.
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Tatum probably still survives. They even gave him a poster. However, it looks like Johnson will be the star in this one which is an improvement.
It is. Though I did gain some respect for Tatum after watching 21 Jumpstreet, he could be good if given the right role. Him in the first GI Joe movie however was terrible.
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No "red heads" in needlessly close fitting body armor though.
I never totally buy Jonathan Pryce in anything for some reason. That's a bullshit complaint in a movie that I would never go to see for the 'powerful character acting', but he bugs me. So there.
better version but quicktime: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/weinstein/lawless/
It's Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, and Gary Oldman in a rural (practically western) prohibition crime movie. For all that awesome I can put up with some LeBeouf.
3 british actors and shia lebeouf? this is getting ridiculous
I can't find it, but I saw an interview with (the writers? Maybe the director, can't remember) of Retaliation - who are, it should be noted, not the same team that did the first one - and they thought the first one was pretty bad, too. They seemed to enjoy the franchise and want to do it justice.
I wish I could find that interview, it did more to sell me on the film than the trailers did.
Now, don't get me wrong, there's no way it won't be dumb action, but I have some faith that it will be the level of dumb action I would expect from the franchise.
I don't get the hate.
The internet hasn't forgiven him for Indiana Jones.
Lebeouf is just mediocre, like you said. Based on talent he doesn't belong beside Hardy, Oldman, and Pearce, but movies he's in make a lot of money for whatever reason. Actingwise, he's just a somewhat disappointing placeholder that could have been filled by better actors.
I think Labeouf has the potential to be a better actor, he just isn't trying and not challenging himself (directors letting him and/or telling him to do that nervous ranting schtick doesn't help either). Right now he's kinda riding out the gravy train.
and then you've got this gem
yeah, dude. you are exactly like Warren Beatty.
Have you seen his indie comics?
I think the fault is the parts he's being put in like Kruite said. Why does he have to play that character and then say "no,no,no" a billion times in the transformers and that rip off of rear window?
I think this might be it. But from that trailer it doesn't make sense unless hes dead or the above, he doesn't make it into the well, hes not around in any of the "Group" scenes, hes not in any action scenes. I would say maybe wounded and they find him afterwards and send him home, but they show them walking through the desert by themselves too. It's aggravating because the trailer sets him up with "yes duke is back" and they give him that "bonding cliche moment" that isnt "character about to die cliche moment". and I doubt they would kill duke. Also I mean, come on, if they were going to kill duke like that, they most certainly would kill Wayans like that and he isnt around.
edit: I hate imdb, it says that favorite joe: