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[Trailers] Solidifying Iron-Clad Opinions in 2:30 or Less
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He was also ready and armored to take the shot in the back.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
Whoever cut the trailer actually bothered to set this up. The victims have gold bars strapped to their backs (as you can see in the earlier part of the trailer), which is probably how the assassins get paid.
So he wasn't so much armored, as using the payment to avoid getting shot.
Something that presumably only a former looper would know to do, since he knew what the setup would be. I imagine most other targets would be too disoriented to react very quickly.
I just came back from cabin in the woods, they played this trailer and I noticed it on my own this time. He also chucks one of the bars at him afterwards(its quick but I think thats what it is). the movie is going to be set up to the point of they set him up specifically without a hood so his past self would see him. I bet theres an 80 year old man somewhere in the begining of the film in the future that is him that was sent back as a 50 year old.
So I don't know if I buy this whole dilemma. I'd kinda be in favor of a movie that explored it the other way, where every Looper eventually kills himself, and that's when he's 'made his bones' in the underworld and really hit the big time.
It it too early to call it as a stable time loop?
I like seeing time travel when it's done well. But too often it just falls apart because Hollywood prefers to play to the lowest common denominator rather then ask the audience to think about what time travel might actually result in.
It doesn't seem like Levitt has any qualms at all about killing his future self, in fact he seems quite driven to do so, he just fucked it up because his future self is smarter than he is.
EDIT:
Actually, now that I think about it why would Levitt even care? Nothing bad can happen to him even if he doesn't kill his future self, because his future self is there so Levitt will at least live until he's sent back to the past.
Unless it's a "multiple timelines" sort of thing rather than a "stable loop" sort of thing.
Of course, his future self already knows what he's going to do.
Damn. That's awesome! Time-travel is awesome.
Day One.
That Cabin in the Woods trailer does a bad job selling the movie, I'm seeing it soon so hopefully it's good.
I got exactly what I expected out of drag me to hell, a terrible Raimi horror/comedy. You hear lines in the movie that sound like bruce campbell should be saying them, and lo and behold you find out that he was too busy to do it, so they hired the girl and adjusted the script. When BC turns down the work... I don't know you guys.
Woods was a typical whedon affair, if you enjoy his stuff you will like the movie. I wasn't a fan of the very end, but I am not sure what else I expected. I thought the thing would be a bit deeper I guess. edit: Just saw the trailer, and theres another complete side to that movie yes, but it doesnt missell the concept.
Selling it like just another horror movie and not telling you that it's actually a comedy is completely misleading.
Thanks for that.....
I think the less you know about Cabin in the Woods going in, the more you will get out of it.
We've done a phenomenal job at keeping 99% of CitW stuff in spoilers in the movies thread, so to have it be openly talked about in here in a little silly.
Also, arguing "It's not a spoiler because______" is dumb. It obviously bothers someone, so fucking spoiler it. It takes two seconds.
Compared to what is considered a spoiler in the Game of Thrones thread, that is a huge one. I mean, yeah maybe not that big a deal but it's easy to spoiler it so let's just do that.
I can get behind the idea of less movie footage/spoilers in general trailers and pre-release clips if they did things like this, Pearce's TED talk, etc.
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I wouldn't say this is a comedy. Especially from the last act. I think the only movie/thing whedon has done that wasn't exactly like this was aliens 4. Most of the jokes in the first half besides the spoiler stuff, is completely in line with how "college students fall into horror movie" movies go. And if the spoiler part of the movie was super serial, it would of made for a terrible movie.
How can you do that trailer as anything else? They show that there is obviously something going on in the background, they just dont show the tone of it.
New Jason Statham movie, who's excited?!
This would be, what, Transporter 12?
Thing is, that "world building" stuff only works for a few genres. I can't expect Avengers to do a TED talk with Tony Stark (as awesome as that would be).
Avengers has world building, they just don't do viral stuff.
Cause of so, that's a brilliant way to establish a character that is a force in the movie but isn't actually in it.