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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdmupNxobP0
You got your cowboys vs aliens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pAsPPDdC8
You got your urban group of military vs aliens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5mO_kK0v_w
You even have brad pitt vs aliens
This is a thread about movie trailers and not just aliens aight sweet hearts.
You got your cowboys vs aliens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_pAsPPDdC8
You got your urban group of military vs aliens
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5mO_kK0v_w
You even have brad pitt vs aliens
This is a thread about movie trailers and not just aliens aight sweet hearts.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
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Preacher is wise and it will pay to heed him.
Make note this is the first my name and wise has been used in sentence with un.
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Who cares if it's McCliches, I just want a decent alien invasion movie that does have Tom Cruise coming home to his still living family like nothing happened at all.
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I find that an acceptable answer.
Besides I had to set up my illegal alien joke, four trailers is pushing comedic limit.
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The rule of 3, sure.
So, um.... *goes in search of a new trailer that hasn't been posted*.
All I got is a newPriest TrailerWhich, meh.
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Man was excellent in Star Trek.
Why I fear the ocean.
I like him, he was great in Red, Bourne supremecy, lotr etc. He's a solid actor, just that priest looks very much meh.
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I'm just gonna pretend that this is Legion, and there never was a movie with Dennis Quaid and Paul Bettany with that title.
We'll come out ahead.
Man, I can't even make it through the trailer before I get bored. Such a 'meh' trailer.
I'll see it and I'll probably enjoy too. Bettany hasn't done a non-"religious" movie since A Knight's Tale has he? At least nothing I can remember off the top of my head.
All this trailer really makes me want to see is a movie based off of the priest from Hellsing. That dude was nuts.
Though I did manage to dodge Legion despite saying the same thing about that.
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Compare anything in this thread with
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM3-YO7qHs
It's so true.
Although, does the Expendables count? It's budget certainly wasn't enormous, but I suppose the cast was.
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B-Movies of yore seemed to be aware of their own camp -- they didn't take themselves too seriously. But maybe it just seems that way to us in retrospect, I don't know.
But if I had to guess what makes a fun B-movie, I'd assume it's...well, a sense of fun.
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Oh I disagree completely. Were you saying "Hell no" because it sucked or because it wasn't a B-movie? I thoroughly enjoyed it because it very much recalled old-school B-movies to me.
Excessive macho posturing, terrible acting, and an awful plot aren't what fun b-movies are about.
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But it seemed like such a self-parody
It had to be self-aware
I can't believe anything else
You know what though -- if nothing else, god bless it for being a self-contained story with a clear dramatic arc, clear villain, clear motives, etc. Simple, but clear.
I feel like that's a lot more than most action movies can say these days. They all want to build some gigantic fucking fantasy world with a bunch of incoherent bullshit and a too-big narrative that usually just means a lot of exposition and ambiguous motives and consequences that sap tension from the movie.
There's something to be said for the rather more restrained scope of something like the Expendables.
Also I maintain that it was tongue-in-cheek, at least partly.
i concur. formulas are not bad, when applied well.
how well the Expendables applied those formulas is a matter of personal opinion, but the application is clear
But the point is not whether it was taking itself seriously or not, it's whether it's a fun b-movie or not. Which it isn't. It's generally considered to be kind of terrible. Compare it to movies like Big Trouble in Little China and Repo Man, which are also b-movies and don't take themselves very seriously, but are also fun to watch and considered to be good movies because of that.
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Yeah. I don't know what happened to movies when people stopped doing that for the big-budget little-brain movies.
You know a formulaic movie? Star Wars. The oldest formula in the book, for fuck's sake.
It's weird. It's like the basics of storytelling have sort of disappeared from most modern big-budget moviemaking, but for the life of me I couldn't tell you why. It's bizarre.
OK but those are standout B-movies. Most fun B-movies are not of that caliber. I found it to be fun, and sort of hokey in a way that makes me think of a B-movie.
It was over-the-top veering into self-parody, there was ample gore, it didn't seem to take itself too seriously and certainly left room for levity, it was built on time-honored formulas and tropes, etc.
To me, it had the hallmarks of a B-movie, and I found it to be very fun.
I enjoyed it a lot more than most of the other summer fare in 2010.
I blame special effects advances
or more accurately
obsessions with special effects advances
Yeah, I think action movies have forgotten almost entirely that they are stories, and have essentially become really expensive music videos.
Which probably has something to do with a lot of modern action directors getting their starts in commercials and music videos (fuck yooooooouuuuuu Michael Bay)
i saw the trailer for it, was like "God, I sure hope this movie is what it appears to be"
and it was, it totally was
i left that movie having received the movie that i wanted to see, which is really something i can't say about a lot of disappointing films in the past few years
Expendables just wasn't very good.
Not enough awesome action, not enough of an ensemble piece, not enough good one liners.
Never heard anyone cite a "that" line. Never heard "You NEED to see scene (X)".
Which is a very bad sign. Too bad, since Stallone can be pretty good when he's on his game.
Why I fear the ocean.
The line I'll give you, but please, "the shotgun sequence" was fairly memorable, and comes up on these forums fairly regularly in random threads.
Edit: of note, I wasn't even that big a fan of the movie, and am not fanboying out in my defense. I just disagree on there not being a scene that people talked about.
But seriously, some of their "action heroes of our generation" choices were laaaaaaame.
Haha, yeah, I've been meaning to check it out.
directed by music video directors
that don't necessarily let you know what the fuck you are watching
the very first trailer for Inception was fucking terrible at telling you what the hell this movie is.
look, i don't hate viral marketing
it can exist, do its own thing, on the internet or whatever
but when you have a movie trailer that is basically a bunch of random bullshit and then like
"go to our website to unlock more of the secret!"
i want to punch those people in the balls
lookin' at you, JJ Abrams' marketing people
And another 90 minutes of entirely wasted potential.
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like when I watched the trailer for Battle: Los Angeles, I was like "oh this is a movie about a squad of soldiers fighting against an alien invasion. I assume it focuses on the soldiers itself and not like, a single dad and his plucky daughter"
according to what i have read of the film, that is accurate
i appreciate that.