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I really liked this film as well. It had the energy and zaniness of a musical without actually being one, and was a lot of fun.
I haven't really ever played the series. What kind of a story can they pull from it? Is it going to be a bunched of wronged people running around seeking vengeance?
Wait, shit, they're making a Tekken movie? I remember they made an anime a long time ago, but now an actual movie? Animated or live action?
It is going to be horrible.
Electronic composer for hire.
Which was? Just curious, I just saw the movie and loved and hated it at parts.
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Basically, the audience member is supposed to be "tortured" by this movie for wanting to see a movie with extreme violence and torture.
He does this by omitting most of the violent parts and thus makes fun of the audience member.
It's pretty awesome, really.
I'm seeing it for Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Channing Tatum. They are both up-and-comers.
Tatum may have been in Step Up, but he was also amazing in A Guide to Recognising Your Saints.
Levitt played great roles in Manic, Brick and The Lookout.
Phillippe is an alright actor, but these kids look as if they are going to grow up to be better than he is.
Gordon-Levitt has been cast in the G.I. Joe live action film as Rex/Cobra Commander. It has also been reported that Levitt is casted as Tetsuo Shima in the live-action production of the sci-fi cyberpunk manga and anime Akira produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.
This kid really is after my heart.
bawhaaaaaaa
*eyeroll* Gotcha, Haneke is a prick. Stay in Europe and make films if you hate the American spectator so much, buddy.
Well, okay.
Well, okay.
PS I haven't even seen Funny Games, but I don't really see how this is "misleading" the audience
There's a way to do it and there is a way not to do it. "Gotcha" is rarely a way to accomplish a critical point in cinema. Any course in film history will tell you this. Saying this
and then making Funny Games is being a dick about it.
If he knows that audiences are used to movies of this genre having extreme violence, and he purposely counteracts that because of some artistic opinion of his, I don't really see what the problem with that is.
I go to films because the trailers look interesting or just for the shit of it (film student, that's what I do). I rarely look at the publicity around a film because if the 1920s and 30s in Hollywood taught us anything, marketing of a film is just like a politician spinning a brutal loss to look positive for themselves: everyone does it and you can't rely on people directly involved with it to give you a fair shake.
If you go into a movie expecting a lot of violence and gore, that's your own fault, not the filmmaker misleading you.
Yeah, especially with The Dark Knight. I really want to see it, but I'm tired of everyone involved in it calling it an epic and breathtaking movie.
When that's how the film is sold to me in a trailer, how it is advertised through the trailer and how the narrative in the film leads me all the damn time, that's the filmmaker misleading me.
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I thought Joseph Gordon-Levitt was better in Mysterious Skin, to be honest.