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Did a quick search and didn't see a previous thread for this.

The first trailer is out from the SDCC - this movie looks absolutely ridiculous. A filmmaker friend on Facebook described it as "style bukkake"

Even having read the synopsis - I have no idea what this is about. But I love Zack Snyder's movies (yes, I thought Watchmen (at least the director's cut) was one of last year's best films), so i will give him the benefit of the doubt.

I can't wait to see it.

I get a very Matrix-y style vibe from this.

SallyNasty wrote:

Even having read the synopsis - I have no idea what this is about. But I love Zack Snyder's movies (yes, I thought Watchmen (at least the director's cut) was one of last year's best films), so i will give him the benefit of the doubt.

I can't wait to see it.

Yeah.. I didn't even try to come up with an abstract for the movie. It's like a Tarsem movie.. enjoy the pretty pictures, turn the frontal cortex off.

So, Moulin Rouge and Ninja Assassin had a lovechild, but Moulin Rouge had an affair with Eregon, so they don't know who the father is? However you put it, I'll be there to see if this falls under "Friggin' Awesome" or the "Well.... it certainly looks cool" catagory.

Seeing that trailer, all I can say is: "Huh?"

Yeah, I've had no problems with Snyder's stuff so far, this looks like a trip!

One, please.

Grenn wrote:

Stuff

Also, "Eragon" did not invent dragons. In fact, Eragon didn't invent a single thing. There is not one thing in that movie or book that's original. Nor did Moulin Rouge invent "women doing weird crap," or Ninja Assassin invent ninjas and/or assassins. And none of them are capable of having babies.

You should feel bad, Grenn.

I know Eregon didn't invent dragons, nor did Moulin Rouge invent slutty, disease-ridden prostitutes singing and dancing. And everyone knows that Ninja Assassin didn't invent ninjas, nor assassins. I was just thinking of the most recent movies I could think of that involved/included ninjas, dragons, and slutty, singing women of the night. I mean, Dark City is kinda dated.

I will see this for mini-gun-toting Samurai demons. The whole "school-girl-outfit-clad-women-kicking-ass" thing is probably my one complaint from a movie like this. Not that it's some sort of trashing of feminism-- it's more that it just looks tired nowadays.

"Style bukkake" seems an apt description. This could be really interesting because the only thing I think Snyder does well as a director is style. I'm generally a substance>style person, but his films certainly look good, which means it's worth seeing at least once.

Suggested title: Matrix Inception 300

garion333 wrote:

This could be really interesting because the only thing I think Snyder does well as a director is style.

I haven't noticed a lot of style out of him, beyond "slavish devotion to the original" (though I can add "tone-deaf and illogical application of violence" and "dire sex scenes"). That served him well, obviously, I enjoyed 300 and Watchmen, but I think the bits in those movies that worked best were time when he just didn't get in the way of the source material. I assume this isn't an adaptation, so it'll be interesting to see what happens when he doesn't already have all the story boards done by Frank Miller or Dave Gibbons.

From the description I read somewhere, this sounds like it's his Pan's Labyrinth--young girl, ugly situation, gothic setting, fantastical elements provide an escape.

His actions scenes are all stylized. 300 was one long stylized image that, yes, was ripped straight from the pages of a graphic novel.

garion333 wrote:

His actions scenes are all stylized. 300 was one long stylized image that, yes, was ripped straight from the pages of a graphic novel.

But they're not stylized in ways that are especially his. Like I said, it'll be interesting to see what happens when he's unmoored.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
garion333 wrote:

This could be really interesting because the only thing I think Snyder does well as a director is style.

I haven't noticed a lot of style out of him, beyond "slavish devotion to the original" (though I can add "tone-deaf and illogical application of violence" and "dire sex scenes"). That served him well, obviously, I enjoyed 300 and Watchmen, but I think the bits in those movies that worked best were time when he just didn't get in the way of the source material. I assume this isn't an adaptation, so it'll be interesting to see what happens when he doesn't already have all the story boards done by Frank Miller or Dave Gibbons.

Stop eating my brain and upchucking the contents within.

I double-checked Wikipedia, and yeah, it seems like this isn't based on anything. However, considering that it's got WWII, Samurai, Dragons and Mini-Guns, I'm gonna bet that this synopsis...

Wikipedia wrote:

The film follows a young girl in the 1950s about to be lobotomized and as she attempts to escape an asylum with her inmate friends.

Aside from being a horrendously written sentence by merely including the word "and", suggests that a lot of this film isn't actually happening, if it happens at all. At the same time, it's definitely too stylized to have the subtle Vanilla-Sky style of twist where it's been a dream since X-moment of the film, and if you were observant you would have noticed when.

Nonetheless, I look forward to seeing if Zack Snyder has any talent of his own, as his "creative additions" to Watchmen made me flail about (why, in the Director's Cut, did Rorschach need to break character and beat up a cop at the beginning? Augh...at the same time, buzz-sawing the dude's arms off in the prison made more sense than slitting his throat, as gross as it was).

EDIT:

Huh, looks like no predictions were required.

Wikipedia also says wrote:

Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution in Brattleboro, Vermont and while there she starts to imagine alternative reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is caught by a vile man. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur. She is joined with friends who are inmates from the institution. Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:
garion333 wrote:

His actions scenes are all stylized. 300 was one long stylized image that, yes, was ripped straight from the pages of a graphic novel.

But they're not stylized in ways that are especially his. Like I said, it'll be interesting to see what happens when he's unmoored.

What you're really saying is you want more sex scenes set to Pixies music.

mudbunny wrote:

I get a very Matrix-y style vibe from this.

Called it!! (without reading Wikipedia, mind you)

Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate.

Baby Doll: I've GOT it! I know how we can escape! Quick, does anybody have a DRAGON?

Who wouldn't want a dragon?

Were I in a dream and able to summon any way of escape out of it I could, I don't see why riding a dragon wouldn't be in my top five.

Also, this movie looks and sounds completely ridiculous.

garion333 wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:
garion333 wrote:

His actions scenes are all stylized. 300 was one long stylized image that, yes, was ripped straight from the pages of a graphic novel.

But they're not stylized in ways that are especially his. Like I said, it'll be interesting to see what happens when he's unmoored.

What you're really saying is you want more sex scenes set to Pixies music.

Absolutely! His sex scenes are the funniest parts. The music choice can be hilarious for it's on the nose-ness ("Here Comes Your Man") or inappropriateness ("There Goes My Gun"). I'm cool with either, as long as I laugh.

Grenn wrote:

Who wouldn't want a dragon?

Sedans around the internet are hiding.

Grenn wrote:

So, Moulin Rouge and Ninja Assassin had a lovechild, but Moulin Rouge had an affair with Eregon, so they don't know who the father is? However you put it, I'll be there to see if this falls under "Friggin' Awesome" or the "Well.... it certainly looks cool" catagory.

Sounds accurate. Snyder has not disappointed me yet.

Thin_J wrote:

Also, this movie looks and sounds completely ridiculous.

And its oh so sweet because of it.

Am I the only one that got a weird Painkiller vibe from the trailer?

Just saw its being released the day before my bday.

New full trailer for this craziness!

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/w...

ranalin wrote:

New full trailer for this craziness!

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/w...

You had me at, 'knife.'

That movie...it looks....

*melts*

Oh c'mon, ccesarano, it can't be that....

*melts*

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