Comments on: Bronson

By: Alfonse G.

Alfonse G. — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:09:50 +0000

Chopper vs. the Limey. Who wins?

Trick question.

The correct answer is Margaret Thatcher.

Every time I see Eric Bana in anything else, for a moment I think, “Boy, they sure managed to make that dude from Chopper look like a wuss.”

So. Who out there has the balls to make THE MARGARET THATCHER STORY into the ultimate biopic of a crazed subject of the crown?

By: Jareth Cutestory

Jareth Cutestory — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:45:04 +0000

I guess my problem with most trailers is that they are so formulaic. They tend to make the movies indistinguishable. For most movies, this wouldn’t be a big problem. But when a unique movie gets hammered into the trailer formular, it seems like a lost opportunity.

The first teaser for the American version of THE RING just showed footage from the evil video tape. I liked that one. And there’s the famour trailer for TOYS which had Robin Williams pitching the movie to the audience. I’m not a Williams fan (to put it politely), but that was a clever idea for a trailer.

By: RRA

RRA — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:45:56 +0000

Its fed to them because….it works.

I’m reminded of VALKYRIE last year, you know that Tom Cruise Nazi picture. Decent, but anyway.

First trailer which most people thought sucked, sold it as a drama. Well it certainly was a historical drama. But it didn’t get people’s attention.

The second trailer played up the movie’s conspiracy/thriller filmatics…and yeah it was a thriller about a real conspiracy. Except that worked, and VALKYRIE surprised quite a few (even me) by actually making a profit in theatres. Shit even that poster looks like something you would expect from a recent heist picture like ITALIAN JOB remake or OCEAN’S 11 or some shit.

OK not the best example. Look at BLADE RUNNER. Look at the trailers. Sold as an exciting balls-to-the-walls actioneer in the future. When you see it…well…its not really.

By: Jareth Cutestory

Jareth Cutestory — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:28:14 +0000

A perfect theory foiled again by Devin Faraci.

I just looked up the trailers you mentioned. Truth is I hadn’t seen either of them.

They’re really scrambling to sell this film to their preconceived ideas of the niches that comprise the audience, aren’t they. From what I can see, the film has a visual style quite distinct from I AM LEGEND and 2012. It boggles the mind why they decided to market the film in the same way.

One day they’ve got to just start letting the directors themselves make the trailers. Quit assuming the audience needs this stuff fed to them like pablum.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:07:52 +0000

To bad, Jareth, Devin Faraci already panned The Road. Have you guys seen the new trailer for that movie? It’s replaced the hysterical tragedy that was the overblown disaster footage with the hysterical tragedy that is Merchant-Ivory uplifting violins and whatnot.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:05:54 +0000

It’s the Kanye West factor: guy fucks up, everyone gets angry and tongue-lashes him, guy turns thoughtful and speaks out, apologizing for his mistakes and then turning around and making another really stupid one.

By: Jareth Cutestory

Jareth Cutestory — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:03:13 +0000

Oh yeah, I almost forgot: I predict that everybody is going to like THE ROAD. It’s going to get cast as that one movie that redeems a pretty shitty year in all genres. Sort of like THE ENGLISH PATIENT and FORREST fucking GUMP.

By: Jareth Cutestory

Jareth Cutestory — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:00:36 +0000

Vern: as always, you set a good example with your fairness and generosity.

I guess it bothers me when a guy sharing his view of a film to a large public fails to demonstrate a certain amount of knowledge about the subject at hand. I don’t expect him to appreciate LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD or RASHOMON, but he should at the very least know that they exist and that narrative invention has been a preoccupation of many, many filmmakers. I don’t doubt that the Coens chose this particular novel in part for this reason.

Maybe if he just acknowledged that NO COUNTRY wasn’t his bag instead of getting all betrayed over it.

Brendan: That DISASTER MOVIE review was insulting and juvenile. I had forgotten about that one. Not his finest hour. In fact, the whole internet suffered from that one.

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:44:00 +0000

Alright we’ll leave Dcave Pkoland out of it (I misspelled his name so it doesn’t contribute to any accidental summoning that may occur). Back to Massawyrm. You know what bums me out about him is that I think a lot of his points are valid, and even if I think he’s dead wrong, at least it makes me define my own opinions that much clearer. My problem is that he expresses his opinion in the most juvenile, poorly thought out manner possible it sours everything. Like his Disaster Movie review, there wasn’t a thing wrong with anything he said, its just that he decided to compare his reviewing film to “pulping the retared kid. Because he deserves it.”

Yeah I was just messing with you on the ‘hurt me’ thing, pal. The only person who has ever hurt me is RRA. But he will PAY for what he DID! (DUN DUN DUN).

By: Vern

Vern — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:40:36 +0000

The thing I thought was funny about the review in question was that he went on and on about the Coens being mean to present it that way and never stopped to ask if it was from the book. I don’t blame anybody for not having read a book before a movie but I know if it had been me I would’ve tried to figure out if it was from the book or at least say “I don’t know how it’s done in the book, but for me this did not work in the movie.” I’m more a fan of his Happy Feet review though which was hysterical and very similar to what Michael Medved and Sean Hannity thought of the movie (though I don’t think Massa brought up “the gay agenda”.)

He used to work as a barometer for me where I could pretty much assume I’d disagree with him, but I’ve found myself a few times in the last year liking a lowbrow movie that most other people didn’t like. There was DEATH RACE and something else, I forget the other one. So we’re not total opposites.

I think he already reviewed and loved THE ROAD, that surprised me.