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silversurfer19
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I didn't bother with Seven Pounds, I think I'm over Will Smith, well actually I've never really been that fond of his work...
The Spirit looks kinda cool, but as soon as SLJ turns up it all seems to go a bit Dick Tracy. I'm just not sure. I want to love it, I love Eisner, I love The Spirit and I love Miller, but man, this one is tearing me apart. Why couldn't it just have been as stunning as Watchmen.
W didn't do anything for me, and while I still prefer the previous trailer, Valkyrie looks good.
Benjamin Button really could be the big Oscar winner (alongside The Wrestler). I love the trailers (although I feel that I may have seen too much already), and it just feels like that kind of movie which will be remembered in years to come.
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Oct 01, 2008 11:50 PM
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dranscht
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The thing that strikes me about The Spirit is the PG-13 it got. My expectations are slightly lower now.
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Oct 01, 2008 11:53 PM
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silversurfer19
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Yeah, it I know a lot of you would definitely think it should have gone for the 'R' rating, like 300 did. However, The Spirit was never a particularly over violent comic, and so I guess Miller is reflecting this with its rating.
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Oct 02, 2008 12:42 AM
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The Spirit was already too old-fashioned and conservative to be a R-rated gore fest to begin with. It's more Detective Comics than Vertigo Comics.
Also the reason of why it might not look as good in production values as Watchmen is probably because it's a directorial debut and an independent film. Of course a $100 million plus budgeted is going to look better than a $30 million or so budgeted film.
And I don't understand all the Oscar hype for Benjamin Button. Fincher has never done well with the Academy and neither has the fantasy genre. As for the box office, I think it will flop. Fincher's last film, the 165-minute historical drama/thriller Zodiac, flopped. This one, a potentially very long historical drama/fantasy based upon an author whose work is considered unadaptable, just won't translate to the average person. Well that and the trailer seemed to give away the whole film in two minutes.
Come January, five films will be announced for Best Picture. Mr. Button won't be one of them.
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Oct 02, 2008 4:01 AM
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annyonggob888
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Buscemi wrote:
Come January, five films will be announced for Best Picture. Mr. Button won't be one of them.
Well Boosch, all I've got to say is this... people were saying the EXACT same thing about Juno.
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Oct 02, 2008 1:00 PM
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Donte77
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7 lbs. Maybe. Loved Happyness and this feels like going to the trough one to many times... I could be wrong though. great cast.
Australia Looks great. Want to see.
The Spirit Hmm, looks like a stale Sin City pizza with extra cheese. Not sure. But there are some hot women in the film. Seems like Octopusses in a Motherfuckin remake of Sin City.
Notorious I will say it for all of us who are thinking it. Who gives a fuck?! I want to see this about as much as I want to see a Britney Spears biopic.
W HeHeHe. Can you all guess if I want to watch a movie that makes fun of the worst president in the history of this country?!?!?!
Madea Movies where men dress as women stopped being funny in the 90's after Tootsie and Mrs. Doubtfire ran that well dry. At least they were men "pretending" to be women. If we complain about American actors playing british people etc etc ad naseum, why does no one complain when Perry, Murphy, Lawrence play fat black women? Where are the fat black women actors and why are they not complaining about this?!?! Plus it just looks fucking stupid.
Button Looks great and I love the visuals. Hope it is as good as the hype.
Valkyrie Looks good but I am not sure I can get around the english speaking germans. After watching Downfall a couple of months ago I feel let down by this trailer. Same thing bothers me about any movie when they have some nationality speaking english. Boo!
Inkheart Another not sure. Looks ok and I like the idea. Plus it has Smeagol. Maybe maybe not.
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Oct 02, 2008 7:12 PM
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dranscht
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I should clarify. It's not that I really really wanted The Spirit to be a hard R, but it just seemed like it was aiming that way with the first trailers. (Eva Mendes dropping a towel, the line "shut up and bleed," etc.)
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Oct 02, 2008 7:40 PM
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mfrendo
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Let me clarify as well...I totally want the Spirit to be a hard R...
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Oct 03, 2008 10:49 AM
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Donte77
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If Hard R means Eva dropping the towel for some much wanted full frontal, then gimme the Hard R. Or maybe we could convince Scartlett and Eva into some libyan scenes...
otherwise keep it PG-13 or the whole movie will be Octopus dropping MF bombs.
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