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Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
I didn’t like the original TRIPLE-X teaser. I thought it was dull, and the “money shots” chosen didn’t really sell me on the look or the feel of the film.
But have you seen the new trailer yet?
CHECK IT OUT RIGHT HERE!!
Eurotrash. Real stunts. With real stuntmen. Vin finally unleashed to be as charming and as goofy and as badass as he can be. Asia Argento looking completely filthy. And a PG-13 rating for “non-stop action sequences.”
I’m in. I’ll go. Revolution... Sony... that one did the trick.
"Moriarty" out.
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NICE!
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It seems almost identical to a typical Bond movie. The women, the car, the "explaining the gadgets" scene. And the final kiss-off line is almost identical to a line from You Only Live Twice.
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Jun 21, 2002 6:56:45 PM CDT
I count four different things taken directly from Bond movies (a
by maxcalifornia.
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w3rd d00d
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Jun 21, 2002 7:02:57 PM CDT
If Germany attacked France from the rear, do you think Greece wo
by leonard shelby
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Jun 21, 2002 7:26:23 PM CDT
What about that snowboarding away from an avalanche shot?
by wesley snipes
That's typical "cool but not very intense like all CG/greenscreen stunts" bullshit
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That just keeps looking better and better doesn't it? Damn. If only there was a more famous face as the sidekick/Q role. Like, what about Jack Black! Heh heh.
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anybody with me? Bond had a brain. This guy is an idiotic, yeehah, "Xtreme sportz" wannabe. the trend in action and adventure movies nowadays is to have a completely clueless, crude, violent asshole that stumbles from ridiculous action scene to ridiculous action scene blowing things up-basically like watching somebody play the arcade game contra periodically interspersed with dialogue straight out of WWF smackdown. I guess Alex Delarge from Clockwork Orange was ahead of his time, getting kicks from a bit of the old Ultra violence. Only Alex was punished. this guy gets billions of dollars worth of state of the art gadgets and a brainless slut-fatale.
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that outsnowboarding an avalance will ever replace the outrunning of a giant fireball. The only thing that could even come close would be to have him outrun a flaming asteroid down a snow covered hill while carrying an undetonated nuclear device that must be deactivated before he reaches the major city located at the foot of the mountain,THEN you'd have something. This somehow feels, incomplete.
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Maybe seeing Minority Report wrecked my memory. Hit me with a sick stick and take my eyes out please! Oops forgot this was for XXX. Well the first two(?) trailers that had been out actually left some hope in me for this to be an ok movie. Well guess I was wrong. The snow looks like someone scribbled with a crayon and some of the lines sound like they are said by a near dead druggie. This trailer makes it look like another horrible summer no brain fest. There was more I wanted to rip on for this trailer but Minority Report has scarred me too bad.
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...yet another mindless garbage action flick. Jerry Bruckheimer could have pulled the same job but that'd mean he could have an easy time convicning the movie studio to spend million of dollars on bigger and louder explosions. Rob Cohen is now competing with Michael Bay as the worst A-list director currently working in Hollywood. The Fast and the Furious is as mindless as Armageddon, and even stupider (Vin Diesel assaulting a dumb surfer dude and screaming "I'd never NARC'd you out!" was an unintentionally funny comedy bit). I hear they're making a sequel to XXX even before putting final tweaks on the first movie in time for North American theatrical release. WTF?! This screams "James Bond RIP-OFF!" all over.
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If anyone's curious, the music in the last 1/2-2/3rds of the trailer is from the E.S. Posthumus CD "Unearthed". Not sure what tracks they use specifically. I'm pretty sure they only sell their CD online, which can be found at http://www.esposthumus.com/ . Music from this track also appeared in spots for Spider-Man, The Time Machine, and Planet of the Apes (probably among others).
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They probably didnt even have a script and just shot it day by day figuring out as they went along. Looks like maybe a little eye candy and your basic lame plot weve seen before in 20 other movies with 20 other leads. I think ill pass, ive already seen it.
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Jun 21, 2002 9:32:25 PM CDT
It looks great, hard core and everything, but theres another iss
by moderator
I just saw the first pictures of "Daredevil", and immediately I thought "Michael Clarke Duncan is gonna be a great Kingpin, the illustrations are impressive, Daredevil's costume looks pretty darn good", and then I read some of what people posted on talk back. Mostly negative in nature. Pointless bitching pertaining to insignificant details. When are you geeks going to realize that a movie adaptation of a comic book MUST, it is imperative, MUST be VERY DIFFERENT from the comic book itself. Heres the reason why: COMIC BOOKS DON'T MAKE SENSE IN THE REAL WORLD! A real person, even one miraculously gifted with super-powers, would NEVER wear a skin-tight outfit, create a secret identity and go out at night to fight crime. They would profit from their newfound abilities to make money, get laid, kill people whom have wronged them in the past, ANYTHING except put their lives on the line and dedicate their entire existence to maintain the mediocre status quo of our present justice system! Only "Unbreakable" came anywhere near our version of reality. So I say, since this is pure fantasy, just shut up, sit down and enjoy the show. And as for the ongoing debate over "organic web-shooters ", let me simply state that the comic book mechanical web-shooters never made any sense whatsoever. A spider, even a radioactive (or a genetically engineered one), could not pass on knowledge of the precise chemical composition of spider-web unto a human being it just bit via "genetic memory" or something, simply because SPIDERS DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FORMULA FOR SPIDER-WEB IS! You don't know instinctively what the formula of saliva, or any other bodily fluid for that matter, is do you? Jesus! JUST SHUT UP, SIT DOWN AND ENJOY THE SHOW! Its a f'ing comic book for heaven's sake!
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Jun 21, 2002 10:15:17 PM CDT
XXX=Bond+Steroid Abuse-Class+Foreign Meathead Accent-Hot Chicks
by bastardly
Ah wun ahla dat uhn ear
this movie is a walking abortion, looks more like an mtv music video than an actual movie, vin diesel mangles the english language so badly even penelope cruz laughs at him. give me bond and its nude intros anyday, oh yeh the chick in this movie looks like some homeless chick dressed in a garbage bag they kidnapped off the streets of mexico, ewwwww
oh yeh this movie will gross 2424990 million dollars becase as scooby doo showed, the america movie goer has about as much taste as carboard -
You CANNOT judge a movie by its trailer. It is created to entice and tease, often with the only good parts/shots/sequences/dialogue a movie has to offer. How can you talk about it allowing Diesel to be as "charming/goofy/badass as he can be", it's impossible to tell how he, or the movie, comes off from 2 minutes of choopy, spliced footage. Take a chill pill, get some perspective, and realize that this is at best a pretty good absurd action movie and at worst a very bad absurd cartoonish piece of shit. Diesel has potential, hell, I even kind of like him, but a movie based around an Xtreme sports star is screaming for backlash. Xtreme sports has not and WILL NOT catch on in the mainstream, and whether or not that is a good thing (mainstream acceptance is a dubious honor), this movie is fringe at best, and does not look particularly good. I am not a end-all/be-all Matrix supporter, but we all must realize that the Wachowski Bros' series is pretty much the only thing innovative action fans have going for them. Vin Diesel and The Rock are not the answer. Visionary directors and solid plots are. XXX might be a success, but it, and Diesel, will be forgotten by 2006.
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What exactly does that mean? For some reason, that makes me laugh every time I see it, but what does this reference? :-)
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proclaim my love for asia argento. Marry me?!?!
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count me out for this bitching party.. this movie looks really tight, like a really good summer blockbuster action movie.. i'm definitely gonna show up to the first showing on that friday, and most likely like the movie a lot. i guess i'm an idiot for liking an action movie..
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I cannot wait to NOT SEE THIS FILM. After "The Matthew Lillard Show", this is the film that I dread the most this summer. Well, I mean, I try not to even consider "Juwanna Mann". Hey, but if you punctuate every concept you vocalize with "Smackdown!", you might get a kick out of it. What I want to know is where the hell the next Harrison Ford or Bruce Willis is. I know I've complained about effeminate or at least essentially castrated male leads in action films these days, but Vin is just too much like barely sentient Rip Fuel solidified into a humanoid form. You can kick ass and not be a cartoon. Oh well, maybe I'm being narrow-minded, but I don't want to fit into the 'focus group' for this movie. And no, I'm not wearing a turtleneck. And no, I'm not offended by 'Em' dissing Moby. Speaking of which, when the fuck y'all gonna give us some "8 Mile" shit, yo?
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Samuel L. SAMUEL FUCKIN' L!!! Sure, he's got silly Unbreakable hair, but Samuel L. Jackson will be his usual bad-ass self and he will mentor Vin in the ways of coolness. Mark my words, this movie will rock ALL your faces off. Will it be a Minority Report? LORD, no. Will it be a Star Wars, in terms of box office? Of course not. But this movie will be entertaining and FUN, a lost art at the theaters these days. Vin and Sam, pimp on, brothas.
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Jun 22, 2002 2:28:56 AM CDT
No, I Didn't Forget OR... Will He Have His "Thilly" Purple L
by jollydwarf
The simple fact that Sam is going to be his 'usual bad-ass self' (paraphrasing) is EXACTLY what scares me. This thing looks like it's going to be one high-budget videogame cutscene shot after another, with jokes falling flat and Drowning Pool or Trik Turner shit playing almost as loud as the car screeches and explosions. If they could've only merged this and the cast of "Jackass"... This film looks to be a real 'paycheck casher' for Jackson. I expect more out of him at the ESPYs, to be honest. Oh, shit!! Did I bring sports into the talkbacks again?! As in non-extreme sports and non-wrasslin'? Fuck me! I'm sorry. The opening weekend audience for this is going to be real-life versions of Nelson, Jimbo, et al from "The Simpsons", with a bunch of Fred Durst Fucks shoving their dates' heads into their laps. Getting blown while shit gets blown up...that's what it's all about, right? And damnit, for the last time, NO!!! I don't have a Tori Amos poster and I don't film spots for thetruth.com. P.S. Jimmy Kimmel and Adam Carolla in "MIB III: Men Inebriating Bimbos". With that chunky 12-year-old kicking the shit out of 'Roid Monkeys and wispy New Age Feminist sympathizers alike. And lots of elaborate action sequences involving trampolenes! And porn stars as the weapons specialists ("You gotta finger the trigger juuusst right...")! And nonsensical bullet time shots of beer being chugged! And Beetlejuice in his SuperBeet costume saving the world from Scott Stapp and Aaron Lewis! Now that's a celebration of testoterone that any mentally UNchallenged person can enjoy!!!
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. . .keep an open mind. After all, how bad could it be? Why "xXx" could turn out to be the next Bond! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA oh god, I knew I couldn't say that with a straight face. I mean, sure the Bond franchise has problems but *shit!* THIS thing. . . "I wan alla dat, in 'ere." BWAHAHAHAHA! Fuck it, gimmie a "Lovely Angels" moobe, please. Find a couple a curvy and talented unknows for Kei and Yuri, get De Niro to be Chief Gooley, hire IL&M to do the SFX, budget it out at 150 million and slap Luc Besson in the director's chair. I'd be there opening night. Toppu o Nerae, and remember: it's not *their* fault! That planet probably woulda exploded anyway!
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Nice gadgets, some violence, cool stunts, should be a good popcorn movie.
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Jun 22, 2002 6:23:45 AM CDT
"Hmmm... we still need some music in this trailer!" - "O, I got
by glippyglipson
sigh... love their music. Too bad some Hollywood studio-exec discovered 'Unearthed' one day. Trailer kicked ass though.
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It seems like it's a crime to have testosterone these days! Movies like this piss everyone off, The Man Show pisses everyone off, and Affleck gets called a frat boy. Why? Because they all show some testicular fortitude. Is XXX going to be the Oscar favorite? No, but, fuck all, who cares?! It's a MAN MOVIE! And I'm not the biggest fan of the Man Show, but its commendable because it says, "Piss on convention, we're being MEN!" And for all you people who call Affleck a "frat boy," look at his performance in Chasing Amy... he was sensitive, but he had (say it with me now) TESTICULAR FORTITUDE! And he was the bomb in Phantoms. BUUUUUUUUUUUUNG!!
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I totally agree with "The Matarife":- It looks like a great popcorn movie. OTT action, women dancing, guys fighting. We need these kind of movies now and again. As for the trailer music, yeah I love E.S. Posthumus too glippyglipson. When Samuel L. says "you're kinda music" they steal the song 'Harappa' (played it in my shop the other day, customers loved it). After Vin says "I'm a secret agent" and the girl starts laughing (love that bit), they're using 'Tikal' (they blend the beginning of the tune with the end of it). After Vin says "this is gonna be one helluva trick", they go back to 'Harappa' once more to conclude the trailer. As you can see, I'm a huge E.S. Posthumus fan. I love hearing their music in trailers, it gets them recognised, producers fans like myself, and enables them to compose more tunes. To be honest, I think the music made the trailer seem even better. Can't wait to see what a movie trailer using 'Ebla' would be like. Now THAT's a tune. Anyway, that's enough Posthumus praise from me...
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"your kinda music"? Sorry, I mean "you're kinda people". See how involved I am right now. Anyway, this gives me a chance to agree with CleverMovieName. Er... I agree.
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Jun 22, 2002 8:35:37 AM CDT
HEY WHERES RAP STAR EVE I HEAR SHE LOOKS HOT AS HELL IN THIS FLI
by jon-e-blaze
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the trailer looks good and the movie will be great,this movie,regin of fire,jackass the movie and signs are the movies that i still want to see and XXX looks to be livin up to my expatations
also Godzuki is fuckin racist fuck who should pull his dick out of his boyfriends ass long enough to think about what he is typing, GODZUKI U TRULEY EAT DICK -
SERIOUSLY CAN"T YOU FUCKIN PPL THINK OF ANYTHING BY YOURSELF TO SAY FUCK STOP USING QUIPS FROM JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKES BACK AND START THINKIN UP YOUR OWN SHIT SERIOULY FOLKS YOU RUIN THE MOVIE
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of things I wouldn't much like to do. Right after "drink a tin of paint" and "get shot in the face".
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Plays a GIANT, WALKING, TESTICLE!
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I dont know where you get off with this "nigga" shit that your talking. I wish one of these anonymous talkbackers WOULD use that word in my presence! BTW Vin Diesel is not white. He is mixed...bi-racial...a mulatto. I believe that he is equal parts Black and Italian. That means he truly will not stand for the bullshit! Sam...Vin...stay strong Brothers!
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if a guy said the same thing you said, he'd get his balls busted from here to eternity. Yes the irony in what I've just said is duly noted....lol.
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Harry didn't like "Minority Report," but he's extolling the virtues of this "Triple X" nonsense? Did we not see "The Fast and the Furious," people? That movie was absolutely brain-dead, and Rob Cohen proved once again that he has no business being a big time action director. He does allright with fantasy ("Dragonheart"), but "Daylight"? "Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story"? Ugh. Now we have an "ugly American" take on James Bond that looks like it will be every bit as misogynistic but nowhere near as tongue-in-cheek. "The things I do for my country..." Come on. Sean Connery should kick Vin Diesel's ass for that line. The worst part about this trailer: It appears to show every single action scene. This trailer is just another piece of damning evidence that the art of making a trailer has been totally lost. Why pay $8.50 to see "Triple X" when you've already seen all the good parts before "Minority Report"? The best trailers I've seen lately are for "Signs," and those barely show us anything. They certainly don't show us the aliens -- if there really are aliens in it -- and they make you want to see the movie right now. I bet Shyamalan himself cut those trailers together, not some marketing whiz. Damn.
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this right here goes to show the credibility that a lot of these people have as far as opinions go.. i thought you were supposed to be blissful if you were so ignorant though? All i see is complaining..
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Godzuki, inferiority complex...or penis envy? It's your call...meanwhile I'll reservere judgement until this movie hits the circuit...
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did you notice that Vin gets hit with a Saber (fomerly Kyber) Dart. Its made by Kaminoians . . . theyre cloners . . . damn good ones too.
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Although i was hoping they will go for an hard "R"...
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yeah, one the best nudes in years (B.Monkey, for example)
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This looks nothing like Spike Lee's episode.
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GODDAMMIT! I first saw the link at the Apple.com/trailers page and it didn't work then either. What the fuck is wrong with that site?
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plus, it's got people fighting.
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Look out for spoilers. It's an updated Bond kind of thing. Whether they keep it in the movie or not, the script opens with our main Eurotrash bad guys actually KILLING a Bond-like British secret agent. We go from that to 3x riding a bicycle off the top of the Arco tower in LA. I'm guessing from the trailer that that part of the opening sequence was scrapped in favor of surfing the red convertible. On page 7 (or was it 11?) the writer (I loaned out the script, so shoot me for not remembering) proudly proclaims "This ain't your daddy's spy movie". Well, it sorta is. 3x is recruited somewhat against his will (big duh here from the trailer), infiltrates the Eurotrash gang, finds and falls for another spy, and saves the world from a bio-terrorist nightmare scenario. By the end of the day, he's digging the spy thing. He's got a gaggle of gadgets, a guy to dispense them (another big duh from the trailer), and a few Bond-esque one-liners to toss off. And where you'd expect Bond to be listening to jazz (or classical if it's Timothy Dalton), 3x is schooled in punk. Chinatown it ain't, but it should be serviceable summer fun. Rich Wilkes' script (just looked it up on the IMDB) reads like a house on fire. His action is crisp, light on the unnecessary details. Just enough to keep us moving along and smack our imaginations. Vin Diesel chose well. If he pulls it off, audiences will dig the character and make-up people will be painting the back of his neck for years to come. -- Trader Groucho
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