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Ron & Russell's CINDERELLA MAN trailer hits online, but pulls its punch!
Hey folks, Harry here... If the early test screening reports are anything to judge by, this trailer doesn't begin to even hint at the brutality and vicious furor that this film has at its disposal. Instead, this is a soft teaser. One where they're selling the idea of the era... a period in American history where the world was unemployed and it was among the dark times in American history. The middle of the country dried up and blew away. America's industry was nearly destroyed. Millions were unemployed.. Essentially - it's the same pitch as we had last year for SEA BISCUIT, only this time... the thing that captured the imagination wasn't some inadequate horsey, but Jim Braddock... the CINDERELLA MAN. This was a brutal period in fight history. Before high rise hair and ridiculous promoters. Before ear gnawing and gab were the attractions of the sport. This was back when it was iron men with sledge hammer hands beating each other molten. This is a true teaser that isn't selling the action of the film, but the soul. To hear about the fights and how the film itself plays, Click Here!
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Eaugh, that god-damn soft piano/dramatic string section rise. This movie is obviously screaming for an oscar, but I'm yet to be impressed. Then again, I hated "A Beautiful Mind", so what would I know?
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The actual film might end up being good, but the trailer definitely didn't make me want to see it...just too sappy and sentimental and transparent.
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Seems kind of exploitative though.
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You don't delete the thousands of messages which are filled with nothing more than hate-filled rants, mindless political babble and deeply insulting and offensive content, yet my "First" post, and the subsequent one I made which criticised the strucure of the talkback got the boot. Will you delete this one too?
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Is this a movie from the Hitler-mustache sporting, obscure glam-pop-electronica band Sparks. No, you say. You mean Ron Howard and Russell Crowe. Really? I suddenly find myself not interested.
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Hello all, James Brown, again. I am talking to all quite a bit in this site because it is cold out and this libary gots a heater, so I'll sit here on the computer till that bitch Ms. Waller tells me to go, thank you very much ya whore! Now on to my message, the big Red One who runs this here place makes a comment about boxing and straight up hair, he's talkin bout da King, Mr. Don King that is. So what is your problem big man, you think he is wrong, well I tell you he is what I say is good, damn that man makes billions and gets all the bitches he wants, I would love to party with that freak, but you say he is wrong, well fuck you my friend. When I see a brotha makin bills and blowin' smoke in the face of whitey I stand up n' cheer goddammit!!! Now this here movie looks pretty enough, I might just go an see it, but only if that little blond tart shows off her ta ta's or her cooch, how long m' I gonna have to wait to see that shit. But the gladiator is in this and I bet he can kick all kind of ass, and then come home and say, hey woman my lolipop's aready, time for a lick! So that is what I, James Brown say, oh but also I notice that the politics always comes into the talkin' with the red head, well I say time to move on and stop yer pussy moaning, hell I don't like it, I piss on a picture of W evera morn, but then I don't whine on like a lil girl, cause I gots better things to do. That is all, happy hannakah to my hebrew friends, enjoy all that shit!
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Dec 22, 2004 12:45:29 PM CST
And if that last post doesn't get yanked, I think theoneofblood
by ribbons
You must be very, very bored, Henry Earl.
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That music's a bit over-used though isn't it?
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Because "Nobody puts Million Dollar Baby in a corner!"
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How touching. How heartfelt. Yawn. Hey, where's JDanielP with how he would've have done this movie to make it even more lame?
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Dec 22, 2004 2:53:35 PM CST
Ah-HAH! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help! H
by tall_boy
etc. etc.
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Alan Silvistri.
But I agree with the most of you: it's overbearing, overdone and at some level annoying (especially combined with the shots of the trailer) -
My apologies
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Hey guess what, stop putting Renee ZSelwegger in movies just because she was in other movies. You stop it right now. I don't like looking at her face, and neither should anybody else. Sure, she was in movies that other people watched, but so have other actors. Put them in the movie instead. NOW. Ya hear me?
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I actually liked how patient the whole thing was.
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While he has made some good movies, all of his films seem to have a recycled feel to them. For someone who has been around for so long he hasn't really developed a style. It's as if he says, "I am making a boxing movie, lets rent Raging Bull and Rocky and take those scenes. Oh yeah while we're at it lets take a look at Ragtime and Ironweed." Now all directors do this but the really great ones don't rip off so blatantly. You can tell a Scorsese film, a Spielberg film, a Cameron film. With Ron Howard you don't feel it. Thats not to say that I dislike Howard, I do enjoy his movies. I don't geeked up at his films the way I do about some directors. I see a trailer for a Ron Howard movie and think, "That will be a nice movie." Not, "Holy shit, I got to see that!"
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i'm all for the slow build and everything but... hey we're talking about a trailer here, not the actual movie.
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Dec 23, 2004 5:57:38 AM CST
MILLION DOLLAR BABY will eat and spit out CINDERELLA MAN (a terr
by spacesheik
It's no use, Ron Howard.
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Good points about Howards directing, NFL Refugee. Still at least he's better than Chris Columbus, another director that has had the charge leveled at him of lacking style. Howard almost always makes "solid" movies, whereas Colubus' lack of even a basic understanding of framing/composition borders on incompetence...... (I mean really. I like slapstick as much as the next guy, but when you keep showing zoomed-in closeups of the foot stepping on the banana peel, it takes away what little humor potential there was in the first place. Sometimes I think Columbus missed his calling as a shitty 90's porn director.)
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And it stunk. A slow, syrupy slog. Maybe it would've helped if they'd mixed in some of the actual background noises of each scene rather than just Crowed halting voiceover and the Cast Away music. Still, I'll bet the future trailers will be better, and the movie itself might be pretty good.
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