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You'll really want to play with this DOMINO, its a hot as hell trailer!

Published at:  Mar 29, 2005 5:21:40 AM CST

Hey folks, Harry here... just back from the kickass screening at the Paramount theater of SAHARA, which kicked asses black & blue! What a fun movie. Then I come home and get to see a trailer for DOMINO from Tony Scott and the insane genius brain of Richard Kelly (whose birthday was yesterday, he's now legal to drink!) Anyway - the trailer - is just a hint, a taste... a bit of sauce on the end of gourmet chef's spoon to tantalize and savor. The film itself - it will be like a 700 ton steamroller of cool. At least if it is a third as good as Kelly's script. Here ya go -




Hey Harry,





Beneath is a link to the trailer for Tony Scott's newest film, Domino.

 




Trailer here: Click here to see Keira looking like 39 flavors of hot!





The film is basically a recounting of Domino Harvey's life story. The daughter of actor Laurence Harvey turned away from her career as a Ford model to become a bounty hunter. A great cast including Keira Knightley in the lead, Christoper Walken, Mickey Rourke, Lucy Liu and Delroy Lindo (i always wondered what happened to him!).




The trailer seems to give off the shaky bright and vivid camera-work of 'Man On Fire'. Though one element of the trailer i didn't like was Keira's voice as the voice-over - got very irritating fast! But other than that.. it looks like it could be great! Definantly one to look out for!




The only thing that could possibly make this better was if it was written by some exciting writer... wait, what's that?.... it's written by the writer/director of Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly? And this will be his first new work seen since 'Donnie Darko'?




Anyways.. a collaboration between Tony Scott and Richard Kelly - it can't fail !!

 



Release Date: August 12th 2005.



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  • Mar 29, 2005 5:23:59 AM CST

    I'm looking forward to this movie

    by gheorghe zamfir

    But that trailer was a definite miss for me. Though I do like a trailer that actually admits the movie reality of "biopics," based on a true story...sort of.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 5:38:36 AM CST

    it was my birthday yesterday too!

    by no-no

    happy birthday to us, richard.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 5:39:32 AM CST

    Wrong on both accounts Harry!

    by rogue_leader

    First that trailer sucked and was seriously annoying. Except for the part with the woman saying "Blacktino" that was sorta amusing. Secondly Keira Knightley did not look hot in that movie. She looked like a dyke. Keira looked way better in other movies. Lastly that trailer is a study in how NOT to get a audience interested in a movie. Bad voice over, annoying camera work, horrible editing. Doesn't speak well for the movie.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 5:58:56 AM CST

    Harry, are you drunk at most screenings

    by mister mcclane

  • Mar 29, 2005 5:59:44 AM CST

    I don't know

    by elgordo

    Too much messing around in the editing to realy see anything what this movie is about. I know what it is about but the avrage viewer gets nothing but fast cut images that are hard to make out and a realy bad voice-over.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 6:02:51 AM CST

    As Sahara is mediocre!

    by mister mcclane

    I saw this and only the interaction between McConaughey and Zahn make the film worthwhile. The rest is sub-Indiana posturing. Gets tiresome around halfway, after what is a fun movie to start with. Your love of tequila isn't blurring your reviews is it?

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  • Mar 29, 2005 6:04:02 AM CST

    Harry, are you drunk at most screenings

    by mister mcclane

  • Mar 29, 2005 6:10:00 AM CST

    Sahara not so hot, and disappointed about Domino's orientation c

    by demosthenes2

    I read that the real Domino is lesbian and has been made straight in this film, which really sucks. Still, HOLY SHIT THIS COULD BE AMAZING.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 6:22:04 AM CST

    Ha ha ha ha ha.........oh man!!! Ha ha ha ha....go.over to www.e

    by big_bubbaloola

    Oh man I nearly pissed myself!!! Damn thats some funny shit, I nearly took it serio.....what.....you mean it could be serious??......oh......oh dear. My god, next thing you know Berman and Braga are gonna be producing it (shudder)!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 6:50:56 AM CST

    "he's now legal to drink"

    by monkey butler

    WTF?? Either Harry's saying that when you reach a certain age it's legal to drink them, or he's saying that Richard Kelly was 17 when Donnie Darko came out. I'm not sure which is the stranger statement.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 6:56:10 AM CST

    Wait, there could be a third reason why Harry said that...

    by monkey butler

    They haven't raised the legal drinking age in the US to THIRTY, have they?

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:06:06 AM CST

    What is the legal drinkin age, I thought it was 21??

    by big_bubbaloola

    So Monkey Butler is right in thinking he was 17!! Talented wanker!! Or had Mr.Kelly been using that whoary old '21 again' line for the last 10 years. Hope so, otherwise i'm gonna beat the shit outta my parents for not pushing me harder to do something with my life!!! Sheesh!!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:20:57 AM CST

    Yeah, he's 30.

    by evilpaul

    And this is the first time I've realized his birthday is March 28. That's mine too.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:28:15 AM CST

    If this is as annoying as MAN OF FIRE...

    by gilkuliehe

    (and this trailer is)...I'm WALKING OUT, I don't care if it was written by Shakespeare. Man what a way to fuck up the story telling. I hope mister Scott's sensibility isn't evolving towards THAT.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:38:45 AM CST

    Oh my God. That was

    by pooty

    horrible. Another 2 hour music video directed by Tony Scott. What fun. Did ya notice the sarcasm? Huh? Did ya?

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:39:26 AM CST

    Dyke? Nahhh...

    by inzodwetrust

    Dyke haircut or NO dyke haircut, I'd still stuff it up her shit-whistle.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:50:55 AM CST

    'Dyke haircut or NO dyke haircut, I'd still stuff it up her shit

    by big_bubbaloola

    Damn Zod, I nearly choked on my samich I laughed so hard. He's a funny guy.....funny guy....fuuunnnyyyyy!!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:59:15 AM CST

    Woman on Fire

    by boris the blade

    I'm a huge Tony Scott fan, but I'm sorry, this trailer looks like a parody of a Tony Scott film...

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  • Mar 29, 2005 8:08:57 AM CST

    I missed her name, could she repeat it a few times?

    by big bad clone

    I really wanted to see this movie... until I saw the trailer.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 8:17:22 AM CST

    Isn't this movie supposed to be tongue-in-cheek?

    by moviemaniac-7

    We'll see when the movie comes out. Kelly has a lot of street cred since Donnie Darko and for Scott, we all hope he returns to kick-ass Last Boy Scout / True Romance form.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 8:54:08 AM CST

    more like a 700 pound pile of steaming turd....

    by bootskin

    sorry. looks like it's trying to hard. Oh, and btw, if Keira Knightly tried to fire two machine guns at the same time in real life, her arms would fucking fall off.
    I am domin..i am dom...i am domin...I am certain this movie will be a unfulfilling renter...
    "I am domin Hahvey....I am a Bounty Huntah...."
    Crap.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:00:22 AM CST

    Was that supposed to be cool? 'Cause it wasn't.

    by jeditemple

    That trailer was L-A-M-E...

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:11:59 AM CST

    start with obligatory AICN line...

    by cory849

    "Keira Knightly is the sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet!"Sorry, had to be said......unfortunately it must also be said that this trailer looks like the worst kind of Hollywood excessive melodrama. Take an interesting true story, shove it through the hollywood meat grinder and come out with "Heads you win, tails you die." I mean really. Maybe the movie will be great, who knows...but the trailer makes it look like unintentionally cheesy shlock.

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  • That had to be the funniest thing I have ever seen. I am sorry, but I am not buying the whole 5'1 97 pound action chick craze. I think Kiera is hot in other films, here she looks like a dyke.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:44:06 AM CST

    Dull as piss...

    by mr chuff

    and not half as tastey

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  • really this thing looks painful to watch....

    Reply to Talkback

  • ... that could've been a decent movie if not for the shitty direction.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:49:53 AM CST

    Awful trailer

    by darth fart

    Tony Scott's MTV bullshit again :(
    I hated Man on Fire, all the gizmos got in the way of a possible good story.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:51:01 AM CST

    I don't like it either

    by seanmiller

    I agree with the above posts about how this film looks. I also agree with the statements regarding Keira holding two machine guns. It could never happen. She does not look hot either (see King Arthur for that). Finanlly, after watching that HBO show about Bounty Hunters, I don't really believe that the profession is about blowing sh*t up, which this movie wants you to believe. Well, we can always watch Midnight Run for some good Bounty Hunting.
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    I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:53:51 AM CST

    I normally like Tony Scott's style...

    by mr chuff

    I admit i havent seen a Tony Scott film for a while (Enemy of The State probably being the last!) but i admit to liking the smokey sets and general style of films such as True Romance and Last Boy Scout. But this looks like its rippingoff the "bleach bypass" look that some many directors (including Tony's brother Ridley) have employed lately. TS had a style of his own but now he seems to be following the rest of the pack...

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  • Mar 29, 2005 9:53:51 AM CST

    I normally like Tony Scott's style...

    by mr chuff

    I admit i havent seen a Tony Scott film for a while (Enemy of The State probably being the last!) but i admit to liking the smokey sets and general style of films such as True Romance and Last Boy Scout. But this looks like its rippingoff the "bleach bypass" look that some many directors (including Tony's brother Ridley) have employed lately. TS had a style of his own but now he seems to be following the rest of the pack...

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:19:33 AM CST

    terrible trailer

    by docpazuzu

    I hate trailers like these, where the quick editing is meant to make us think they're all one step ahead of us. It's all flash, non-sequiturs, repeated catch-phrase wannabes and an offensively over-bearing self-awareness used to cram down our collective throats how "cool" this movie is. The movie might end up being good, but this trailer is absolute garbage.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:25:16 AM CST

    Tony in the shadow of big brother

    by phloton

    I don't think Tony Scott has ever really made a decent movie. Sure, there are enjoyable bits in True Romance, but that's due to Tarantino's script than Scott's horrible MTV style. Would he have the status he has if not for Ridley, or be considered another Michael Bay (however Tony was first, so Michael would actually be another Tony Scott)?
    Now I'm not a huge Ridley fan either because the majority of his films suck (but there are obvious gems, I won't deny that).
    Tony's first film, The Hunger, is the only one that doesn't fit with the rest of his portfolio, at least I used to think so. I recently tried to rewatch it, and it was pretty bad. I liked it when I was a kid, but that may have been the whole lesbian thing and I've always been a fan of Dick Smith's makeup.
    However it is nice to see Mickey Rourke in a lot of movies lately. He was a really good actor before he went totally insane with drugs and had all his plastic surgery. His voice almost sounds normal again.
    If the movie gets decent reviews, I may see it if I'm bored, but I'm sure it won't be anything memorable like most of Tony Scott's movies.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:32:41 AM CST

    Well at least that trailer didn't give the whole plot away.

    by jaguart

    I can't wait for the Extended Edition of this where Richard Kelly's script reveals that she is NOT Domino Harvey, and she is NOT a Bounty Hunter.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:34:26 AM CST

    Where's the rest of the X-Factor team?

    by lonechicken

    Haha, anyway. Wow, Keira Knightly actually looks like a size -2 instead of her "Hunger Stricken Natalie Portman, size -6" look of recent movies like "Love Actually."

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  • while the rest of the readers here hate it all. I don't think there was one positive comment about it.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:40:25 AM CST

    Bam!

    by hud

    I'm in! Thanks, Harry! I loved Laurence Harvey, so this movie's already halfway in my good graces.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:50:55 AM CST

    on second thought

    by cory849

    This movie is clearly meant to be a INTENTIONALLY cheesy and campy. Watching the trailer again, seeing it as a satire send up...it MIGHT not suck. More likely its one of those movies that cant decide whether its being ironic and will suck because ir refuses to pickj a mood. Later the film makers will complain about how audiences didnt get the joke.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:52:13 AM CST

    Worst. Voiceover. Ever.

    by godoffireinhell

    I liked some of the imagery and I'm still looking forward to the movie but this teaser was absolute garbage. I hope the full trailer will sell the movie better or it'll bomb through the floor. Chris Walken saying "It like. Night. Of the Niving Dead." was fucking awesome, though.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 10:56:09 AM CST

    My name is phanboi and I am a fanboy ... sort of.

    by phanboi

    Man, Keira's voice over sucks donkey balls but the rest is ok I guess. Really nothing new here. Tony Scott is really pushing his cutting techniques lately (if he is some kinda responsible for this trailer). Looks like Man on fire ... with a more feminine touch

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  • Mar 29, 2005 11:05:50 AM CST

    That Looked Like 39 Flavors of Crap

    by sean38

    Honestly, the Fantastic Four trailer leaves Harry nonplussed but THIS one gets him excited? I had mixed feelings about the FF trailer myself but this looks absolute drek. Maybe it's a better movie than it looks, but the trailer didn't do it any favors.

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  • I didn't think KN looked hot at all, it's like they tried to make her looks shitty actually. And Mr. Profit was spot on, if this is going to be a somewhat comedy, drama, dumb action flick, I could buy KN shooting two assault rifles if full auto, even knowing one shot from one rifle would knock her on her 85lb ass.

    Secondly Sahara is going to suck for me because they fucked up one of the main characters so bad that there is no fucking way I will be able to watch it and not think how fucking stupid Hollywood fucking suits are: THEY TOTALLY FUCKED UP THE CHARACTER OF Al Giordino!!!!!

    In the books Giordino is a big, stocky, powerful, dark guy, who is a man of few words, and is a very deadly fighter, ex-military type.

    NOT A SHORT FUCKING STUPID ASS COMIC RELIEF DUMB ASS!!!! GOD I HATE HOLLYWOOD SOMETIMES!!!!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 11:20:08 AM CST

    Was Domino in X-Factor? I thought she was in X-Force aka the tea

    by big bad clone

  • Mar 29, 2005 11:26:40 AM CST

    Both Scotts are off their game these days.

    by christopher3

    I think both of them want to go back to just doing commercials. Film looks like a damn Nike ad.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 11:30:08 AM CST

    Domino

    by mafu

    Interesting trailer, I suppose, though the overlit, burnt-out cinematography and "Man on Fire" music mimicked exactly... uh... "Man on Fire." In all honesty, I was entirely underwhelmed by "Man on Fire," and the fact Tony Scott returned to the exact same look, set design, lighting, and music for "Domino" makes me cringe. I dig Richard Kelly's work, but he's the only reason I'll be going to see this film. I'm almost certain I'll be disappointed, though, thanks to Tony Scott's directing. Shit, that sucks.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 11:38:18 AM CST

    It's no Midnight Run

    by pomattovich

    I don't recall ever seeing Robert Deniro having to wield two machine guns simultaniously in Midnight Run. or is Domino a bounty hunter... TO THE EXTREME!!!!? Pass.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 11:48:09 AM CST

    I am a death deal-ah...erm, I mean bounty hunter

    by johnquay

    Looks like a shitty cross between Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (perhaps the most underappreciated film of the past five years) and Underworld (which *should* have been the most underappreciated films of the past five years).

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  • Mar 29, 2005 11:55:09 AM CST

    About Domino being gay...

    by aeglos istarion

    Found this at afterellen.com: A British gossip columnist made headlines this week with the story citing "friends" of Domino Harvey--the model-turned-bounty hunter being portrayed by Keira Knightley in an upcoming movie based on her life--who said that Harvey was furious with being de-gayed in the movie. Maybe he should have actually talked to Harvey: turns out she isn't even gay, as she recently told columnist Liz Smith.
    About the trailer: Boy, does it suck!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 12:05:47 PM CST

    Dirk Pitt

    by seanmiller

    I am kind of pissed that Hollywood changed the character of AL, but the Dirk Pitt books were never supposed to be taken seriously. I just hope that the movie keeps the ending from the book intact with Pitt, AL, and a group of Navy Seals (or some other elite military squad types) surrounded in an old castle in the desert by 1,000+ bad guys.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 12:27:41 PM CST

    mute

    by master bitchfist

    hey, im in a sound design class right now, and ironically enough I just watched this trailer on mute. it looks cool on mute. i guess ill have to watch it again when i can hear it. but i do have to admit, when it started i thought it was a student film, that opening shot with the machine guns was stupid as balls.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 12:36:52 PM CST

    True Romance. Amazing. Donnie Darko. Amazing.

    by stigmata

    This trailer was so not at-all-amazing, it broke my heart. WTF (What The Fuck)? For some reason I'm supremely pissed off I saw this weak-ass poo before getting to see Sin City...in some tiny, tiny way, seeing Rourke doing *that* role again just diluted my hopes for seeing Marv come to life. Oh well, I'll watch the last Deadwood again to get my blood up. Passing stones'll be more fun.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 12:48:29 PM CST

    If Harry would just buy some porn, perhaps we could have more ob

    by oompa_radar

    I like a stylish and good looking film, but it can't be screaming "look at me, I'm a pretentious and obviously sylized film! Look at me!! Look at me!" YAWN. Since I don't have a dick, obviously there is nothing redeeming about this film for me.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 12:49:09 PM CST

    errr.that's "stylized".

    by oompa_radar

  • Along with how trite this trailer is (typical glossy car commercial look by a, surprise, former car commercial maker, Tony Scott) I went online to look up info on this Domino Harvey and found out that she's pissed off at the film for how it plays her as straight instead of real, read:....Lesbian bounty hunter Domino Harvey is upset moviemakers made her straight...How bad can it be when Hollywood chooses Keira Knightley, pictured, to portray you in a story inspired by your life? Well, model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey is unamused by the fact that in the movie, all of a sudden she's heterosexual. Harvey, a lesbian, "sees it as an insult that the producers are selling it as her life story, when they are completely overlooking what she regards as a pretty basic part of her life," a source says. "... She thinks it's ironic that so much of the publicity the film has attracted has been based on it's raunchy sex scenes."...end of news. So another ho-hum Hollywood piece of crap movie I don't care who wrote or directed it. Can you see the pitch for this? She's a former hot model and daughter of this famous actor who became a bounty hunter and shoots guns, guns, GUNS! (like how they push that in the first of the trailer and looking like something out of a video game) And we have scenes of her getting naked and lap-dancing! And shooting guns! The kids will eat it up and we'll get Tony Scott to do this cool-ass car commercial thingy with the jumpy editing and the pumped-up colors over the washed-out, high contrast images. Oh, sweet and we'll also slap on this techno/hiphop soundtrack that will make it sooo MTV the young and brainless demographics will get hard over it! Shit, if only we could have gotten Angelina Jolie to play this when she was still a sweet young thang!!!!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 1:16:23 PM CST

    harry,you're an eejit!

    by silverstorm

    for gods sake get your head from out of your arse!that trailer was absolute shite!obviously you like the androgynous look in your women.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 1:23:41 PM CST

    Maybe Domino is still a lesbian, because...

    by splbrg75

    that bit with her and the 2 machine guns was pretty gay..

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  • Mar 29, 2005 1:45:31 PM CST

    Hahahahahaha pussified America

    by skynetishere

    I can't help it, I just explode with mirth at the pussified, shrew-dominated, WEAK men of America. This is the revealed truth...if you are a man, and you get a kick out of watching pint-sized girlies beat up on men, then you are a weak, pathetic man, with no balls.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 1:48:49 PM CST

    tony scot = the New paul ws anderson

    by readyoufool

    Seriously. They both get handed excellent material, or at least material that is much better than the end result, and they both manage to fuck it up. Did you catch the part of the review up there where the guy said ". . . if it's half as good as the screenplay"? Well, it's not. It's not half as good b/c Tony Scott crapped it up. Just like he did with Man on Fire. How do you fuck up a revenge flick with Denzel Washington!? How do you fuck up a movie that includes a man being killed by having a bomb shoved up his ass? Well, apparently you get T.S. to direct it. And another thing! For a guy who directed commercials and music videos he sure fucked this trailer up. At least the MoF trailer duped me into wanting to see the movie. Poor Richard. Make a note Mr. Kelly, if you want your scripts to be done right, then direct them yourself. Has Tarrantino ever made a horrible movie? What about PTA?

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  • Mar 29, 2005 1:55:57 PM CST

    What the hell was that Jerry Springer stuff?

    by maxcalifornia.

    Jerry Springer? And yes, the voiceover is truly awful. Isn't the real Domino American also? Just imagine Scarlett Johansson doing the voiceover instead. Why does it keep repeating "My name is Domino Harvey" over and over again...? Why, goddamit, Why? I liked Man on Fire and the style in that was great IMHO, but it really looks like Tony Scott has jumped the shark here.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 2:15:16 PM CST

    what a bunch of negative nellies you talkbackers are

    by trader groucho 2

    the trailer told us everything we need to know to want to see this movie. chick fires machine guns. chick pops another chick in the nose. an excerpt from what is surely a Christopher Walken speech (not dialogue, SPEECH). Delroy Lindo winks at the camera. Lucy Liu in calm-annoyed ready-to-chop-head-off mode. Mickey Rourke loaded for bear. and at the vortex, Kiera as the chick version of metrosexual (hereto female cops lesbian-chic look/'tude). this flick'll put my butt in a seat.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 2:29:11 PM CST

    She's not gay...

    by jackburton

    And never was, apparently. And not that I really care one way or the other, or that it really matters whether she (or anyone for that matter) is gay or stright or somewhere in between, but the facts are that she simply isn't. Or if she is or ever was, then she's denying it. At least according to the woman herself, and I'd imagine that she'd know better than anyone. This whole "she's upset because the movie changed her sexual orientation because she's a proud lesbian" nonsense is just a tabloid bullshit rumour that spread through the net like wildfire and got out of hand, as no one who printed it seems to have bothered to check the facts or seek any kind of actual confirmation. Fact is she cameos in the movie, was a guest of honor at the wrap party, has been talking Tony Scott and the film in question up to anyone who'll listen, will be attending the premiere, and is making herself available to do publicity to help promote the film. Hardly sounds like someone who's enraged by the movie now, does it? **************************************************************************** And for those that still don't believe, this is from Liz Smith's column from a month and a half ago: 'DOMINO HARVEY is the adventurous, bounty-hunting daughter of the late screen star Laurence Harvey and Vogue model Paulene Stone. (The only other time I ever heard of somebody being named Domino was in a James Bond book!) Anyway, Miss Harvey is gunning for British gossip columnist Mandrake. She wants him to admit to having made a "massive error" in claiming that she is a "proud lesbian" and furious that she is being portrayed as a heterosexual in a coming movie based on her life. This film is to be titled "Domino" and will star Keira Knightley.

    "I'm not gay," Domino says, "and I couldn't be happier about the way Tony Scott is treating my story." Remember, Mr. Mandrake, she's a bounty hunter. Retract.' So, there you go then. Dickead tabloid journo Mandrake probably made up this bullshit in the first place simply because he couldn't get his fragile little head around a straight woman, and ex model at that, being tough enough to be a real life bounty hunter, so he fell back on the old "she must be some kind of butch dyke" stereotype, and without any validation or proof to boot. What a maroon. **************************************************************************** As for the film, I think it potentially looks pretty damn good, I like Tony Scott as a director, and it's got a pretty cool supporting cast. And even though I'm not quite the hardcore Donnie Darko fan that most seem to be these days, it was still a good flick, so Richard Kelly writing this has potential as well. The voice over though, I agree, was really, *really* fucking annoying, the trailer did try to be too "flashy" in my opinion, and I'm still not sold on Knightley for the role in the first place, but who knows, she might surprise me. Still I retain a degree of faith and will definitely give it a shot, if just for Scott, Kelly, Rourke, Walken and Lindo, who I know are all fully capable and can deliver the goods. We'll see I guess.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 2:47:30 PM CST

    I am Domino Harvey...I am a bounty hunter...

    by don lockwood


    and if she says it enough times maybe she'll convince both us and herself.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 3:53:16 PM CST

    It's Typical Hollywood Bullshit

    by sam bones

    She's gay. She's not gay. She still shoots TWO machine guns AND with video game gay style! Cute girl star does "edgy" tough woman action anti-hero turn (smokes cigs in close-ups with thick lipstick on with garish green and yellow colors). Movie trailer looks like a car commercial. Hot but quirky young screenwriter teamed with old British commercial director that pushes style over substance to create story from high concept pitch, "model turns bounty hunter". Instead of real drama we get extravagant BEVERLY HILLS COP/BAD BOYS over the top action sequences. Walken, Rourke thrown in to give it indie world creds. Man, this sounds SO Hollywood schlock at its worst in the making and the trailer does suck lame-o balls of MTV crappola. When did it all become so fucked? I was at a screening of THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER last night (at THE FILM MUSIC SOCIETY offices) to listen to my friend, Preston Jones (author of MOVING HEAVEN AND HELL: THE MAKING OF NIGHT OF THE HUNTER), talk about artists like Laughton, Mitchum and Shumann (film's composer). Preston opened the evening by playing a wonderful moment of Laughton speaking (from one of his highly successful readings tours) on the ability of telling stories in ways to seduce us so we become a willing participant within the telling of the story. Yeash! Yesterday their was a genuine concern to speak to issues and directly to people through film and word now it's just to blow shit up and have naked chicks shooting guns and puffing cigarettes while looking bored while claiming to be above it all.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 4:01:59 PM CST

    According to the Pope, Lesbians don't exist

    by realdoublej

    but there's an invisible man! Watching you all the time and judging you. And he's got a special place to put you where you'll burn forever in anguish and torment....but he loves you!

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  • Mar 29, 2005 4:27:09 PM CST

    Sam Bones - you hit the nail on the head

    by spacesheik

    yer absolutely frikkin right

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  • Mar 29, 2005 5:27:10 PM CST

    Okay, Mr. Scott, we're here for you. It's okay, you've just obv

    by total geekazoid

    Tony? Can you hear me, Mr. Scott? It's gonna be okay. I know everything seems really jittery and fast-moving to you right now, but you're just coming down off the meth or whatever kind of speed you've taken. Just relax and take some deep breaths; drink lots of water. It might take a while for you to come down, but after a while you'll realize that it's okay to hold a shot for longer than one second and you don't have to shake the camera around like you're making a martini. Then things will start to seem more coherent and your audience will stop getting headaches. You can get past this, but first you have to WANT to recover. We're here for ya, man.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 6:11:02 PM CST

    Can we have a little love for Man on Fire?

    by d. allusion

    One of the most underrated movie's of the last year. I have spoken.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 7:49:39 PM CST

    The more a movie acts cool, the less it is.

    by frankdrebin

    The more a movie acts cool, the more teens think it is.

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  • Mar 29, 2005 8:28:38 PM CST

    I dunno. Women dual-wielding M-16s just plays off so corny.

    by pizzatheface

    Kinda like watching them throw a football.

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  • Mar 30, 2005 3:42:17 AM CST

    Tony Scott

    by fortunesfool

    Tony Scotts films still look Top Gun. The only thing thats changed is the editings gotten worse.
    1.Fill all rooms with smoke and/or billowing curtains.2.If its an action sequence tilt the camera to one side. 3.For action read Gratuitous violence as opposed to film making skills. 4. Hope to get a good writer to paper over my sledgehammer directing 'style'(see Last Boy scout and True Romance).

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  • Mar 30, 2005 6:01:40 AM CST

    Nice music video..probably bad movie

    by rupee88

    That trailer was just a flashy little music video...it didn't show much about the film except the makeup and cinematography. Those both look good, but you need plot, character, dialogue too and those will probably be missing.

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  • Mar 30, 2005 6:32:55 AM CST

    horrible

    by weaponxgabe

    based on that trailer i see no reason to spend one dollar on that movie

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  • And we see Film swing
    the ax toward his face. Scott drops to the floor, his legs twitching mechanically. Blood spatters onto the brownish orange and lilac computer screen. TRY USING SMOKE AND COLORED FILTERS NOW, YOU FUCKING
    STUPID BASTARD!

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  • Mar 30, 2005 9:49:56 PM CST

    I'm watching this because of Mickey Rourke

    by super cucaracha

    Call me a sexist pig...but I have a hard time believing a woman can whup some ass. Now I know that there can be some exeptions to the rule but it's rare. Films who have women kicking ass tend not to do well. On the other hand; Mickey Rourke is the Shiznit and I still like Tony. I'd still invade her glorious English muffin though.

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  • Apr 01, 2005 10:18:53 PM CST

    Mickey Rourke is the freakin' bomb.

    by numberface

    But the Scott Brothers should both learn not to cut so fucking much. It's boring and makes me want to look away. For a couple of directors who are so anal-rententive about beautiful imagery, the should leave it up on the screen for longer than a quarter second. That's why Ridley will never win an Oscar. At least Tony's films don't take themselves too seriously. Their earlier stuff was way better directed than their later stuff.

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