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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. WANTED's all over the net this week. First the stills now the trailer. I like the look of the trailer, but the early word we've been hearing about the film is it does not share much in common with Mark Millar's original graphic novel. If it's fun, then I guess that's all that matters... Here's the trailer:
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yeah
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Looks interesting. Could be cool. Will have to check it out.
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This guy is raping childhoods with this project. Most of you won't know what I am talking about but those who do will probably agree.
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other than that he looks really awkward up against Anjelina, I still see him as Mr Tumnus. Love the guy, but not sure about this one.
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Get over yourself.
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I'd buy THAT for a dollar!
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looks like complete and utter shite! Too bad they abandoned the whole plot and aesthetic of the comic book...
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It makes me yearn for films like The Limey. I desire REAL-LIFE BELIEVABLE BAD-ASSERY. Not more Matrix-y unbelievable tom-foolery.
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impressive. looks better than shoot em up
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I really hate that the core concept of the comic book was abandoned. The screenwriters of this movie admitted that they wrote this thing before the all of the issues of the comic had even been released, and before they realized the entire premise of the comic...So it's obviously going to be different from the comic. But I'll give this movie a chance, for now, as mark millar has had nothing but good things to say about it. So who knows.
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That demon shot of anorexic Jolie in the grocery store was a little creepy.
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Its gonna be a hard R rated Mr&Mrs Smith.I hope it fails.
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is it dope or what?
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getting a big fat paycheck from universal and got to meet angelina jolie,of coarse he's not gonna sh*t talk the movie,the only one who has the balls to do so is Alan Moore,but then again he's a mad genius.
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I wonder why.../sarcasm
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when it was called the matrix...
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In the direction of the craft service table. She almost didn't give me a boner in this preview. Almost.
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And make a trip to Quizno's sound like the coolest thing ever.
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I actually found that shot of her incredibly hot. I can only hope that, should I ever be shot by a female assassin, that's the last thing I see.
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This movie looks like shit.
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I already saw The Matrix
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This movie will suck without a giant monster made of poo.
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They were shooting some scene where a Bus screams across a bridge over the Chicago River again and again.
No sign of a golden Angelina (oh wait, wrong movie), but it still looks pretty cool. They've filmed a few theatres in downtown Chicago the last few years. Great city for a location -
No fucking shit... that man has the coolest voice of all time with perfect delivery... Seriously, I could listen to him talk about salamanders or tadpoles....
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Doesn't look the least bit digital to me! Film is dead.
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Told you everything you need to know to get you in the theatre, but didnt actually show the meat curtains... Now I want to see this.. Although I am getting a little sick of Angelina, all 100 pounds of her, holding giant guns.. Can someone just give her a 38 semiautomatic and not a fucking 45, she looks like an idiot with those big guns...
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That was shot digital? Are you serious?
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Uh, Pippie, is your last name Longstocking? This movie looks lame and tame and a big waste of time and money. Read the book and save yourself the price of a movie ticket. And Angelina looks like death warmed over. Maybe she'll look better in Beowulf.
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No I'm serious. This movie doesn't seem to be fully of cheesy ham from that fred clause guy at least... and it has muadib's son in it. That's gold.
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I was maybe gonna read the comic first, but after watching the trailer it doesn't really look like anything special and especially after finding out it was by the writer of the very underwhelming Civil War. Is the comic any good.
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sorry, i don't mean to be one of those assholes who can't wrap his head around someone enjoying something he did not. but every page of that series was dripping with disdain for the past 70 years of comics and the people reading them. good for Mark Millar for tricking hollywood into making a movie out of one of his books (he admitted as much when he started the rumor himself that Eminem was interested in being in it, after instructing JG Jones to use his likeness). but i really don't get where the reverance i'm seeing for that book is coming from.
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Talkback now.
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You'd better believe it--
http://www.red.com/ -
Sure was. Red One cameras if I'm not mistaken. The same ones PJ shot his world war I short film with.
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Oct 30, 2007 10:33:42 PM CDT
The change from "VILLAINS" to ASSASSINS is frustrating
by george newman
crap
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I just said it's a big waste of time and money. There are other books out there more worthy of consideration than Millar's big F-U to the comics community. If you don't believe me, read the book. Better yet, go to the very end of the book and see what he thinks of you.
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Oct 30, 2007 10:35:21 PM CDT
their purpose: "to maintain stability in an unstable world"
by george newman
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Oct 30, 2007 10:36:56 PM CDT
It was about Amoral VILLAINS who killed all the heroes
by george newman
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The Red camera is great but only the vfx shots are what it's being used for. "Wanted" is primarily a Panavision show,shot on 35mm, with Arriflex support. The Red is being used like a Vista Vision camera.
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right on the head. The book has no subtext. It's for people who think FIGHT CLUB is a cool action movie about guys who beat each other up for therapy. Millar is a clumsy controversialist, period. At least guys like Ennis and Morrison occasionally know how to do it correctly. Movie looks slick, though.
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cuz it did look like it showed any evolution to McAvoy's character
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typo correction
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"Comic book author Mark Millar described the first half of the film as being close to the graphic novel. Millar also said that the film's ending was similar, though it was relocated elsewhere from the setting in the graphic novel. The superhero costumes in the graphic novel were also removed, with the exception of the leather attire worn by Wesley Gibson and The Fox. The story arc of the Fates issuing death orders in line with the novel's original theme of predestination was a new element to the film, an addition to which Millar was amicable.[18]
Wanted will include free running and parkour in addition to car chases and gunfights.[7] Wanted creator Mark Millar saw previsualized footage for the film and said the footage had raised his expectations for the film adaptation."
If Miller doesn't completely write it off then maybe there is something interesting about it. -
In light of how the graphic novel is terrible, I'm okay with that. That said, this looks okay, but how it got that cast is beyond me.
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I've ever read. Just what the doctor ordered. Totally different from the sea of superhero books...just like his and ellis's runs on The Authority. For those who dont know...if they want super heroes done right....go read Ellis's and Millar's runs on The Authority. Changed my whole view. Then Wanted was just a jello bath of fun. LOVED IT!!!!
WAY sad that this movie looks like this....the super villian aspect was what MADE this story.....why are people retarded? -
on superhero books that is.
And i always saw his dad as more of a harvey kitel (sp?) or even anthony hopkins...not really a tommy lee jones...he's the green goblin in the Thunderbolts....which is also a GREAT read...basically anything Warren Ellis writes is rad. Lovin the Black Summer. -
theres no goddamn way in hell I'll ever see this tacky, lame looking barrage of shit. I mean was anyone else listening to that, "the best assassin in the world is standing right behind you," give me a fucking break. Not to mention the stunts look cheap as hell. I'm not surprised either. Just look at the cast, this is obviously something that was conceptualized and green lit just to make money. Movies that are written under lose kind of circumstances always fail miserably and this will obviously be no exception. I am however anxious to see DAYWATCH cuz I didnt catch it yet, but I have no high expectations for this russian guy, not as a commercial director anyway. Especially if he's gonna take on every shitty project that gets thrown at him. Don't get caught up in the excitement man, just take it easy and pick 'em wisely
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it looks cool to me. But now you all have me interested. Might have to buy the trades.
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Wesley wore a sweet costume in the book, as well as Jolie's character, The Fox I believe. This looks like it wants to be something cooler than it surely will be.
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trying to take Angelina Jolie seriously as a diplomat when she's making an over the top action flick or believing that she's a badass action heroine instead of thinking of her now as a humanitarian first.
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Heavily. Assassins? They're fucking supervillians!
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You know what? "Wanted" blew...and sucked. C'mon. The movie looks fun. The comic had a great idea that went NOWHERE.
I am glad they took the basic premise and lobbed off all the other stupid shit.
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with Jolie playing Mr. Smith and Freeman playing the Liam Neeson role from Batman Begins. *YAWN*
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this guy should direct Escape from NY!!!
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Oct 31, 2007 12:06:17 AM CDT
You have just butched what could have been a masterpiece
by nickmarks666
SCREW YOU HOLLYWOOD!! SCREW YOU!!!
I never post on talk backs...I don't even read them hardly twice a year. I NEED TO SAY THIS>>>>>WRITERS, DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS OF WANTED!!! YOU SUCK!!!!!!!!!
The 5 issue mini series of Wanted is one of the best mini series since Watchmen. It is a masterpiece. Every frame of it. Every word of it.
Why must you change crap? Catwoman? League of Gentlemen, etc. All great source material...but you make it gay.
Where is shit head? Where is Rictus? The midget? The gay sex? The cool kitten ears? The sets? The art direction? The Superhero's, The villians? Where is the lighting and mood of the comic? Where is the dialogue? Why did you make it so gay? So hollywood? So average? WHY WHY WHY?
I don't normally give a shit... But when someone has taken a great piece of a literature....something special and fuxx it, rapes it, dumps on it and turns it into something like i just saw. Something so diffrent? Such shit....i weep. Just because I know I have to wait 20 more years before someone will blow off the dust and do it right.
Why is Frank Miller the only one guy in hollywod you treat right? Thank you Mr. Rodriguez....seriously dude. YOu got it. You did it. But they still won't learn. 300 and Sin City are some of the best comic movies of the past few years? Frank is great....but he is not god. People just don't fuxx with his work. They treat the comic as it should be....a storyboard...a script...to be treated literally. They leave Frank alone. WHY didn't you pay that same respect to Millar and his artist ( forgot name...sorry guy...you are great too ) His art should have been copied frame for frame. But even th ough...300 proved you could still mess with it a bit...300 adapted a bit...it still worked...stayed close to art direction...pacing....dialogue....added a few scenes but kept it all intact. it still worked.
I am so pissed with what i just saw. I know making a movie is hard. I know there are tons of issues to deal with. Problems...budget...compromises...Well okay...granted....well...the only analogy i can use is that you have this hot chic...she is the most kind loving wonderful person you have ever met....great DNA...she loves you...you marry her....have sex with her she gets pregant...everyone is happy....you tell the world....but then you start feeding her cocaine....beating her belly....throwing her down stairs....sticking a coat hangar in her twat....2girls1cupin her....and bam....OUT COMES A FUCKTARD BABY THAT WE ALL HAVE TO DEAL WITH FOR THE REST OF OUR LIVES. IT IS STUPID. LOOKS NOTHING LIKE THE MOM AND DAD. SHITS IT'SELF AND THEN GROWS UP TO PROBABLY KILL SOMEONE LIKE SLING BLADE
I HATE YOU SO VERY MUCH. PLEASE FEEL MY HATE FOR YOU! -
and you're allowed to hate me but if there's any TDK fans on this tb, whysoserious.com has been updated again ... I don't live in any of the cool cities with scavenger hunt clues so just trying to get the word out to those who do. commence hating.
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Definitely check out the comic book. At least thumb through the first chapter at the bookstore or comic shop. It's not perfect IMO, but it was interesting and tried to do something different with comics. The movie looks very different -- very Hollywoodized with "assassins" trying to "provide stability" as opposed to just amoral supervillians fucking with the status quo. It wanted to be FIght Club, but ended up falling short by trading philosophy for a gang war. It's entertaining, but it's a bummer the movie seems to not have made good on the comic's failings.
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Oct 31, 2007 12:34:56 AM CDT
ugh, this sucks. I'm not seeing this shitty adaptation of a mast
by warcraft
Why even bother adapting something with a fanbase in hopes of making money, and then completey change everything? Should have just named the movie something else. This is aweful. I'm not watching this out of principal. It's time we stopped rewarding hollywood with crappy ass movies losely based on properties we love. Fuck this shit.
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Looking better than this generic dreck right now.
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get to work, you fans in those cities. www.whysoserious.com
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Looks like crap. Sort of like the original Punisher film: take what makes the original interesting, throw it away, and put on film what's left. And film it badly.
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I'm an ex comic book fanboy from way back in the day and I must admit that although all those cool British writers think up of some cool premises, their conclusions always suck balls or are at the very least anti-climactic. Of course I don't include Alan Moore in that bunch, he's more a deity than a Brit anyhow. But guys like Morrison, Gaiman, Ennis, Ellis, Millar, Jenkins, Newman et al always let me down with a weak ass ending to bad ass stories. British comics writers equal great foreplay, blistering intercourse but no moneyshot.
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HE'S IN IT?! at least that's what the cast list says next to the trailer.
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Say what you will about the comics, I thought they were enjoyable if a bit full of themselves in a lot of ways... but that doesn't seem to have a hell of a lot to do with 'em.
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updated again
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-- a gadget that fires your handgun around the corner? It seems a little like something you'd find on the Assassin's Home Shopping Network. Three easy payments of 15.99!
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There's too much compromising and changes on the story, plot, characters, on top of that no costumes--? Not interested. Heard that Morgan Freeman was not all that impresse and was quoted saying that J.MacAvoy "was trying too hard" and "overacting" and avoided talking about Angie when questions were asked about working with her. It's clear by looking at this trailer, he did not enjoy himself at all. And poor Common, looking clueless. Though he was good in Smoking Ace, he looked bored. This is not going to work.
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that looks rubbish!
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That looked kind of watchable in a throwback to the Killer or Hardboiled, didn't look remotely realistic or credible and while watching it I veered from feelings of embarrassement at the dialogue and acting to exhileration at the stunts and eyecandy!Therefore i think this one will depend on your mood going in.
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is there anything this man won't do? Seriously?
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is there anything this man won't do? Seriously?
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This movie doesn't seem to have the same nerve of originality as the other Timur flicks. To bad.
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Oct 31, 2007 5:51:23 AM CDT
Angelina with a gun is possible the hottest thing in the world
by evil hobbit
Looks good though this flick.
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I just couldn't tell from the ultra-generic, new-faux-2006 action scene preview. And some of the SFX look HORRID!!! Are they having 'fresh out of DeVry' computer students doing the CGI for this flick?
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Millar's "Wanted" read like an angry adolescent's cathartic revenge fantasy against a world where everyone treated him like an inconsequential whiny little prick, and he couldn't get laid. The whole premise was essentially - "wouldn't it be cool if you could rape and murder anyone you wanted without recourse?".
Er, no.
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All that shooting isn't fooling anyone.
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= No Wanted.
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This looks like a great action flick, but if truth-in-advertising laws could apply, this film would be called WANTED'S PREMISE. If this film does well, though, we should expect a lot of studios to start cutting even more superhero aspects out of superhero films. GEN13, IMMORTAL IRON FIST and BLACK SUMMER are a few titles that could easily be hacked away into action movies.
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we3
Ex Machina
Y: The Last Man
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Hmm, I was sure that was miscast, but now that we see the "story" it looks like that Scottish nerd is perfect. It's like "Chuck" with assassins. (And Morgan Freeman and Angelina Jolie just play their usual Miyagi Narrator and Lara Croft roles. Erector Set movie making from a graphic novel blueprint.
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The comic wasn't perfect, and i can see why some people hated it, but the basic premise of supervillians having 'won' against superheroes was brilliant. I was really looking forward to seeing some kick fights between faux superheroes and Wesley. Ah well, might be vaguely entertaining as a just an action film.
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It's horrible in movies when characters just spew exposition! That whole "your father was an assassin and die yesterday, look there's another assassin" intro between Jolie and McAvoy is AWFUL. Action's great, Hollywood, but dialogue's kinda important too... (But Angelina does look cool.)
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the superhero aspect of it is GONE it seems. In the comics, the bad guys win.. and kill all the superman and batman's of the world. that's what gave it it's charm. Looks like they tossed that.... I knew it... damn!!
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Maybe this will be it, maybe Hitman will be it. I'm not holding my breath though.
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had to clarify. Hong Kong has done it perfectly for years.
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Wake me in 10 years when they remake this with super villians.
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I think this is the movie we need to know when it comes out, if its not already out on DVD. Harry.
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I think this is the movie we need to know when it comes out, if its not already out on DVD. Harry.
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That had NOTHING to do with the graphic novel. Jolie is wrong, as much as I love Freeman, he was wrong (and cliche). Fraternity? The Fates? WTF?
I want The Killer. I want Fucktard. I want Shithead. I want the lines "I'm the scariest superfuck that ever walked this earth" and "I don't fuck goats, Mr. Gibson, I make love to them."
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Not Fucktard, Fuckwit. (A clone of Superman afflicted with Down's)
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not. does everything out of hollywood have to be green screen shaky camera shit with people running from explosions and using wirework. todays action movies have go so far over the top, its just eye porn now. not much action movie left.
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Isn't she out in the world saving babies left and right?
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mcavoy the action star??
I don't think so....it looks like a really bad rip off of the matrix. shithouse. -
rental? Ill check it out then.
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Then I'm going to be very disappointed...
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There was nothing remotely sympathetic about the protagonist and his whole getup was lame. I get it he can kill you with anything. So what. In this world almsot every supervillain is susceptible to bullets. No comic book universe would allow for that guy to be top dog. The whole thing was more depressing than funny. An excellent premise with a weak delivery. Wouldn't have minded seeing a movie with characters named shithead, fuckwit, and johnny two-dicks though.
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well my theory that the Matrix is the most influential film of the last many years is proven once AGAIN. This looks just stupid. Oh, and kudos to the poster who said 'almost gave me a boner'. No ever says BONER anymore..classic term
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to stay as one of the hottest women out there. Right now, I don't see it. She has an eating disorder and men don't find that attrative in the slightest. I'll never understand why women obsess about being rail thin.
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This looks like the kind of dorky over the top action movie that takes itself too seriously. It's one thing if you're jumping through the air like a Circ de'Solie acrobat on steroids, whilest shooting two 9mm handguns (that have the neverending clip option installed), dodging a wall of bullets, explosions, ferocious German Shepards and a sea of evil doer minions...if the movie does it all with a "wink wink" kind of attitude. You know, the "we know this is total crazy bullshit, we're just having fun" wink wink. This movie doesn't have that "wink, wink", or at least the trailer didn't. Fuck, I'd swear this was Woo, but I didn't sea any white doves.
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There is no way Hollywood would make a faithful remake to the Wanted comic. In movies (especially studio movies) there have to be good guys and bad guys not just bad and worse guys which is what wanted was. As for how the film looked well it looked a little too pedestrian and lacking a certain eye catching style for me. Basically McCavoy goes from wearing costumed designed nerd outfit to something less nerdy but not remotely badass. The Lumes with the fate of the world that was hinted at in the trailer, is such a departure from the book that I don't really even know what place it has in any movie. And the second best assassin looked vaguely like Daniel Craig, especially when Angelina Jolie was shooting at him while he was in the train. Like the one talkbacker said, I hope this just showed the first thirty minutes of the movie, I do too. There needs to be some bad ass costumes in this other than cargo pants and t shirts. And by the way, that gun that shoots around a corner is actually a real invention, not just something made up for the movie.
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I had high hopes for this film whether it was faithful or not to the book. I want to see more before I make my decision if it is good bad or worth ten dollars on a weekend. I think this comes out in March so I'm expecting one or two more trailers where we see more. Then I can judge it better.
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If Angelina Jolie becomes McCavoy's sex tutor like her character does in the book. Will that really happen? If it does I foresee it being implied and nothing overt and probably no nudity. I'm calling that right now and we will see if it comes to pass.
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