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Our first real look at sci-fi war flick THE MUTANT CHRONICLES!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. I met Thomas Jane during my time on the set of THE MIST. Ever since then, I'll get an occasional email or phone call from him and the latest one of those was a couple days ago regarding a film he's in called THE MUTANT CHRONICLES. I actually visited the pre-production offices of this film long before I went to The Mist and liked what I saw. Everything was very steam-punk and the future war that is the background of the story was very WW1 inspired... trench warfare, etc. The pre-production art was very impressive.
Jane wanted to give me a heads up that there was going to be a screening of the film during Comic-Con in San Diego and asked if I wanted to give out some tickets via AICN. We're still hammering out the details on that, but I can tell you this... It'll be Saturday night, 10pm in a 2,000 seat Hall at the Convention Center. It looks like there's going to be a block of seats held for AICN readers and we'll give those seats away soon. The screening will be the first public screening of the film and will be attended by Simon Hunter, the director, Thomas Jane and Ron Perlman.
I just met up with Perlman on a recent overseas set visit, actually, and both Tom Jane and Perlman say this flick is something they're proud of. I've talked to both of them about stuff they've done and they've been completely unfiltered about their opinion, having been very blunt about bad experiences and bad films in their filmography, so I'd lean towards them not jerking my chain for publicity sake on this one.
Plus, I've now seen the teaser trailer and it looks like a lot of fun. Jane is hosting it on his website, but wanted you guys to be the first to see it, so he's premiering the link here.
CLICK IT HERE TO VIEW THE TEASER!
The film isn't finished yet, but I'm told the model work is excellent and the flick runs pretty intense. I'm planning on being at the screening in San Diego, so hopefully I'll see some of you folks there. Keep an eye out for the ticket giveaway, which should be sometime in the very near future!
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but possibly fun, and definitely steam-punkish.
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ill probably get more excited when its closer to release
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What a mess!!!
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hope its less Chronicles of Riddick and more bad company. thomas jane seems like a genuinely nice bloke. hope this movie does well
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I hate the video look. Terrible CGI. Seems like a shit story also. My prediction is this will be end up in a video store with a shit DVD cover with no good quotes on the front, and a rating of 5.2 on imdb.
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That says alot.
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after the guy near the beginning says " begin the evacuation"
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And where were the Mutants. As a trailer it didn't do much but reming me of Name of the Rose mixed with Sky Captain but I trust not the trailers as they can make good stuff look poo and Poo stuff look amazing Plus I trust in the Jane and the Perlman and with added Malkovich I'm there!
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That's a lot of panning shots of a dude sat in a chair with some Chronicles of Riddlewick thrown in. Did the editor only have one panning shot of the guys sat in chairs? It's really cheap to keep doing that...not to mention it makes your head hurt.
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Jul 02, 2008 6:05:50 AM CDT
This looks like it'll make an appearance on Sci-FI
by the guy who slept through everything.
"The most dangerous night on television." haha. He was really stuck between a rock and a hard place with this an Punisher 2, huh?
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no seriously, one of you geeks must know that orchestra piece
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But it could be cool. Or not. Who is Simon Hunter, by the way?
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come on one of you must know!
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that's got to be one of the weakest looking trailers I've ever seen. A total mess. and those effects looked Sci Fi channel cheap
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you lot are fucking useless!
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After the guy says "begin the evacuation," I can't identify that piece. The next piece, something of a 'march,' is definitely Zimmerish. It may be from The Rock, or Con Air or Armageddon (which I know aren't Zimmer, it's Rabin, but it's damn close). The last piece (with choir) is Gothic Power, generic trailer music #12 ;)
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I like the mish-mash of WWI style soldiers with the futuristic setting. I suppose it's my Firefly leanings seeping through... I'll definitely give this one a look when it comes out.
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Wow, you waited half an hour?
Yes, it's from the Crow soundtrack, and I can probably tell you exactly where in the movie that cue turns up, because I've seen it so many times. But that's beside the point.
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Jul 02, 2008 6:50:35 AM CDT
crap edited trailer, looks more like a TV show than a film...
by dr_zoidberg
but I'll assume this isn't a trailer to be shown in theatres, just a first edit trailer. Expect better soon or this will disappear.
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SKY CAPTAIN, whilst occasionally lacking in the script stakes, was a fantastic piece of work to look at - beautifully shot and with seamless CGI. 300, meanwhile, is the most garish gay war cartoon ever made. Which is not to say it ain't fun to watch, but come on - this trailer alone contains more plot than all of 300! And yet you guys call it down already?!? Fuck... At least WATCH IT before ripping it to shreds. The WW1 imagery mixed with the monastic stuff and a future mutant war setting sounds awesome - and yes, it looks a bit SKY CAPTAIN cinematographically. So? That fucking rocks if you're a steampunk/sci-fi fan! So if you don't like a bit of moody lighting and cinematography, and you DON'T want to see a mish-mash genre hybrid that does look at least original, fuck off back to your flawless-CGI-photo-real explosive can't-see-what-the-fuck-is-going-on blurry fistfights between two giant 1980s toy robots in BAYFORMERS. THAT is what an addiction to perfect FX and modern movie sensibilities gets you. The only worthy thing in that fucking movie is Megan Fox. Those of us who like a little originality and thought with our movies may give this one the benefit of the fucking doubt.
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looks to be the opposite of every identikit remake/reimagining/re-dropping-a-huge-shit currently stinking up the joint in Hollywood. Originality is EXACTLY what movies (particularly sci-fi movies) need right now. So don't pull this shit down - celebrate it! So it doesn't have a gazillion dollars in its budget - it's fucking DIFFERENT. That's still good, isn't it?
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has become as predicable and formalized as neo-classical French Drama.
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and quite visionary.
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I guess we're not covering that.
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. . . I promise you all that Thomas Jane will finally be in a movie w/ proper CGI.
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All those static shots mean... very poor cinematography.
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... the talkback comments, that is. The movie looks great. Serious sci-fi... let's complain about it!!! So you are all brilliant computer animators next in line for that sweet job at Pixar and could do much better, but we have to take this film on its merits, of which there are plenty.
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Ron Perlman could leave the make-up room not covered in prostectics? Is this the movie that AICN threw up a poster of a while back, and it looked like a poster for Lost? Either way this movie looks tighter then shit, and at the same time looks like that Nazi's from Mars trailer Twich had a while back. Though I still feel like Thomas Jane will never top Deep Blue Sea, its obvious Renny Harlin won't.
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willing to give this a chance.
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Just on a visual level, this looks fucking awful. The entire film looks like it's been soaked in mud. Why is everything brown and underlit to the point that you can't tell what the fuck you're looking at?
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or at least the sewer mutants from Futurama.
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Did I blink and miss 'em?
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...that these guys are the same people who have the rights to Conan and all the other Howard stuff, right?
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I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now, but you have to admit - the thing looks cheap as hell. For a second, I thought they were going for a sci-fi Sin City. Can't be sure.
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Granted, the preview looks a little iffy, but at least it's not a remake or based on earlier material. The look appears to be very green screen. Let's hope it's more like Sin City and less like 300.
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Looks like they ripped off Warhammer 40K to me and the soldiers are Imperial Guard and Ron Pearlman is a Commissar.
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Looks like it could be ok, but it does look like it would be a good made-for-Sci-Fi-Channel movie, and not so much a theatrical release.
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...What is this thing about, by the way? Geez Quint, I think it's great that you and Harry, et al, get to hang around film sets and hobnob with directors, but sheesh... a little more info for your poor slob readers who aren't so lucky would be appreciated! Next question: Is Marvel going to try to sue the producers for using the word "mutant" in the title?
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Unless this is one of those movies where the Vampires/Werwolfs/Mutants run around using guns all the time, even though they all have mutant or supernatural powers.
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but where are these mutants you speak of?
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Whatever happened to that Jim Caviezel sci-fi flick OUTLANDER? That was written about and supposedly finished years ago. Basically an alien crashes on earth about 1300 years ago and accidentally unleashed a different alien monster on a bunch of vikings. There's lots of swordplay and carnage that ensue. (Stars Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman)
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I always hoped that they had a budget of $150 million or something like that....
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thanks, you whiny negative bitches.
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I mean, I was still able to make out a vague human shape every now and again.
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A shockingly great movie or a shockingly good awful movie that we'll watch on USA Network for the next hundred years. I don't see much in between and I'm all-in either way.
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So they have rocket ships in WW1?
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That term is one of the gayest they could of come up with.
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Does that have to do with Mutants?????
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I did not expect that. Can't wait!
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judging that movie by the trailer is like looking at a girl's elbow and deciding if she's hot or not.
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Because its really no better than 4chan, at this point. It's not people who are about movies, its socially inept shut-ins. What a shame.
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If something is called MUTANT CHRONICLES I think I have the right to expect hideously deformed motherfuckers front and center, preferably raping and murdering stuff.
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In its effects. I though Perlman would be in makeup again. Like the look, hope it is good, the fact that its been sitting on the shelf is never good. Oh well. Will wait and see.
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That is not an actual trailer. No way. The editing was way wrong and the sound unfinished. It's probably just a Cannes preview or some such nonsense.
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I mean jeesh, all this needs is Vin Diesel. That and the fact they've added lots of digital blood.
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how did you rate that Pro-Life thing with John Carpenter?!
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Man, these talkbackers are a snarky, wicked lot.
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Derivative, Yes. Cool looking, yes.
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...and I like Tom Jane. "I just want to get my kids back!"
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But this looks like a cheap sci-fi channel movie
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I once worked with him on a midget bowling porno and he made fun of all the midgets and their mongoloid grins.
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But I like the mix of the old and the new in regards to costumes and art direction. Reminds me a bit of Dark City. It's going straight to DVD, and if so, I'll check it out.
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I like what they're trying to do, although the effects are a little amatuerish (unfinished?). They peaked my interest enough though. I'll see it.
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Who gives a fuck who that is? I've seen this a lot in movies now a days, like the Cloverfield guy that wasn't JJ and whos name was all over the trailers. I don't understand the reasoning behind this. I am pretty sure John Malcovic/Pearlmen and even Jane are kind of known to Average Joe public. The only director people know are Speilburg and Lucas, and M. Knight but only for the twist shit. I mean is it part of the directors deal to get his name thrown in the trailer like it means something? Or does it mean that a studio really likes something and maybe sees something in this guy and want to make him a brand name. Any ideas?
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Patricia Arquette, does he really want Nic Cages career that bad?
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how did they get John Malkovich
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His next movie is a WWE movie. Now I liked the Condemed, and WWE me be a decent starting point for an up and coming director. But man Renny must've spent all of his Die Hard 2 money, probably paying off his Cutthroat Island debts.
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Loved The Mist and Stander even more. This, however, doesn't look very good. It looks cheap and hokey. I got more sense of "Epic" in that trailer for the Dutch Nazi zombie movie -- and that film hasn't even been made yet.
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...if it had said "Un Film De Uwe Boll" I wouldn't have known the difference.
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I remember seeing him with Tim Bradstreet at the Bar at the Horton Plaza hotel either last year or the year before, and the man was so hammered could barely move...well, he was twitching...
This is not to say he is a bad guy or that we all haven't been totally destroyed once in a while...but it is kind of shocking to see The Guy From Boogie Nights and Deeep Blue Sea (and yes, The Punisher) all wobbly and smelling like a brewery.
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http://tinyurl.com/5ctbre and http://tinyurl.com/57bwrg I guess they are going with the whole Daywatch thing? Though the second one looks a lot like the poster for the movie Undead.
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...is my point...
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Yeah man that dutch Nazi movie, good, someone else remembers it. That movie looked awesome.
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Throw in some matte paintings,and I'll shower this film with my fanboy love. I thought the trailer looked pretty good-what are you retards bitching about? Ya pissed cause it didnt have any CGI Gungans in it? Jesus people...
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That guy lost all of his cred when he uttered the first fucking line of that piece of shit Eragon movie. Half the theater laughed outloud.
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I like the sepia tones and the feel it conveys. So, I'm happy to wait and keep an eye on it. Unlike some people here, it's better to make an informed opinion then just spew out bullshit. It's interesting that AICN attracts so many complainers and whiners. Maybe it's just the internet, because they can whine, complain and remain anonymous. Eragon was a piece of doo-doo, but my young kids liked it so that made it worth the price of admission. Plus, having worked in the industry I realize that the suits are usually the ones who fuck things up with the premise of making them 'better'. Knowing this, I always cut the director and writer some slack unless (informed opinion here again) I've heard different.
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of Sky Captain hich I actually dig.
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It's by Graeme Revel (sp?). It was not on the soundtrack, but was on the score album. Not sure which track because it's at home, and I'm at work.
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This isnt a big budget picture, I've been following this for awhile. It may look amateur
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you are going to have to convince folks it's not an X-Men movie
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it had cinderblocks where the wheels should have been.
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Maybe the producer or his girlfriend? Are they the mutants?
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Looks to have a hint of not the same old bullshit we have seen before. Even if it does have elements of other films, it still looks different enough to be worth a look. Haters be damned, some people are never pleased. It says the film is not even finished, and the trailer doesn't look THAT bad, lighten up people, not everyone can spend $100 million on a trailer.
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steampunkish postapocalyptic scifi is the best thing ever invented.
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Which is kind of like 'cheap CGI' and shot using digital video. Which I'm not complaining about. Just an observation.
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An actor respects you guys enough to release a temp promo (which this clearly is) to you exclusively - and you shit all over it. What a bunch of wankers. Sorry that you didn't realise that low-budget films (particularly incomplete ones like this) some times look... low-budget. But, luckily for you guys, 10000 BC just came out on DVD - That was expensive as fuck so I'm sure you'll love it.
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...but it looked good. All of Emmerich's movies are like that... shitty, preposterous, badly acted Z-List flicks that look great. Here's how you watch an Emmerich flick: Ignore the thing until the tidal wave washes over NYC, then say "Cooo-oool!", then turn it off before the main character have to outrace coldness on foot. Same with 10,000 BC... ignore all the boring caveman bollocks, enjoy the mammoth hunt, ignore the mystical old cavecrone and her mumblings, enjoy yhe cool sabertooth and the killer emus, turn the thing off before it gets to the pyramid-building Atlantean who talks in Jaye Davidsons "Ra-voice" from Stargate. Oh... and only watch Emmerich movies on rented Blu-Ray discs you got from NetFlix... never blow $10 on seeing it in a theatre.
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Looks like Sky Captain on the cheap.
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This Talkback is really gonna show the studio suits that we're all for originality. Not.
I mean ok, the effects don't look great, but the idea sounds kick-ass and it does have 3 really great actors in it who we don't get to see nearly enough of (two of which don't seem to be phoning their roles in at all), and the story does sound interesting. Show some love for chrissakes, maybe a little constructive criticsm instead of mindless asshole anonymous shit-talking from behind your computer. So Michael Bay didn't edit the trailer, get over it. -
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...it actualy told us what the movie was about which is, "Mutant Chronicles follows 23rd century soldiers Major Mitch Hunter (Thomas Jame) and Brother Samuel’s (Ron Perlman) mission to fight against an army of underworld mutants in attempt to save the planet." I guess they didn't show us the mutants because they're saving that for later. My biggest pick against the trailer is it's so dark it was hard to see what's going on. Regarding the music, it sounded like an uninspired rehash of scores from Chronicles of Riddick, Transformers and National Treasure.
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(Last post should have read 'too cheap').
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Yes, I'm a dickhead. Thanks for your input.
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Jul 02, 2008 1:11:42 PM CDT
Aren't trailers ment to make you WANT to see the film...
by ahnoldsbicep
The cast all look like struggling b-movie actors in the trailer, especially Pearlmen... oh wait it is a struggling b-movie.. isn't it?
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If you cant see a bloody thing. I love the idea of a steam punk WW type gritty sci-fi film but if the whole film is as dark as the teaser portrays it ill be giving it a miss. It'll just give me a migraine.
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THE LOOK seems HI-JACKED from SIN CITY and CALL OF DUTY. LAME.
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Thomas Jane left Punisher for this? Yeah, I know the effects aren't finished but it looks pretty bad, even for a teaser. Nothing about the CG blended into the environment for me, the ships looked like a bad green screen matte. I dunno, looks like Sky Captain/Sin City/Hellboy... cool mix of movies, some of my favs...but something smacks of "shitty".
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What's it really about? Have you noticed trailers don't give you that sense anymore? It's like the directors aren't sure of the story until AFTER the final cut. Visuals, yes, that's nice. It looks interesting. But until I get some sense of what it's about, it's a renter.
And honestly - the whole mutant thing's getting really old. Anything that mutates you sufficently to be noticeable by others is almost certain to kill you in infancy. That's how genetics work. The X-Men would most likely have both flippers and tentacles with extra nipples, mouths, ears and eyes.
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If anything I'll watch it for Jane and Perlman.
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"Talk about the Wrong Stuff!"
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I'm gunning for those tix! :)
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bunch of wankers! an unfinished product and these cocks shit all over it. unfortunately its talk backers to a tee. i dunno it's its just because its the Internet, or because they're all 18 year olds.
i was online playing poker yesterday, only to have a barrage of insults from this other guy. obviously i gave as good as i got. whe thought i left and put his myspace address up http://www.myspace.com/mdotforreal i went there to find out he was an 18year old wigger.
fucking kids, get off my lawn and the internet
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Opening music was from the Pearl Harbor trailer. Ending music was from LOTR:FOTR trailer.
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a buncha toolboxes on the web, flexing their eMuscles, ripping on an essential rough draft. fucking asshats.
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I just think you are being unfair. I understand you were looking forward to this, and now you have been let down by the preview. Fair enough. I'm not a sycophant though, I just thought it was a rather nice gesture on Jane's part and perhaps it didn't deserve to be so roundly shat upon. However, people are entitled to their honest opinions (which I'm sure these are) and I have no right to call them wankers for it.It is just frustrating to see interesting, low-budget sci-fi killed in the crib purely because it doesn't have the glossy look of some big by-the-numbers studio release.
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That looked pretty tasty. I like the overall "darkness" of it, since ostensibly some pretty horrible shit has caused mutants to infest the inner part of the planet.
The way I see it, there's darkness to look cool for no reason, and then there's darkness to set the visual and emotional palette of a story. Although this trailer could've been cut better, with more to sink our teeth into, I like the feel of it. The story seems desperate, bloody, and violent. Which I like a hell of a lot more than safe, insipidly stupid, and PG-13.
Plus, did anyone check out the cast on imdb.com? Damn. That's a fucking great ensemble.
The only thing I worry about with a movie like this is: in the face of such gloom, are there funny moments to counterbalance the seriousness of the story? Know what I mean? Too much darkness equals me not taking the story seriously. Because even in horrific circumstances, humans find ways to release humor. Soldiers, ambulance drivers, war nurses, generals... and the best stories give us more than just constipatedly serious expressions. Someone needs to tell Uwe Boll this (not that the steroid-bloated fucker would listen).
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I'm with telf, skiprat & Mr_x. You lot are WANKERS. It's an unfinished trailer for an unfinished low budget film. At least someone is doing something interesting & original for a change.
Its always the same old shit with you lot. You fucking slate everything without knowing anything about it. Let's see you make a fucking film. It's a shame cos this is a cool site & i'm amazed that people still bother to give you this stuff but i really can't be arsed with you anymore. Wankers.
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Yeah, the cast is pretty sweet. And I agree that it didn't look like it was aiming for PG.off the back of 300, Rambo and now Wanted I'm hoping we might get to see some more R rated action movies soon.
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And that's what it is. It seems like it might be a perfectly good movie with cheesy special effects. I hope they clean them up a little bit before release, but I'm not going to stress about it.
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Agreed, TELF. I'd like to see more quality R-rated movies hit our theaters. Even if a film is low-budget, as "Mutant Chronicles" seems to be (could they afford THAT cast on a low-budget, though? hmm), I'm all for orginal, hard-hitting stories. Plus director Simon Hunter is a relative unknown, which to me works in his favor. New style, new ideas... so far, so good.
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When is the game coming out?
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All the sets look tiny. All the shots look really tight. The set dressing looks minimal. The costume effects look naff. Can I also say that I thought that the trailer was underwhelming. I'd stick a few shots of the enemy in there at the top because I came away from it with no feel for the conflict in the story. "He will follow you!" wft? Who is "He?" and why would it be such a bad thing for one person to follow you? The mysteries thrown up don't feel large enough to make me want to see more of them. But then it still sounds like early days. I'm hoping it turns out to be great but that only based on a liking of the premise.
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because this has too much going for it to be the piece of crap that all the negative snarkmeisters are tagging it to be. Shitting on a movie just to show how witty you are has the opposite effect if this turns out to be an exciting, fun and whaddya know, original flick. I don't think Jane has anything to worry about. Take what the negative bandwagon TB'ers say with a grain of salt. They all need to be sheered this time of year. I say "Cool news, sounds great!"
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I dont think anyone takes pleasure out of saying they're disappointed by this or any preview. If they "shit on it" by providing reasons for that disappointment then I think they are usually giving evidence to backup their point of view. Also its easy to take the moral high ground and attack others for being negative but remember that YOU are rubbishing other peoples opinions (and thereby the people themselves) while all they're doing is critising art. So who're the bad guys here yay-sayers?
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that this movie will not come close to clearing its budget in box office (much less doubling to clear the theater's take of the profits), but studio executives give it the greenlight? I don't care how cheap they tried to make this grand epic for, it'll still seem too expensive by the time this movie's done its weak, one-month run in theaters. (Then again, I didn't expect Alvin and the Chipmunks to be a colossal blockbuster.) Not that box office is a barometer of artistic merit, but still, from the money-backers' POV, movies like this surprise me.
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Fair enough. Although I think you might be being a little over generous by saying that no one takes pleasure in it...
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Am loving these low-budget sci-fi's over the last few years or so. Takes balls to be that ambitious.
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Quote = superman5150 "Whatever happened to that Jim Caviezel sci-fi flick OUTLANDER? That was written about and supposedly finished years ago. Basically an alien crashes on earth about 1300 years ago and accidentally unleashed a different alien monster on a bunch of vikings. There's lots of swordplay and carnage that ensue. (Stars Jim Caviezel, Sophia Myles, Jack Huston, John Hurt, and Ron Perlman)"
It finished filming the begining of last year, but the actual film and effects weren't done until jan/feb of this year. It should be out in Europe in the next few months but I have no clue what the Weinstein Co. have planned. They've been staying pretty hush about it. The movie looks pretty cool though. The fangoria guys liked it when they saw it in the Cannes market.
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these dudes are being payed to spam every board on the internets...i want me some of that shit
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Looks awwww-fulllll!!!
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Therealumlaut, can I ask: what is "yu jok"? Is it "Are you joking?" Because that sentence would be more effectively written in English.
Are you texting from your phone? Because "Yu jok" looks like it could be a text-compressed squirt of blah, after which you wrote (with three exclamation points!!!) "Looks awwww-fullllll!!!" Therefore it's obvious you CAN type in English.
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Chronicles of Narnia, Spyderwick Chronicles. Now Mutant Chronicles?! C'mon already!!
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And yes this currently looks low budget, but if its done well with story and character(which no one can tell from this, other than most of the content looks typical)it could be a fun time. If the story and the people are there, then the special effects don't look bad enough to detract. The problem will be trying to draw out flesh and blood characters amidst this heavy style. I think as entertainments Sky Captain and 300 worked well, but right now this looks more Casshern than those. And even so, the highly stylized films still need better character work. Dark City is to me an example of a highly stylized film firing on all it's cylinders.
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I'll grant you that some of the TB'ers actually may have formed a cogent thought as to why they don't like a trailer for a film that is yet to be completed. But look closely at the other 97% of the comments and tell me that they aren't just joining the mob. Count up all the "Looks awful" or "Looks like shit" or the ever popular "boring" comments that don't say anything more than that and tell me they don't make up the majority of the bleating sheep negativity that is all too often found here. There is always that element of anonymity to the internet that lends itself to people who like to piss on a thread or go along with the crowd because they can't form an opinion of their own. Sure, we all come here to be edified about what might be good movie-making coming up on the horizon, but the intelligent posters here at least form rational and reasoned thoughts about whether they like or dislike something. I have enjoyed this site for a long time but let's not fool ourselves; the freedom it provides is also a breeding ground for mouth breathers who conform to the nearest thought thrown at them. Some just go the pigphart route and spew the same monotonous drone for everything. "This sucks!!" "Harry, you're a retard!!" I actually think that what pigphart5000 is doing is actually a great statement about the state of AICN. Or he's just being a goof. But if we are ALL entitled to our opinions, then I am entitled to my opinion that the majority of negative commenters are just cattle going along with the herd.
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your name is reelhEEd and I cannot type. Or see. My apologies for the afront.
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looks like casshern or Resistance Fall of men.
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Jul 03, 2008 12:31:07 AM CDT
Looks like a Sci Fi Channel movie! Where's the big Snake?
by big dumb ape
I like Thomas Jane a lot and I hope this turns out good. Overall, the property and plot for this thing could make for a fun genre film, but all that said...sorry, this teaser is totally WEAK and looks slapped together. For crying out loud, unless you set out to preach to the converted (those who know the property to begin with) who the hell could watch that convoluted and overly dark mess and come away with any idea of "what" it is or is really about -- which is the whole POINT of a teaser, to get people interested. The editing was random and seemingly pointless, the CGI looks shaky, the photography looks dark and muddy, and there's not even a single line of dialogue that stands out.Seriously, I don't mean to come off as someone bagging on something for the sake of bagging on it, but that teaser really was cut as bad and LOOKED as bad as a Sci-Fi Channel movie. In which case the only thing missing from it was a freakin' giant snake, at which point we could officially redub this BOA vs. MUTANTS or maybe MUTANT CHRONICLES OF KOMODO ISLAND...
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Right after Ron Perlman slams the book - doesn't that shot look a lot like that round skyscraper from Blade Runner?
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And none of you fans liked that. Do people on this site hate movies that AREN'T made for £100 mil plus? Because on the budget they have (go see their production offices on the making of shorts on YouTube, they're pitifully small) this looks OK. As for 300 - fucking same sky in practically every shot, more abs than a re-run of TOP GUN's basketball match looped for a year, slow-mo to fast-mo battle shots, that stupid voice Butler had, the whole homophobic vibe (oiled up hard-as-nails Spartans = GOOD, androgynous and therefore sexually adventurous Persians = BAD) - 300 was piss poor compared to the greatness that was DAWN OF THE DEAD. And we have WATCHMEN to come. Jeebus...
Yes, this looks generic - at this point I think most post-apocalyptic movies will look alike. DEATH RACE looks fucking MAD MAX 2 generic, but doesn't mean I won't enjoy it - Chev Chelios The Road Warrior? FUCK YEAH! And this could be great too. Could also be shite, but until Games Workshop pull their heads out their fucking arses and gets with a proper hard-R well-written WARHAMMER 40K movie, this will keep us going.
Oh, and THE PUNISHER sucked because the studio wouldn't go with Jane's suggestion that they should use a Garth Ennis story for the movie. The Ennis bits they DID use were the only decent bits in it (The Russian vs Punisher fight, for one). I'd love to see Jane do PUNISHER: THE SLAVERS.
Besides, Thomas Jane did THURSDAY. That's a free pass for me to see ANYTHING he does, becuase THURSDAY FUCKING ROCKED!!! -
Seriously, you'd have to explain why that movie sucked, because I just don't get that - at all. And as for MUTANT CHRONICLES looking like shit... hey, I'd get people not enjoying SKY CAPTAIN - not everyone digs on the 1920s inspiration for that movie - fair enough. But the MUTANT CHRONICLES is just dark and sepis toned - so why does that suck but 300 not? As fun as it is, 300 is just a big gay fight movie with very bad (intentionally so, I think - part of the GN's aesthetic) CGI backdrops and a complete lack of plot. Gimme MUTANT over 300 any day.
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My fingers are falling off, I swear to God. Facking keyboard sucks.
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from Fangoria.
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Fair enough. He is also famous on 【 wealthybeauty.com】++. I just find him under the username look4love3. Lots of his sexy photos can be found there.
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whay are so many directors falling for the trend of grading films to look so contrasty? Blacks so deep you can't see shit. I hate it with a passion, it looks cheap & crap.
Ridley Scott ruined Blade Runner by doing this on the latest version he put out. It looks like a bad quality bootleg copy.
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theres no pleasing some people - sky captain is awesome - still - 300 is great - still - and this looks like it will be very cool - wow, what a premise - im glad to see its a fully realized world - its made by fans of the genre (comics and movies both) and has a great cast - what more do you want - i just wish theyd finish tinkering and release it - an imax version would be cool - the reason we dont see any mutants in the teaser (except for that bone blade) is because its a "teaser" - in my opinion too much of hulk was seen in the trailers - and kong too - i felt like i had seen the movies before actually seeing them
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you said... "How about the terrible dialog? Terrible Direction. Obvious bluescreen. Narrow scope. The thing stinks, dont try and justify it." i didnt like spiderman3 either
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oops-- this is what i thought sin city and sky captain or anything else completely filmed green was going to look like, but they didnt, this does. it looks like everyone was running infront of a fucking matte painting. please fucking stop it, please please please. CG is bullshit, use it like peter jackson or speilberg or someone good does, or stop. CG has no weight, it cant be scary, its just something to be used less, not to make an entire movie. this movie will be shit, because 90% of things with t.jane and r.pearlman are. why does this trailer look like poop? why does this website blow people for tickets to their poop?
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Jul 03, 2008 12:22:41 PM CDT
Visuals look like Chronicles of Riddick and Sky Captain
by toadkillerdog
That aint a good comparison either.
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