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Science Fiction = Bruce Willis Has Hair Again (Sometimes)!! The SURROGATES Trailer Is Here...
Merrick here...
MySpace has posted the trailer for the Bruce Willis science fiction thriller SURROGATES (directed by Jonathan Mostow - U-571 and TERMINATOR 3).
The trailer originates HERE, or can be viewed cvia the kindly provided embed below:
SURROGATES trailer in HD
A trailer sponsored by another movie? Weird.
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Yeah BW
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fucking asshole trailer makers
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when a movie promo will sponsor a movie trailer.
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...not with large scale robots ...but it'll happen. When you look at some of the programmable matter and nanotech research that's going on... this kind of scenario ain't far off. Check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJEMfAg5l2w
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Oh, wait till the end. The best shit is at 2.40.
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kicked ass..hope the movie does as well.
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parts of scenes from the movie! now I actually want to see it! (seriously, bmac, other than the "twist" of him having to go out in public as the only real human, what's ruined for you? that's actually what makes me WANT to see it...)
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as everyone it seems today is somewhere else, this look's like it could have some interesting thing's to say! (i hope)
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The man is craftsman. Oh and where the fuck was I when they were filming that scene of everyone falling down in Liberty Square (the circle with the statue)? I walk by that every day!
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Science Fiction inspires Science Fact. That trailer looks amazing. I gotta read the book.
Bruce with hair cracks me up. -
back in the day trailers could make you want to see a movie without showing every single plot point or major scene. I went from excited to see it, to being somewhat indifferent, considering i just saw the cliffsnotes version of the entire movie. But i'm sure your fine just shutting your brain off and watching the shiny lights.
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you left off the h, as in http:
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they're just extras, of course.
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Oh boy, can't wait!
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Oh come on!! This will flop big time how dare Hollywood try to start a new franchise..Everybody loves reboots, remakes, prequels, and sequels. Speaking of remakes wheres the new A-Team News?
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I liked that movie.
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I like the concept even though it won't be with robots, it will be submerging yourself in cyberspace like the matrix.
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And if you don't agree..."Tawk doo dah hahnd".
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Thanks, Hollywood, for once again cutting a ridiculously shitty trailer that showcases and hits EVERY story beat! Well, that's 10 bucks I just saved...
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Wait a minute, haven't I already seen most of this?
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Looks good to me. There's way too much technology worship these days.
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Throwing it in the garbage.
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It looks and feels like Wil Smith's shitty robot movie with some Matrix concepts thrown in. Bruce Willis is the only thing that sells this to me so far.
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May 21, 2009 11:25:31 PM CDT
superior scenes of A.I., Minority Report and I, Robot are all
by proman1984
RIPPED OFF here.
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Ehh.
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May 21, 2009 11:27:41 PM CDT
Do yourself a favor and read Robert Sheckley's "The Robot Who Lo
by proman1984
Great writer/great story.
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Sorry for screwing up the title.
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jesus christ, it's 2009. there are youtube videos from 11 year olds that can get this right...
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Because I don't think you mentioned the word "Surrogate" enough times in the trailer.
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Has anyone read the graphic novel?
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Bruce Willis gets more interesting as an action hero the older he gets, imo.
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Thank you.
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A trailer promo before a trailer that is a promo. That honestly feels a little bit like the end of the world.
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And it definitely is not a rip off of other robot stories or matrix etc. It's a pretty good story and has the potential to be a solid movie.
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Alex Proyas could've sold the concept better, looks like. But instead, he goes with a Nick Cage "follow the signs" movie. Lovely.
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But the film actually looks like a kickass Bruce Willis vehicle.
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get over it. its a positively ancient idea, and its still cool as fuck.
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BRUCE!
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pretty good. Even bad sci-fi is still pretty good.
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he's 20 years younger when he's BLONDE - A hair piece never looks good on him for some reason
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I enjoyed how it randomly said "Based on the graphic novel", without anything else to say about it. Not the graphic novel by anyone, or the "acclaimed" graphic novel etc. I dunno, are there people out there who weren't going to see this, but suddenly got excited when they see that its based on a graphic novel?
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looks like dumb fun, and it's got Walter B in it - count me in.
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Looks a little I,Robot'y but still, I'm interested.
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Nice to see Bruce in something cool again.
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May 22, 2009 12:51:16 AM CDT
Nice from reading the TB first I will not watch the trailer
by spectrebeeyatch
Since I guess it gives away aloy
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another 100 mill down the drain reworking the same plot and themes we've been running and rerunning since my childhood. Can't someone come up with an original idea? all this so bruce can get his hair back? let's all just chip in and get him some implants.
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Streching it out to 90 minutes...you have just watched the whole movie.
Rememeber when a movie trailer was a work of art? When it got you jazzed to see the movie, not just show you all the expensive CGI that is in the movie, splosion, star mugs at camera, shaky cam shot, splosion, slo mo stunt, Title card? -
May 22, 2009 1:11:10 AM CDT
The word "surrogate is" used once every 3 minutes in this film.
by nopix
"I just want to know how an operator can be killed by signals from a surrogate." - From the new film, SURROGATE
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Kiln People is a really fun book, and it would make a great movie. Similar premise, though it looks like a different plot. I strongly recommend it, though if Brin's stuff turns you off then of course you won't like it. This movie looks like it'll be pretty fun, especially if they are willing to really explore the world that would result from such technology.
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I vow to know nothing of Avatar so that I can get my eyeballs fuct out.
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Again.
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a simple "it was too much for me, I don't feel the need to see the movie" would've sufficed... dick.
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May 22, 2009 2:03:31 AM CDT
But will it be "so much better than the original Die Hard"?
by jackpumpkinhead
Will it? Again?
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Offically on my radar. That shit looks cool.
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Shiny shiny!
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when he posted in thosh talkbacks did anyone else crack up at the demi moore questions which he undeniably read ? "did you go up demi's hershey highway?" Jeez if only he could have responded.
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from the director of T4!
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I get that these surrogates are supposed to look all flashy or stupid or whatever, but it still is the worst fake Bruce Willis hair I've seen. At least he doesn't have it the whole movie.
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Looks like Mostow's made a decent movie - maybe! There's a lot of JG Ballard (living vicariously) which is always a good influence. Some BSG - 'what's human' stuff going one - good. A little dollhouse - hmmm...
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Kiln People, that's one movie I'd like to see. Unlikely though, audiences are to stupid to follow the plotlines involving multiply split personalities.
Thinking of it, it would have merchandise potential though, Play-Doh could make millions.
Thinking of it even further... our colorfull Kiln People, what if photorealistically inserted large scale -=CLAYMATION!=- golems into live action footage with hardly any other cgi... all in 3D... all those things you could do with and to the golems... you could probably fuck AVATAR's eyeballs out of their sockets and let Harryhausen triumph over the likes of Lucas. -
funny thing is i dont know anyone who liked that movie yet just check out its score on rottentomatoes.
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without the talent of Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron. Breakdown was a cool flick though. Gotta watch that again sometime.
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Now I'm looking forward to it. Looks like one of those smart science fiction movies that turns into a blow 'em up motorcycle chase super-jumping kind of thing. But still looks interesting.
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but unfortunately the whole movie has been ruined.. im happy they chose to give away the whole plot instead of letting us go see it first! who cut this trailer?!? why would you give away the entire movie?
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... and certainly Bruce Willis is aging in a great way...
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virtuosity, in that it's an example of potentially interesting sci-fi that doesn't know that you can't light sci-fi movies like an 80's car commercial. it becomes a cartoon by the time you get to the bruce toupee.
if i had no hair and a surrogate, it's hair would look real, and that surrogate would be better looking than me. that's sci-fi. -
No, actually I dont want to know if they did, so if you know the graphic novel please dont tell. If you're complaining because you know they spoiled everything you allready know the whole story. So what are you complaining about?
Anyway, this movie slipped completely under my radar til now, but I have to say the premise looks promising. If this were an adaption of a well written science fiction novel I wouldn't be surprised if they still had some radical plot twists up their sleeves that are not even hinted at in this trailer. Though with Hollywood being what it is that's kind of unlikely.
Still some hope here, if reading Watchmen, which for the first time I did only weeks before the movie, has tought me anything than it is not to completely dismiss graphic novels.
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Which means I'll probably see it.
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Bruce Willis in a sci-fi action flick? And robots? and more stuff blowing up? I'm there.
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Bruce Willis should have been John Conner, not Christian Bale.
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something just looks creepy about that rug
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If not, maybe Frank Stallone as Church?
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Had never heard of this film coming out and totally loved that trailer..dont think they gave loads away really.
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Rosamunda Pike as the wife! Now that will require suspension of disbelief. BTW, really enjoyed Breakdown. Terminator 3 wasn’t bad, certainly better than…..
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If not, count me out
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That needs to be the tagline
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I'd like a robot of that blond chick from Doom, please. She's really hot, because she has no features.
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I still believe Breakdown showed potential which Mostow has yet to fulfil.
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Coming soon.net: "The Hollywood Reporter says that Michael Eisner and his Tornante Co. have hired newcomer Mark Hammer to write a feature adaptation of "Bazooka Joe," the comic strip that comes with Bazooka bubble gum.
"Bazooka Joe" has been a comic strip used as an advertising device for the gum since the 1950s. Joe, who wears an eye patch for reasons never explained, has child-friendly misadventures, sometime joined by a host of friends with the names Pesty, Mort (always with a turtleneck sweater pulled up over his mouth), Toughie, Hungry Herman, love interest Jane and a dog named Walkie Talkie
"Bazooka, the gum and the comic, are part of trading card company Topps' stable. Eisner purchased the company in 2007 for $380 million with a mandate to rejuvenate the brand." -
...sometimes the look and effects of the film reminding of I, Robot (shudder-what an awful movie) this looks good. I love Bruce, and forgive him for Die Hard 4.0, so hopefully he is back to full speed. Also, I always thought Minority Report would have been a better film if Bruce was the lead rather than Tom Cruise...
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I'll be watching for reviews on this one. Hope the trailer didn't show too much.
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Big fat FUCK YOU to whoever cut that trailer, and a big fat EAT SHIT to whoever approved it for release. I friggin hate it when they give away major plot points in the fucking trailers!!!!!
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Got zero confidence in Mostow though...
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THAT LOOKS PRETTY DARN COOL.I will be seeing that! it's nothing like what i expected when i first ehard of the film.Willis looks pretty young-botox?
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I'm thinking around 37 times.
The more sci-fi the better, I say. -
They finally wrote something fresh and original in Hollywood...
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Pull my finger.
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Bad. Really bad.
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Is that hair piece. Yeoch!
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Not a bad idea. It looks pretty cool. I mean let's be real. I'm having a conversation with you guys by my surrogte laptop.
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I can't get enough of 'em and I'll be seeing this. The promising premise trumps the bad hair.
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Mark my words, if the SIM's ever devolope a way out of the computer we are all doomed...DOOOMED I SAY!
Imagine how freaked will be when we see them walking around with big giant rotating jewels rotating above their head.
Well that an not being able to understand what they are saying.
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humans live there lives through surrogate robots, someone starts killing them which kills the operators and bruce willis is forced to head out without a robot body to investigate.
That's the basic plot description ffs. When someone asks you what the film is about that's what you reply with. It's all the trailer gave us and it's just the basic plot elements. It's what it says on the back of the comic to describe it. It's not given away some secret or revealed who the killer is or whatever crap you lot seem to think. -
This is like saying there's a murder movie, and a cop has to find the serial killer/killers/deadly virus, etc. Okay, we get that Bruce comes out of his surrogate. You might as well say the burnt out cop crawls out of the bottle. Nothing was given away.
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You aren't paying attention Lex. There's a massive plot point given away at the end of the trailer. Or so it would seem.
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its a murder movie and here is about 90% of the plot (minus the very end i bet), up to and including all surrogates getting shut down, death of at least one major character, several action scenes, etc. they just showed Cliffnotes version of most of the movie. If im wrong, i'll come back when its released and admit it. They showed a lot more than you just said, Grammaton.
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I have been coming to this site for QUITE a few years now and I'll tell you what, that King Kong animation is the creepiest shit yet. It made my eyes bleed.
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I believe the story was called "Puppets Inc." or something like that? It's a story in the Illustrated Man where a guy uses a robot duplicate of himself that ends up killing him and taking his place. I hope Ray is somewhere cashing a check right now from the producers of this film!
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And it was godawful then...
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Pure unadulterated evil...
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reminds me of this movie. or did i just miss it?
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May 22, 2009 10:31:12 AM CDT
I vote, "maybe". But the "real" Bruce Willis should . . .
by royston lodge
. . . be a massive tub of couch-potato lard. If he spends his entire day in a La-Z-Boy recliner (La-Z-Boy now being a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yoyodyne Industries), why isn't he a massive fatty?
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I was sort of watching the trailer, and doing some other stuff. I'll re-watch it later. Regardless, I still want to see it. This kind of sci-fi stuff is what I find interesting.
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I mean, talk about the potential for identity theft!
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Just saw the Gamer preview. Did not even know existed until today.
And, umm, didn't we just see this a few months ago starring Statham? I mean, come on, how many 'death row inmates being used for our life-and-death entertainment' movies can we actually WATCH before could just write them ourselves? Seriously, this thing looks from the previews to be using the same script, but with randomly substituted bits. Butler is cool and all, so ti may end up being watchable, but still, sheesh. At least Surrogates looks like it may be a bit more interesting. 12 Robot Monkeys maybe? ;) -
Time to start taking some of those lucrative grandfather roles.
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"Marionettes, Inc."
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Second Life, Facebook, Strange Days, Star Trek, Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes, etc, etc.......
The other problem with this is the simple economics. How fucking expensive would it be to have realistic androids and the technology to link you to them. Wasn't the AIBO dog a couple of grand? -
Second Life, Facebook, Strange Days, Star Trek, Twilight Zone and Outer Limits episodes, etc, etc.......
The other problem with this is the simple economics. How fucking expensive would it be to have realistic androids and the technology to link you to them. Wasn't the AIBO dog a couple of grand? -
"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: The surrogates, who investigate crime, and the controllers of the surrogates, who sit on their asses at home. These are their stories." Bruce Willis as a robot detective. I'm in dammit!
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Maybe its been done before, but the whole thing feels pretty new to me. I like it.
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What a ridiculous statement. Are you kidding? If everyone were living through surrogate selves with no consequences (except maybe having to buy a new robot) people would be getting killed left and right for the slightest offenses. It's kind of like how everyone turns into an asshole on talkback because they have no accountability, can hide behind screen names and aren't talking to a person face-to-face. It'd be the wild west out there.
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They both have androids, but the similarity ends there.
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The irony of this trailer being on a social networking site, where you pretty much have an online surrogate.
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..but I love me some sci-fi so I hope it's good..
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Because he's FUCKING HARDCORE, THAT's WHY, GODSDAMNIT!
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its a cool idea.
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Some SF story I read years ago posited that people would not kill avatars/surrogates if the cost of the unit was charged to the criminal. In that story, the surrogate-style units recorded everything about their personal space and so would record the identity of any violent offender. Wish I could remember that story.
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yeah i dont know if that looks good, but who knows. it is a bit different since the people are under mind control. but movies about video games are usually pretty lame.
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"How do you save humanity when the only thing that's real is you"
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This actually looks really good...I've been waiting for Bruce to make another sci fi movie since Fifth Element - he was born for sci fi! Hell I've been waiting for a really good Bruce Willis movie for years now! What's the deal Bruce? Get back to work - and pick better projects!
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Agreed. I find Rosamund Pike being Bruce Willis's wife (she's 24 years younger IRL) even more distracting and implausible than that godawful hairpiece. Only in Hollywood.
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. . . breaking in to people's homes and killing them while they're vegging out in their CyberDyne/La-Z-Boy recliner?
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. . . an opportunity to stare at Rosamund Pike.
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how will this effect the timeline?
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There, I said it. Not right away however, but after multiple viewings, once I was able to detach from my prior expectations of the film. Specifically what I like about T3 is of course it's ballsy ending, but I also like the overall atmosphere of an afternoon road trip when you know the world ends at 6pm. I also liked the fact that this T-800 kind of came off like he resents the fact that he can't kill Connor due to the reprogramming. The T2 800 was his buddy, but this guy makes it clear, he's not his buddy, he's just doing what he's been forced to do. Also loved the concept that the Terminatrix was just a random terminator essentially running errands in the past that accidentally caught Connor's trail and went immediately apeshit to get him. Get rid of the gay bar scene, and the Terminators that looked like they were made by Apple and I overall enjoyed it.
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they'd probably fuck it up but id like to see that. i love that film...futureworld...not so much
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It's got its moments. What's good is good and what's not, isn't THAT bad.
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There is a whole lot more to the story. They have held a lot back.
There are some interesting concepts introduced in the book, imagine getting it on with a really hot woman you meet in a bar, not really knowing it is actually a guy who looks like Harry at home who is the consciousness behind it. Eeeew! -
..when I watched this, though I also get an I ROBOT vibe. Blah.
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I'm I the only one that recognizes that these concepts are nearly 100% taken from Ghost in the Shell.
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What an incompetently cut trailer (as also noted by several people before me)!
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without facial muscles. Just goes to show how nanotechnology is such an amazing thing. hollywood really thinks things through in this regard. They always have the most scientifically accurate depiction of technology. I bet the robots in this movie are made of metal, because it's such a lightweight material, just perfect for sex robots. Hopefully the eyes on the robots will shine too, because it's very practical for a robot to have shining eyes, specially for the stealth models. Yay hollywood!
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Bruce. Great SF concept. Sound visuals. Intriguing stories. He can still pick 'em! Loving your work, Walter!
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...Keanu Reeves isn't the lead.
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wtf now i know everything, and all the twists too. wtffffffffff. but yes more bruce willis please the guy is perfecto mondo.
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I thought it was some Matthew McConaughey rom-com about surrogate mothers. Looks like Mostow got the jump on Cameron and made a sequel to Avatar BEFORE it came this time.
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fucking retarded.
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And what's up with those ridiculous humans? Shiny eyes? They'd be so easily spotted? And having the genitalia right next to the emunctories? Man, Hollywood has the most stupid ideas! Who'd ever intelligently design that???
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I'VE NOW READ EXAMPLES OF IT RIPPING OFF ABOUT 10000 OTHER STORIES. if thats true, then its probably the greatest movie of all time. seriously, how many ways can you show futuristic life with robots? they all borrow from each other, its a limited area. Its not ripping off shit. Jesus, get over yourselves. and the first one of you who responds with some bullshit about "how about coming up with a new idea?" can eat my ass. Dystopian futures with robots is a fucking awesome setting, and you cant do one without having similarities with another. I dont hear whining every time there is a new zombie or vampire or space or whatever. Its ok kids.
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swooosh! thats the sound of my post going way over your head
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But I just watched it again last night and it's really fun. Of course it doesn't have the emotion of T2, but it has that incredible action sequence with the crane, the graphic murder of minors, punching through a FUCKING CHEST and driving the car through it, humor ("Put down the weapon...and...the coffin!") and the best Terminator-on-Terminator battle sequence.Plus, it actually feels like part of the trilogy, not a different fucking universe like McGinty's latest (which is okay for what it wants to be -- that is, "Saving Private Ryan: 2018" as directed by Michael Bay). EOL
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nice futuristic cars from 2007.
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its practically a carbon copy of 2, just replace mom with the girlfriend. Didnt think it was part of a trilogy at all. it was just kinda useless.
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Coming to a Theater near you.
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Might see it just for that.
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it is not based on a fucking novel...its based on a comic...with a very good premise...that this thing we are communicating on is working to make us all less human
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May 22, 2009 11:04:54 PM CDT
Looks like one of those silly Michael Crichton flicks!
by bob cryptonight
Silly but entertaining.
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as fuck.
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The Top Shelf comic, by Robert Venditti & Brett Weldele, was okay. There was too much talking heads stuff to make it a great comic, but maybe it'll make a good movie (and the central idea is fine.)
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im a robot, but thats ok.
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Nice idea, good fx, looks promising if a little I-Robot (which I liked).
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May 23, 2009 7:35:13 AM CDT
THAT'S A BEAT FOR BEAT MATRIX CLONE IF I EVER SAW ONE
by bringingsexyback
Looks entertaining though. It's got Bruce, after all.
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The B is for Bot!
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the trailer doesn't answer the most important question. Is this movie any good? A trailer can only change your level of interest in the flick. Do you want to go? Yes, no, maybe, don't care? Me? I like what I saw. Looks like a possible good one. On another note, anybody like me? I haven't seen any summer tent-pole flicks yet. Last thing I went see was Watchmen. Nothing for the summer except Star Trek has got my interest up. And I still haven't pulled the trigger on that one. I don't know why.
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You should see Trek. It won't disappoint. T4 on the other hand... I wanted to like it, and it has its moments. But ultimately it loses its footing and feels kinda empty.
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i miss trailers where you actually wanted to see the movie.
Check out this book, it has the most sacrilegal and awesome plot ever
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Noone can be told what the surrogate is you have to see it for yourself!
Nah. Not really. I think this looks fun. Also I don't feel like it has a matrix vibe as the idea here is that everyone is knowingly using the robots. I really hope this is good as it seems to tick a lot of my scifi boxes. -
I also enjoyed Star Trek but nothing else much this year. Actually I enjoyed Slumdog as well so thats 2.
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Which used much smarter technology than the usual silicon and chrome. People created surrogates out of hybridized clay, that had a 24-hour lifespan. You download and edited their experiences at the end of their cycle. Very clever stuff.
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And not contemplative boring Bruce Willis. It's difficult to tell from the trailer.
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wow. what a concept. the matrix. blade runner, total recall, westworld and equalibrium all thrown into the mix. this film will make a grip. hooray for hollywood.
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are you, by chance...a pleasure model?
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...is not going to see this movie.
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i cant see the trailer, my bandwidths capped today (dont ask) but i assume this is a hi-tech version of the 'marty funkhauser' surrogate in arrested development? so the robots are like AVATARS right? for people on vr machines? hmm... sounds okay. i'll probably end up reading the comic now.
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No mother has had complications when giving birth?No child has had sids or any other number of possible problems?
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I Like his Hair on Surrogates ! Whats Wrong With his Hair ? but i Dont like his beard or mustache..
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Why actually write a story when you can rip one off from Philip K Dick or David Brin.
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