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There's A Bit Of Force Déjà Vu In The New Trailer For BEAUTIFUL CREATURES!!
The Kidd here...
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES looks quite impressive visually from the latest trailer released by Warner Bros., but it also looks a bit familiar as well.
A young Jedi... oh, excuse me... a witch/caster is the key to the Force... I mean, the Light and the Dark... and soon enough they'll have to choose their destiny of using their powers for good or joining up with Darth Vader... or, in this case, Emma Thompson... where together they can rule the galaxy... or wipe out mankind.
Only this time there's a more prominent love story that hangs in the balance...
BEAUTIFUL CREATURES opens in theatres on February 13 of next year.
-Billy Donnelly
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So, this is the new Star Wars?
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This looks awful.
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Somebody wants to make a new Twilight, eh?
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(Hey, it was either that or 'Sabrina, the Teenage Jedi.') Still--Jeremy Irons, Viola Davis, and Emma frigging Thompson in the same movie...and it's this? Arg. Maybe it's suitably lighthearted or something...
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:04 p.m. CST
Way to be a dick Kidd. We all know SW was a retelling of the heros journey to begin with.
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:08 p.m. CST
Remember when Star Wars came along and invented everything?
by Bass Ackwards
Good times...
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:10 p.m. CST
Now, bass ackwards, you know there's someone out there who actually believes that.
by Bill C.
I don't ever want to meet them, but you know they're out there.
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Pile of "Meh" if you ask me.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:17 p.m. CST
This obviously steals more from Twilight than Star Wars
by Elwood Blues
Star Wars stole all that light and dark side stuff, saying this is like star wars is like saying Malick's The New World stole from Disney's Pochantas. Or something like that. My brain is fried from a long week to come up with a better analogy. But you all get the point.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:17 p.m. CST
Personally I would have preferred a decent live action version of the original Dragonlance novels
by JonBrad
I know there's an audience out there if it's done right.
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nephilim138 is right. It's like Twilight is never going to go away. It will just be (barely) retooled every 5-6 movies to start a new insipid story up for another pack of tweens coming up.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:18 p.m. CST
FIRSTLY, Kidd is an IDIOT for using Star Wars as a reference point
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:19 p.m. CST
SECONDLY, nothing about that could EVER be described as 'visually impressive' by anybody with a positive IQ or eyes in their head
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:19 p.m. CST
THIRDLY, that looks fucking awful, like some hive-vagina hybrid of TWILIGHT with THE CRAFT
by golden tribw
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And the last Twilight JUST came out! We can't even get a break from this young girl novel crap? Anyone else really miss Harry Potter at this point? At least straight males could be into that series and it was a hell of a lot more complex and fun than this Twilight shit.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:26 p.m. CST
For a VISUALLY IMPRESSIVE website, certified retard The Kidd (TM) recommends www.ZOMBO.com -- it's beautiful!
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:27 p.m. CST
www.google.com: "holy fuck, are those different colored letters?? Very VISUALLY IMPRESSIVE" -- The Kidd
by golden tribw
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It was Beowulf, It was the Illiad and the Odyssey. Hell, H.R. Pufnstuf was high-adventure and intense drama compared to this. Why did these actors participate in something so bad? They all appear to have a reasonable nest-egg tucked away. I can't imagine any of them needed the money.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:28 p.m. CST
Looking at an egg: "Not quite a circle, not quite an oval! That's VISUALLY IMPRESSIVE!!!" -- Billy The Kidd Donnelly
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:29 p.m. CST
"Oh my god, the camera just moved! The camera. Fucking. Moved! A+++ VISUALLY IMPRESSIVE" -- The Kidd
by golden tribw
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Oh Jeremy, read the script before you agree to do your next movie, OK?
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:30 p.m. CST
"I consider this five-star comedy both HIGH-LARIOUS and VISUALLY IMPRESSIVE" -- The Kidd on JACK AND JILL
by golden tribw
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I still don't get that absurdly low hanging delicacy just waiting for the silver screen has yet to be plucked. We even got 2 "AD&D" movies (one DTV) and what do they do? the create an utter shit story from thin air by screenwriters who must have gotten all of their info about the game from the back of one of the books. Tho it would be sweetness to see someone obscure like Rastlan and crew on the screen either way.
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This looks more like the Craft than Twilight. I don't remember any magic or witches in Twilight...
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:36 p.m. CST
I've never looked down at my watch during a trailer... until now
by Inexplicable_Nuclear_Balls
Felt like that shit dragged on for a half hour. I think I even dozed off at one point.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:45 p.m. CST
Well were at it, this looks like Jumper and I Am Number 4.
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:52 p.m. CST
You'd think Irons would have learned from Eragon..
by kstewandthecuntsman
Although I honestly kinda liked that flick. Push, The Seeker, what other franchise hopefuls have come and gone?? I thought Percy Jackson shit the bed too, but isn't there a sequel in the works?
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So um...Twilight Wiches? Um, K. And The Craft, etc. Everyone's already made the comparisons, I see. Ha ha, the first thing Kidd thinks of is Star Wars.
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And she takes her gear off quite a bit on Shameless
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:58 p.m. CST
Kidd is just trying to get hits by having people click on something they think is SW related.
by kindofabigdeal
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Nov. 16, 2012, 4:59 p.m. CST
So this is pretty much Twilight with witches. Stop this BS 16 year old highschool garbage.
by happybunni
Would the story really be so terrible if it was a few years later? Hell no. And then actors could play their actual ages.
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Just in case.
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Figures. And just as the Twilight series ends. This movie is based on a series of books. Fuck. Gotta deal with this shit again.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 5:47 p.m. CST
Can't wait for the Creature from Black Lagoon monsters to take off...
by Flames gotta Eat
Young adult novels have ruined Vampires, MTV is bastardizing werewolves with Teen Wolf, Zombies are everywhere now and now Witches (oh Im sorry, "Casters"). But everyone dressed as Creatures in love traingles would be cool right? Underwater battles with werewolves and sparkle zombies? OK I'd be down for that.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 5:55 p.m. CST
Creature Returns to the Blue Lagoon...starring Brooke Shields
by kindofabigdeal
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I think you have to stretch pretty damn far to connect start wars with this. I mean for fuck sakes <b>ANY</b> being who acquires power has to make the decision to use it for good or evil... you could play the déjà Vu card with over 500 different movies.
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When u look twice at the time bar to see if the trailer is almost over yet.
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and i wasn't disappointed. Visually, it does look good. Story-wise, they got a bit over the top for the teens with the entire world and humanity hinging on the love of two kids bit(not even Twilight went there, but i guess someone had to). But on the whole though, it really didn't look like a bad movie for its target demographic. Basically a popcorn date film for Valentines Day weekend /shrug. They do at least look like they got their mythology straight and seem to be performing the formula well without coming off as a complete copy(regardless of what Kidd thinks).
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Wake me when it's over.
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more easily digestable occult bullshit for the kiddies.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 7:04 p.m. CST
Hell if shitty ideas like this can get made maybe it's about time to finish my novel.
by kindofabigdeal
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Anyone else get that feeling? The battle between the light and dark casters? They just slapped in the south rather than Russia and moved it to High School... because remember in High School, that's when Everything matters.
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You pick Star Wars? I mean really who is the unoriginal one here. . .?
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These newer teen movies are ridiculous and very little effort seems to be put in to them. certainly no real wit. as for teen comedies 80s and 90s relied on character and more subltely than the obsession with dick and fart jokes that yank teen movies do now. and even worse what is with the constant homophobia humour? get over it, its not funny. It seems to be an american only thing, the brits actually use wit and subtlety.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 7:49 p.m. CST
Star Wars lifted stuff from: Asimov's Foundation, Flash Gordon, A Princess of Mars, Kurosawa films, Dune, Tolkien
by lv_426
George Lucas took elements from all those, mixed them up with his own ideas and mythology and archetypes to make Star Wars. Now, was Star Wars more unique when it debuted back in the late 70's? I'd say so, but at the same time it isn't like Lucas pulled it all out of thin air and created it from dust and farts. There is also something to be said for tradition as well. Twilight went nuts with its overpowered and sparkled vamps. Compare that with something like Let The Right One In, which didn't break the vampire myth up and reconstruct it into bits of sparkly crap. Speaking of which, this Beautiful Creatures flick looks way way WAY better than Twilight. Not that witches are really my kind of thing, although I do like The Wizard of Oz and The Craft was kind of a fun but cheesy 90's teen angst flick.
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Nov. 16, 2012, 8:41 p.m. CST
Can't wait to hear how Quint called chick-lit being the next big thing.
by loafroaster
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would watch that and go "STARWARS RIPOFF WE HAVE A STARWARS RIPOF HERE FOLKS" Twilight and that shitty b cooper film have fucked with your sense of reality man. Movie looks like shit and probably is shit.
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Yep. Couldn't even make it through the trailer. Despite Emily Rossum being delicious.
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is how old you fuckers have become. If it aint High Fucking Art that nobody goes to watch, you're shitting all over it. Why? YOU'VE GROWN OLD. Man, when I was growing up I didn't nitpick every fucking trailer and point out every reference as if somehow that meant jack shit to the world. If it looked cool, I went to see it. And you know what, for every movie I liked there was some Old Fuck who was ready to tell me how stupid it was. YOU ARE NOW THOSE OLD FUCKS.
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They named themselves after wheels on furniture?
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Nov. 16, 2012, 10:31 p.m. CST
Just showed this in 1080p on a 6-inch HDTV and the audience asked IS THAT DIRECT TO DVD? No word of a joke.
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 10:31 p.m. CST
You know when the trailer features shots worse than the 10-year-old-movies they are ripped out of ...
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 10:31 p.m. CST
... that only a serious fucking idiot could call the visuals impressive
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 10:33 p.m. CST
Sorry, CARRIE 2: THE RAGE was 1999 ... this movie is (badly) ripping off THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD SEQUELS (among other things)
by golden tribw
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Nov. 16, 2012, 11:23 p.m. CST
In other news, Quint is a genius prophet b/c he predicted crappy movies released in February
by Logan_1973
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Nov. 17, 2012, 2:07 a.m. CST
They make movies based off of books like Twilight and this, but Hollywood stays away from the Dark Tower like the plague.
by CodeName
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... just like any other movie that is directed towards the teen marked. We also have The Host and Warm Bodies, some new Romeo and Juliet movie adaption that is going to get released next year. And all because of Twilight cos it made so much money.
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Nov. 17, 2012, 5:48 a.m. CST
Also something called The Mortal Instruments coming out..
by kstewandthecuntsman
Another YA franchise hopeful
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Nov. 17, 2012, 6:23 a.m. CST
I'm willing to accept that there's an audience for this, but does AICN have to report on it??
by IWasInJuniorHighDickhead
It's pretty obvious that these cookie cooker teen cash grabs are here to stay, but they're pretty much the antithesis of everything we love about film. Do you have to cover them here? Would there really be a problem if no one at AICN took the time to look at this trailer, or if no one bothered to review the film itself? I don't think so, so i'd ask why you're bothering. They've strayed so far from having any intrinsic worth to the point where they're just another branch of a marketing campaign; I have no problem not considering them as films, and there is so much out there that is more worthy of attention. This should be bottom of the barrel stuff.
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Nov. 17, 2012, 7:31 a.m. CST
What the fu- The love interest due looks about 40 years old!
by FreeBeer
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what a fucking disgrace.
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The Bloody-Nine needs to see the screen.
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Nov. 17, 2012, 10:12 a.m. CST
I see almost no resemblance to Star Wars. Kidd's got Star Wars on the brain....
by john
Agreed with everyone else that its more The Craft/Twilight/Red Riding Hood etc. No clue why Kidd made that comparison as it really is a stretch.
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The students shielding themselves from the shattered window before it breaks. Nice fuckin' model! *honkhonk*
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And, let's face it, 'The Covenant' was overflowing with vaginas in the shape of the pretty boy male cast. Cheap-looking Jennifer Lawrence lookalike might as well have stated, "We're not witches, we prefer the term 'mensers'." Because of, y'know, all the menses spraying all over the trailer.
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Nov. 17, 2012, 12:25 p.m. CST
Star Wars was never an original story you can't reference it as the influence to this George used
by Torben
...many myths, religions, stories and films from the past to make a decent sci fi, yes the effects were original but not the themes, stories are retold for a new generation of movie goers
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Of every bad movie from the last 5 years, this looks terrible.
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see what i did there?
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If so, they really screwed it up. (Joking, joking.)
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that is all that matters
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Nov. 17, 2012, 6:13 p.m. CST
I need to cash in on this. Looks like ANYONE can write a YA franchise.
by whatevillurks
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Nov. 17, 2012, 7:09 p.m. CST
I couldn't possibly listen to that many fake southern accents in such a short time.
by Gabe Athouse
If this does well it will be as big a WTF to me as professional wrestling and Justin Beiber.
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Nov. 17, 2012, 7:28 p.m. CST
Say what you will... that looks way better than any crappy TWILIGHT movie.
by Jake Pantlin
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But I think it looks impressively goth fantasy awesome.
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Nov. 17, 2012, 7:41 p.m. CST
I can't wait for the big-screen version of The Troll Twins of Underbridge Academy.
by Royston Lodge
That book had a really original take.
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The other part of the problem is that many people, myself included from time to time, use Star Wars and Campbell as the genesis point of tracking how plots work. All at once, the plot of Star Wars is classic, effective and really boring. Especially when people reuse it blatantly. While this seems a bit esoteric, I'd recommend reading Norse Sagas to see what people were doing in terms of heroes dealing with obstacles in a storytelling situation 1000 years ago. It's funny how much has changed and how much has not. Certainly those stories have their dreck and their faults, but a key issue missing from movies like this (and admittedly all the super hero movies for the most part) is a will to not have the same ending all the time. In some of the sagas people just get stuck in the form of wolves and their companion just has to put them down, Old Yeller style. I'm not suggesting any particular story, but more that these are concrete examples of non-moralized endings that someone could handle writing well 1000 years ago. Perhaps if we talk about more diverse formal expectations, like the spoilerific but fantastic little article about Aaron Sorkin, we can crowdsource these values to at least a portion of the population and maybe in a few films. Likewise for "The Master" The benefits of discussing positive examples of different plots, structures and goals for movies leads us to things, like: -Bruce Wayne actually dying in Dark Knight Rises, rather than his supposed death being a cheap audience manipulation. -The vulnerability of characters and the unexpected would draw the audience in, similar to how Whedon at his best on TV, was willing to take down marquee characters. -Making Damon Lindelof less special and hirable, because people would seek more genuinely weird but thoughtful writers, than the often gimmicky, throwaway way he approaches these kinds of values. I suppose I don't support one way of doing things in general, and it would be really cool if Beautiful Creatures, for example, bucked all of the suppositions we've had in this talkback. Maybe a starting point is no more chosen one stories. If anything, Amadeus is a good example of how the person who has to endure the chosen one is more fun to focus on. (Note: major love to F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce for nailing their roles).
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This kind of story is from the dawn of stories. Star Wars itself is extremely derivative from a large number of sources. Read or watch some Joseph Campbell. Granted, this movie looks horrible, but surely you could have thought of an intelligent way to say it?
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i've said it before and ill say it again, i am very glad i grew up when i did as this current generation of teens culture has not shred of masculinity at all. the celebration of flat chested pale scrawny chicks, and puny skinny pretty boy blokes is terrible.
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Rolled my eyes so many times till I saw that crap trailer!I honestly believe that the movie Idiocracy is happening for real!
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And this looks even worse than that. Why the fuck would you even post a story about this worthless piece of shit instead of just watching it rot into obscurity. Shame on you.
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AWFUL.
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let them gobble it up and choke on it.
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these novels may be acclaimed, but they are totally derivative as is the movie teens will eat it up
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He ripped off Japanese cinema (particularly Kurosawa). I'm stunned that people on here think Star Wars was some original work. Idiots. Watch The Hidden Fortress and then slip into a hot bath and slice open your wrists. Your God was a thief.
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It's not like there was an original story in it either.
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Nov. 18, 2012, 2:58 p.m. CST
also Kidd, sorry bruh but I got ZERO Star Wars vibe from or out of that trailer. I think you stretched that a litttttttle bit far.
by peter
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Fuck that shit now!
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Nov. 19, 2012, 4:25 a.m. CST
I too kept hoping Kate Winslet and Charlie's Neighbor would appear with a rock in pantyhose
by tangcameo
And start smashing skulls in. Every time I go to Walmart and pass by what passes for the book section there, and see the selection of black covered teen paranormal/syfy books there - ever growing like a malignant tumor - I shudder and fear for this world.
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Nov. 19, 2012, 7:49 a.m. CST
Liked the Florence & The Machine in the trailer but that was about it. I'll pass
by Wcwlkr
Yeah I'm good on that, but very astute call on the Star Wars mimicing
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