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GHOSTS OF MARS larger, clearer trailer!
Hey folks, Harry here with an upgrade to the trailer for GHOSTS OF MARS that Smiling Jack had up yesterday... Sony has gone and posted a high and low res rendition of the first teaser for John Carpenter's latest film. And though I looked really, really hard... no Harry head yet. But hey... that's cool...
My favorite part of the trailer is the music and the segmenting of the screen to the score. However, the problem with the trailer and any of the advertising for this film... well, they can't show you the stuff that would make you go "OH SHIT!" because the MPAA won't let them relish in decapitated heads and metal pushed through bleeding skin... Just ain't gonna happen... But the film'll have it...
Also, almost ZERO effects work has been finished at this early stage. Speaking of ZERO, that pumpkin-nosed ghost's best friend is who pointed me in the right direction... Way To Go Boy!
Click here to go get high quality versions of the GHOSTS OF MARS trailer
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Mar 23, 2001 11:42:40 PM CST
Thanks, now I can see more clearly how much this film will blow
by bastardly
This movie looks less exciting than green ketchup.If he's going to put his name in front of his movies, might as well add 'Newest Failure' too. John Carpenter's Newest Failure Ghost of Mars, it would save many a people 8 bucks and some dignity.
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...But I don't see him in the official credits anywhere. Why oh why isn't he in more movies? He's got an incredible presence, and incredible voice, he can do comedy, drama, and he's one bad mutha. Keith David would be such a more critically acclaimed actor if he was white. Sad but true. He and Bruce Campbell both need to get more work. And Don Cheedle too.
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I will place any money on this going straight to home video in the UK. Its only in the USA, that shit like this gets released in the cinema. It looks like it was made in the 80's. One question John...Where the f*&@k is The THING 2, dont waste your time on crap like this...YOU KNOW WHAT WE WANT!!!!!!!
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That trailer contains just about every convention from any other big studio genre film from the last century. The only thing that was missing was some codger yelling "I'm gettn' too old for this shit!!". There's nothing here to set this film apart, and certainly nothing to make me anticipate seeing it. What crappy marketing; if this is the final trailer, this film will die a lonely, miserable death at the box office like Carpenters' last 4 or 5 (or more) films. I've been a big fan of Carpenter since all the way back to Dark Star, but I really think he should throw in the towel. The last few films he made gave me hope that each would be his big comeback, and I was disappointed every time. I will hope again with 'Ghosts of Mars', but this trailer is a bad sign...
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Mar 24, 2001 6:47:27 AM CST
All Carpenter haters can shove it up their collective asses
by napolean wilson
Yes, this has a lot of conventional elements to it - but this IS a genre film, douchebags. It's like looking at a preview for a Western and saying - "This is going to suck ass 'cause it has horses in it! I can't believe they're actually making another western with horses in it!" The bottom line is that there's few genre films that DON'T borrow elements from other films - usually from several films at once. And as for dialouge, there might be better lines in the actual movie but overall this is dialouge that has to be functional rather than eloquent. I guess everyone bitching about the lines from this GOM trailer must be thinking of all the famously smart dialouge in, say, Alien, The Terminator or The Matrix. Oh, that's right - there wasn't any! But yet those films are classics so let's not pin everything in a sci-fi horror movie on its dialouge - especially the few random lines in this trailer. If GOM is nothing more than a fun popcorn flick I'll be happy because that's obviously what it's meant to be. I just don't understand people who choose to frequent a site that focuses on genre films but yet don't get the appeal of genre films in the first place.
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It has that 70's look and feel (thanks to the Keith David naration) with a modern touch. I can't wait. This looks realy realy cool. And Why don't we see Keith David IN the film? It would make the film that much better.
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-SNAKE PLISSKEN.Now thats cool and GHOSTS of MARS Looks also cool so stop bitchin about Carpenter.
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The way they were making Desolation's character out to be in earlier scoops, you'd think he was a bald, Riddick-Style character with the dark, deep voice and everything. The look that Cube has right now him as maybe a throwback to a really tough yet likeable character with some one-liners that are funny ( more like Nada from they live than Snake). Too early to tell.
Also, in this trailer, which is quickly cut for today's audiences (grr) you can see classic Carpenter set ups (lots of characters interacting, trying to figure things out in the madness) and it may stray from the "Vampires" technique and go back to the slow burn of suspense, building up to action. Of course I'm going to see it. -
Yo, John C needs to retire. He just slaps together scenes from other movies and repackages as genre. It looks like the same (20 year) old thing all over again--which I wouldn't mind if it kicked ass, this doesn't look to be the case tho'.
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Hey, we've didn't see any special effects and we didn't see the gore that Carpenter loves. So how can people judge this film? Anyone who's seen Assault on Precinct 13 or The Thing knows where Carpenter is going with this film. A bunch of people stranded and fighting against desperate odds versus some sort of alien creature that no one understands. That FUCKING ROCKS everybody! This movie looks too cool. Even Ice Cube (who I was leary about) looks good in this. Throw in decapitated bodies, zombies, violence and gore, and a naked Natasha Henstridge, and this could be a major hit. All your base are belong to us!
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I`m looking forward to GOM. If you ask me, the only two REALLY crap films Carpenter has made were "Village Of The Damned" and (of course) "Escape From LA". "In the Mouth Of Madness" was GOOD, people, I don`t understand why people hate it. And "Vampires" was medicore, but not a total waste IMO. It had a lot of fun scenes (mostly thanks to James Woods), but here`s my only big gripe with "Vampires" - Carpenter builds and builds the suspense leading up to the 'big final battle', but then, when the 'big final battle' comes, HE DOESN`T EVEN SHOW IT! We just get slow-motion montages of the action. WTF?
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Mar 24, 2001 12:02:39 PM CST
Hey Napolean Wilson, not all Carpenter films are great you idiot
by gary2012
I like John Carpenter a lot. As a young child he was the first film maker I knew by name and reputation (yes even before Lucas, though I was a huge Star Wars nut as a kid). I love Escape from New York. I love The Thing. I love Halloween. I love a lot of his movies, but not all. You know why people are upset about this crappy trailer, and all of the stupid cliched catch phrases and typical action movie bullshit that it demonstrates? Because John Carpenter used to be a guy who set standards in horror and sci fi films. He created the slasher film genre with Halloween. He created the whole cyber punk setting with Escape From New York. Most Cyber Punk is basically Escape From New York's world with cybernetics and computers. "Genre films" is such a cop out shit mouth line. EVERY SINGLE FILM IS IN A "genre"! There is no excuse for mediocrity. Mediocre films are not good. John Carpenter can do better than Mediocre so why would you accept that? Just because John Carpenters name is on it? That is pathetic. The way he got such a good reputation was from making films that weren't just mediocre. The only hope I have left for this film is still there only because the trailer doesn't actually tell you much of what the story is (and that fucking scum bag Courtney Love is not in it). Other than that I have no hope this will be good. John Carpenter has it in him to do great things, but lately he hasn't been letting it out. And that is coming from a life long Carpenter fan. I just hope he gives us another really good film some time soon.
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The preview shows some promise, but isn't this almost the same as Pitch Black, not to mention Precinct 13 (itself a rehash of Rio Bravo)? On to more important matters. Having passed on most of Carpenter's films over the last several years, I'm curious how they rate. Dark Star, Precinct 13, Halloween, Escape from NY, Starman, and Big Trouble in Little China were all great. The Thing also has much to recommend it. They Live, The Fog and Escape from LA were disappointments. How about the rest? Do any measure up to his earlier work through the 70's and 80's?
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just taking a moment to remind everybody that Vampires is fucking awful.
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I'm not exactly holding my breath for GoM. What I'm psyched about in a big way is the 'Big Trouble in Little China' DVD, out May 22nd. Yarrrr!!!! It's all in the reflexes, y'know.
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Imagine Roger Corman doing the Martian Chronicles...I bet it'd look like this flick.
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Imagine Roger Corman doing the Martian Chronicles...I bet it'd look like this flick.
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Mar 25, 2001 12:09:11 AM CST
Personally I'll wait until I see it and know what I'm talking ab
by jackburton
But I guess it's just asking too much for the fanboy audience at large to do the same. No better yet rip the shit out of a film that you know precious little about under the clear safety of online anonymity. I guess that's the real difference between a film geek and a fanboy, a film geek wants to see cool new films and give things the benefit of the doubt, at least until he or she has seen them, whereas a fanboy just wants to mouth off on how crap everything is going to be under the mistaken belief that it makes them hardcore, and never seems to understand how their actions in this regard make them look like a complete and utter tool. I'd rather be a film geek any day of the week.
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Mar 25, 2001 12:12:18 AM CST
Oh yeah, and I totally agree with the the Keith David comments a
by jackburton
The guy is one of the great, under used and under rated actors of modern times in my opinion. Someone give him a lead in something worthwhile soon for the sake of all things film cool.
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One of the earliest films credited with starting the slasher genre is italian director Mario Bava's "Twitch of the Death Nerve" which predates Carpenter's film considerably.
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My God. Much as I'd be curious to see a followup to that 80's gem, for the luvva Myers, not THAT sequel!!! An alien bounty hunter named Gotha?! An evil CIA boss. I hope this was someone's bad hypersleep dream and not an actual script.
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Mar 26, 2001 3:53:01 AM CST
Ice Cube in a leading role? PFFFT!!! Carpenter, YOU'D BEST CHECK
by rogue_leader
Come on! I am getting sick of this rapper/actor shit. Give it up Ice Cube can't friggin act that great. Sure he can be "passible" but anyone can act on that level. Get a real friggin lead. Let Ice Cube stick with his friggin day job OK?
P.S. The movie looks lame as hell. I mean come on they have to fight their way through Mars against a mind-controlled populace killing innocent people? Thats lame! Can you say "Assault on Planet 13"? Thats what this movie looks like. Oh Carpenter, how the mighty hath fallen! Vampires should've been the nail in the coffin for your career so to speak. Do us and yourself a favor and make a movie people want to see like Big Trouble in Little China 2 with Chow Yun Fat and Zhang Ziyi. -
This movie is gonna blow chunks. John Carpenter used to have 'it', but not anymore. I'm gonna avoid this movie like the plague.
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And Natasha Henstridge? Uh, you know I want to know what happened to Gina Gershon - to me, she would have been perfect for this part. Does she not want to play a tough chick anymore? John Carpented USETO be a master of horror, but of late, a master of hack.
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that sucks.....i feel no need to add any more words
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The horror/western is a cool and interesting subgenre (supernatural westerns are even better - e.g.High Plains Drifter, Pale Rider)but this story seemingly echoes plot elements of the sci-fi novel The Reality Dysfunction - pioneers on a frontier planet encounter and are possessed by the malign entities that have lain dormant for centuries; havoc ensues etc. Anyone agree?
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