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THE SIGNAL trailer broadcasts on to the web, this looks great!

FIRST by whatyoufear	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:06:19 PM
firsty mcfirst called
he wants his goyer back. by whatyoufear	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:06:58 PM
he wants his goyer back.
I liked this the first time I READ it last year. by cutest_of_borg	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:25:39 PM
Seems a bit like The Cell. Uncle Stevie should sue.
This felt more like a teaser trailer. by vivavitalogy	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:33:26 PM
The usage of "Perfect Day" was great.
Interesting Music Choice by Cheif Brody	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:35:39 PM
Cool trailer...So...it's like 28 Days Later...with Videodrome tossed in. "Do you have the crazy?" will be a classic movie line, IMO. I'll def check it out. I'm really not that into zombie flicks...but mass crazy mutherfucker movies? I'm in. Long live The Omega Man!!
I like it by Sasha Nein	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:36:25 PM
You Negative Nancy TBers can suck it.
hmm by forceofgravity	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:37:44 PM
at first, I thought of Pulse... but this looks like a much better movie. Of course, compared to Pulse, that's not hard to accomplish. But at least Pulse had Kristen Bell to look at...
Yes... by Ray Gamma	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:38:47 PM
That is how episodes of "Aqua Teen Hunger Force" affect me too...
VERONICA MARS, BABY!!!! by wackybantha	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:40:08 PM
I love the Kristen Bell!!!
Saw it at Sundance, it was great by vich1	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:44:45 PM
One of my faves from the festival (along with "Fido"). I reviewed it here: http://screenrant.com/archives /review-the-signal-576.html
This years Miss 28 Days Later... by TORTURE PWN	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:54:12 PM
Not that thats a bad thing.
Oops,LITTLE Miss 28 Days Later by TORTURE PWN	Feb 3rd, 2007 04:57:47 PM
Sorry for any inconvenience.
i loved Severence... by Jarek	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:01:57 PM
oh well... guess you can't agree with everyone. To me it was intense, occasionally funny, and extremely well made.
'Severance' is absolutely dire and so wants to be... by workshed	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:02:59 PM
...another 'Dog Soldiers' or 'The Descent' yet posesses none of the flair, wit, twists, darkness and great ensemble performances that so marked those two movies. Take it from a Brit... the film to see this year is 'This Is England' - Shane Meadows at his absolute best and a film that sticks in the memory long after you have departed the cinema.
Note about ol' Stevie King by JoeBoozio	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:29:34 PM
This movie predates the novel by about a year. Just in case anyone was curious.
Severence was dire. by instant_karma	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:37:33 PM
And The Host is a jumbled mess, trying to jump back and forward between genres all the time. It could've been one the all time great monster movies if it had just kept the tone that it had in the first 15 minutes. So, does this have levitating telepathic zombies as well?
So it's a family picture? by Orionsangels	Feb 3rd, 2007 05:57:15 PM
WTF is this trailer? It's just kill kill kill, go see this movie.
Damn you Michael Bay by MCMLXXVI	Feb 3rd, 2007 06:07:09 PM
Damn you Michael Bay
That's the biggest peice of shit... by Z0D	Feb 3rd, 2007 06:33:08 PM
and wast of time in my life. /gag/ ___KNEEL___
the HOST? Brilliant? bullshit on that one... by future help	Feb 3rd, 2007 07:10:33 PM
the first 15-20 min was great though.
They should have played... by Yeti	Feb 3rd, 2007 07:49:01 PM
"Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina and the Waves or "Everything's Comming Up Roses" by Black for extra irony.
yawn another emo end-of-the-world fantasy by Sir Loin	Feb 3rd, 2007 07:51:21 PM
CHILDREN OF MEN is how it's done, not this "It's the SIGNAL! We're all gonna die!" crap.
They should make a NICE movie... for the NICE people! by SnapT	Feb 3rd, 2007 09:20:30 PM
Goin' on a holiday, goin' on a holiday...
THIS YEAR'S LITTLE GOTTA EAT SUNSHINE!!! by Unkle	Feb 3rd, 2007 09:21:35 PM
Hurray!
Note on "Cell" by Nodwick	Feb 3rd, 2007 09:43:13 PM
Predating the book or not, this one looks better than "Cell" read. Uncle Stevie should have done more and better research on his book.
Cell research by instant_karma	Feb 3rd, 2007 10:43:15 PM
What research should King have done for Cell exactly? Gone and lived with a real tribe of telepathic levitating phone zombies to study their habits?
Nodwick by JoeBoozio	Feb 3rd, 2007 11:00:23 PM
Damn skippy. Uncle Stevie hasn't done a whole lot of good in quite a while, although I am hoping the adaptation of 1408 is decent. instant_karma - research on how to write a book as entertaining as he used to be able to?
Sir Loin, I think you mean... by Gilkuliehe	Feb 3rd, 2007 11:07:39 PM
CHILDREN OF FUCKING MEN!!! And yes, THAT'S how it's done, baby! (Pull my finger)
Looks like 28 Days later and.... by OriginalThinker	Feb 4th, 2007 12:05:35 AM
used the music from Trainspotting, this team of filmmakers have a hard on for Danny Boyle.
Why Is it dated "2007" then? by VWantsRevenge	Feb 4th, 2007 12:05:40 AM
King finished "The Cell" in 2005. How the fuck can the movie predate that if it was made in 2006? Looks like a big damn ripoff to me, and if it didn't, no one would mention the fact that IT DOES. In the first one minute of the trailer the first thing that popped in my mind was "Hmmmm... looks like The Cell." Call it like it fucking is, don't be a pussy.
lead guy isnt scary at all. he screams like my sister by jarjarsdeathrattle	Feb 4th, 2007 12:50:44 AM
THey shoulda got Kane. Now THERE'S box office gold.
Perfect Day by Psychonaut	Feb 4th, 2007 08:31:32 AM
This looks rather good; a horror movie with a little thought put into it. Bonus points for using Perfect Day on the trailer as well. And is it possible that the maker's started making (or at least writing the movie) without having heard of Cell? I hadn't heard of it until I started reading this talkback. Mind you, the last Steven King book that I did hear about was It. Has he written some other stuff then?
(Curving Fingers) Ironic... by Read and Shut Up	Feb 4th, 2007 10:37:24 AM
...whoops. Meant "tired" and "boring."
wow by arrangedletters	Feb 4th, 2007 12:26:03 PM
Another violence fetish film. Just what we need.
Stephen King Cell video trailer by Fourthwall	Feb 4th, 2007 01:49:54 PM
link below (book- not a film!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =8sZhsLCuC7g
Perfect Day by Nick Sneddon	Feb 4th, 2007 03:18:30 PM
Was already used to great effect in 'Trainspotting'. Not very original of the them I feel.
Host by Dee1973	Feb 4th, 2007 05:48:04 PM
How can anybody hate The Host?
The End Of THe World Of Mankind.....GOTTA EAT by The Ender Smites Foes	Feb 4th, 2007 07:54:30 PM
Fuck me for hopping on the bandwagon. This movie looks cool though, depressing as FUCK, but well shot. I'll se it.
VWantsRevenge by ELGordo	Feb 4th, 2007 08:50:45 PM
A film's release date does not dictate the year it was made. Films take a long time to make, starting from script it takes years. Adding to that, low budget films often take more than a year or two to make so it's quite possible that the makers of The Signal got the idea on paper before King did. As a film fan you should know this stuff.
TERRIBLE TRAILER... "CELL" KING'S BEST IN AWHILE by moto	Feb 4th, 2007 10:27:26 PM
That was just a terrible trailer. Depicted nearly NOTHING about what the film is about and what struggle the characters are going through. For the record, "CELL" is King's best in years. Anyone who calls it a zombie/Dawn of the Dead ripoff is an idiot BECAUSE King dedicates the damn book to George Romero, thus saying "Hey, this is my own take/nod to Romero's genre." It's a damn fine book and will hopefully get made into a damn fine movie. King was back to form in "Cell".
Yeah, gotta agree with the above posters... by halcyonseven	Feb 5th, 2007 12:52:51 AM
APPEARED (note I say "appeared" not "is" since I have not seen the movie) really derivative of 28 days later and the Danny Boyle style. So this trailer gets - 25 points for incredible lack of originality. Might be a good flick though. But this trailer sure as hell doesn't make me wanna go see it. Now when they get done with the movie version of CELL I will be there in a FUCKING heart beat. Great read, very good classic King. I mean it's not Shakespeare, but then again, its not supposed to be.
For What It's Worth by aceillk	Feb 5th, 2007 09:18:00 AM
...even if the CELL is King's greatest work, they will just fuck up the movie. Bastards. As for this flick, I'll keep the hopes high, but the trailer doesn't qiute do if for me.
So how is this not... by Childe Roland	Feb 5th, 2007 11:20:13 AM
...Stephen King's The Pulse (or whatever that not-quite-a-zombie-apocalypse brought on by cell phones book of his was? Isn't Roth still making that movie? I'm willing to bet a thousand American dollars right now that this movie kicks the pants off that one, ass the combined cinematic track record (in terms of quality) for King and Roth should be enough to make any studio exec consider suicide.
my movie. our movie. by ajbowen	Feb 5th, 2007 01:44:01 PM
yeah so thanks and shit for liking it and hating it. hopefully we'll live up to both of those expectations. this trailer was actually on youtube before the cell came out i believe. and i know it was written before, as i had to memorize my lines and be covered in sick well before the book came out, but any time you can be thinking about similar ideas with people like stephen king that's gotta be pretty awesome. in retrospect, though, i kinda wished we'd of done a shot for shot remake of the David Hasselhoff and Linda Blair classic 'Bail Out'. that would have been sweet. xo
God that's depressing, and pretty derivative by KillaKane	Feb 5th, 2007 01:52:39 PM
Note: the appropriation of 'death by fire extinguisher' from Irreversible. Agree with the Boyle template comparisons made by TB-ers. Not convinced of much apart from the inherant indie patina and a shit-load of random ultra-violence (lowest common denominator marketing really).
I would like to ask a question... by emeraldboy	Feb 5th, 2007 03:46:34 PM
does anyone else have a problem playin trailers on the apple site. I have done this several times and all i keep getting is the broken link sign. that is the Q with a question mark on it. what to do.

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