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The Trailer For David Goyer's THE UNBORN (Not THE UNBOURNE) Is Now Online!!

Looks fucking good! by Mezzanine	Oct 9th, 2008 02:14:40 PM
Sign me up!
First? by anyrandomhero	Oct 9th, 2008 02:16:18 PM
and i watched the thing
Video not accessible? by beatleMatt	Oct 9th, 2008 02:20:24 PM
...another link anyone?
HELL WITH THIS! I AM FIRST!! by solartaco3	Oct 9th, 2008 02:21:31 PM
take that talkbackers!
Cool imagery by zikade zarathos	Oct 9th, 2008 02:21:39 PM
I'll give it that it has a lot of cool little visual ideas going on (the weird spider finger things coming through the wall; the old man twisted around). It looks like the movie's plot is just an excuse to throw every idea Goyer had that he thought was scary ever. Fine with me! BLADE TRINITY was so awful though I think I'l wait for reviews...
Hurmmm by macheesmo3	Oct 9th, 2008 02:22:04 PM
This kinda looks like Prince of Darkness meets Ju-on meets another cruddy Bay produced horror flick...
But then again by macheesmo3	Oct 9th, 2008 02:22:47 PM
It does have Oldman... He's usually a pretty good gauge for script quality....
balls to MTV not playing outside the US!!! by CampKoala	Oct 9th, 2008 02:23:31 PM
watch this instead - It's the Election, but Star Wars! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v =HaViiUjH92U
GARY OLDMAN GOTTA EAT!!! by HoboCode	Oct 9th, 2008 02:35:31 PM
Seriously, Gary? What the fuck are you doing in this film? It looks like utter schlock. Even the fucking trailer is paint by numbers bullshit.
Halfway through the trailer, I almost stopped watching... by mefrog	Oct 9th, 2008 02:36:18 PM
...but those visuals are interesting. And I fucking love Oldman. I'll probably be missing this though. Not enough to really grab my attention.
That dog reminds me of the weird dog person from by jimmy_009	Oct 9th, 2008 02:39:46 PM
Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the one with Donald Sutherland. Possibly the freakiest moment in movie history, set to banjo music no less.
Poor Gary Oldman by Thick McRunFast	Oct 9th, 2008 02:40:18 PM
How'd Goyer talk him into this abortion? Didn't his agent know about 'Blade 3'?
Masuka and Harry! Looks cool. by Gilkuliehe	Oct 9th, 2008 02:41:29 PM
Although I must say Michael Bay's name there is a bit worrying. Let's face it, the guy is like a shit King Midas. Everything he touches, turns to shit.
David Goyer....isn't he gay? by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Oct 9th, 2008 02:43:37 PM
What......what's that you say?..........awwwwww its just his writing that sucks cock.
Odette Yustman = Wonder Woman by DarthBakpao	Oct 9th, 2008 02:55:25 PM
You know you want it. WB, here's your Wonder Woman!
Oh god. Another... by Roketopunch	Oct 9th, 2008 02:55:30 PM
little kid/ghost movie. Tired of this shit. If I could travel back in time, I would find Shyamalan and kill him so The Sixth Sense couldn't be made and the whole Japanese ghost story trend would never be. Fuck this movie. said with eyes rolling
a new pile by fartedinthefaceofhollywood	Oct 9th, 2008 03:04:20 PM
we need to start a new pile for movies like this...they are starting to roll off the top. anyway, this will come and go...i almost aaaallllmost forgot about The Messengers...which i didn't even need to see...the trailer was enough to confirm the obvious.
This movie by Quint	Oct 9th, 2008 03:07:48 PM
Looks fucking great. I hope it lives up to this trailer. I love me some creepy bent up people and human faces on animals.
Nobody fucking rips off PHANTASM!! NO ONE!! by DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD	Oct 9th, 2008 03:15:31 PM

January dumping grounds.... by Mr. Saladhands	Oct 9th, 2008 03:18:02 PM
He's a good writer...and a not so hot director. Did you see THE INVISIBLE? God Awful...
hmmm by fartedinthefaceofhollywood	Oct 9th, 2008 03:20:02 PM
i hope ya like it Quint, but last time i checked out a "creepy" movie i got burned (totally my fault though, i placed my hand on a hot stove and let it there for an hour and a half)...i saw The Eye, yeah...that Jessica Alba version...what can i say, i had an afternoon to kill
DANNY by fartedinthefaceofhollywood	Oct 9th, 2008 03:21:43 PM
depends on which Phantasm movie is beig ripped off...i enjoyed the first one, the rest...meh. to each his own however.
Really Quint? by HoboCode	Oct 9th, 2008 03:36:57 PM
You think that looked "fucking great"? This looks like all the other Ring/Eye ripoffs. It begs the question of whether Goyer ripped this off from a superior Japanese film or novel we don't know about yet.
All over the map by Tar Heel	Oct 9th, 2008 03:43:15 PM
Soul of unborn kid? Ghost? Demon? So what the hell are we dealing with here? I have a gut feeling this will flop.
WOW THIS LOOKS AWFUL by fassbinder79	Oct 9th, 2008 03:44:15 PM

Tar Heel by fartedinthefaceofhollywood	Oct 9th, 2008 03:48:58 PM
im no box office analyst...but my guess, 11 or 12 million opening weekend...a 50% drop the next weekend...then...GONE and on its way to DVD 3 months later.
you can bet there will be a "UNRATED" edition as well by fartedinthefaceofhollywood	Oct 9th, 2008 03:49:34 PM

"I ain't got time for this Mickey Mouse bullshit! by dirtsandwich	Oct 9th, 2008 03:50:45 PM
It has potential. But pretty cliche too. Oldman rocks!
Plays like a "greatest hits" from other horror movies by JimCurry	Oct 9th, 2008 03:55:01 PM
I think THE REAPING had a pretty cool trailer too...
it looks good by chipps	Oct 9th, 2008 03:55:56 PM
even if some of the tricks are old. hmm so what i guess,
This thing is one Michael C. Hall away from being by RaveX	Oct 9th, 2008 04:09:22 PM
"Dexter The Movie". That being said, it looks kinda good. I any case, better then trailer for remake of "A Tale of Two Sisters". ...seems as if they frakked up the dinner/under-the-cupboard scene.
The Dark Half by König Lear	Oct 9th, 2008 04:11:53 PM
The movie adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Half was a little more rooted in psychological horror, and so a little more palatable. (The movie wasn't very good, but it at least had ONE foot in the reality pool.) This just looks...I don't know. It could be diverting, I guess, but when it costs as much as it does to go to the movies, "diverting" doesn't compel my ass into a seat. Gary Oldman, though..
No more spooky kids. Enough by SirLoin	Oct 9th, 2008 04:15:34 PM
Can we move on to the next horror cliche please?
Also by König Lear	Oct 9th, 2008 04:16:51 PM
I'd really like to see the quick death of the "Old-film-holds-the-secret/evi l spirit" trick. It's an indirect but powerful suggestion that we go watch a movie made better twenty years ago, and I usually do.
Hoping by Cobbio	Oct 9th, 2008 04:18:55 PM
I enjoy Goyer's writing, but am wary of his directing after "Blade 3." Obviously, the guy enjoys genre mayhem, wackiness, and violence, so hopefully he put it together for this new film. The two things that stick out the most for me about that trailer were: a) Odette, a hottie extraordinaire who seems to have some acting chops too, and b) The tweaky, old-school, glass-smashing violence. A horror movie without rip-roaring violence, aka every J-horror film ever made, loses huge points with me. This new film appears to contain lots of lots of R-rated phantasmagoria. So maybe it'll be good. I hope so.
it rips off... by ufoclub1977	Oct 9th, 2008 04:29:23 PM
off Alice Sweet Alice as well.... with the raincoat kid and knife... doesn't it?
Daaaaang... by Bulvai	Oct 9th, 2008 04:31:46 PM
K, that's worth a look.
screw US-ONLY releases on the INTERNET... by tbdeinc	Oct 9th, 2008 04:42:26 PM
F#$Ken learn the meaning and the intent of the word: INTERNET.... if you want to release only in the US, then make copies and snailmail them to your US friends... here is a hirez version: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ b4e0db
Wow, I'm genuinely surprised... by SilentP	Oct 9th, 2008 05:02:26 PM
...that people actually seem to be liking this trailer. Are you serious? That looks awful. The stupid little kid going "He wants to be born now" (horror writers... little kids aren't scary anymore. it's over. they're just annoying now. let it go.). Or "Is it possible to be haunted by someone... who wasn't EVEN BORN!?!?!" Like, what? Why would that be any more fantastic than being haunted by someone period? Only some of the visual imagery in this was worthwhile. Like the old guy twisting his head. Though it's not like that kind of thing has never been done before either.
Oh oh by SilentP	Oct 9th, 2008 05:06:55 PM
and the scene where the blanket comes off her and the kid is feeling her up or something. That was also pretty terrible. Seriously, this looks good to people? I am honestly baffled. Especially considering how much the talkbackers here seem to immediately hate everything, how does this look good to you? It does not compute.
I'm Oz and I can watch it no problems by Womb2dooM	Oct 9th, 2008 05:13:23 PM
And holy shit that is the best horror trailer I think I have ever seen! This just shot up to number 4 on my must see list!
BABIES WANT TO GET BORNED!!! by Womb2dooM	Oct 9th, 2008 05:17:57 PM
That was playing through my head as soon as the reveal came about what's haunting her. She's really hot by the way. She's almost Jessica Alba hot, if Jessica Alba had a fatal foetus nubbin on her Milkior!
wait, I know the kid by DeadPanWalking	Oct 9th, 2008 05:29:20 PM
Isn't he the lead singer of Fall Out Boy? Now that IS scary. (thanks, I'll be here all week.)
Horror cliche checklist by skimn	Oct 9th, 2008 05:30:32 PM
Evil spooky kid...check (practically every other horror film from the past twenty years) Little person in raincoat holding knife...check (has no one here seen Don't Look Now?) Exorcist scene...check (There have been so many exorcism movies lately I'm expecting "Exorcism At Denny's") spiderwalk person...check (Hello, Exorcist?) dog w/face...check (mentioned earlier with Body Snatchers) Of course they mention the Batman connection, but wasn't Goyer's previous film The Invisible...
Great trailer, plus the girl is hot. by dr sauch	Oct 9th, 2008 05:32:35 PM
we'll see
skimn by Womb2dooM	Oct 9th, 2008 05:52:54 PM
So if something has been done ONCE before, it's cliche?! Pump the breaks kid. It's not the clouds in the sky it's the shapes in your eye.
Is this related to the other Unborn franchise by CalvinCoolidge	Oct 9th, 2008 06:00:09 PM
the unborn 2 was hilarious
My God. Odette Yustman... by Mr. Nice Gaius	Oct 9th, 2008 06:25:02 PM
...is a turbo-hottie. I have to see this movie because of my "See Every Film Gary Oldman Is In Rule".
Mr. Nice Gaius by Bricktops hammer	Oct 9th, 2008 06:35:11 PM
Had that same rule which is why I sat thru the awful Lost in Space. Live and learn
Sorta with Quint by Neosamurai85	Oct 9th, 2008 06:35:40 PM
but the child actor looks terrible. When he hit her, I actually laughed, and much like Silent Hill (which it is clearly ripping off), it feels like one of those annoying misses where so much is right, but what's wrong is too much. Still Love me some Gary. Side note: anyone else feel that The Dark was really underrated in this new genre of "trying to do Silent Hill better than Silent Hill?"
Bricktops hammer by Mr. Nice Gaius	Oct 9th, 2008 06:37:20 PM
I have been there my Oldman brother. I have been there.
The girl is too hot by Bricktops hammer	Oct 9th, 2008 06:38:15 PM

Good choice for WONDER WOMAN by Demode	Oct 9th, 2008 06:42:08 PM
...Very good choice... mmmm....
Why they try to make Idris Elba look evil? by drturing	Oct 9th, 2008 06:46:23 PM
Sheeeeeeeeee-it. This looks like kind of absolute shit that dumb teenagers guarantee a 20 mil opening weekend. Also imagine how much cooler this movie would be if the evil little kid was played by the kid from Problem Child.
Gaius by Bricktops hammer	Oct 9th, 2008 06:53:56 PM
Having trouble thinking of another bad one, though. Jade, that's going pretty far back, and was not that bad. Oldman was good at least "hmph, that makes us practically related"
Best Oldman movie? by Holy Hell	Oct 9th, 2008 07:28:06 PM
Romeo is Bleeding.
"So you're the big hoodlum? Personally, I don't see it. " by caruso_stalker217	Oct 9th, 2008 07:46:34 PM
"Keep lookin'." ROMEO IS BLEEDING. Criminally overlooked. Great performance by Oldman, Lena Olin is weirdly sexy, etc. My favorite Oldman movie is still DRACULA, though.
Am I the only person unimpressed? by MurderMostFowl	Oct 9th, 2008 07:48:48 PM
That trailer ( and probably the movie ) was absolutely formulaic... boy... never say that last segment of the trailer coming... nosiree. It's alot to read into a trailer, but I'm willing to go out on a ledge here and say the characters will all be one dimensional and the backstory on why "he" is the way he is will be weak, and the heroine will "win" in the end by shear coincidence. This whole film reeks of "wannabe" Exorcist, Ring, 6th sense & Poltergeist. ( and I got an odd vibe for Flatliners watching that too. )
Is this a remake of a J-Horror film? by NoCalFlicks	Oct 9th, 2008 07:49:52 PM
Because if it isn't it looks like another re-tread of every J-horror flick made over the past 10 years or so. Look, the trailer had some creepy moments, which can't be denied, but the last thing I want to see is another J-horror retread that revolves around a "damaged soul of a dead child that just wants some kind of justice before it moves on to the afterlife"
hmmm by fartedinthefaceofhollywood	Oct 9th, 2008 07:58:15 PM
it has some slick production values, they certainly didn't skimp on it...but it still looks like all the rest of the super-natural horror films out there.
Too much going on! by Orionsangels	Oct 9th, 2008 07:59:51 PM
I don't know what to focus on as the enemy
Boo by JRG1316	Oct 9th, 2008 08:08:08 PM
This movie looked interesting until I saw Michael Bay's name. Now I know it's going to be crap.
THE BOURNE MATERNITY!! by HoboCode	Oct 9th, 2008 08:13:58 PM
Really? I came up with that first? Good for me.
The Version You've Never Seen! by Duke of Hurl	Oct 9th, 2008 08:48:06 PM
Goyer can't shake the hackery when he directs.
Yeah, that Looked like The Ring by DKT	Oct 9th, 2008 09:40:00 PM
I like Goyer as a writer. Gary Oldman, huh? We'll see...I'll wait 'til the reviews come in.
Odette Yustman, aka Mandy Moore 2, and another chance for Goyer by halberd	Oct 9th, 2008 11:46:24 PM
Oh... and MICHAEL BAY. My attention has been acquired.
by Quartermass-87	Oct 10th, 2008 03:15:32 AM
YAY all the haters are here...lol....pretty silly actually to hate when this actually looks good and ain't a REMAKE which is so rare nowadays. And to some who said they will wait for reviews...really? you let a review make up your mind? you let someone else tell you whats good? wow that a brainless idea no wonder people hate everything on this site.
Fucking MT-Fucking V Fuck! by thefrood	Oct 10th, 2008 04:35:09 AM
What is the fucking point in having a fucking trailer (which after fucking all is a fucking ADVERT for your fucking film) that does not fucking play out side the US-FUCKING-A? Talk about fucking your own fucking marketing campaign in the fucking ass! Fuck... that felt good!
Best Oldman Movie? by Tar Heel	Oct 10th, 2008 12:17:16 PM
I gotta go way back and say "Sid and Nancy," with maybe "The Professional" coming in second.
Re: Horror cliches by skimn	Oct 10th, 2008 12:37:36 PM
"So if something has been done ONCE before, it's cliche?! " No, not really. There is really nothing truly new anymore. It depends on the details, and of course, the story elements. The Orphanage played with familiar horror elements, but the story, and images, lifted it from the ordinary. It's just that the trailer played like a checklist of horror imagery that has been around for years.
It's definately not his best, but Oldman by skimn	Oct 10th, 2008 12:51:07 PM
looked like he was having a ball playing Zorg in 5th Element.
Gee, ya think this is a rip-off??? by BobaFetish	Oct 11th, 2008 04:36:34 PM
How about something original there, Dave?
I spotted atleast two actors from Dexter... by AtaxianTheMagnificent	Oct 11th, 2008 06:55:31 PM
Hmmph.
If you are outside of the US, use a proxy by Dingbatty	Oct 12th, 2008 04:05:12 AM
if you can't view it.
did a robot make this? by Potatino	Oct 14th, 2008 06:36:01 AM
trailer looks like a mish mash of everything they could think of being being scary... emotion by committee or something.. like someone who didn't know what horror felt like just ripped off everything they thought was scary and tried to emulate that... man to hell with that i'm bored already

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