What you just described, Hrossa, is a terrible sleep-ending nightmare.
The trailer makes it look funny, at least, but I'm surprised they're advertising just how messy this movie is.
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Svevan
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fixedtryavna wrote:You know you're in for something "special" when a trailer tries to sell a movie by deliberately misquoting T.S. Eliot and hoping that Mandy Moore fans will notice.
The movie will probably stink, but I think the trailer is a little mini work of art. I spied John Larroquette on my last viewing. Combined with Darko Alums Beth Grant and Holmes Osborne, skit-TV has-beens like Cheri Oteri, Will Sasso, and Amy Poehler, the teenybopper set headlining the poster, and random oddities like Jon Lovitz, Miranda Richardson, and Kevin Smith, this movie seems to have eight different casts. Maybe that all makes sense given the episodic nature of the thing, but for marketing, you'd think they'd advertise each part (aspect/genre) of the film separately instead of cramming it all into one trailer.
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Ha-ha! I suppose that's more correct after all.Svevan wrote:fixedtryavna wrote:You know you're in for something "special" when a trailer tries to sell a movie by deliberately misquoting T.S. Eliot and hoping that Mandy Moore fans will notice.
Still, just the idea of marketing a movie around an inversion of Eliot's line, which was itself intended ironically to begin with, strikes me as obviousness masquerading as high-concept.
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That's exactly what I thought too. It wouldn't even have been so bad if Fight Club hadn't used the song first. But does he think people are fooled into thinking the film looks good because it has a good song or two layed over it?Cold Bishop wrote:I don't know what's worst... how laughably bad that trailer looks or the fact that my favorite Pixies song (right down to the UK Surf version) is associated with it.
Well, I suppose it worked for Donnie Darko.
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The UK one-sheet is as terrible as the American one.
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Some choice gems from the AP review
With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse.
Some of the images are impressive, but the effort is entirely in service of an incomprehensible story told with the unchecked pretensions of a creative-writing grad student who's taken out the world's biggest college loan.
When he's done with a character, Kelly's solution generally is to have someone else open fire on them.
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Sophomore slump of all time, or just a lot of hyperbole to see newspapers?domino harvey wrote:Some choice gems from the AP review
With boundless ambition far exceeding his ability to tell a coherent story, Kelly manages only an artistic apocalypse.Some of the images are impressive, but the effort is entirely in service of an incomprehensible story told with the unchecked pretensions of a creative-writing grad student who's taken out the world's biggest college loan.When he's done with a character, Kelly's solution generally is to have someone else open fire on them.
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I'm going to reserve judgement on Southland Tales until I get the chance to see it, but whoever made that quote didn't realise that could also be a compliment - for example the way Godard off handedly gets rid of many of his characters (Camille in Contempt, Paul in Masculin Feminin, Roland in Week End etc) - the stylised ending of Contempt, as Paul writes Camille out of the story in a crude manner of a fake car crash in a belated reaction that she has already written him out of her life in a more powerful poetic image of swimming off nude, could also be a Godardian comment on the way he as a writer treats his characters!When he's done with a character, Kelly's solution generally is to have someone else open fire on them.
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whoa, did you mistake what thread you were in?colinr0380 wrote: for example the way Godard off handedly gets rid of many of his characters (Camille in Contempt, Paul in Masculin Feminin, Roland in Week End etc) - the stylised ending of Contempt, as Paul writes Camille out of the story in a crude manner of a fake car crash in a belated reaction that she has already written him out of her life in a more powerful poetic image of swimming off nude, could also be a Godardian comment on the way he as a writer treats his characters!
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No, I guess the point I was making was not exactly to compare Kelly to Godard but to suggest that the things that some people find upsetting and borderline incompetent in a film might have been done for a purpose and could even be the things that make a film worth watching. It was more a comment on the dismissive attitude of the comment I was quoting!Macintosh wrote:whoa, did you mistake what thread you were in?
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Manohla digs it.
