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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.

Why Cannes would ever consider screening this is beyond me. With just one glance at the cast its hard to belive that it's anything else then a film with an age demographic of 13-17 teenineboopers who want to see JT and an ex wrestler.

You know you're in for something "special" when a trailer tries to sell a movie by misquoting T.S. Eliot.

tryavna 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.

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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.

Svevan wrote:

tryavna 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.

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Ha-ha! I suppose that's more correct after all.

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.

Harry Knowles thinks it's awesome.

Barmy wrote:Harry Knowles thinks it's awesome.

cool?

miless wrote:

Barmy wrote:Harry Knowles thinks it's awesome.

cool?

ain't it?

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.

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.

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?

Well, I suppose it worked for Donnie Darko.

Cinetwist wrote:That's exactly what I thought too. It wouldn't even have been so bad if Fight Club hadn't used the song first.

Fight Club used Where Is My Mind
the trailer uses Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf Version)

I knew it used one of my favourite Pixies songs. I should have remembered it was that one really.

The UK one-sheet is as terrible as the American one.

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.

I wonder if this will be of the "it's so bad it's good" variety? That last quote has me thinking so.

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.

Sophomore slump of all time, or just a lot of hyperbole to see newspapers?

When he's done with a character, Kelly's solution generally is to have someone else open fire on them.

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!

Dude.

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!

whoa, did you mistake what thread you were in?

Macintosh wrote:whoa, did you mistake what thread you were in?

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!

I think the idea of characters just killing other characters because evidently Kelly doesn't know how else to end a scene speaks pretty much for itself. You really have to struggle to work on this sow's ear, fella

Manohla digs it.

Pump Up the Volume makes good use of the Pixies' Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)...........anyways the trailer looks great, no way that it won't be fun.