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Cheesecat wrote: That Ultraman trailer is awful, I don't know what you're talking about when you say "done right".
You kidding? Giant monsters, Ultraman punching and or kicking giant monsters, and a spectacle of urban devastation as Ultraman and said monster duke it out.
And best, they focus ON THESE THINGS in the trailer. No Bryan Cranston. No Kick Ass. Just Ass Kicking. I am excited to see this film. This is what a kaiju film trailer should be.
I don't think this is an official trailer. As far as I can tell, the movie is still in development hell.
The CGI looks awful, but for a fan trailer (assuming it is) it's not that bad.
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lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
I don't think this is an official trailer. As far as I can tell, the movie is still in development hell.
The CGI looks awful, but for a fan trailer (assuming it is) it's not that bad.
It was released last year by Tsuburaya Productions, publishers of Ultraman, but is region locked. It's assumed that it has something to do with Ultraman's 50th anniversary this year, as it ends with 7-7. July 7th is Eiji Tsuburaya's, Ultraman's creator, birthday.
Fate is in heaven, armor is on the chest, accomplishment is in the feet. - Nagao Kagetora
... the selfie bit seemed -- alas ! -- all too plausible
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
There still enough comedic awkwardness that shows it's not my kind of humour but.... It something like that had been one of the early trailers, I think the film would have had a far better reception.
And yeah, looks like Hemsworth is playing a Sigourney Weaver type role to the film.
I'm just quote someone from another site as I think they nailed it:
WesleyDodds wrote:Yeah, still decidedly unimpressed.
Not because it's an all-female team or anything ridiculous like that, but because it looks like crap.
2002 Scooby-Doo movie calibre CGI, not a single good gag, and a possession subplot that ALREADY Feels like screentime-wasting filler.
I love Ghostbusters. I hope I'm wrong, I hope this is one of those really fun movies that just trails badly
Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
Compel wrote: There still enough comedic awkwardness that shows it's not my kind of humour but.... It something like that had been one of the early trailers, I think the film would have had a far better reception.
And yeah, looks like Hemsworth is playing a Sigourney Weaver type role to the film.
What are you referring to when you say he's playing a Sigourney Weaver type role?
Compel wrote: There still enough comedic awkwardness that shows it's not my kind of humour but.... It something like that had been one of the early trailers, I think the film would have had a far better reception.
And yeah, looks like Hemsworth is playing a Sigourney Weaver type role to the film.
What are you referring to when you say he's playing a Sigourney Weaver type role?
I think she did a good job with the role, and totally nailed it.
But I also think she was definitely cast as eye candy as well.
Sigourney Weaver is absolutely beautiful in GB. But she had a done more substantial, critically acclaimed roles by 1984 than Hemsworth has up to this point. I think the casting people on GB wanted something more than eye candy and probably would have gone with a more "conventional" beauty if that's all the role required.
Sinful Hero wrote: Did they just reveal the big bad? Ghost possesses their secretary?
Certainly seemed that way. Looks like it's after the scene where they slap the ghost out of the woman, and it flies down and possesses him. Then the scene where he's standing in front of the huge... thing... letting out ghosts. Seems the possession thing isn't a screen time waster, it's central to the plot. And they just gave it away.
Just going to point out that the Bay Ninja Turtles trailer made that look watchable too.
I think this is honestly a bit late, especially after the dumpsterfire the first round of trailers were, we know all the horrible that's coming versus these snippets of fun.
I notice that Sony haven't posted the trailer on their own official YouTube channel but have instead distributed it to various movie review channels.
Perhaps this is in the hopes that the massive ratio between dislikes and likes will be mitigated and to avoid the negative headlines associated with it.
From what I can see though, there's still a huge amount of dislikes on the videos that are hosted by other channels.
Surely this has got to be the most hated film since the Phantom Menace? And it hasn't even been released yet.
Unless this gets less than a 50 on rotten tomatoes, I'm still inclined to see it - I didn't see anything that made me change my mind from that trailer.
lord_blackfang wrote: Respect to the guy who subscribed just to post a massive ASCII dong in the chat and immediately get banned.
Flinty wrote: The benefit of slate is that its.actually a.rock with rock like properties. The downside is that it's a rock
This screams "Using Stay Puft will be too obvious, what can we make LOOK like Stay Puft?"
They seem utterly bereft of ideas. I honestly think they didn't have the talent to bring anything new to the table, so have just cobbled together a half assed remake. I don't see the casting of women in the lead roles as some ultruistic feminist act either. I see it as a cynical attempt to do something "different" and to seperate this film from the original enough to make people think it's not an undercooked rehash.
Bleh.
For the record, because it seems anyone criticising the cast is deemed sexist, I don't care that there are women in key roles, I just think the casting has far more to do with a cynical decision than anything progressive.
Ahtman wrote:I'm just quote someone from another site as I think they nailed it:
WesleyDodds wrote:Yeah, still decidedly unimpressed.
Not because it's an all-female team or anything ridiculous like that, but because it looks like crap.
2002 Scooby-Doo movie calibre CGI, not a single good gag, and a possession subplot that ALREADY Feels like screentime-wasting filler.
I love Ghostbusters. I hope I'm wrong, I hope this is one of those really fun movies that just trails badly
The Scooby-Doo movie reference totally hits it on the head, the CGI is all ramped up past 11, color saturation, overly busy etc. Like the color coordinator for the tellietubbies was left in charge of the effects.
Manchu wrote:Sigourney Weaver is absolutely beautiful in GB. But she had a done more substantial, critically acclaimed roles by 1984 than Hemsworth has up to this point. I think the casting people on GB wanted something more than eye candy and probably would have gone with a more "conventional" beauty if that's all the role required.
Possessed Sigourney Weaver was a pivotal moment in my boyish brains change from a negative to positive perception of girls. Along with Evil Lily from Legend and Princess Aura from Flash Gordon.
General Kroll wrote:
They seem utterly bereft of ideas. I honestly think they didn't have the talent to bring anything new to the table, so have just cobbled together a half assed remake. I don't see the casting of women in the lead roles as some ultruistic feminist act either. I see it as a cynical attempt to do something "different" and to seperate this film from the original enough to make people think it's not an undercooked rehash.
What I saw in my mind's eye, on hearing the new GB would be all female leads was a boardroom full of Hollywood male execs trying to come up with ideas, some ancient chair saying 'we're creatively bankrupt and cannot risk any money on new ideas or hiring creative talent, so what's trending on the series of tubes?' and some Carter Burke-esque little marketing man saying 'sir, now hear me out, 'female...geeks...', we take a geeky film that's already been a hit... but replace all the male roles... with women!' /pauses for effect. 'You see, there's a huge online gamergate thing, Geek is Chic, so now the chicks want in on it, so, we cynically condense it by taking perhaps the holy grail of weird movies that isn't The Holy Grail, and fill it with women wearing glasses!!!'
Followed by gasps, raising of eyebrows and the ancient chair saying 'it's so crazy it might just work!'... and Carter Burke saying 'think about it, the geeks will revolt, saying the thing is sacred, the women will accuse them of sexism, the right wing will accuse the women of liberal elitism, the left will respond with cries of sexism and we have a perfect. marketing. storm... we can take a weak, gakky movie, smear it in CGI and ride on the twin waves of online argument and the success of the movie it's imitating'
Ancient chair pauses and looks vaguely worried 'So, we are doing just another remake of a hugely popular movie with no need of a remake though, at the core?'
Carter Burke nods slowly, smiling 'Yes sir, absolutely', Ancient chair starts smiling too 'Well, thank feth for that, for a moment, I actually thought you wanted to make a statement about women's rights' before they both burst out laughing.
/round of applause, coke and whores all round.
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Ahtman wrote:I'm just quote someone from another site as I think they nailed it:
WesleyDodds wrote:Yeah, still decidedly unimpressed.
Not because it's an all-female team or anything ridiculous like that, but because it looks like crap.
2002 Scooby-Doo movie calibre CGI, not a single good gag, and a possession subplot that ALREADY Feels like screentime-wasting filler.
I love Ghostbusters. I hope I'm wrong, I hope this is one of those really fun movies that just trails badly
The Scooby-Doo movie reference totally hits it on the head, the CGI is all ramped up past 11, color saturation, overly busy etc. Like the color coordinator for the tellietubbies was left in charge of the effects.
Manchu wrote:Sigourney Weaver is absolutely beautiful in GB. But she had a done more substantial, critically acclaimed roles by 1984 than Hemsworth has up to this point. I think the casting people on GB wanted something more than eye candy and probably would have gone with a more "conventional" beauty if that's all the role required.
Possessed Sigourney Weaver was a pivotal moment in my boyish brains change from a negative to positive perception of girls. Along with Evil Lily from Legend and Princess Aura from Flash Gordon.
General Kroll wrote:
They seem utterly bereft of ideas. I honestly think they didn't have the talent to bring anything new to the table, so have just cobbled together a half assed remake. I don't see the casting of women in the lead roles as some ultruistic feminist act either. I see it as a cynical attempt to do something "different" and to seperate this film from the original enough to make people think it's not an undercooked rehash.
What I saw in my mind's eye, on hearing the new GB would be all female leads was a boardroom full of Hollywood male execs trying to come up with ideas, some ancient chair saying 'we're creatively bankrupt and cannot risk any money on new ideas or hiring creative talent, so what's trending on the series of tubes?' and some Carter Burke-esque little marketing man saying 'sir, now hear me out, 'female...geeks...', we take a geeky film that's already been a hit... but replace all the male roles... with women!' /pauses for effect. 'You see, there's a huge online gamergate thing, Geek is Chic, so now the chicks want in on it, so, we cynically condense it by taking perhaps the holy grail of weird movies that isn't The Holy Grail, and fill it with women wearing glasses!!!'
Followed by gasps, raising of eyebrows and the ancient chair saying 'it's so crazy it might just work!'... and Carter Burke saying 'think about it, the geeks will revolt, saying the thing is sacred, the women will accuse them of sexism, the right wing will accuse the women of liberal elitism, the left will respond with cries of sexism and we have a perfect. marketing. storm... we can take a weak, gakky movie, smear it in CGI and ride on the twin waves of online argument and the success of the movie it's imitating'
Ancient chair pauses and looks vaguely worried 'So, we are doing just another remake of a hugely popular movie with no need of a remake though, at the core?'
Carter Burke nods slowly, smiling 'Yes sir, absolutely', Ancient chair starts smiling too 'Well, thank feth for that, for a moment, I actually thought you wanted to make a statement about women's rights' before they both burst out laughing.
/round of applause, coke and whores all round.
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