Mal ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Official Cloverfield trailer. Bootleg no more!
Was it here that someone pointed out Lizzie Caplan is one of the stars and the viral marketing sites use the name of Jason Ritter's character from The Class, in which she also starred? Weird.
In any event, this movie looks to be Made. For. Me.
Was it here that someone pointed out Lizzie Caplan is one of the stars and the viral marketing sites use the name of Jason Ritter's character from The Class, in which she also starred?
I forget whether you read Cleolinda's LJ. If so, that's where you saw it.
I haven't lately. I bet it was posted about in TwoP's thread for The Class, as that's the most likely place I would have heard about it if not here.
Is it sad that while I was completely meh about seeing The Transformers, this trailer has now moved it up to my See As Soon as I Don't Have a Headache priority just for the previews? It's been a while since movie advertising sparked this much anticipation in me.
It's produced by J.J. Abrams
As in J.J. LOST-Asspull-WTF Abrams?
That doesn't make me want to see it.
I can't say Cloverfield revved my engine when Spielberg did it flawless in War of the Worlds.
I agree that the alien attack in War of the Worlds was pretty fucking cool shit. Doesn't make this look any less cool, in my eyes.
I have an allergy to Tom Cruise, so that's one movie I skipped.
Juliana, how do you feel about Daniel Day Lewis' running in The Last of the Mohicans?
We called that The Running Movie around our house on its release.
but I always like that sort of thing, and agree with ita that it is meant to convey raw experience.
I'm going to be in the disagree camp with MM. I loved the first Bourne movie and merely liked the second. It lost all kinds of points for its incoherent action.
See, in the first movie the action scenes are not only coherent but they reveal his character. They show he's resourceful and a badass and he's smart. They're constructed so the action itself has some kind of narrative up and down, left and right and you can follow it. So you're closer to Bourne's experience. He knows what's going on and you and see that. Whereas in the second movie, the raw blur of it is not Bourne's experience. It's the experience of a passive camera and reveals nothing about the character except - ta da! - he survives.
There are many cool bits in the first movie's action scenes that you can refer to: magazine attack! Pen in the hand! Driving down stairs! Narrow alley employ! In the second there are no such distinguishable elements.
The suspense in the first is actual suspense because you know what's happening and anticipate what could or couldn't happen next. The tension in the second is roughly equivalent to somebody sounding an air horn next to you in the theater. Sound and fury signifying crap direction.
We called that The Running Movie around our house on its release.
I took a dear old (in his 80's) scientist friend to see Mohicans thinking he'd like the period and the nature of it.
He spent the entire film sniffing about how it wasn't filmed where the story was set (He identified every. single. plant. on sight...and loudly) and that DDL should know better than to run through the woods carrying a long gun.
Big mistake on my part.
I was a big Ludlum fan when I was in college. He kept the pace going so fast you didn't recognize the gaping holes in logic until much later.
Because Jason met Marie when he kidnapped her. And then she fell in love with him.