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Post by atp on Aug 26, 2013 15:20:23 GMT -5
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Post by Melv on Aug 26, 2013 15:23:32 GMT -5
It came out as I expected to be honest. I was never sure about Snyder but knew he'd produce a good couple of trailers. I still liked the film but it lacked a dramatic punch like all of his others.
Anyone who expected anything more was probably fooling themselves.
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Post by atp on Aug 26, 2013 15:25:25 GMT -5
Those three trailers STILL give me goosebumps. Particularly that first one.
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Post by EnriqueH on Aug 26, 2013 16:12:58 GMT -5
The trailers never did anything for me, and they were pretty accurate: mopey, sad, expressionless Superman.
The only thing in the trailers I liked was Zod's fiery "I WILL FIND HIM!!!"
It was the only passion shown by the cast.
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Post by Metallo on Aug 26, 2013 16:19:00 GMT -5
The last trailer and few tv spots fooled me into thinking the film might be something deeper and something special. I started to get hope and get excited. Ah well. The trailers really did present the film as something more than it was but I guess that's what trailers do so I shouldn't be surprised. Dredd and its trailers were the exact opposite.
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Post by crazy_asian_man on Aug 26, 2013 17:28:46 GMT -5
Agreed.... I'll give Bay and Snyder this- Now and then, they can make AWESOME trailers.
I didn't care for Pearl Harbor the movie, but they had one trailer (with music from "Thin Red Line") that is/was fantastic.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 26, 2013 19:25:34 GMT -5
Don Henley lamented the end of the innocence back in the day.
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Post by cypher85 on Aug 28, 2013 13:06:37 GMT -5
I must be crazy, but as I've said before. I think the trailers depicted the tone of the finished film. I got exactly what I was expecting [based on the trailers] from the finished film. I actually have a hard time understanding how so many think otherwise. But, to each their own.
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Post by Metallo on Aug 28, 2013 13:11:05 GMT -5
Ah...so you expected the finished film to be fairly stupid and lifeless.
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Post by cypher85 on Aug 28, 2013 13:12:06 GMT -5
Indeed, and I was not disappointed.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 13:40:37 GMT -5
Tailers were awesome.
Movie was awesome.
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Post by Metallo on Aug 28, 2013 13:49:39 GMT -5
Awesome...ly flawed.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 13:58:07 GMT -5
I don't see any flaws. I see lazy critics.
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Post by Metallo on Aug 28, 2013 14:01:26 GMT -5
You're right. They didn't point out enough problems with MOS. but then they only had so much print space and so much tv time to work with.
But nothing they did was as lazy as MOS's "writer" and "director"...and I use those terms loosely.
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 14:09:14 GMT -5
Its funny this cottage industry of MoS hating/bashing.
its almost religous in nature. Like scientology or voodoo.
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Post by Metallo on Aug 28, 2013 14:34:43 GMT -5
One could say the same thing about the MOS apologists and overly sensitive defenders.
If there is an industry Snyder provided plenty of shitty stuff for raw materials.
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Post by atp on Aug 28, 2013 16:04:49 GMT -5
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 16:10:01 GMT -5
I haven't disliked any snyder work that I've seen.
Never saw sucker punch. He's not my favorite director ever, but the maligning he endured is phenomenal.
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Post by Jimbo on Aug 28, 2013 16:11:11 GMT -5
One could say the same thing about the MOS apologists and overly sensitive defenders. If there is an industry Snyder provided plenty of shitty stuff for raw materials. Hey Metallo ........ chill out.  |
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 16:14:03 GMT -5
If you tell him to "chill" he'll just say that he IS chilled and YOU are the one bent.
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Post by Jimbo on Aug 28, 2013 16:16:08 GMT -5
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 16:21:22 GMT -5
We're here all night, ladies and gentlemen- try the veal, tip your waitress...
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Post by Jor-L5150 on Aug 28, 2013 18:11:11 GMT -5
Don Henley lamented the end of the innocence back in the day. My fave tracks from that record are "If dirt were dollars" and "I will not go quietly" Awesome record. |
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Post by Metallo on Aug 28, 2013 20:42:44 GMT -5
One could say the same thing about the MOS apologists and overly sensitive defenders. If there is an industry Snyder provided plenty of shitty stuff for raw materials. Hey Metallo ........ chill out. Lol. I get it. But youre still telling the wrong guy Jimbo. It's the other guy getting his panties twisted because he doesn't like what he reads.  You're one to talk, Jor.  |
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Post by crazy_asian_man on Aug 28, 2013 21:26:08 GMT -5
His visuals (most of the time) are fantastic.... and I do appreciate that he got A Watchmen movie made, versus none.
But- I think sucker punch, that he wrote/directed was SO badly conceived (It feels much like a well-intentioned soft porn film that tries to be respected as Schindler's List)... and his massacre of some of the main points of Watchmen set him up for the criticism.
No everyone agrees, of course. There's a chunk of fandom that really likes Watchmen- but that's where I'm coming from, anyways. Watchmen had the chance to give much more respect to the superhero film, based on its material, that it's painful because one knows what could have been, from reading the book. Visually fantastic, though.
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