Sometimes you see a movie trailer that looks so bad you need to share!
Soft-headed anti-capitalistic nonsense without the faintest idea about suspension of disbelief.
And Max Von Sydow should fucking know better!
Weer’d Beard will not be in attendance!
This remake looks horrible.
Rowdy Roddy Piper did a faaaaaar better job.
Seriously, They Live did the concept with a lot more subtly, deft, and believability.
And that’s a movie that had an overly long alley fight just to get a guy to put on some glasses.
Fucking LOVE “They Live”.
I can see the similarities….except this one looks full of suck.
I heard the Alley fight was supposed to just be a few minutes, but Piper and David had been working behind the scenes to cardiograph a much more dramatic fight than was scripted.
Yeah, They Live had fun with the idea and was -actually- good.
Where this seems to be bloated self indulgence with the “I have an IMPORTANT message to you sheeple” across every single clip.
And I love a movie that’s all anti crash consumerism ends with an obvious bit of Transformers-eque style CGI-splotation with loads and loads of giant aliens fighting.
That really appears to be where this fails. They Live used anti-consumerism as a useful excuse to make a crazy movie about aliens, insanity, and underground resistance, and lots of sweet-sweet violence.
This appears to be a bunch of SFX and character development as a way to jam a “world changing” message down our throats.
Marry Poppins was correct, in a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Still doesn’t change that medicine tastes like crap, and that Marry Poppins was giving medicine out because she thought getting your feet wet and cold made people sick.
Never except medical advice from a demonic entity!
Yeah. It figures that a movie with the express (and worse angry) idea of “You sheep are too dumb to know you’re being controlled” would be unable to respect the audience or be able to have any sort of subtlety.
Other than the SFX prolefeed.
No kidding about Mary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic
OK that’s AWESOME!
Vector’s little girl is OBSESSED with this film, so its pretty much on loop at his pad. I was watching it and said “So she’s a Pit Fiend, right?”
Yet another quick one
http://snarkyposters.blogspot.com/2012/06/important-safety-tip.html
there was a scsience fiction story, the title of which eludes me, wherein the advertising agencies controlled the political process because they used mind control techniques to sell everything. 30 or 40 year old but the themes are strikingly similar.
Was it “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson?
That’s what “They Live” was based on, which is what Jack and I are musing about.
no, flapdoodle. this is going to bug me all day now.
I see that I’m not the only one that thought of THEY LIVE.
I think that this movie is just an excuse for the CGI people to show off.
Isn’t that what most movies are for nowadays?
That’s generally the history of Hollywood. Of course there are good films mixed in there, but as time passes only the good ones survive, while people forget the crap.
The Merchants’ War by Frederick Pohl
ha! i haz GoogleFu!
I’m going to file this one in the same cabinet as the Lincoln-Vampire movie. WTF are they smoking in Hollywood now?
Hm. Special effects are not even that good, and I am willing to overlook a lot of transgressions in the name of special effects (See: Battleship).
Pass.