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Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:39 pm
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikUWKi0W5_g
This works better than the trailer on the official site.
It's coming up pretty quick. All of PJ's films are dark. Not sure if people will be considering this a horror film or not but I'm pretty sure it'll be way more interesting, compelling and flat out better than pretty much any other film this year in any genre.
This looks so very good to me. Watching the trailer makes me think this is the Heavenly Creatures he wanted to make but didn't have access to the money or the technology he does today.
Marky Mark has turned out to be an excellent actor and Susan Sarandon is pretty good as well.
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:14 pm
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I'm pretty sure Heavenly Creatures is the Heavenly Creatures he wanted to make. 2 completely different films.
Have you read the book? Heavenly Creatures couldn't be more different. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:18 pm
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No shit. What do you think he would have done with HC had he had access to as much money as he needed and better technology. I'm sure he's happy with it, it's a great movie but you can't tell me his imagination wasn't constrained by what he had to work with.
Now there's absolutely no limit on what he can do. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 5:55 pm
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| This is definitely one of the movies I'm most looking forward to. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:20 pm
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| Peter Jackson is one of those filmmakers who's imagination isn't constrained by limits but rather freed by them. Not once did I ever feel like he wasn't doing exactly what he wanted with that film. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:57 pm
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Because he's gifted like that.
You can't see the similarities though? Both films appear to take place in the imagination. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:25 pm
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| Floydian Trip wrote: | | Both films appear to take place in the imagination. |
Again, did you read The Lovely Bones? It doesn't. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:30 pm
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| No and feel free to elighten me. What I gathered from the trailer is that she is in some sort of netherworld and it seemed to me as if she was creating everything around her with her mind. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:37 pm
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She's not creating anything. She's in Heaven watching. There is no indication that she's creating anything around her, but rather it's HER Heaven.
In Heavenly Creatures they escape to that world because it makes sense to them. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 8:38 pm
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| Isn't that basically the same damn thing? |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:46 pm
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Before I go...
Have you watched the trailer?
In it they show a scene with a boy who I assumed was her little brother and he says something to the effect that she was in the "in between" or something. I took from that that she hadn't quite reached Heaven because her murder was still unresolved.
Now if you're saying that she is, in fact, in Heaven then I guess the question then becomes what is Heaven? In the Bible it's a city with streets lined with gold. Some think it's a more personal world of our own construct. (imagination) Take Gladiator, when Russel Crowe's character dies in the end he goes off to (not sure how it's spelled) Allysium which is Heaven and what is it for him? It's his home with his wife and child where he had been trying to go from the beginning of the movie when he was the great general.
There's a book out there that I've been curious to read for a long time about a guy who had been pronounced dead but then brought back after some time. He says he went to Heaven while he was dead.
Anyway, there's also a scene in the trailer that shows her with another girl and that made the HC impression even stronger. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 9:55 pm
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| Floydian Trip wrote: | | Isn't that basically the same damn thing? |
Not at all. Because in Heavenly Creatures they used the world to escape and be together but were always tethered to their reality. Not even close to the same thing. |
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 10:00 pm
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I realize they weren't dead. Whatever, this is gonna be great.
I foresee Academy Award nominations. |
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Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:31 pm
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Sun Nov 08, 2009 12:19 am
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After seeing the trailer a couple times I'm going to take the long odds and predict it being a fabulous disaster.
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