comment #1

Nick Rogers says ...

Somewhere, J.T. Walsh is smiling at Russell Crowe. I'm sure it's good, but what the hell is up with that trailer music? It reminded me of "The Condemned."

comment #2

iamjoe says ...

I agree...that completely see that as Tony Scott;s work instead of Ridley. I expected to hear Keira Knightly breathlessly whisper "I am Domino Harvey" at the end of the trailer.
To Nick Rogers: Dead on with the JT Walsh comment!

comment #3

T. S. Idiot says ...

I like Leonardo, but he's a little boy next to Crowe. Looks potentially exciting, though.

comment #4

JD says ...

Why is Jeff's ultimate praise for a movie calling it a "thing"? Whenever he likes something, he says it's a "disciplined thing" or a "well-honed thing." Not criticizing, just wondering...

comment #5

The Winchester says ...

Agree, Crowe's character might as well be named JT Walsh.

When's Ridley gonna make another sci-fi flick? With Crowe starring, obviously.

comment #6

Mr. Gittes says ...

Based solely on the trailer, DiCaprio looks wholly out of place. Will he turn in a "good" performance? Yes, probably; he's a damn good actor. But I'm tired of the tough guy shtick DiCaprio has been doing since Gangs of New York. Yes, we get it - you're not just a pretty boy actor, you're to be taken seriously, and we are. But it's getting old, Leo.

DiCaprio needs to do a dark comedy or something - something other than this, " I can't do this anymore!" thing. Didn't he say that in The Departed, too?

Now, perhaps I'll be eating my own words once Revolutionary Road comes out(maybe) but I'm getting tired of Leo's acting -- that beard is ridiculous.

A supporting nom for Crowe?

comment #7

LexG says ...

Both SCOTTS own your ass, but that's very obviously a Ridley because of the color palette -- that purple-green "aqua" shade used in most of the Crowe interiors is a Ridley hallmark -- total GIJANECAM/White Squal-look to those shots; And the sandy brown-tinted exteriors is way, WAY more Rid (1492, Black Hawk Down) than Tony.

Maybe it's just my fascination with both brothers, but I think any eagle-eyed film fan can look at any shot in this trailer and match it to look a shot or lens filter from a previous Ridley movie. Aside from the rooftops (very Spy Game) and the techno-surveillance fetish, I don't really see how you'd mistake it for a Tony.

Will add it's nice to see Ridley back to his usual style after the brown, muted, 1.85:1 restraint of American Gangster; I get what he was going for shooting that as such (paying homage to French Connection, Superfly, Serpico, Godfather), but I had expected a large-canvassed, Scarfacian widescreen epic, only to find a master director toning down his entire visual arsenal.

comment #8

GKLondon says ...

The main thing I got from this trailer is that these two guys must have massive mobile phone bills.

The new Hollywood genre, 'The walk-and-talk-thriller".

comment #9

Rothchild says ...

There's nothing Tony Scott about that trailer, outside of the two helicopter shots of the city that freeze and become black and white. But that's Spy Game Tony Scott. There's none of the Beat the Devil/Man on Fire/Domino Tony Scott quirks in that trailer. You guys are reaching.

comment #10

MilkMan says ...

Am I the only person who thinks Di Caprio has been miscast in every single movie he's done since around the time of Gilbert Grape? Cop, Mercenary, Howard Hughes, Irish Gang Member is the 1860's, CIA Operative. Did he get his ass kicked one too many times as a kid? Is he too sensitive about how pretty he is? What am I missing? I buy him as a tough guy about a degree less than Shee-ah Le-Buff.

comment #11

Mark G. says ...

I think it is worth mentioning that Ridley Scott will turn 71 this November and he still delivers quality pictures almost every year (sure some are better, some are worse, but I can't spot any truly awful stinkers in his resumee)...

comment #12

Richardson says ...

"Am I the only person who thinks Di Caprio has been miscast in every single movie he's done since around the time of Gilbert Grape?"

I'm not going to argue about our obvious disagreement over 'The Aviator', but instead will simply say...

Even 'Catch Me If You Can'?

comment #13

Brock Landers says ...

Hear Hear, Mark G. - Ridley Scott is a master filmmaker. Although 'Someone to Watch Over Me' is a dud no matter how you slice it.

After watching that wet squib of a movie 'Stop Loss,' I immediately had the urge to re-visit 'Black Hawk Down' as an example of a REAL modern-day war movie.

comment #14

T. S. Idiot says ...

"Am I the only person who thinks Di Caprio has been miscast in every single movie he's done since around the time of Gilbert Grape?"

Romeo + Juliet?

comment #15

LexG says ...

BLACK RAIN OWNS YOUR ASS.

comment #16

Alan Cerny says ...

I'm glad there's a new Ridley Scott trailer...

but more important, there's a WATCHMEN trailer!

http://www.empireonline.com/video/watchmen/

comment #17

BurmaShave says ...

I'm going to wait to catch both of them at midnight, but the question remains- if Russell Crowe can do JT Walsh, should Russell Crowe have played Cheney?

comment #18

Richardson says ...

Presuming that Jeff knows nothing about 'Watchmen', I'd be really curious to hear what he thinks about that trailer. I liked it more than I expected to, but I can't imagine what somebody who doesn't already know the characters and the story will make of it. It's a pretty terrible mass market trailer.

comment #19

Dan Revill says ...

Haha. Beat me to it Alan. The Watchmen trailer is much more interesting than this - and I say that as one who would rather watch a bad Ridley Scott film than sit through 300 again.

comment #20

Alan Cerny says ...

Honestly, I don't give a crap about what someone who isn't familiar with the source material thinks (then again, I'm not Warner Bros). Looks amazing to me, and I'm just shocked as hell that this film actually exists.

I don't expect it to do huge business. The regular Joe crowd may not care for it. For me, though, this trailer's the bee's knees.

comment #21

LexG says ...

Not familiar with the source material, and I think it looks like the pretentious Dark City version of Fantastic Four, at least based on that ad.

The two main things I liked were the Billy Corgan song and the chick in leather (Malin Akerman with black hair?) Other than that it looked generic, C-list, and typically Snyder-stagy.

comment #22

dinther says ...

Why is it that every movie that even tangentially references Washington D.C. must feature the same, predictable helicopter panning shot of the U.S. Capitol and the Mall?

I wish someone would compile a list of movies that feature this shot. I'll bet the list of movie TRAILERS that use the shot runs into the hundreds.

comment #23

The Pope says ...

Rothchild,
Absolutely agree. Outside of those two heli-shots, there is nothing Tony-ish about it. Remember, we're looking at a TRAILER. And you could cut Barry Lyndon to make it FEEL like The Hunger if you wanted... wait a minute, wasn't that Tony Scott doing Stanley Kubrick? Or maybe The Duellists. Wansn't that Ridley doing Stanley. Or Lolita, Adrian Lyne doing... hang on. Just how many Brit directors have done their own Stanley movies?
But seriously, the trailer gives the VIBE of Spy Game but as Ridley himself once said, "Tony is more rock 'n' roll and I'm more classical."

comment #24

LexG says ...

Funny how I said the exact same thing a few posts up and somehow Rothchild and Pope missed it.

My post was awesome.

comment #25

actionman says ...

Body of Lies looks like smart, stylish, gripping entertainment.

Watchmen looks fucking insane, a true artistic vision yet again from Snyder. Wow. Wow-wow-wow.

comment #26

Rothchild says ...

I'm tired of your schtick, LexG. Most people are and just skim over it. It's fun in moderation and when you don't repeat yourself. But you get a response to one phrase or tangent and you run it into the fucking ground as hard as you can. You're like a guy that quotes Borat or Austin Powers, but you're quoting a much lesser version of that...yourself.

comment #27

Joshua Mooney says ...

I've never cared for the "adult" Leo. Talented actor, but this trailer really hit me: He's got a kid's voice. Sounds about 18, still. He can scowl all he wants, and grow the macho-ugly beard (again), but that reedy, youthful voice remains the deal-breaker for me. Compare it to Depp's (another former teen pretty-boy with real talent): Could you imagine Leo's voice in any mature Depp performance, from HST to Jack Sparrow to Sweeney Todd, etc.?

Crowe could do a lot worse than channeling J.T. Walsh. Damn, I miss that man. He was really on to something.

comment #28

Mr. Gittes says ...

actionman: What was Snyder's first true artistic vision?

comment #29

Terry McCarty says ...

Actually, I thought that GI JANE was more a Tony film than a Ridley one.

comment #30

BurmaShave says ...

dinther, I agree entirely. Part of it could be that's the only shot they're allowed to get since flight is so restricted in DC. Even so, as a local I appreciate the TRAITOR trailer taking advantage of the Rosslyn, Virginia skyline right across the river, the first time I can remember a film doing that.

comment #31

LexG says ...

Rothchild, I don't know what any of that has to do with my analysis of Rid vs. Tone's lighting schemes.

comment #32

Rothchild says ...

I still don't know what you had to say about that because I'm not going to bother reading your shit if it's longer than a sentence. I don't know why you think anyone would take your opinions seriously.

comment #33

SmilingPolitely says ...

I don't know... to me, Watchmen looked really, really cheesy. I'm told it's based on the greatest comic in history of existence, so I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt. Love that Smashing Pumpkins song, though.

comment #34

LexG says ...

Rothchild, I have three college degrees, son, so man up and read my post about the lighting schemes. You're being dense and acting like some kid with Asperger's plugging his ears and yelling LA-LA-LA. It said almost exactly what you said two or three posts later, so to have ignored it makes you look like you don't even bother reading what others have to say, and it makes you look like a copycat. On Television Without Pity, I shit you not, you'd be banned for not reading all the posts. Then you'd be banned for not being a fat chick or a camp queen, but that's another story.

comment #35

actionman says ...

Mr. Gittes:

300 is an example of a true artistic vision. That would be his first. While I enjoyed Dawn of the Dead, it was hardly visionary.

comment #36

LexG says ...

I also will add that the AQUASHEEN that all the Crowe stuff is shot in in this Body of Lies trailer was also the EXACT SAME LOOK he used for the trading room scenes in A GOOD YEAR, and the Leo-in-car shit is AN EXACT MATCH of the cab driver shots in BLACK HAWK DOWN.

How do you guys see so many movies and not notice this stuff?

comment #37

hatchling says ...

Crowe doesn't channel JT Walsh or anyone but the characters, which he does, so very well.

Jeff... the line is "walk out on me ..." not "rock out on me... "

comment #38

Richardson says ...

"I have three college degrees, son"

Here's a tip, captain: If you have to bring up your college degrees to prove that you are smart and worth listening to, then you are not smart nor worth listening to.

comment #39

Richardson says ...

"300 is an example of a true artistic vision."

300 would be true artistic vision... if it were a music video. As a two-hour movie, it is not. I could go off on a long list of reasons why but, frankly, it doesn't even qualify as enough of a movie for me to bother.

comment #40

dcc77 says ...

300 is an example of soft-core gay porn.

comment #41

JohnCope says ...

"Although 'Someone to Watch Over Me' is a dud no matter how you slice it."

A joke. It's his finest film.

comment #42

Richardson says ...

"but I can't spot any truly awful stinkers in his resume"

'A Good Year' isn't quite unwatchable, but it's pretty bad.

comment #43

Jeffrey Kunze says ...

Don't mind actionman Rothchild. He is like a little kid who is infatuated with movies as a whole and likes pretty much everything he sees. His mother bought him too many toys as a child.

actionman is so optimistic, it borders on dangerous.

comment #44

BurmaShave says ...

A GOOD YEAR is a pleasant trifle, especially on TV. MATCHSTICK MEN is the one I see get attacked a lot, but for me it's one of his better recent films.

Though I would honestly say KINGDOM OF HEAVEN director's cut might be my favorite RIdley Scott film of all time, or tied with THE DUELLISTS. I hate to bring up my dissapointment with AMERICAN GANGSTER again, but it just didn't do it for me.

comment #45

Rothchild says ...

That may be true, but I don't think your comment was aimed at me. If it was, you should probably keep in mind that I think Zack Snyder is a true visionary and a genius. That's one of the best trailers I've ever seen.

comment #46

Entropy says ...

Based in the pure ignorance of Islam and history that Scott displayed for Kingdom of Heaven I'm thinking this is a pass.

comment #47

actionman says ...

The director's cut of KOH is a masterpiece.

Kunze: if you read anything that I've written than you'd know there are plenty of movies I don't like.

What I don't do is negative posts. I post on HE, typically, if I like something. I am not here to be negative. So enough already with my "dangerous optimism."

And with 300, as with the graphic novel, the film is a visionary artistic achievement that not many people could have pulled off. I loved it. There is nothing "soft-core-gay" about it. It's a thrilling action movie. Nothing more, nothing less.

And there is a definite Tony Scott/Spy Game vibe with the excellent trailer for Body of Lies.

comment #48

BurmaShave says ...

Brothers with similar filmmaking styles! Dogs and cats living together!

comment #49

D.Z. says ...

Milkman: "Did he get his ass kicked one too many times as a kid? Is he too sensitive about how pretty he is?"

He went and dropped out of my awful high school. Only people who've been there or know about it would "get" him.

dcc: http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/373633

comment #50

Richardson says ...

"There is nothing "soft-core-gay" about [the movie '300']."

I can only assume you mean that it is all-the-way hardcore gay.

comment #51

Jules says ...

I'm really sick of people trashing on DiCaprio. How is it a 33 year old gets three Oscar nominations but he's miscast in everything he does? So he looks young. He's 33! How old are you supposed to look at 33? Of course he looks like a kid to Crowe. He is a kid to Crowe -- Crowe's a decade older!

I have no idea how good this movie will be but I really get sick of the comments about DiCaprio -- who I consider an excellent actor and who isn't afriad to try to do things outside of the box most moviegoing morons want to put him in (like some other "pretty boy" actors).

And while you've got me riled up, let me ask -- how many Bourne movies is Damon going to do to prove he's no pretty boy? And how many times do I need to see Depp as a pirate?

Sorry, boys, but get over your jealousy about Dicaprio. What, did your girlfriends like looking at their "Titanic" posters more than you?

By the way, the movie was written by William Monaghan, so if it seems like "The Departed" -- blame him, not DiCaprio.

comment #52

D.Z. says ...

Jules: I just don't like Leo, because he uses growling or scowling as a way to emote. I don't take him seriously. He's not the worst actor, though, just the most overrated.

comment #53

Jules says ...

D.Z., just because you don't like DiCaprio doesn't make him overrated. There's plenty of actors I don't like but that doesn't make them overrated. And "growling and scowling" to emote? Whatever. I'm not taking you seriously.

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