I‘m not quite sure what to make of this one. It seems like one of those, “great in concept, shit in execution” type of film. Still, good, gimmicky concepts are often enough to get me into a theater to see how it pans out. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t.
This one sort of looks like Primer meets Ghost Ship. So yeah, like I said, great in theory, maybe not so much when the actual screening is carried out. The trailer leaves me teetering a bit towards the latter, but having said that, it is directed by Christopher Smith; the man behind the camera for both Creep and Severance: two film I had a lot of fun with and an experienced director when it comes to horror.
Check out the trailer below and let me know what you think…
TRAILER REMOVED IN COMPLIANCE WITH A CEASE AND DESIST LETTER FROM ICON ENTERTAINMENT.
Holy Spoilers in the Trailer! Yie.
Reminds me of the Timecrimes trailer in terms of just how much of the film the trailer gives away. Please post a warning. Oi!
Hmm … I don’t know what to make of this either. Kurt’s right about the trailer giving too much away, and it’s also twice as long as it should be. They should have ended it after the first time the heroine meets herself with the gun. I don’t know if this is really my kind of movie, but the whole deja vu thing almost has a “- – - -” feel to it, I wonder if there’s going to be a time travel element? I really like Melissa George, but she’s one of those actresses who can’t seem to find a good script. I just read a great interview with her last week, I’d love to see her do something that would actually challenge her.
Well this certainly peeked my interest. Sure the trailer was wayyyyy too long, makes one wonder if it is a sales trailer rather than a proper theatrical trailer.
I’m a huge fan of Severance, went DVD shopping with the writer of that flick in Austin last year. So I’m on board (he he).
Why is my comment above censored? The missing word there was Lost, as in the TV show.
Well, mentioning time travel in Lost is a bit spoilerific to those who have not seen it. I was trying to avoid that. Too late now.
I was thinking the same thing, although you highlighting it makes it worse, but really I guess that doesn’t really spoil it, its not a show hinging on one concept, its almost a given that all tropes of sci-fi are to be employed.
Ah, sorry about that. I didn’t think that was terribly spoilerific, I was very careful with my wording. All the major media covers that show extensively, I thought everyone knew by know that time travel was in some way involved, even if they didn’t watch the show. I didn’t go into any detail. I’m sorry if I ruined anything for anyone!
Ashley, I went through your flixster page, specifically your worst films list. I get the feeling that half the time we’d be best friends and the other half I’d want to sell you as pets or meat. Uh… yeah, Roger and Me segue.
Whenever I see people freak out over the rabbit scene in Roger and Me I just lose it. That’s maybe one of my favorite scenes in any doc ever. Like it or not, that lady exists and it goes on whether or not the camera is on her, that is the reality of her situation, this is what she was reduced to. Focusing specifically as if Moore killed the rabbit is a huge excuse to not pay attention to any of the issues of that film, which is probably more relevant now than ever even if you want to nitpick all the usual Moore editing and bias stuff. People freak out over a fucking rabbit, when in the same movie there is archival footage of a black man shot on the street by police.
I think Moore actually covered this best himself is his typically snarky fashion:
“In my first film, Roger & Me, a white woman on social security clubs a rabbit to death so that she can sell him as “meat” instead of as a pet. I wish I had a nickel for every time in the past 10 years that someone has come up to me and told me how “horrified” they were when they saw that “poor little cute bunny” bonked on the head. The scene, they say, made them physically sick. The Motion Picture Association of America gave Roger & Me an R [18] rating in response to that rabbit killing. Teachers write to me and say they have to edit that part out of the film, if they want to show it to their students.
But less than two minutes after the bunny lady does her deed, I included footage of a scene in which police in Flint, Michigan, shot a black man who was wearing a Superman cape and holding a plastic toy gun. Not once – not ever – has anyone said to me, “I can’t believe you showed a black man being shot in your movie! How horrible! How disgusting! I couldn’t sleep for weeks.” After all, he was just a black man, not a cute, cuddly bunny. The ratings board saw absolutely nothing wrong with that scene. Why? Because it’s normal, natural. We’ve become so accustomed to seeing black men killed – in the movies and on the evening news – that we now accept it as standard operating procedure. No big deal! That’s what blacks do – kill and die. Ho-hum. Pass the butter.”
Now before you jump and think I’m calling you a racist, I’m not, I’m just saying it pissed me off seeing yet another person fall into the Bunny Trap and miss the bigger picture.
Also, if you really are saying Slumdog Millionaire and There Will Be Blood are among the worst movies you’ve ever seen, you either don’t see nearly enough movies, or are trolling for argument. Good job.
re: ashley’s worst films list.
I hate a lot of popular films as well. But HOLY SHIT you don’t think Dreamers had an attractive cast?????
Eva Greene is stunning. And it’s objectively true that if Van Sant casts you as a lead then you are a good looking young man.
finding out Eva Green is the girl in the Dreamers = me renting the Dreamers as soon as possible
If you need another reason Goon:
http://www.rowthree.com/2009/01/15/captured-beauty/
yeah, its all coming back to me now..
I fully admit I will watch this movie with nothing but shallow reasons in mind.
Haha, you found my Worst list, nice! Yes, I admit it, the list is designed a little bit to spark debate. I have seen a lot of movies, and yes, I have probably seen a lot of movies that are worse than the ones on this list. But as a general rule, I don’t feel the need to highlight bad movies that nobody has ever heard of, and I never add a movie that made me fall asleep or that I had to turn off. The ten on this list are all fairly high-profile, mostly acclaimed or popular movies which I really, really, really dislike.
I could probably find a movie that I despise even more than Roger and Me. But the story behind that film is that it was screened in one of my high school business classes when I was 17 years old. My teacher did not have to censor the film for whatever reason, and he didn’t warn the students about the content either. I was going through a particularly rough time with a family death, and I just couldn’t handle imagery like that very well. So that film is more personal than others, but I also take issue with all of Michael Moore’s films, and that one is representative of all of his work.
As with Slumdog, Crash, and There Will Be Blood (my top three), my main issue here is that they are hack job films, and yet the whole world seems to have fallen for them. It’s one thing to be a really bad movie, but it’s another thing entirely to be a really bad movie that gets critical acclaim anyway. All three of these films have horrible scripts, along with pretty bad acting. They are manipulative, contrived, and gimmicky, three of the worst qualities a movie can have.
“my main issue here is that they are hack job films, and yet the whole world seems to have fallen for them.”
I hate Crash, I thought Slumdog was overrated, love TWBB. But either way, there’s a saying: “It’s not the band I hate, its their fans”
This year, Gran Torino is my new Crash (even though GT is more entertaining in a Showgirls type wtf way). And I can give it my .5 on flixter and rant and rave, but if i’m pressed to make a top 10 worst list, as much as I like picking scabs, going after these as my ‘worst’ is just dishonest hyperbole.
I mean on the Movie Blog John, just to keep grinding his axe, placed Spiderman 3 below Bratz on his list. I mean, come on. Let’s be real here.
I’d the say the actual worst movie I’ve ever seen is probably “Going Overboard” which is an Adam Sandler film from before he really took off, and in which he still has an extremely thick New York accent.
If gimmicky is one of the worst movies a quality can have, you need to re-rate Rookie of the Year, right away.
The worst movie ever made that I have seen is Leaving Normal.
LOL, Rookie of the Year is a childhood favourite. I’m not saying it’s a great, award-worthy film, but it’s my comfort food, I watch it several times a year because it takes me back to simpler times. For a family movie, I think it’s very well done.
And I’m fully aware that my worst list picks on the films’ fan bases as much as the films themselves. I already said that they are probably not the WORST movies I’ve ever seen. Go back through my full ratings list and you’ll see hundreds of flicks I’ve rated only one star. But most of them are not noteworthy films, they are just a lot of crap that nobody’s ever heard of, and a list like that would be incredibly boring to read. Recently, I’ve been trying to avoid movies that everyone agrees are terrible, like anything with Adam Sandler or Paris Hilton. They simply aren’t worth my time. If it means that much to you, I’ll change the name of my list to “Most Overrated Flicks of All Time,” but to me an overrated film is not necessarily bad, just a little too hyped, whereas Slumdog and Crash are AWFUL.
Trailer removed at the behest of the studio.
So Kermode reviewed this this week and seemed to really like it. I actually forgot all about it but will now track it down since I love time travel movies.