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Post by The Thanksgiving Goblin. on Sept 7, 2016 16:35:22 GMT -5
ladies & gentleman the most insane trailer of all time
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 7, 2016 16:45:04 GMT -5
OSCAR PLEASE.
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Post by ganews on Sept 8, 2016 11:10:15 GMT -5
Sappy, maudlin, set in winter, huge ensemble cast, featuring a personified Time - how is this not titled "New Year's"?
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Post by MarkInTexas on Sept 8, 2016 12:15:21 GMT -5
So I see Will Smith still really wants to win an Oscar. This looks like Seven Pounds 2: If You Thought That One Was Bizarre...
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 8, 2016 14:24:28 GMT -5
So I see Will Smith still really wants to win an Oscar. This looks like Seven Pounds 2: If You Thought That One Was Bizarre... Exactly. It's the kind of movie that wants an Oscar so badly that it goes way the fuck too far and falls flat on its face. It reminds me a little bit of Reign Over Me which is an okay film with flaws, but at least the producers of that movie realized they had no chance and pushed it to a winter release. This looks significantly more batshit, and they're going with it. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 14, 2016 22:34:04 GMT -5
I showed this trailer to Minnie and this was our reaction: |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Sept 18, 2016 22:39:06 GMT -5
Definitely made me laugh. Damn, there are quite a few actors I like in this. I wonder what the original script looked like?
It is like some twisted version of "A Christmas Carol". The three ghosts are now played by Death, Time and Love! And instead of saving him from being mean and cruel, he'll be saved from depression!
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Post by Albert Fish Taco on Sept 19, 2016 13:23:03 GMT -5
Wait a minute. So this is an actual film and not a GJI! of someone's mash-up of Collateral Damage and American Beauty?
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Sept 19, 2016 17:37:01 GMT -5
Wait a minute. So this is an actual film and not a GJI! of someone's mash-up of Collateral Damage and American Beauty? I assumed they were just mashing up Collateral and American Beauty because they both won Oscars. It doesn't mean anything- I challenge anyone to make sense of this title- but at least it sounds better than 12 Years a Birdman. |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 15, 2016 20:10:38 GMT -5
So, the reviews are out, and apparently Collateral Beauty is
1. A completely different story than the one promised in the trailer and
2. Even worse.
Color me excited!
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 15, 2016 22:29:26 GMT -5
Every single time I think of the twist and the insane way the story is different than what's shown in the trailer I giggle forever. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS for everyone who wrote this movie and allowed it to be made! The first one being: is this a practical joke?
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 16, 2016 1:20:30 GMT -5
Every single time I think of the twist and the insane way the story is different than what's shown in the trailer I giggle forever. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS for everyone who wrote this movie and allowed it to be made! The first one being: is this a practical joke? Wait, what?? The trailer makes it seem like ghosts/Love/Time/etc are visiting the guy to help him get over the death of his kid. Is this not what the movie is? |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 16, 2016 4:38:28 GMT -5
Every single time I think of the twist and the insane way the story is different than what's shown in the trailer I giggle forever. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS for everyone who wrote this movie and allowed it to be made! The first one being: is this a practical joke? To quote Chris Stuckmann, "it's not a twist! It's the premise of the film, which they don't want you to know!" Desert Dweller No. Will Smith has recently become incompetent at his job, so his "friends" hire actors to play love, time, and death, surreptitiously filming him so they can photoshop the actors out (Hollywood effects are so easy), frame him as a schizophrenic, and get him fired so they can keep their jobs. Now watch the trailer knowing this and it's a million times worse. |
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 16, 2016 7:24:14 GMT -5
But wait! What Smith's business associates don't know is that those actors they hired really ARE Time, Death, and Love. That's one of the twists.
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Post by pairesta on Dec 16, 2016 9:00:14 GMT -5
Every single time I think of the twist and the insane way the story is different than what's shown in the trailer I giggle forever. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS for everyone who wrote this movie and allowed it to be made! The first one being: is this a practical joke? Why on earth would you let your big twist be RUINED IN THE FUCKING TRAILERS |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 16, 2016 19:16:51 GMT -5
Every single time I think of the twist and the insane way the story is different than what's shown in the trailer I giggle forever. I have SO MANY QUESTIONS for everyone who wrote this movie and allowed it to be made! The first one being: is this a practical joke? Why on earth would you let your big twist be RUINED IN THE FUCKING TRAILERS In light of MrsLangdonAlger's comments, it sounds like more of a flip-flop than a twist. |
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Post by pairesta on Dec 16, 2016 19:34:24 GMT -5
Why on earth would you let your big twist be RUINED IN THE FUCKING TRAILERS In light of MrsLangdonAlger 's comments, it sounds like more of a flip-flop than a twist. Spoilers, but I don't know why. Yes it's a flipflop from how the ads present it, but the "twist" is supposed to be that those really ARE Death, Love, etc. So the ads spoil that twist. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 17, 2016 0:21:15 GMT -5
But wait! What Smith's business associates don't know is that those actors they hired really ARE Time, Death, and Love. That's one of the twists. So, the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future are helping get a guy fired after his kid just died? |
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Post by LazBro on Dec 17, 2016 14:27:43 GMT -5
And, the movie has a whole other twist y'all haven't mentioned yet: so one of the ways the Smith character grieves is by going to where a support group neets for parents who have lost their children, but he never joins in. He meets a woman there in a similar situation, and they forge a slow friendship-maybe-romance (because all movies cut from the 7 Pounds cloth must contain this thread). Of course this is meant to show him making progress and finally making a connection with another person. But surprise, she's his ex-wife, and they're both grieving for the same child. I haven't seen the movie, but I found this review pretty essential for exploring the depths of its stupidity, with full on spoilers. collider.com/collateral-beauty-review/ |
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Post by MarkInTexas on Dec 18, 2016 9:25:48 GMT -5
Wait, people here actually went to see this this weekend? You all realize that Star Wars is also out, and is actually really good?
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Dec 18, 2016 14:29:57 GMT -5
I just read about it online. I went to see La La Land this weekend!
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 18, 2016 21:18:35 GMT -5
And, the movie has a whole other twist y'all haven't mentioned yet: so one of the ways the Smith character grieves is by going to where a support group neets for parents who have lost their children, but he never joins in. He meets a woman there in a similar situation, and they forge a slow friendship-maybe-romance (because all movies cut from the 7 Pounds cloth must contain this thread). Of course this is meant to show him making progress and finally making a connection with another person. But surprise, she's his ex-wife, and they're both grieving for the same child. .....What? The people pretend like they don't know each other? Or the movie pretends the people don't know each other? Bah, I give up. It seemed merely silly in that original trailer, now the whole thing just sounds awful. |
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Post by dＬᵒ on Dec 26, 2016 2:32:14 GMT -5
This sounds like total HDTGM material
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Post by ComradePig on Dec 26, 2016 3:58:53 GMT -5
I never actually looked into what this movie was about because my unyielding hatred for that fucking title was irritation enough, but I'm now a little sad that I didn't sooner because man ya'll aren't joking about just how wonderfully, determinedly stupid it is on so many different levels.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Dec 26, 2016 18:50:54 GMT -5
I saw the trailer to this before Sully today (okay, not my pick of film alright) and it was considerably more opaque than the trailer shown here, just generally seeming to be a Will Smith Is Sad With Some Famous People movie. I was mostly zoning out of it (we got two Andrew Garfield featuring trailers for the price of one, one vaguely solid look biopic about a conscientious objector called Hacksaw Ridge, and Silence, which has one of the best trailers of the goddamn year just shoot that directly into my veins) and assumed a lot of the talk around this movie was just yet another mediocre Hollywood Oscar-driven melodrama, something perhaps in the wheelhouse of Stephen Daldry. But now, my god. My god. This sounds like the sort of thing that deserves an old fashioned epic Agony Booth recap (like this one for Hudson Hawk.) |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 26, 2016 22:25:22 GMT -5
I'm waiting to see Rogue One right now, and an Orthodox family just stormed out of Collateral Beauty an hour after going in, with the father going "what an unpleasant experience! My God!"
I'm happy now.
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