This has to be a joke right?
There’s really not a big budget live action version of Jack and the Beanstalk directed by Bryan Singer actually happening. With Nicholas Hoult as the star? It can’t be, right?
Watching the trailer for Jack the Giant Killer I can only come to the conclusion that I’m watching The Last Action Hero and this is some spoof trailer for a movie that doesn’t really exist. I like Bryan Singer and Christopher McQuarrie fine, but if this is anything for them other than an effort to make a kid friendly film that banks to reboot their brand I feel deep fear for their future as A-List filmmakers.
Watch this thing. It’s wrong.
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If they’re selling this as Bryan Singer director of X-Men, they may as well go as far as the Usual Suspects. The man doesn’t know how to choose something good to work on, the choice needs to be made for him.
Singer needs to go back to making low budget well written b-films -partially to learn how to construct a final act- instead of big budget b-films. His career has been pretty much dismal since X-Men which were fairly mediocre workman-like films anyway.
McQuarrie needs to do his own thing away from Singer.
Eh, after the trailers for Jack and Jill, The Three Stooges and Mirror Mirror, this doesn’t look so bad.
I’m just glad someone else thinks it looks as bad as I do, because I showed it around and others didnt’ seem to see the problem.
That doesn’t mean it looks good.
It wasn’t too long after X2 that I realized just how boring Singer manages to make action. This looks no different.
Where is the Princess Jack?
This looks abysmal. Poor Ewan Mcgregor. To put this in perspective, I think that we have seen the Hollywood machine turn to try and remake old fairytales( the Snow White pictures) as something that can be rebranded. Taking Jack the Beanstalk and making it into a action picture is ridiclious. Really ridiclious, Why not make it into a horror picture? And why is the queen first shown as evil and then turns into the damsel in distress? Also, poor Newton Thomas Siegel-he was on fire with Drive,but, here looks to be doing a run of the mill paycheck cashing.
It’s Jack & the Bean-Stalk spliced with Jack the Giant-Killer. 2 different stories.
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Stupid choice for Bryan Singer? Sure. But it looks harmless.
I won’t rush out to see it, but….not awful.
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