Warning: Dumb MTV video below autoplays.
When I say “promises torture, pain, and anguish,” I mean that entirely for any person actually watching it.
To be fair, a production video and some awful marketing material does not do any film justice, but I’m struggling to find nice things to say about a project that has so consistently had “bad idea” following it around in exploding, neon Ben-Hur letters. This concept is a joke that lives in a hastily drawn, one-off webcomic passed around for a day on Facebook, not a feature film. Shit like this is why:
I could care less about a film poster cheapening an important American icon or anything but if you’re gonna go for an idea so obvious and tacky, at least put the effort in so that it doesn’t look like shit. Perhaps it’s just an indication of how disposable individual pieces of imagery are in today’s hype whirlpool, but I’m still a little surprised in my heart when a studio lets such sub-standard work represent their multimillion dollar products. I’ve seen better photoshop comp work on a box of Kraft Mac’n’cheese.
Lest you think the pessimism is borne entirely out of bad posters, the EW stills from the film don’t have much to offer either…
Look, I have my doubts when Spielberg takes on one of these gimmicky cash-in novels that are better left sitting on the “book” table at an Urban Outfitters, so this is going to be exceptionally tough to sell to a butthole like me. The trailer has a lot to prove.
I will say that Benjamin Walker looks like a charming, classy guy in the MTV behind-the-scenes video below, but I don’t envy his position of breaking out in this cheese-fest that will so quickly be compared to the Daniel-Day Lewis drama. Obviously both films have two clearly different goals, but this won’t be the case of some stuffy prestige drama that nobody will see outclassing the blockbuster entertainment. No, this could well be a classy, blockbuster biopic making this dumb action flick look like the immature high-school notebook doodle it looks to be.
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But let loose in the comments. I can’t imagine there are some folks out there interested in this, or at least don’t think it deserves such viciousness. What are you hoping to see from Abraham Lincoln’s hidden nightlife?
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Talking of the Daniel Day Lewis project, I can’t wait for that movie. I love watching Day Lewis work and hear he’s been staying in character even after the shoot finishes for a day. Was a wonderful, crazy man.
EDIT: “What a wonderful, crazy man.”
Hear hear. This shit is fucking stupid. I don’t get the humor of this stuff. It’s just smushing two disparate things together to show how disparate they are, and therefore that is funny. Also…what’s the other one? Pride and Prejudice….and ZOMBIES??? What! Just insane. Get the fuck outta here. I can’t wait for Of Mice and Men….AND WEREWOLVES!!!! HAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh shit, by typing that I probably just set that in motion.
What’s “aguish”? Might want to fix that.
Had no interest in this whatsoever, but people really seem to like the book.
If the movie can capture half the fun of the book I’m in.
Once again, I’ll wait for a proper trailer, and maybe even the film itself, before passing judgement. I’ve seen films misjudged early before. Not saying it looks promising. Just willing to wait to bash it.
Has anyone here seen the trailer for the book? Looks fun. But REALLY campy.
“…exploding, neon Ben-Hur letters.” almost made me shit myself. That, and the Dave’s Insanity Sauce burgers I ate earlier.
‘couldn’t care less’ renn, surely? Or were you saying you are actually looking forward to the movie? Anyway, looks like a big pile of sh*t, so will likely have to ask a ‘friend’ to ‘rent’ it for me:) lol
Oh, this is directed by Timur Russianalphabet? You might be taking it all a bit too seriously Renn.
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