I don’t care if John Hillcoat personally and gently coaxed it from Terence Malick’s grasp by whispering pleas into his ear — Hillcoat’s lips not-quite brushing the fine hairs of his lobe — all in the middle of a golden-lit and softly windy field of hay… the title Lawless still sucks.
But now we have an actual trailer, so we’ve got other shit to talk about! Here’s our first glimpse of the prohibition flick starring Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, Gary Oldman, Shia LaBeouf, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska, set to hit on August 32st .
Funny headlines aside, as deeply and profoundly inclined though I may be to go head over heels for this movie, I’d be remiss if I didn’t say I thought this trailer kind of blows. The swooshy, slamming action trailer format just make me think Public Enemies, which… [shivers]. It doesn’t help that the movie looks a might uglier than I expected.
Most importantly, these cuts are doing Tom Hardy’s accent no favors. A true southern accent is the easiest to fake poorly and the hardest to get exactly right, so I don’t blame a Brit missing the mark a bit (Oldman doesn’t even seem to be trying). I’m just hoping (a bit like we all are for TDKR) that it all works a little better in linear context. Guy Pearce and his dandy gentleman sound amazing all day, all the time though.
All concerns aside, I still can’t wait to see this flick. I love the era, love the story, love the cast (would love to have seen more Shia in this) and think this is a good pairing of writer and director and subject matter. Again, the action movie posturing of this trailer has surely stripped out any poetry the film might posses, but I seem to be the only one the least bit concerned by any of this, so ‘ll leave it for now.
What do you think?
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Man, I can’t believe I have to wait until August 32st to see this. It might as well be never!
Reminds me of The Newton Boys. While I can appreciate The Proposition as solid filmmaking, I just didn’t like it. The Road was a definite improvement. And even though this trailer does nothing for me; I am still excited.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is one of my all-time favorite movies, so I’m pretty excited for this–especially since it has Gary Oldman in it (firing a tommy gun!). That aside, this trailer sucks. BUT, I understand why they are selling it this way. Jesse James had a very artsy, slow, beautiful trailer–and virtually no one went to see it in theaters. So it makes sense that they are trying to make this look like a wham-bam action flick.
You’ve got your director’s switched up. This is the project towards which your boner should be aimed: /83406/pitt-gandolfini-jenkins-and-liotta-have-on-their-serious-faces-for-cogans-trade/ though Hillcoat work is worthy of anticipation too.
Damn it. I always get Hillcoat and Andrew Dominik mixed up because they both use Nick Cave & Warren Ellis to score their films. They’re scoring this film as well I believe. WHOOPS.
Screw it, I loved the trailer and I want to see it.
Brown’s cracked, the title is the best part.
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