I was wondering if this was an American remake of the previous film of the same name.
Bipolar trailer.
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looks like it isQuoting chrisnu (view post)
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Greatest achievement of that trailer: making Maguire not look boring.
Still, with Gyllenhaal, Portman and Maguire, there is still the faint whiff of high school play about it - they look like teenagers pretending to be adults.
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Gyllenhaal and Maguire playing brothers...hah.
Post-traumatic Tobey is far too cute for its own good. That guy will never look a day over 20.
Gotta say, it looks very manipulative, but it suckered me in. The acting looks to be quite good. I've been waiting to see if Maguire could act at all. I guess this film may very well show us.
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Wonder Boys?
Haven't seen it.
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There's your proof.
Also, Pleasantville.
Hm. I remember kinda liking Pleasantville. I don't remember anything of Maguire's performance, though.
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Little Odessa (James Gray | 1994 | USA)*
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The Ice Storm people! The Ice Storm. Love that movie.
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I like In the Name of the Father very much but this movie has three of the most annoying actors on film history in the leads.
The Danish original film is brilliant. That's all.
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I generally avoid Natalie Portman, but this seems intriguing.
I saw the trailer for the first time before Tetro.
Indeed. I will see this.
Really looking forward to this after seeing a TV Spot. Guess I should've seen the trailer.
Three of the greatest actors of our generation, according to television ads!
I enjoyed the original Danish film. And it had Connie Nielsen and Ulrich Thomsen, who are all over Hollywood already anyways. I'll probably skip the remake. Feels like I'd just be trading a decent cast for a boring one (and like trans said, one that looks more like teens pretending to be adults).
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Have movies altered our perception of what 28 - 30 year-olds look like? They all look that age to me, but then again I am frequently mistaken for being younger than I am, so who knows. Still, I would rather have actors playing their age than 24 year-old Freddie Prinze Jr. playing a high-schooler.
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If the actors are 28-30, and are playing 28-30, doesn't saying "they look too young" make little sense?
Some people look younger, some people look older. I know people my age (early 20s) who could pass for late 30s already.
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The first half of the trailer appears to be decent. The second half, not so much. I'm really not sure I have any interest in this movie, and I would like to seek out the original first. Until I read this thread, I did not know that this was a remake.
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Ummm this looks incredible.
C'mon, really? Obviously, reductive trailers such as this make films seem melodramatic and absurdly inauthentic, but if the scene where the child at the dinner table screams: "Your just mad because Mommy would rather sleepy with Uncle Tommy" actually exists in the final cut, I can't assume it will be anything other than unbearably laughable.
No thank you, this looks horrible.
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Tobey's face absolutely sells this. I saw the trailer in the theatre and seemingly everyone just lost it right then.
I'd really like it to just be an awful trailer, because there are a few moments that look good in the first half.
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I've had the exact opposite reaction.
Hey, the original is on Instant Watch.
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