Red State (Kevin Smith)

[angrycinephile]

Teaser:

http://smodcast.com/

[DavidSeven]

Uh, yeah, that's not what I was expecting.

[Dukefrukem]

I am sooooo in.

[BuffaloWilder]

Now we're talking, Mr. Smith.

[transmogrifier]

Say what you will about Smith, but that was a good teaser.

[MacGuffin]

Edit: Actually, now that I think about it, no, I'm not interested. I'll probably never see this.

[Watashi]

Looks terrible.

[DavidSeven]

Looks terrible.

Not enough hammer-wielding gods in blue jeans?

[Kurosawa Fan]

Very intriguing trailer, but Smith has duped me before. I won't see this unless its reputation from Smith detractors on this site is stellar.

[transmogrifier]

Looks terrible.

No, the teaser is well structured and edited, with an intriguing use of sound (or lack thereof). The film may yet turn out to be terrible, but that is a captivating advertisement for it.

[Bosco B Thug]

Looks pretty much what I'd expect from Smith taking up the premise. The Bible Belt documentary aesthetic was practically predetermined. That gritty aesthetic and the trailer's construction are practically falling over themselves to get horror hardcores all tingly.

[DavidSeven]

Yeah, I'm almost positive this movie is going to be some level of awful, but they sold it well in that one minute clip.

[megladon8]

I really got nothing out of that, good or bad.

Looked like it could have come from just about any American horror films from the last 7 or 8 years.

I also see absolutely nothing of Kevin Smith in that teaser, which I suppose is a good thing because he's kind of incompetent behind a camera.

Did he write this one?

[Watashi]

Not enough hammer-wielding gods in blue jeans?

Every movie needs that.

[Ezee E]

I've got an inkling that Kevin Smith is actually trying here. Consider me interested.

[Sycophant]

I've got an inkling that Kevin Smith is actually trying here. Consider me interested.

Agreed.

It already looks more visually accomplished than anything Smith and his DP have done to date. Not groundbreaking in terms of modern American cinema, but looks like an interesting effort from this camp.

Goodman can't hurt either.

[Qrazy]

No, the teaser is well structured and edited, with an intriguing use of sound (or lack thereof). The film may yet turn out to be terrible, but that is a captivating advertisement for it.

It doesn't matter if the teaser is competently structured and edited, the images from the film it's representing still look terrible. Watashi is right. It looks terrible.

[transmogrifier]

It doesn't matter if the teaser is well structured and edited, the images from the film it's representing still look terrible. Watashi is right. It looks terrible.

I think it's full of striking images.

[Qrazy]

I think it's full of striking images.

Okay.

[Skitch]

Whoa. Looks tense.

[number8]

Directed by Kevin Smith. Or Rob Zombie. Or Alexandre Aja. Or Marcus Nispel. Maybe.

[Mysterious Dude]

There's a certain artistry to the cinematography that I would not have expected from a Kevin Smith film.

[RoadtoPerdition]

So is this the same Kevin Smith that did Clerks or some new guy on the scene trying to cash-in on the craze of crappy horror movies who just happens to also be named Kevin Smith? I'll probably catch this at some point, but this just seems very out-of-character, like someone dared him, as a joke, to make this type of movie and he complied.

[B-side]

Wow. Consider me pleasantly surprised.

[Henry Gale]

I mean, I'm not even someone that outright dislikes too much of Smith's stuff, but even coming from that standpoint I'd say this is the only sort of drastic change-up he could have done to keep me remotely interested in him as a director.

I also just like the story of Smith showing this to Richard Kelly, who apparently spent most of the movie turning to Smith asking: "No, but seriously... who made this?!"