FuglyStick

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Okay, you've got my interest.

From IMDB:

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LordEden

Parts of me are very interested in this movie, I like the posters. I love the first one, chicks in non-functioning armor with swords are hot. Is this indie or mainstream?

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Baraka_Guru

I'm in.

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FuglyStick

Warner Bros., so it's mainstream. Directed by Zach Snyder, of 300 and Watchmen. I wasn't really impressed by either of those films, although they looked cool; but it's chicks in fishnet and thigh-high stockings. I don't need much more.

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Baraka_Guru

So fantasy-themed softcore porn but with women this time.

Yeah, I'm totally in.

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Baraka_Guru

It's worth clicking through and watching this maxed out on 1080p HD.

Even if you were to remove every female from this, it would look fucking spectacular.

The CGI looks top-notch.




...and it has hot females.

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—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

FuglyStick

Exactly what I was going to recommend.

Some quick and dirty screen caps--


(^^^new background, btw)

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Jetée

(not to mention dragons. And robo-mechas, steampunk-goodness, a plethora of action-oriented cuts / battle scenes , and perhaps a dystopian-future-like story setting. If this film also managed to include Nazis as the antagonist in some semi-plausible way, then I'd be inclined to prematurely state that this action/sci-fi/dream-team film has possibly every single thing one could conceive of to make an action film absolutely great, disregarding a cache film name like Van Damme, Jackie Chan, or Jason Statham.)

I'll be featuring some bits and pieces of this elsewhere, but the immediate thought I had when I saw the first half-dozen acting credits for this film, along with watching the - what other word could you use - epic, cutscenes portrayed in the above trailer is that is this film going to marketed in some covert way, as the female-counterpart/antithesis to The Expendables?

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LordEden

Jetee Dude, that is way to many words. Let me sum it up.

Hot Chicks + Swords + Guns + Robots + Dragons + Samurai = Epic Awesomesauce x 2

Seriously tho, this looks fucking awesome. They had me at chicks with swords AND they had dragons.

Something inside me loves the whole "Modern air combat fighters" (Yes I know they are not f-14s but WWII looking fighter planes, but still) vs dragons. Just seems awesome. I've never seen a movie pull it off correctly.

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Baraka_Guru

Yes, yes, and yes.


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Director, co-producer, co-writer Zack Snyder describes this film as "Alice in Wonderland with machine guns."

Also, I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this is an original production. I was just checking the Wikipedia entry for the source comic, graphic novel, or whatever. Yeah, it's not based on another work.

The world looks good, the visuals look good, let's hope the story is good.

I'm impressed.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

FuglyStick

Yeah, I watched the trailer a dozen times again today.

This is why I'm a perpetual adolescent.

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Baraka_Guru

Is it out yet?

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

I'm going to watch it and write down all the gun flubs. This will be challenging because I'm going to be distracted by taunt thigh meat.

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Baraka_Guru

Be sure to take some notes on dragon biology—physiology, anatomy, behaviour, and all that. I'm intrigued.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Plan9

...huh? What?

Sorry, I was having visions of a "Amber - Plan9 - Rocket" sandwich.

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Baraka_Guru

Madam Gorski looks like the freaky one.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

fresnelly

And just imagine the wealth of Undergraduate Theses it will inspire!

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Baraka_Guru

Yeah, I like how sci-fi is now getting some serious academic cred.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Shauk

I'm all about the blondie poster. mmmmrrrrrrf!

i creamed my shorts, 2times, watching that trailer.

FuglyStick

Now with Led Zeppelin!

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Baraka_Guru

^ They had me at "giant mecha takes out biplane."

It looks like someone did their market research.

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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön

Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot

Xerxys

Are you sure that's not the Silversun pickups?

Shauk

I'm still looking forward to it, hopefully the dialogue doesn't ruin the movie.

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MeltedMetalGlob

I enjoy scantily-clad females as much as the next guy, but I worry when a trailer seems to focus more on spectacle rather than story.

I'll admit, I like the occasional movie where you can turn your brain off for 90 minutes, but I can't shake the feeling that all the various scenes aren't going to mesh coherently. (This is the first I've heard about the movie, aside from the odd poster here or there on the bus stations. I assume each scenario is taking place inside each girl's head, since they're all in a lunatic asylum.)

Ultimately, I'll reserve my final judgment until I see the film, but that will wait until the DVD comes out.

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Jove

I generally don't say this, but fuck the story, I want to see super-hot-mentally-disturbed women wearing little to nothing while kicking ass and fighting dragons and breaking out of a hospital. Have I missed anything important?

fill23ca

Went and saw this yesterday. Great eye candy but was quite disappointed with the story. Won't say any more if others haven't seen it yet.

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Zeraph

If there was a god I would live in a world like that.

noodle

You went looking for a good storyline?

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Jove

I thought it was a fun fucking film.

Redlemon

I haven't, but I'm interested to hear your review of it nonetheless. You can always [ spoiler ] tag stuff.

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ratbastid

The whole movie does, it turns out. And I didn't have the first problem with that. My very specific expectations for this movie were satisfied entirely.

fill23ca

The thing is , visually the movie was awesome. But I still was looking forward to a plot that didn't leave me annoyed which this one did. Spoiler: The fact that three of the girls die and the main character allows herself to be lobotomized to let one of them escape kinda pissed me off. So Baby Doll's step father gets away with killing her sister and paying off an orderly to institutionalize her and lobotomize her. I hate movies that do that. I mean, this wasn't some over wrought drama that portrayed a real life situation. It was a fantasy that I would have enjoyed much more if it had a better ending. And I like Jon Hamm. I would have been nice if he was in it for more than five minutes.

But the visuals still left me blown away.

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Jove

Spoiler: I thought Baby Doll accidentally killed her sister when she shot at her stepfather?

fill23ca

yeah Spoiler: that's what i meant but it wouldn't have happened if he wasn't going after her

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skizziks

i don't know how to block spoilers, so i will just say i think she did it.

and i like the super cool sucker punch twist at the end. DID NOT see that coming at all.