New movies undeserving of their own thread - KILLED BY RYAN REYNOLDS

[FilmNerdJamie]

This movie had douche written all over it the moment we heard a U2 song being used in the trailer.

[Captain Russ]

I don't want to sound like a heartless bastard (too late), it's just the obviousness of it all is incredibly insulting.

It's like they put all of the potential melodramatics in a hat, and instead of drawing one or maybe two of them, they just grabbed for all of them in one fell swoop.

If there won't be a second trailer with "Solsbury Hill" on it, then it is a missed opportunity.

[FilmNerdJamie]

I was damn near a blubbing bitch during Warrior. That had emotion and genuine heart. This on the other hand feel 100% calculating to play on our memories of 9/11. Fuck that and the assholes behind it.

[Captain Russ]

United 93 already wrote that book.

BTW: Even though I am not a fan of MMA (and truth be told, it sounds as if that is secondary to the story), I really want to see Warrior.

[Ed Hocken]

I wouldn't even call United 93 calculating as that is what happened. Same goes for Sunday Bloody Sunday.

[FilmNerdJamie]

I wouldn't even call United 93 calculating as that is what happened. Same goes for Sunday Bloody Sunday.

THIS.

[PHEDG]

An aged Sandra Bullock. EDGY!

Wasn't Kidman's nose enough?

[FilmNerdJamie]

United 93 already wrote that book.

The correct answer is World Trade Center.

[Captain Russ]

It's not calculating at all. I meant it expertly navigated the emotional waters of the entire event with a sobering account of them. Something none of the homegrown efforts have done (or will do, as I originally intended my comment to imply).

WTC was horrible. Oliver Stone should still be in director jail. But then we wouldn't have the laugh factory of Wall Street 2: The Sisterhood of the Travelling Labeefs. OH WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN UNDONE BY SUCH A HASTY JUDGEMENT!

[Ed Hocken]

I think people are confusing calculating with manipulative.

Oliver Stone was never known for subtelty and holy shit has he gone off the rails for more than decade. With Nixon being his last good film, imo.

[Martin]

WTC nearly is worse than the said tragedy it's about. It's that fucking bad. Stone might have done some good back then, but fuck him, really.

[Ben Thomas]

That Hanks trailer gave me cancer.

[Matt]

Jesus is that trailer shitty.

[Anderson]

Extremely awful and incredibly trite.

Surely this must be a parody. I keep waiting for Simple Jack to emerge from the stables.

I still like the book. Wrong team to be working on it.

[Lesley]

An aged Sandra Bullock. EDGY!

Wasn't Kidman's nose enough?

She doesn't look aged... she just looks like a normal person vs. movie star. IMO.