The action looks pretty sweet and I love me some Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp and yet I still wonder why this trailer is leaving me so damned empty feeling. It seems to have all the makings of a great movie, (good actors, visual style and quippy dialogue) but I can't necessarily say I am camping outside the theater to get my tickets.
This will be the second Western for the Johnny Depp and Gore Verbinski team and thinking about that just makes me want to watch Rango again. God, I love that little chameleon.
Also, I'm really happy that since everyone that works in TV decided to band against the good viewers of the public and take everything off the air for a month, we have some good trailers being released.
Man this feels hollow like a Transformers film or the later Pirates films.
Johnny Depp seems a little um sedated in this one so maybe he won't be insufferable. I miss the Tom Wilkinson monologue it made it seem like they were playing with bigger ideas. This makes it seem so generic.
"You are spirit walker...Man who cannot be killed in battle."
That sure eliminates all dramatic tension in the action scenes, doesn't it?
I'm not sure what you guys were expecting. Sure, it's not Citizen Kane,but it looks like a fun blockbuster. I predict that this will do well in the U.S., but make an astronomical amount of money overseas due to the huge number of Pirates of the Caribbean fans.
@VioletEyedDragon said:
Agreed.
@VioletEyedDragon said:
Reading to much into it.
@Nightfang: this IS a fantasy. the original plot description that leaked online included werewolves.
@VioletEyedDragon said:
No its not and there are no werewolves in this movie. Hell watch the first trailer.
@Nightfang: well, the most recent word is that they won't be there. but there definitely was a credible rumor about it and Gore Verbinski definitely said that there will be fantasy elements. Here is a quote from him on ScreenRant:
”I don’t know where this idea of werewolves came from. It’s never been in any draft I’ve worked on. But there’s a kind of Native American overlay of omens and other things happening that we don’t fully understand.”