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Hot Trailer: ‘The Wolverine’
New trailer for director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter Eric Roth’s adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel reveals a bit more of Tom Hanks, Thomas Horn, Sandra Bullock and Max Von Sydow. The Warner Bros movie opens in limited release Christmas Day and expands January 20.
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Ive heard some ppl say Horn is ‘bad’ in the trailer. In the book the character has aspergers or something approaching it, and i have little doubt Daldry will handle it deftly.
Dang, that looks good.
Yes.
A definite improvement over the first trailer, though it still looks like a Nancy Meyers movie.
Perhaps it’s just due to the location, but here in NYC, every time I’ve seen a trailer for this movie in the theater, you can actually hear the audience groan. I think there’s still plenty of folks around here who aren’t all that interested in seeing that subject matter turned into entertainment, no matter what kind of uplifting, the resilience of the human spirit message they stick in it.
Of course I’ve seen Saving Private Ryan and Schindler’s List and plenty of other WWII flicks, and laughed along to M*A*S*H growing up, and the events depicted in them were far worse than what happened that one day 10 years ago. Guess it’s just the amount of time that’s passed, and the fact that I didn’t witness those things myself.
It’s hard to imagine this movie doing much business here in town.
Yeah too soon for a lot of us.
As someone not living in NYC I understand.
The earlier 9/11 films seemed a little early for me but after watching this preview (I’d not seen any before this) it’s something I’m finally interested in seeing.
Very much so. As someone who actually escaped the south tower that day, and lost friends in the north tower, the use of the 9/11 phone call etc. felt extremely off-putting, bordering on the offensive. Strangely, it also felt like some kind of cliche – cheap shorthand to denote a tragedy.
If this is based on a book which also used 9/11, then maybe they felt they had to use it, but personally, if I’d seen this trailer and the father had died suddenly in a car crash, or something like that, I might have been interested in the boy’s story. As it is, wild horses couldn’t get me to watch this film.
Well, just don’t go see the film. Your proximity to these events doesn’t validate or elevate your opinion over those of others. Plenty of people who were in the towers and lost family members championed the invasion of Iraq, plenty of them protested it. Plenty of them will find films like this offensive and off-putting, plenty of them will go and see it and enjoy it.
Thousands and thousands of people were intimately affected by the events of those days and they have thousands of opinions and perspectives and experiences.
Let people — personally affected or otherwise by 9/11 — choose for themselves what media they would like to consume.
Part of the problem: it doesn’t feel like ten years ago — it feels like yesterday.
Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock & 9/11….hmmm…why am I already bored? The reissue of Titanic is looking better, and better every day.
Reissue of “Titanic”? How about the Chipmunks movie?
You rock? Good lord.
You’re right, dads never say corny things. GREAT CATCH!
I too really don’t want to pay to see this subject matter dealt with right now. Money’s tight. Time is limited. We’re all stressed out. Mission Impossible, Dragon Tattoo and Sherlock Holmes feel like exactly the right thing right now: escapist entertainment with the gritty sensibilities of our present circumstances…
What are the “gritty sensibilities of our present circumstances”?
Mission Impossible seems jsut right? Because you are flashing back to 1992? Goodness, I doubt that Tom Cruise wille ver feel “just right” to me ever again. Pretty much over that.
“The events depicted in [Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List] were far worse than what happened that one day 10 years ago.”
I didn’t know there was some scale where dying in a gas chamber or being blown apart by mortar shells was far worse than leaping to your death out of a 120 story window or having your throat cut or having your plane flown into a building, or twin skyscrapers collapsing on top of you. Unjust murder is unjust murder. Can’t we just leave it at that?
Having said that, this looks painfully bad.
REALLY don’t wanna make it a contest but i’m sorry 9/11 will never, ever compare to WW2. Do you know what the W’s stand for?
The Dad (Tom Hanks) didn’t “die,” he was murdered in an Islamic terrorist attack. Way to be P.C. Bet the movie doesn’t even mention who the terrorists were.
Sandra Bullock is too young to play Tom Hanks’ wife, but nobody will care.
Wish Hanks would go back to comedy. Miss the “Burbs” days of Hanks…
Bet the movie doesn’t even mention who the terrorists were.
I’m pretty sure that by having the character die in the WTC on 9/11 no mention of the perpetrators is necessary to approximately 99.9999% of the world’s population, and 100% of anyone who will see this film.
Did you watch that trailer? It’s a story about a kid. The question of “who the terrorists were” is incidental to this story. Maybe even irrelevant.
As for wishing Hanks would return to doing comedies like the THE ‘BURBS, you might want to look at a calendar.
Something I might consider watching once it comes out on DVD
The film was adapted from a book by one of the most talented of American authors, Jonathan Safran Foer — a writer of literature, not light-weight bestsellers. The roles of the father and mother are minor, it is about the grief of a most unusual boy. Hopefully, screenwriter Eric Roth has preserved the book’s essence which may or may not make the film a huge box office hit. Doing that would mean far less screen time for Bullock and Hanks than one would infer from the trailers. The second trailer better represents the book, however. I cannot wait to see it. btw, not everything has to be political — not mentioning 9/211 terrorists being Moslems doesn’t make the move “PC,” just rational.
Looks to be a great ensemble piece, led by this kid who seems to embody the role. I thought ‘Everything is Illuminated’ was amazing and love Foer’s ideas and our relationship to things.
I don’t care that it’s about 9/11. It’s part of our lives and our history and continues to impact us. It has impacted and infiltrated nearly every sphere in our lives in some way. Stop trying to put a curtain over the elephant in the room.
Besides, this is hardly about 9/11. Yes, the death of his father galvanizes the child into action… but it’s clearly about people. It’s about our community and how we reach one another, and whether we do at all anymore. Would you prefer the father was shot in an alleyway robbery?
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This movie looks really moving. I’ve been trying to find movies that look good in the coming year and i’m having trouble finding very many. I’m excited to see Tom hanks again. Someone mentioned that they wished that he would go back to doing comedy. I think he’s awesome in all kinds of movies. He’s a powerful actor.