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Title: Green Zone
Post by: MacGuffin on October 27, 2009, 01:55:36 PM
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Trailer here. (http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/16313721/standardformat/)

Release Date: March 12th, 2010 (wide)

Starring: Matt Damon, Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, Antoni Corone, Nicoye Banks 

Directed by: Paul Greengrass 

Premise: Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller is a rogue U.S. Army officer who must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil before war escalates in an unstable region.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: Pozer on October 27, 2009, 04:26:21 PM
Magellan, you Gellin'?
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: picolas on October 27, 2009, 04:37:18 PM
He's our gellin'est source.

(that's a pretty slick trailer)
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: modage on October 27, 2009, 05:21:06 PM
They should have just called it The Bourne Zone.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: SiliasRuby on October 27, 2009, 05:47:15 PM
This film would have be more interesting if it had a different actor, so I don't have a lot of optimism for this but my fingers are crossed.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: polkablues on October 27, 2009, 06:00:11 PM
Drinking Game: The Movie
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: Gamblour. on October 27, 2009, 08:01:34 PM
Quote from: modage on October 27, 2009, 05:21:06 PM
They should have just called it The Bourne Zone.

No shit. When heard about a movie set in Iraq, I definitely imagined looking something more like a story that would actually happen in Iraq, and have less than completely trite dialogue. I was wrong. This looks so pointless.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: RegularKarate on October 28, 2009, 10:52:00 AM
Quote from: modage on October 27, 2009, 05:21:06 PM
They should have just called it The Bourne Zone.

Quote from: Gamblour. on October 27, 2009, 08:01:34 PM
This looks so pointless.

I'm fine with both these things.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: picolas on October 28, 2009, 03:45:53 PM
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&from=sp&vid=503152ef-8135-4724-b41a-e7a697035c6c

international trailer. a little less bournesy. more plot revealing though.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: pete on October 29, 2009, 12:40:14 AM
this is another installment of political thriller: 2.0 - along with the international, quantum of solace, and the kingdom - in which some screenwriter reads an insider book that depicts some complex issue such as the business of war, counter-terrorism, corporate crimes, or in this case - the green zone - and decides to give the bad guys machine guns.  the book in this case is "Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone", one that has nothing to do with special force dudes punching regular soldiers in the face.  It's actually credited on the IMDB.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: squints on October 29, 2009, 10:31:56 AM
I really wish Greengrass would make something as powerful and moving as United 93 or Bloody Sunday again. A real, gritty, no apologies take on the Iraq war would've been nice.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: pete on October 29, 2009, 03:17:38 PM
after generation kill, it really feels like nothing more could be added to it.  nearly all of the iraq movies came out have been extremely simplistic and the battle scenes never ever looked like they actually took place in iraq.  in a few years they'll all be as laughable as the opening scene in the hunted - an otherwise great thriller.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: picolas on June 20, 2010, 04:24:44 PM
oh my god this is boring. everyone is talking like a plot-delivering robot. i turned on the video commentary to see what it was like and matt damon is JUST AS BORED! he sits quietly, slumped in his chair, not saying a word until greengrass stops talking, then he just says what's happening on screen to fill the awkward silence. like "here's theeeeeee... uh. fake. decoy guy. i'm supposed to talk to."

he is on the verge of falling asleep.
Title: Re: Green Zone
Post by: Stefen on June 21, 2010, 12:54:34 AM
This sounds like the most hilarious commentary track ever.