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Trailer here. (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1444942&sdm=web&qtw=480&qth=300)
Release Date: November 22nd, 2006 (wide)
Starring: Denzel Washington, Jim Caviezel, Paula Patton, Adam Goldberg, Val Kilmer
Directed by: Tony Scott
Premise: It is déjà vu that unexpectedly guides ATF agent Doug Carlin through an investigation into a shattering crime. Called in to recover evidence after a bomb sets off a cataclysmic explosion on a New Orleans Ferry, Carlin is about to discover that what most people believe "is only in their heads" is actually something far more powerful--and will lead him on a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people.
I thought that was Matthew Perry at first. :doh:
I think I could be convinced to see this movie...
Ever since I've heard about this T.Scott film last year or so I've been excited to see it. I'm expecting it holds up to Man on Fire. And of course, expected H.G. Williams to score it.
the narration in this trailer is horrible, but its tony scott so i'm going anyway.
Quote from: modage on July 09, 2006, 10:16:01 AM
the narration in this trailer is horrible, but its tony scott so i'm going anyway.
So true. The trailer is cut in a really cool way then you have this horrible movie voice killing it. I do think it looks really good though, so hopefully it'll be better than domino.
Quote from: MacGuffin on July 06, 2006, 03:17:49 PM
a mind-bending race to save hundreds of innocent people.
That's it?
Hundreds of innocent people?
Quote from: modage on July 09, 2006, 10:16:01 AM
but its tony scott so i'm going anyway.
"When later this year, Deja Vu hits theaters and is an incomprehensible mess, don't even try to say that Bill and I are 'inconsistant' writers or that we can't structure a movie or that our dialogue is laughable. We didn't make those choices. There are errors now in the movie, inconsistancies and stupidities and missed opportunities that are obvious and have easy solutions, but we're not allowed to implement them..."
--Terry Rossio, writer of Deja Vu and Pirates of the Caribbean
http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/moviesarc07/index.cgi?read=84081
back when i was learning the rules of screenwriting, i use to frequent that site, where the writers of this movie post.
New Trailer here. (http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1485298&sdm=web&qtw=480&qth=300)
man thats not any better. its like they blew all their money on editing and crazy film stock and had like $1 leftover for someone to do the narration for the trailer.
Quote from: modage on September 26, 2006, 01:38:27 PM
man thats not any better. its like they blew all their money on editing and crazy film stock and had like $1 leftover for someone to do the narration for the trailer.
I have 2 words for you... come on. Just give in.
Anyway, Tony seems like he's finally mastered his style now, and I love the simplicity he went back to (as the camera zooms in onto the boat with the white rectangle, nice experimental touch) and the colors are just "bloody gorgeous". I havn't been collecting his entire filmography for nothing, that's 35+ years in the making right there!
monty python already did a skit about this.
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I was very much let down by Tony Scott with this film.
I enjoyed the trailer 100x more than the actual movie. From the opening shots, you will see a lack of interest. Second, it seemed like nobody bothered to tighten up the plot enough, especially since they're making a time travel movie you'd figure the story would be written in such a way to keep it fresh or original. The aesthetics/style, I did not see anything interesting here. Perhaps the motion blurs of the time travel portal (which is probably the most entertaining part of the movie, the cast sitting in a room watching a giant screen for about 30 minutes), but even then, I was hoping for more. Denzel was alright I suppose, but sometimes that can't distract you enough from thinking how bad the movie is. And to top it all off, what a lame ending. It practically throws all sensible theories out the window, yes the movie even contradicts itself. Scott tried to make something further beyond his own comprehension and somewhere along the way decided to tame "his style" to the movie it could have worked best in.
And to only think I could have watched the fountain instead...
Why is Denzel on fire in the Deja Vu poster but not on the Man on Fire poster?
spoils
i enjoyed this way more than i thought i would based on the first 30 minutes. parts of it were lame/could have been done far better like denzel's performance which doesn't really match the script, or the romance, or caveziel's character, but i guess i'm a sucker for time travel movies. there were so many cool moments like the sending of the paper being responsible for the death and denzel surviving which i never thought of until the moment it happened.. and it doesn't really mess with the laws of time travel.. it's sort of like donnie darko time travel. it's just multiverse jumping. deja vu being the spiritual/unexplainable side effect is such a neat idea..
Man, I really enjoyed this film. I was completely fascinated and drawn into the time bending aspect. It felt original and such a change from any other action film I'm seen in a long time; not knowing which way it would go. Scott goes further than he did with Enemy Of The State and was right in not using the quick cutting techniques of Man On Fire and Domino for this film.