Immortals

[MacGuffin]

Trailer here.

Release Date: November 11th, 2011 (wide)

Starring: Henry Cavill, Freida Pinto, Mickey Rourke, Kellan Lutz, Isabel Lucas

Directed by: Tarsem Singh

Premise: The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus.

[Gold Trumpet]

Not an exciting trailer for advertising sake, but the hope is that a crap trailer means a better against-the-grain film and studio boys here doing their best to make the film look more typical.

[OrHowILearnedTo]

People still wont know who Henry Cavill is after this movie.

[The Perineum Falcon]

Regardless of whether or not this trailer is representative of the plot, the most disappointing thing to see here is just how much cgi is being used. I loved The Fall because Tarsem chose NOT to use it, and the film was all the more beautiful for it. There are certainly some attractive shots in the trailer (mainly the floating bodies "fresco"), but even these have a sense of 300's perversion of style.

I hope for the best, but this is not exactly enticing.

[Gold Trumpet]

Regardless of whether or not this trailer is representative of the plot, the most disappointing thing to see here is just how much cgi is being used. I loved The Fall because Tarsem chose NOT to use it, and the film was all the more beautiful for it. There are certainly some attractive shots in the trailer (mainly the floating bodies "fresco"), but even these have a sense of 300's perversion of style.

I hope for the best, but this is not exactly enticing.

Yea, it's hard to get over that. The Cell mixed reality with CGI environments. Production wise, the results were fine. This film just looks knee deep in CGI plastic. No film has been able to make a world of visual believability out of the 300 premise. Tarsem can do a million things to make that aspect second consideration, but it's going to be a hard road to travel.

[MacGuffin]

New Trailer

[polkablues]

Tarsem had me at his music videos, lost me at The Cell, had me back big time at The Fall, and has now lost me again.  I can't wait for whatever he does after this, though!

[Mr. Merrill Lehrl]

Visually it's impressive. I wish it was a silent film.

[Gold Trumpet]

Since every bad filmmaker makes half hearted attempts to be visualists in this technology age, The Cell continues to look like a better film with age. It's still a thriller and the visuals are as abstract as Salvador Dalí painting - meaning the distortion to reality is there, but the nuance for leaving anything unsaid is lacking. Tarsem still made a full visual work look beautiful and rich before newer technology could make it look like a product of the past. It still hasn't. The texture in The Cell is richer and the sincere emotions make it radiate even more today.

Now Tarsem is utilizing every visual trick that is at the disposal of big studios. It's hard to tell by just trailers whether or not he will make the technology his own. The interest of these trailers is to make the film look as bland as 300, but it really may not be. It's wait and see for me now.