http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/ultraviolet/
Yatz! I loved me some Equilibrium, and this is the same writer/director. The trailer looks pretty damn cool. Not quite as snappy with the dialog, but that’s just Milla Jovovich, I think. The visual style is this weird over-saturated, brightly colored craziness which I think looks awesome.
Is this going to be a good movie? Hell if I know. Am I going to go see it? You’re damned right.
One of my biggest problems with Equilibrium, and this has the same problem (I blame the director), is how it looks.
It’s the lighting or something, maybe the set decoration, but it always looks like some cheesy set. It really distracts me and I think it looks unprofessional.
It feels unreal in a low-budget movie way.
I mean, one can pull of that sparse look on a low budget, like Lucas’ THX-1138. That has a lot of the visual problems as Equilibrium and this new one, but I think it looks more realistic than the latter two.
And I’m a little annoyed by all the Matrix elements. The borrowing is a little too direct for my tastes. I even think they use one of the Matrix songs in the trailer.
I think the writer/director has some original ideas, but I think his directing is weak. That’s what I thought about Equilibrium, and as far as I can tell, this looks to be more of the same.
Bah!
… er… that’s really all I had to say.
I never saw Equilibrium.
But I agree with a_b in that the whole look of it looks fake, like early 90’s CG sets, or your average SciFi channel movie. Even the Wing Commander games looked more “real.”
And I don’t get how they made Milla Jovovich not hot. She just looks boring in that trailer. When she’s kicking zombie ass, she’s hot as hell. What gives? Is it the wig? Or too much dialogue?