Solid Snake

That's fine and dandy that you love it so but it's just not a good movie. Beautiful looking movie and awesome in its technical nature... but holy fuck is the story shit.

Why So Blu?

If you guys want to get an inkling of what the director of AC is about then check out Macbeth also with Fassbender and Cotillard. I wasn't necessarily a fan but it's got tons of style to spare. If anything - AC will too.

Artman

Same, no interest at all. The trailer music is the least of it's problems (and I liked the Kanye song better)...in no way does this look any better than video game adaptation'. Right down to using the same title font as the games... so boring. It's also possible the film is good and the marketing is ruining it.

dex14

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Why So Blu?

Cool - now that trailer actually shows you action and scale. I'm there.

Solid Snake

Ah. So it's just a literal restart of the franchise for film. There was some hinting from Ubisoft that it was going to be a literal part of the game universe too.

Not a big fan of what they're doing w/ the Animus. I dunno. Seems kind of pointless to have him physically be doing all that stuff while strapped into it. But.. I guess he'll be physically where he needs to be in the real world to kick ass?

VHS?

Thread made 5 years ago. Longest wait to date?

csant

I like that trailer... looks pretty damn good and I like the cast.

Defiant1

That should have been the first trailer instead of the one with the crappy music they initially used. I still think it's box office prospects are very iffy though coming just a week after Rogue One.

Abob Teff

Why So Blu?

I agree on the release date. I think it said January 1st? Doesn't bode well unless Rogue One turns out to be utter garbage - but even, one week after? I'll go under the assumption that the studio does not have faith in the project.

Defiant1

December 21, just 5 days after Rogue One. The holidays do tend to help the box office though, since every day between Christmas and New Year's is basically Saturday for most people. We'll see how AC can fare.

Dr. DVD

New trailer looks pretty good, though I don't dig the animus look or the modern timeline story. A lot like the game series as well.

I find it interesting that this is being made by 20th Century Fox which also made Ridley Scott's Kingdom of Heaven which was clearly an influence on the look of the first AC game. That movie featured Jeremy Irons as a Knight and Templars, which I remember being an important part of the first AC as well (the first game is the only one I have ever played through to completion). Wondering if maybe there will be some unspoken connections to work AC into the same universe as Kingdom of Heaven. Would be pretty cool IMO.

DWilson

It seems like every Christmas there's an Action movie that comes out and pretty much dies, -this is probably the one for this year. I say this, but I'm probably going to see it.

dex14

Yea... the release date is going to probably break this. Should've moved it.

DWilson

...and it doesn't help that the ads look more like ads for a new video game.

dex14

Bad reviews rolling in.

Dan

My closest theatre, a Cinemark with 19 screens, is only showing this twice per day starting Wednesday through next week. No matinees. No mid-afternoon shows. Just once in 2D and once in 3D.

Yeah... this thing is dead in the water.

fumanstan

And the string of poorly received video game movies continue. Maybe the audience reviews will still be decent.

Why So Blu?

Yeah, I'll be seeing this on BD instead.

Defiant1

There's really never going to be a well-reviewed video game movie, is there?

Dan

Well, they've updated this. It's now 4 times in 3D and and 5 times in 2D, each day.

Redemption!

Based on a specific game or series of games? Not sure.
Wreck-it Ralph worked because it wasn't about any particular game and told a fun story about video games.
Pixels was utter trash, though.

mdc3000

This was horrible - great cast but NO ONE displays ANY CHARISMA or semblance of character during the entire runtime. The action is lackluster, the plot is incomprehensible and it's just a really dour and dull affair - would it have killed them to make this thing fun? I played the first 2 games and while they had some serious moments, they were a lot more entertaining than this shit. If I hadn't see The Brothers Grimsby, this would be my worst movie of the year - mostly because it had some serious potential with a good cast and Frank Marshall producing....

asianxcore

I thought the action scenes were solid, especially ones that don't take place in modern day settings.

Other that (and some rad costume decisions for the Creed) the film is pretty incoherent.

It bugged me quite a bit to see the visual choice to constantly switch from modern day to memories during fun action scenes.

Osiris3657

I honestly thought this wasn't as bad as the reviews say. It's certainly got its flaws...there's virtually no humor, and it's a drab and dull looking picture with the gold, blue, and grey filters...alot of mediocre CGI...but it has the best cast for a videogame movie ever and the action scenes (specifically the choreography) were not too shabby.

This is way better than any of the Resident Evil movies, and probably ranks somewhere alongside Silent Hill for me among videogame movies.

Give this a grade of C