Looks corny as hell.

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I keep watching trailers for this hoping one will finally make it look good. Each instead makes it look worse.

I'm still game for this movie. After The Fall, I'm totally game for Tarsem's take on this stuff.

That's meh written all over it.

I think it looks better than Conan.

I expect typical Tarsem - loads of style, hollow as a drum.

That's like saying shit looks better than diarrhea.

I thought 300 was very mediocre and the fact they are selling this as "from the producers of 300" is a huge turnoff to me. It seems like the retarded brother of an also retarded 300.

Tarsem is all about style but the style that I see in this seems uninspired and pretty done. The action looks like typical '300' slow mo crap which, I guess, should leave the viewer slowly rubbing one out all the while muttering "coooooooool".
Looks lame, quite lame.
Oh, and I'm freakin' tired of Tarsem's obsession with retarded masks! ARGHH!!

"The Fall" was amazing so I'll at least give it a shot.

"Prove...me...right."

deep.

It's because of The Fall (as well as the visuals of The Cell) that I was looking forward to this. But I'd never guess this was from the same director if I didn't know beforehand.

This somehow has managed to make over-the-top synonymous with bland.

What a blatant attempt to capitalize off the success of 300. There doesn't seem to be any creativity/originality here.

I enjoyed the trailer, I hope this movie turns out to be fun. I also enjoyed The Cell.

Tarsem is a visualist. His images work better as perfume commercials, not films.

I dunno...I loved The Fall. Never seen the lopez film though.

This thread started out praising and turned into condemnation, how amusing the armchair critics. As for me, the trailers looked good, I plan on adding this to my collection. -kd5-

I'm personally avoiding the trailers - I want all the imagery just to unravel in front of me.. okay I've seen a few seconds, at this morning's screening of 'The Thing' - question though, imdb denotes the film as having an aspect ratio of 1.85 (now imdb is never 100% reliable) but what I saw looked more like 1.66, what's the story? the less wide it is, the more of a (AMC) ETX or (Cinemark) XD screen will be used to maximum effect - shame that this isn't getting the IMAX treatment.

Tarsem makes pretty films but he's never made a good one.

I'd argue that The Fall was his one "good" film. It had a rather sweet story and a fun story within a story.

Yeah, you can't deny that visuals are his strong suit, but they are so mind-blowing that they can compensate for an average story.

However, I personally loved The Fall. I thought it was stellar. And I actually really liked The Cell. It's one of those movies won't leave my head.

Being that Tarsem does dynamic visuals, this movie looking like a 300 retread is disappointing.

I thought for sure this was going to be Tarsem's first PG-13 movie, I was wrong. It being R has me much more interested.

It looks dark and dreary, just like every other predominantly CGI-fantasy film out there. Can someone give digital effects technicians lessons in primary colors?

Yeah...I loved the hell out of The Fall.

well... visually the movie is amazing with an all out outlandish smack down finale that has to be seen in 3D - a truly "holy... mother... of... god" sequence - it looks very 'God of War'

- thought the beginning lagged
- the minotaur looked way too Julie Taymor for my taste
- Mickey Rourke is annoying, but I never cared for any of his characters anyway so that's a given in my case.
- I want to enact bodily harm on the projectionist at AMC Tyson's, the '3D' ETX screening was terrible, the first 15 minutes had severe ghosting/double imaging.
- I purposefully tried to not see any footage/trailers before seeing this, which I did quite well - but one shot that was featured briefly in the trailers was utterly jaw dropping in 3D was the wow... wow!

sooooooo what would you rate it?