General Film News

[Raid]

It's a good trailer. I only watched the second film for the first time earlier this year, and didn't think a great deal of it at the time, but loved the original.

Any idea where the voice sampling that plays over most of that is from? It's remarkably sinister.

[Animalmother]

I went to see the first film a few months back in the cinema (Danny Boyle festival), great film but it was a 420p video stretched to a cinema screen. Looked terrible.

I think it's a poem by Kipling about losing your mind from relentless war, well according to the YouTube comments anyway.

[Hatredsheart]

It's a good trailer. I only watched the second film for the first time earlier this year, and didn't think a great deal of it at the time, but loved the original.

Any idea where the voice sampling that plays over most of that is from? It's remarkably sinister.

It's "Boots" by Rudyard Kipling read (in 1915!) by American actor Taylor Holmes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_(poem)

[Hatredsheart]

[Animalmother]

There is a lot going on in that trailer. Love James Gunn, looks like this will have a bit of humor to it.

[Raid]

I can't pretend my first reaction wasn't "Oh, they're doing another one", but I'll give Gunn the benefit of the doubt. It does look like too many characters to stick in one film, but frankly I don't know the Superman canon well enough to know whether those were teams of good guys or 10 different baddies.

[Animalmother]

Almost looks like a parody trailer of a John Woo film. Also looks like utter trash and great fun

[Animalmother]

https://geekculture.co/neill-blomkamp-b ... pers-film/
This could be interesting but it could also be pish. Blomkamp is very hit and miss with his films. It's a real shame he never got to make the Aliens or RoboCop films he was trying to make.

[Raid]

It presumably has to be a closer adaptation of the novel; there's no point taking the same angle as the film as I just don't see much room for improvement there - it's a stone-cold classic and remains my favourite Verhoeven film (I love Robocop almost as much, but ST just pips it because I find space militarism more interesting than police militarism).

I haven't read the novel, but my limited understanding is that it's far less satirical than the film, and treats patriotism and some right-wing ideals as positives rather than taking them to their extremes to ridicule them as the film does. How that works in the current political environment I'm not sure, and I think you'd have to walk a pretty narrow line to avoid alienating half of your potential audience.