Reply With QuoteSounds like a mix of the story from the Xbox game "Breakdown" and the Doctor Manhattan "Mars" sequences in the graphic novel "Watchmen."
Rise, o thread of ages past!
So this movie spent like 9 months filming and over a year in editing and is finally nearing completion. Seems crazy ambitious. I still can't wait.
The official site went live a couple days ago:
http://www.mrnobody-lefilm.com/
There are pics up and it looks gorgeous
Last edited by Frogacuda; 02 Feb 2009 at 06:21 AM.
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Sounds like a mix of the story from the Xbox game "Breakdown" and the Doctor Manhattan "Mars" sequences in the graphic novel "Watchmen."
Sounds like somebody needs to expand his horizons beyond nerd shit.
Originally Posted by Razor Ramon
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I'm serious. The things that make this movie stand out, as far as I know, is the presentation of time in a non-linear fashion, and memory recollection after a monumental event. And that for some reason Mars becomes important.
Breakdown was a memory playthrough where the missing memories were filled in by the mind with weird crap... a'la this guy's car filling up with water and other such... as in the talking bloodsplats in Breakdown among other strange hallucinations...
And time being told in a non-linear fashion as much as possible (he's 35, then he's 9, then he's 120) is a lot like Doctor Manhattan's narration in his chapter of Watchmen. But I guess the only reason I went straight to Watchmen was because of the Mars connection.
What did I just say?
Sounds interesting. Not a big fan of Leto but I am willing to give him a chance.
Unico Power!
I'm not going to lie, when I read the plot I heard GET YO ASS TO MAAARS in my head. It does sound interesting though and I love pretentious films.
"Pretentious" is quickly becoming one of the most abused words in the language. Pretentious means something that tries to pass it off as more intellectual than it is.
The Matrix is pretentious. Clerks is pretentious. Something like Waking Life could be considered pretentious. This is just a movie that uses a unique device to tell a story it couldn't otherwise. Van Dormael's movies have quirky stories and characters, even unusual structures, but they're not up their own asshole trying to be deep. They're sweet, sincere, even naive, and the kind of movie even a kid can enjoy and understand. They're the opposite of pretentious.
Last edited by Frogacuda; 03 Feb 2009 at 03:00 PM.
Clerks is pretentious?
Kevin Smith always turns his characters into a Kevin Smith mouthpiece at some point in the movie and tries to make them say something profound or intellectual that isn't. Always bugs me, but maybe it's just me.
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