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Posted Friday, August 28th, 2009 - 12 Comments »

Amenabar/Weisz/Agora

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12 Responses to “Amenabar/Weisz/Agora”

  1. Hallick says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:00 am

    For Socrates, it was hemlock. For the box office, a trailer called “Agora”.
    It is as if Rachel Weisz asked herself this question:”How do I make the people who didn’t like The Brothers Bloom realize just how bad an experience they could have had?”.

  2. LexG says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:11 am

    Whoa… Weisz is cool and all (and a very good actress)… but did somebody actually bankroll what looks to be a 150-million dollar movie with NO male lead that looks like a “strong female” version of KINGDOM OF HEAVEN?
    This could be reach Cutthroat Island levels of major tankage. (So will that Amelia Earhart movie.)

  3. Hallick says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:24 am

    Isn’t this also the movie they run on the 3ABN channel every other night?

  4. LexG says:
    August 29, 2009 at 12:27 am

    Hallick: TOTALLY.

  5. LYT says:
    August 29, 2009 at 2:03 am

    I really miss Don LaFontaine.

  6. Eric says:
    August 29, 2009 at 6:22 am

    Someday I’ll get this movie from Netflix, let it sit by my television for three weeks, then send it back unwatched.

  7. martin says:
    August 29, 2009 at 6:37 am

    Looks boringly expensive.

  8. KamikazeCamelV2.0 says:
    August 29, 2009 at 7:07 am

    They even have character poster sets for this movie (a movie without a distributor, btw). Like… wha? They’ve gone about this movie all wrong, starting with, er, making it (apparently).

  9. yancyskancy says:
    August 29, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    I’d have liked it about 20% better without all the blackouts. God, that’s gotten old.
    But it’s a trailer. And gone are the days when you could count on somebody to cut together a good trailer, regardless of the movie’s quality.

  10. Blackcloud says:
    August 29, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    I’m sure the history’s completely fraudulent. Not that anyone will notice, since no one will be watching this thing.

  11. leahnz says:
    August 29, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    i’ll watch it. because i have a massive girl-crush on rachel, she is the bomb (and luminous from within!)

  12. KamikazeCamelV2.0 says:
    August 29, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    Yancy, have you watch the trailers for old movies? People talk about trailers today giving away too much, but old trailers actually show you the final scenes and the voice overs tell you exactly what will happen!

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