I know, I'm easy

[drwex]

but this kind of thing really gets me...
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/ultraviolet/high.html
*wipes sweat from brow*
Field trip, anyone?

Comments

[mizarchivist]

Hmm...
Milla Jovich with long hair
Fu
Guns
Swords
Motorcycles
Cyborgs
Milla Jovich with long hair
Nope. Can't imagine why you'd like the idea of this movie. I wonder if it'll have any plot. BTW we've seen this year's new sunglasses style.

[coraline]

and have we mentioned mila jovich with long hair??? :)

doesn't look like there's much hope on the plot, but the pretty might make up for it.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to get used to the black hair. I agree about the pretty, but there seems to be a lot of things breaking or blowing up and as I don't have the mentality of a pubescent boy, I don't find all the adrenaline stuff to be that much of a draw.

[coraline]

oh yes, i forgot to make my other comment, which was about them having obviously left out the N in "ultraviolent"...

don't have the mentality of a pubescent boy, I don't find all the adrenaline stuff to be that much of a draw.

that seems a rather simplistic and condescending way of putting it. i enjoy watching that sort of thing from a SFX/direction/art standpoint. the adrenaline i can take or leave.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

that seems a rather simplistic and condescending way of putting it. i enjoy watching that sort of thing from a SFX/direction/art standpoint. the adrenaline i can take or leave.

I meant it that way, though I realize that such a stance won't win me many friends. I remember suffering through "The Crow" with all the violence, complete with screaming guitars. Yeah, I understand lots of folks like that stuff (meaning gratuitous glamorized bloodshed) and I'm glad that such movies make them happy, but we're all entitled to an opinion.

As for the SFX/art standpoint, I agree.

[gets off of soapbox]

[drwex]

Plot? Uh, I doubt I'll notice. Milla Jovich with LONG HAIR!
And did you see that thing they spraypainted onto her body? I bet we don't get a front view, given that it's a PG-13 movie.

[(Anonymous)]

OOOOHHHHHH!!!!!!!

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

Oops that last post was mine.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

yum!

i'm in.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

::yawn:: I'm waiting for the Bettie Page movie.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Now THAT would be interesting. I'm in for that.

[drwex]

Yeah, I saw the preview for it. It looks a lot like they're going to whitewash the kink, which will piss me off no end. Good look-alike though.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

yup, that too. :>
sometimes, i'm indiscriminate.
and that's ok.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Shiny!

The first song in the trailer, the instrumental one, is by Rob Dougan; if you like, I can send it to you.

[drwex]

It's the so-called "Matrix theme." I have... um, five versions of it at last count. Three are his and two remixes. Thanks for the offer, tho'.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I hate it when they designate songs as "themes". "Ultra" by KMFDM is listed as the Ghost in the Shell theme everywhere, but dammit - GitS sucks ass, and that was one of my songs for my character Katrianna years before.

[drwex]

*shrug* It's how most people know the tune. Calling it "Clubbed to Death" (which is its official name) doesn't register in general.

[mizarchivist]

I expect it's just a placeholder. They do that all the time with movies that aren't released yet. Not to mention, putting in Matrix music helps subconsciously (or consciously) direct the potential audience to some degree.
Mind you, as with Matrix choreography, Ultraviolent is feeding on the Underworld-style maneuvers with the vampy jump, land, stomp. I wanna see a whole bunch of people at least leap like that- some sort of choreography. You know, just work it into conversation.

[drwex]

Ultraviolent is feeding on the Underworld-style maneuvers with the vampy jump, land, stomp

Wasn't that also a Matrix move? Morpheus did it first, I think, and Underworld did it very well after that. You saw Aeon Flux, right? Does this seem to you like a competitor for that?

[mizarchivist]

Missed Aeon. We'll have to have a violent femme flick marathon to compare Trinity/Underworld's Selene/Aeon/Ultra and so on. Maybe even have the original La Femme Nakita?
Now that you mention it, Morpheus was probably the beginning of the improbably leap-and-land thing, but when chicks do it in latex, it's more memorable. *grin*

[drwex]

when chicks do it in latex, it's more memorable.

Amen, sister.

I own the original Nikita, but there wasn't much latex in that. I was thinking that she's not much for the latex thing. Ripley in tight leather pants, now... Yeah, I see the VFFM as a good plan. Now to find a place that can host it.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

hm... tempting, but my living room would need help to have more than about half a dozen people seated comfortably. i do have a medium-large TV of Doom, tho.

[keyne.livejournal.com]

I watched it twice and I still don't get it. Is this another comic-book movie?

[drwex]

It doesn't, to my knowledge, spin off any existing comic, but it certainly has that feel. I haven't seen Aeon Flux but given the amount of publicity that got I wouldn't be surprised if this was intended as a competitor.

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

The whole time during that preview I just couldn't help but think...gee...how much *less* could they try to make her look just like Kate Beckinsale (sp?) for this movie?

[heinleinfan.livejournal.com]

Ummm...David said that sounded weird...

...I'm trying to say that they made her look pretty much exactly like Kate Beckinsale...

whatever.

[drwex]

Interesting. My first thought was not Kate Beckinsale (who doesn't look much like that imo, having just watched Underworld Tuesday night) but rather "she looks like Lucy Lawless!" Except Lawless is nowhere near that skinny. I didn't actually recognize her from the voiceover - it wasn't until the character spoke directly that I pinged who it was.