[Movies] The Upcoming Movies Trailer Thread
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I remember them saying they were optioned for the intergalactic exchange student idea they had come up with a few years back, but other than the comics I haven't seen anything regarding Automata.
The movie as presented in this trailer seems to have nothing to do with the world presented in Penny-Arcade's Automata. This looks like straight up sci-fi, with machines beginning to gain consciousness. PA's comic is a film noir style story, in which conscious androids have existed for years, and are second class citizens.
The name isn't all that unique. It's two letters off from automaton.
Plus this theme of robots-gaining-sentience-and-blur-the-line-between-living-and-nonliving shows up all the time. The Matrix immediately comes to mind. Oh, and the Geth from Mass Effect.
"Does this unit have a soul?"
That's because it's not even remotely a new concept. When the trailer started listing protocols, I thought it was about to get into Asimov's three laws of robotics. None of these concepts are younger than several decades.
I took interest because it looks like an interesting take on them and well-done, but Penny Arcade's thing, the Matrix, the Geth, and this movie are all drawing off the same sources from before any of us (except Dave) were born.
Yeah, it does.
So, does he make it?
It's not an official trailer, but Sony Pictures Animation has released a little featurette with Genndy Tartakovsky that has an animation test of Popeye.
No we're not.
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Love the animation and cartoon action, especially the Jeep's teleporting .
Yeah, it looks like Tartakovsky, at least in this test, does a pretty good job of capturing the feel and look of '30s cartoons in CGI form.
No spinach, no pipe, and no tattoos. Can it still be called Popeye?
I expect we'll see spinach turn up in the film. This was just an animation test, after all, designed to showcase the feel that Tartakovsky is going for with this.
As for no pipe and no tattoos? The lack of tattoos is a little odd, but at least Popeye doesn't look drastically different.
I think he's supposed to be a younger Popeye, maybe before he joined the navy.
I get the pipe (don't agree with it, but I understand), but I don't see why he can't have a tattoo.
Sony apparently replied to someone on YouTube about this. The movie is essentially a prequel, so the iconic pipe, tattoo, and spinach will be tackled.
CALLED IT, young Popeye.
Yup and after Popeye- BOW TO THE BACK! BACK THE PAST SEND HOMERAI JACK- WOO-WOO-WACHA! That theme song is as catchy as it is nonsensical. I'm just wondering how they'll handel Aku, will it be Mako's understudy? Time will tell.
This is one of those things that needs to happen, needs to not suck, and which will be difficult without Mako to provide the voice.
And I don't want it to happen because I need some sort of closure, I want it to happen because the series was amazing and I just want more of it.
--Patrick
Agreed, have you read the new comics?
ALSO- I hope it stays true to the style of the show, and if they go 3d that it won't change too much. Maybe a cool mix?
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No. I never even finished watching the series since they took away my cable before I could catch 'em all.
I bought the first VHS, which has the origin eps + Scotsman bridge ep, but I wouldn't mind owning the entire series.
--Patrick
I don't think the comics spoil much, I think they are just as serial as the show.
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Tim Burton's most terrifying concept yet. Amy Adams as a blond... *sigh* but there aren't enough redheads in the world as it is...
Technically, she's a strawberry blonde, the palest of reds, and dyes it darker. But considering this a a biopic, I'm guessing the original woman was a blonde.
( Shame to waste a redhead, I know!)
What do you mean? I don't understand. Depp is in all his movies. Otherwise, it's just not a Tim Burton movie. Right?
