Comments on: 9/11! U2! Tom Hanks! Sandra Bullock! It’s The Trailer For ‘Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close’

By: scribe

scribe — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

This looks awesome, I don\’t care how sappy this trailer is.

By: LA2000

LA2000 — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

1) If the kid doesn\’t work, the film won\’t work because the kid is in 99% of the scenes. And this trailer has me a little worried about the kid. Kudos to Daldry for going with a newbie unknown, but its a risky move considering the number of scenes and the idiosyncratic nature of the character. I am not yet convinced he has pulled it off. If that kid is the least bit irritating, the film will be unbearably precocious. And if he\’s flat, the whole character will feel artificial. And the role is the center of the picture so you can\’t cut around him.

2) Given how restrained Bullock and Hanks look, I am hoping that the breathlessly manipulative tone of the trailer is more a product of deep insecurity run amok in the marketing department and not a reflection of the actual picture. The script has a very Eric Roth \”Gump-ishness\” about it, but the trailer looks straight up \”Blind Side\” cheesey.

By: Nik Grape

Nik Grape — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

What the hell is the great Max von Sydow doing in this garbage?

By: PRESIDENT MAO

PRESIDENT MAO — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

CRY BASTARDS! STEPHEN DALDRY COMMANDS YOU!

By: cirkusfolk

cirkusfolk — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

I guess I\’m in the minority because judging from this trailer, I don\’t think the kid has what it takes to pull off being the lead. But if anyone can make Oscars come to him it\’s Daldry. He\’s been nominated for every film he\’s done.

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

I was about to write this movie off because off how sugary the trailer was….

but then Max Von Sydow showed up & now I know I\’ll have to see it. Why Sydow isn\’t in Dragon Tattoo in Christopher Plummer\’s role is beyond me though.

By: brett

brett — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

(while they rolled the names of all the people who died)

By: brett

brett — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

U2 sang this song at the Super Bowl a few months after 9/11…wonder if they made the connection?

By: JP

JP — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

Agreed, I think it\’s that Horn looks like a character from The Polar Express.

By: StephenM

StephenM — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

Hmmm. Yeah, trailer is syrupy as can be. Where the Streets Have No Name is one of my favorite songs, but somehow using it in a trailer makes it sound incredibly trite and manipulative.

I dunno, the movie could still be good though. The trailer gives lots of hints of decent-to-good moments, and as long as they\’re not all covered up by sappy music they might actually work well.

But something about that poster is incredibly freaky. Anybody else with me on this?

By: op

op — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

You\’re right it looks mawkish, syrupy. Thomas Horn looks fine though.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:01 +0000

Yeah, U2\’s Super Bowl tribute was the first thing I thought of with Streets being in this trailer.

A few thoughts, while the book\’s style was rather gimmicky and it\’s strange to think about the journey this kid goes on, it never came off as heightened reality, which for some reason this did, I wouldn\’t say \’syrupy\’, I think that had a lot to with the selection/placement of dialog in the trailer, but something just doesn\’t feel real here.

That said, in spite of that heightened feeling, and their reputations recently/ever Hanks and Bullock look surprisingly restrained.

While I don\’t think it\’ll be garbage, I do think this is what Von Sydow was shooting when he had to turn down the patriarch role in the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo which he was perfect for from the moment the author wrote the novel. Not that Christopher Plummer will be bad, but it would have been great to have Sweden\’s most revered actor instead.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 13 May 2016 13:46:00 +0000

\”take away the cloying reach for the heartstrings\”
and the end credits will be rolling. The idea of Forrest Gump, The Blind Side and The Reader being put into a blender is not a pretty one and I continue to be surprised at the lack of ever-ready snark for this one around here.