Unbroken to be directed by...

[chesslover]

Angelina Jolie. Due Dec. 2014 Jack O'Connell to play Louie Zamperini.

I recently finished the book. I Hope the movie is as powerful.

 

[MrMaooz]

Jai Courtney has joined.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/jai-courtney-tapped-for-angelina-jolies-unbroken-russell-crowes-water-diviner/

 

[Octoberist]

I'm happy for Jolie's new venture as a director.

 

[MrMaooz]

 

[jacobed]

I just finished this book. Holy crap what a book. Incredible story, I hope the movie is good.

 

[green]

trailer. Looks good.

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[Tim_Riggins]

Bleh, looks like typical Oscar bait to me, could be wrong, but that's what it feels like. Surprised that the Coen brothers wrote this, but makes total sense as to why they're not directing it themselves.

If I didn't know that Deakins shot this, I'd be unable to guess it, looks surprisingly bland (although he did describe his work on it as naturalistic) coming from him, the bland, clean & lifeless look of digital on this doesn't help.

Only watching this because of the Coen bros & Garrett Hedlund.

 

[green]

I'll never understand the complaint that something looks like Oscar bait.
I'd much rather watch a well crafted film that some would describe as Oscar bait than 80% of the crap that gets released the rest of the year.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

It's easy to understand, that kind of movie has been done & done again, the triumph of one human being through challenges & hardship. I'd be interested in what you consider as crap, 2013 in particular has been a fantastic year for movies.

 

[SpideyFan866]

I'll never understand the complaint that something looks like Oscar bait.
I'd much rather watch a well crafted film that some would describe as Oscar bait than 80% of the crap that gets released the rest of the year.

Agreed.

IMO, the idea of films made simply to be Oscar bait aren't as bad as the people making them; No one should ever make movies simply to win awards.

 

[green]

It's easy to understand, that kind of movie has been done & done again, the triumph of one human being through challenges & hardship. I'd be interested in what you consider as crap, 2013 in particular has been a fantastic year for movies.

This rather sums up my feeling on it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...ero_dark_thirty_in_defense_of_oscar_bait.html

Oscar bait is an art form, a state of mind, a business model. Its yield includes some of recent American cinema's most resonant triumphs (Titanic, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Social Network) and some of its most wretched garbage (Nine, The Lovely Bones, the last decade of Halle Berry's career). Oscar bait is the only reason that grown-ups have anything at all to watch in a movie theater anymore, with four months of awards season compensating for the other eight months of craven superhero franchises, anemic romantic comedies, and whatever Adam Sandler wipes off his shoe. For all the media hand-wringing about television usurping film's grip on our culture's imagination, no one complains about Breaking Bad losing an Emmy to Homeland the way they still yelp on and on about Crash thwarting Brokeback Mountain for a Best Picture Oscar.

 

[Tim_Riggins]

I hardly would call the LOTR trilogy or The Social Network Oscar bait. And I'm not saying that they're making the movie to be Oscar bait (although you can tell when certain producers are salivating at the awards potential), but it just comes across that way to me.

 

[Deserana]

"Oscar bait" movies come out year around. It's because the franchises and CBMs have a hefty marketing budget that they get thrown in our faces.

 

[:eek:]

Funny how people complains about "oscar baits" all looking the same when you have tons of mindless, crappy blockbuster-wannabes every year that all look the same.

 

[MrMaooz]

That Deakins cinematography!

 

[DarkKnight88]

How about reading the book first? This story of Louis Zamperini is incredible and deserves to be out there. This trailer seems very faithful to his story.

 

[kvz5]

Really liked the trailer.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Jolie(Who looks really pretty even with chicken pox) will skip all promotion


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[Schlosser85]

This rather sums up my feeling on it.
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/...ero_dark_thirty_in_defense_of_oscar_bait.html

I really dislike the condescending belief some have that comic book movies can't be for "grown ups".

People who try that hard to seem intellectual usually make themselves seem quite the opposite.

 

[Golgo-13]

Finally got around to seeing this ( it's on HBO OnDemand) and i like it. Very powerful movie.