Wally Pfister's Transcendence - Part 1

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[mclay18]

This is nice... cinematographer Wally Pfister will make his directorial debut on an untitled film written by Jack Paglen. The movie will be produced by Alcon Entertainment, which has an distribution deal with Warner Brothers.

The film is on the fast-track and pre-production has started with an early fall shoot date.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/03/alc...k-knight-rises-cinematographer-wally-pfister/

 

[TheVileOne]

Jesus..stupid. Only he can do stuff like that, but that's dying out. I don't think Cruise can afford to pull that sort of stunt anymore and has been humbled with getting smaller checks.

The age of the movie star is over.

 

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

So i've heard bad things about this one but the idea intrigues me. So is this a pass or what?

 

[looklikefrost]

I havent's seen this movie yet..

 

[Kane52630]

So i've heard bad things about this one but the idea intrigues me. So is this a pass or what?

 

[Liam_H]

Pass, you can sleep at home.

 

[vanson]

is this really that bad ? ... can someone compare it to some other equally crappy movies ?

 

[Kane52630]

I would say it's kinda like Keanu Reeves's The Day the Earth Stood Still. It's long, boring, and the story doesn't fully commit to anything. Although The Day the Earth Stood Still was still more entertaining than this, that should tell you something.

 

[Octoberist]

Dude, I completely forgot that 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' remake even existed.

 

[Kane52630]

See?! case in point...this movie will be a forgotten snorefest.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Dude, I completely forgot that 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' remake even existed.

You are not the only one.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

God that remake sucked.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

God that remake sucked.

I rarely turn off films after I start watching them. I am usually in it to the bitter end, no matter how bad. That is one of the very few exceptions.

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

I rarely turn off films after I start watching them. I am usually in it to the bitter end, no matter how bad. That is one of the very few exceptions.

You were smarter than I was. It's a total uninteresting bore of a film. Only reason I probably kept watching is because I love miscast Keanu.

 

[Liam_H]

Just keep staring at Jennifer Connelly, that worked for me.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

You were smarter than I was. It's a total uninteresting bore of a film. Only reason I probably kept watching is because I love miscast Keanu.

That is what killed it. Not pure awfulness, just complete boredom.

Just keep staring at Jennifer Connelly, that worked for me.

Just saw Noah. She will always be beautiful won't she?

 

[Liam_H]

Indeed.

 

[TheVileOne]

Here's the one thing I can't really forgive for this movie:

The military and federal government don't bat an eyelash when they realize that shutting down Depp means causing a worldwide blackout. They're, "yeah whatever."

Like no one cares about that.

Also, how does that even freaking happen? How does shutting him down cause a worldwide blackout? That makes no sense. That wasn't in the script.

 

[The Chris]

One thing I wished though was for

Spoiler

More reactions to the fact that Will WAS in fact in the computer and was doing everything to help mankind and the earth because that was what his wife wanted to do. It felt like the movie really rushed to the end and I would have really liked to have seen all the characters in the movie look like freakin' idiots. Especially those RIFT people. Their reason, or at least Mara's character's motives, were so weak in the movie. Oh and irony I guess. They hate technology, but literally the only way they can accomplish anything they do in this film is with it. Man I hated that the government teamed up with the darn terrrorists. I hated more that Will's own best friends teamed up with his murderers, and after one scene each too! I understand trying to to express that mankind fears what it doesn't understand but literally things are just completely skipped over. Like when Morgan Freeman writes Run from this place to Rebecca Hall's character. I thought in my head, just based on everything that he had seen, Why? Then they went to the point that he was basically willing to sacrifice her at the end and I'm just thinking this movie has not earned this. We know nothing of these characters. We don't really know how they think and feel, so instead of feeling damn this must be done, or damn that's messed up, I'm thinking, Huh? Heck Paul Bettany's character I feel should have been with Computerized Will and Evelyn for at least a few more scenes before he got scared and kicked out. At least give me a little bit more to be afraid of personally so that I can understand why the characters do the absolutely idiotic things they do in this film besides just the cliche fear what they don't understand logic. I mean they want the twist to be a surprise that Will is in fact alive in there and is doing things for the betterment of mankind, but it literally came as no surprise to me because the only thing he did that freaked me out was talking through other people, people who seemingly were willing to let it happen, so when they basically let clifton collins's character die by not reconnecting him to the network like he asks i'm think "you scumbags!", instead of "don't do it!" like I was probably supposed to be thinking. I would have loved to have seen the reactions of some normal folk after the power goes out too. Because basically as the movie expresses it, this small group of scared fools just decided that the entire planet was going to be deprived of power for what possibly could be for eternity and they didn't even think of the struggle that people are going to be going through either. And all of this based on such small evidence and massive assumptions. Wow, I didn't realize how unhappy I was with this until I started writing. So much more could have been done with this.

 

[Rocketman]

I'm not sure what the world is smoking, but I thought this movie rocked. I loved it. I guess I'm just an idiot with awful taste. 9/10.

 

[ThreadPool]

Saw it today. It was fine. It wasn't amazing but it certainly didn't suck. A weak 7 maybe. One thing I've seen with some critics is that this can't just be "okay". It's either amazing or terrible. It's fine for a first outing.

 

[Octoberist]

Man, it barely cracked 30 million domestically.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

Yeah it bombed horribly I wonder what Wally has lined up next.

 

[kvz5]

I remember reading a story that he was on the shortlist for 20,000 Leagues (since Fincher bailed) but I guess he's been taken off that list now.