Watch the "Wanted" 1st Theatrical Trailer and discuss

[Mr. Sinister05]

Wow, this movie was horribly miscast and the whole assassin angle looks lame. The supervillain angle would've sold much better. Horrible!

 

[MaskedManJRK]

For the first time,in terms of comic book movies,I didn't really know what to expect,since I have always shyed away from the book.For once I can look at a comic adaption with fresh eyes.

I'm a huge Millar fan,but have always heard that this was not his finest work from close friends who read comics.Plus,I'm on a student budget so I'm picky with comic purchases.

Either way guys,comic book/superhero movies are going to own the better part of 2008,2009 and maybe 2010.Last count,I think there are around 8 to 12 superhero/comic features.Good time to be a geek.

Your friends LIE. It's actually Millar's best.

 

[K.B.]

Seriously dude I'd find some new friends. If your a Millar fa nthis is Millar atthe top of his game re-inventing the genre. Wanted, like the original Sentry mini, will be talked about in 10,15,20 years the same way DKR and Watchmen are hailed now.

The trailer looks like complete garbage, not only as an adaptation but just as a movie as well. It comes off as not only a rip off of the matrix and a million other action flicks like it, but also as a BORING rip off. It came off as more of a trailer for a straight to DVD movie than a mutli-million dollar studio effort.

(but I bet the excuse fans will use will be "why would a studio show off the great effects in the first trailer?")

 

[DOG LIPS]

I never read the book, but I was interested in the trailer. Now that I've seen it, it looks OK I guess. Typical action movie with slo-mo-matrix bullet crap and such. Nothing special, but looks worth a watchin'.

 

[dark_b]

it doesnt look fresh enough. to bad. if it has tons of action i will watch it in the theater.

P.S. the start of the trailer was pathetic. i am talking about jolie in the store. it was edited extreme bad.

 

[nite-owl]

Meh, I wasn't a fan of the book so I'll pass on this.

 

[chamber-music]

generic action movie and matrix rip off it looks like. You can totally tell whats gonna happen before you have even seen the movie.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Wow, way to go Universal. You take an original and incredibly unrelenting and irreverent graphic novel and turn it into a generic action movie.

My feelings also. Shame really. I watched the trailer and was like "Did I accidentally click on the link to the Matrix trailer?"

 

[Carlo Comicus]

Horrible.

 

[Superman_]

Dear God Almighty after seeing the trailer I am so pissed at this movie. Good God this should have been the easy to adapt to film and they made it into trash. I mean these guys were never heroes or keeping a balance between good and evil they were just plain pure bad ass evil.

 

[A_Graves]

As a huge Wanted fan I am incredibly dismayed. Removing the supervillain aspect set this movie up to fail from the start. The entire Wanted story is completely over the top, and they go all the way with it. The supervillain aspect maintains congruency with the rest of the ridiculous, excessive action and violence.

Without the supervillains, it's just another shoot-em-up, john woo wannabe, matrix jr. With the supervillains, you have a comic book movie sans your typical Hero/Protagonist vs. Arch Nemesis plot. Instead you have a gritty, action-packed tale that doesn't pull its punches and puts the (average) viewer in a situation that isn't necessarily brand new, but not one that they're in 15 times a year already. Protagonist-as-deadly-assassin is done every 5 minutes in hollywood action movies. Supervillain with impunity? Not quite so often. The last time someone made a gritty, true-to-story comic book adaptation that didn't pull its punches, we got Batman Begins.

That scene where Morgan Freeman makes the bullet curve around the obstacle in midair made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

 

[tdeverea]

Why are you guys so upset with this trailer? You knew long ago that the movie was going to be different from the graphic novel. I do think incorporating superheroes and villains could've worked nicely but oh well...

Anyhow, you all should wait and see what the movie has in store. The trailer and the synopsis does claim that the Fraternity is not all that they seem - hence, a possibel twist in the movie. Wesley could find out that he's been assasinating heroes all along. Wait and see. We might get a nice surprise.

 

[xisaacx]

i know some people are saying oh this is going to be a great action flick, why are you all mad, um well MAYBE your ok with a story you love being changed but WE ARE NOT. as a fan it pisses me off when hollywood changes someones origin or a script to be more p.c or tone down the violence for an audience, and although they make these movies to just make money, as a fan it just makes me sick. Half of the comic movies that have been produced have been absolute ****. terrible trailer, angelina jolie isnt even that great, and It looks like an amped up version of the matrix, so **** this, and for those who say oh it looks awesome..how do you even call yourself a fan? and support this stuff? No true fan would be happy with this movie, its a simple as that.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

Some people are so used to being disappointed by how poorly adaptations are handled they are accepting this as a passable action movie.

 

[shinlyle]

For the first time,in terms of comic book movies,I didn't really know what to expect,since I have always shyed away from the book.For once I can look at a comic adaption with fresh eyes.

I'm a huge Millar fan,but have always heard that this was not his finest work from close friends who read comics.Plus,I'm on a student budget so I'm picky with comic purchases.

Either way guys,comic book/superhero movies are going to own the better part of 2008,2009 and maybe 2010.Last count,I think there are around 8 to 12 superhero/comic features.Good time to be a geek.

As MaskedManJRK said, this is Millar's BEST work, and probably my favorite comic of all time. So....yeah.


As for the trailer, I didn't know they were making another Matrix movie. This couldn't look any less like the comic if Pitof (of Catwoman In Name Only fame) had directed it.

Comic book: Full of superheroes. Movie: NO SUPERHEROES.

Yeah, this may turn out to be jsut another disposable action movie, but it could have been so much more....it could have been GREAT.

 

[shinlyle]

Some people are so used to being disappointed by how poorly adaptations are handled they are accepting this as a passable action movie.

And that just goes to show you how easily people can be convinced to swallow any spoonful of S*** that Hollywood feeds them. It's sad.

This is going to be an "Equilibrium" and "Matrix" rip-off AT BEST. Anyone who's read the comci can't possibly think this'll be worthy of it.

 

[terry78]

^Like someone mentioned to me, not that many people have read the comic outside of our little fanboy community. The masses will see another Jolie/Freeman vehicle chock full of action.

 

[dima]

Based on what I've read... the movie was being written at the same time as the comic. One issue of the comic was out at the time they started writing the movie. So yeah... they went away from the original plot... because there was no plot available. What they should have done was what Kubrick and Clarke did with 2001: Space Odyssey. They wrote the movie/book while constantly talking to each other and comparing notes and basically working together.

Another disadvantage to the movie is the director. While gifted, he is the wrong man for the job. Why? Simply because he took the core/subject matter of the premise... and threw it out. What, they couldn't find someone who would stick to the plot? Or did the suits not care about the whole super villain take? Somehow I don't think it was the suits. From reading interviews with the director, it's pretty clear that he wasn't interested in making a "comic book" movie.

 

[RedIsNotBlue]

^Like someone mentioned to me, not that many people have read the comic outside of our little fanboy community. The masses will see another Jolie/Freeman vehicle chock full of action.

I haven't read the comics at all but I have a little knowledge about it...the characters, story, how hardcore it was and it just sounded amazing. But so amazing and risky I don't even know why I even had my hopes up in the first place. This adaptation was DOA.

 

[phoenixflight]

Why so little love in this thread?? Where are the mass of comic fans, have they just no read WANTED?

Does anyone have the trailer for download, non-HD format...please post!!

 

[xisaacx]

this is what annoys me, you have movies like the hills have eyes, with girls getting raped, and people being gutted, and movies about serial killers and whatnot that have been shown in the theatures, people thought that were risky and they still showed all them. So wanteds "risky" scenes which I dont consider risky at all just apart of the book which should stick true should still be in there

 

[xisaacx]

in my opinion people WHO ARENT comic book fans or fans of the comic will say this is awesome cause its depicted as a shoot em up movie, its so much more then that but we will never know now cause it was produced like a pile of ****. so once again **** making things pc or w/e for the good of the people.

 

[terry78]

^You expect that type of thing in thrillers or horror, not in comic book movies. You just don't.

 

[shinlyle]

Why so little love in this thread?? Where are the mass of comic fans, have they just no read WANTED?

Does anyone have the trailer for download, non-HD format...please post!!

Um...the people who have read the comic are watching the trailer in disgust at how different it is from the comic.


Yeah, the comic wasn't even on issue 2 before the script was started up, but that's no excuse. Personally, I think it's going to be a very gimmicky action flick that borders on awesome but never acieves it....just like so many others, nowadays.

Looks like this is 8 bucks plus concessions that I can use on something else.

 

[RDK]

I agree the trailer is "meh," but do you guys really believe that Hollywood would ever make a $100 million action movie about supervillains that nobody has ever heard about before? I mean, Wanted has nowhere near the same popularity and name recognition as Batman, Spider-Man, and the rest, and the comic is a nihilistic (though brilliant I agree) deconstruction of the genre. I can perhaps understand the argument that the film shouldn't have been called "Wanted" if it drifted so far from the comic book concept, but it's incredibly naive of you people to think that this was either an "easy" adaptation or a film that would have been more commercial if stuck more closely to the comic. Other than comic book geeks (and I am one), nobody would be interested in an action film about murderous, utterly immoral supervillains who dress in Halloween costumes.