June 22, 2008
Movie Trailer: Transsiberian
I like how this looks and the setting, a trans-Siberian train ride, is refreshing. The casting of Woody Harrelson in the lead is a huge red flag that bad filmmaking awaits. On top of this, Ben Kingsley's inclusion doesn't help matters. Sure Kingsley has made some great films (Schindler's List, Gandhi) but is also known for making films so bad its shocking he didn't sue to have his name removed from the credits (BloodRayne, The Assignment, The Last Legion, Species)
Time will tell, but I'd approach this one with some caution.
Screenwriters: Brad Anderson (Session 9), and Will Conroy
Director: Brad Anderson
Actors: Woody Harrelson (White Men Can't Jump). Sir Ben Kingsley (Suspect Zero), Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl), Kate Mara (Shooter), Eduardo Noriega (El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone)) and Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong)
Time will tell, but I'd approach this one with some caution.
Screenwriters: Brad Anderson (Session 9), and Will Conroy
Director: Brad Anderson
Actors: Woody Harrelson (White Men Can't Jump). Sir Ben Kingsley (Suspect Zero), Emily Mortimer (Lars and the Real Girl), Kate Mara (Shooter), Eduardo Noriega (El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone)) and Thomas Kretschmann (King Kong)
Labels: Ben Kingsley, Emily Mortimer, film, movie trailer, Woody Harrelson
posted by Michelle Obama's Left Nut at 8:54 PM
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2 Comments:
Woody actually doesn't flag it that obviously for me as "bad," though he's mediocre. He's only really bad as a comic lead, I think.... and Ben Kingsley is a plus for me, though there's no arguing with your point about some of those movies. This one is looking like that one about the rich white kid who spends years in Turkish prisons, actually, only with better cinematography and cooler characters--up to the part where I start seeing people hanging off trains and suggestions of rail collisions, at which point I begin to suspect the project is going to jump the tracks.
"...at which point I begin to suspect the project is going to jump the tracks."
Where's the rim shot?
Harrelson has made more completely hideous movies than he's made mediocre ones. Brendan Fraizer, Colin Farrell, Matt Damon, these are the faces of modern mediocrity.
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