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A Theatrical Trailer for Fernando Meirelles's BLINDNESS Sets In!

My eyes! by Finding Forrestal	Jul 8th, 2008 01:11:41 AM
The goggles do nothing!
I think it looks good... by TELF	Jul 8th, 2008 01:12:55 AM
But I'm a total mark for this guy. Loved his other stuff. Anyone watched the COM DVD? The background on how they did those long takes is fantastic.
We're using real acid people, so I want to see by TELF	Jul 8th, 2008 01:13:55 AM
goggles!
merricks14yearoldson is the real first post by YouAreAllMyBastardChildren	Jul 8th, 2008 01:16:39 AM
But not showing up in the full comments. UPDATE: It has now disappeared altogether. Big Brother AICN is at work my little bastard children talkbackers. How does that make you feel?
It makes me feel that you take your online life by TELF	Jul 8th, 2008 01:27:02 AM
... far too seriously.
No by YouAreAllMyBastardChildren	Jul 8th, 2008 01:32:38 AM
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Is it just me... by PresidentBauer	Jul 8th, 2008 01:39:27 AM
or do all movie trailers use the music from "Sunshine" and that one song from "28 Days/Weeks Later"? That composer must be making bank on royalties. Oh well, still looks pretty interesting.
Great, scary book by BenBraddock	Jul 8th, 2008 01:58:36 AM
Worth reading. People are bastards, basically. Can't wait for this one!
ECHO echo echo! by jigsaw	Jul 8th, 2008 02:13:21 AM
lol a film about blindness looks fantastic and sounds atrocious. I'm guessing the vocals won't actually be treated like that in the film. Newsflash: this effect is probably better suited to a film where everyone takes too much acid. Maybe Meirelles can make that his next film.
OMG! The forum gets censored! by Motoko Kusanagi	Jul 8th, 2008 02:14:16 AM
Big AICN Brotha!
blind leading the blind by Project424	Jul 8th, 2008 02:47:10 AM
A movie about mass synesthesia would have been cooler.
written by the same fuck who wrote and directed last night by bacci40	Jul 8th, 2008 02:57:35 AM
canadians dont get armaggedon...most boring piece of crap i have ever seen...doesnt bode well for the current piece of crap
Them There's Some Positive Thinking... by TroutMaskReplicant	Jul 8th, 2008 03:06:50 AM
"most boring piece of crap i have ever seen...doesnt bode well for the current piece of crap" Hurrah!
Whoa! by merricks14yearoldson	Jul 8th, 2008 03:07:05 AM
What the hell?
I saw it... by no-no	Jul 8th, 2008 04:27:05 AM
...in Cannes. It had so much going for it: great book, great director, great actors. But it doesn't work. Looks good but too simplistic.
I wonder if they're going to have the group rape scene... by GrandMuffTarkin	Jul 8th, 2008 06:03:18 AM
I thought that was completely unbelievable in the book.
the constant gardener by hiperaktiv	Jul 8th, 2008 06:36:09 AM
kinda sucked but city of god was good.
GrandMuffTarkin by mithrandir16	Jul 8th, 2008 07:13:10 AM
You thought that scene in the book was unbelievably horrible or just not believable? When I finished that chapter I threw the book down and came back to it the next day. In the book it's one of the most terrible things I've ever experienced. I think it was all too believable, which made it that much worse. It's the scene I'm most hesitant about in the movie, because it will take Colbert-sized balls to film it on the same level that it is portrayed in the novel.
Can Someone Censor the SeekAMillionaire.com Posts? by kevinwillis.net	Jul 8th, 2008 07:21:28 AM
That's getting a little old, and it's stupid to be posting that sort of stuff here, anyway. I mean, if you're going to be censoring posts, anyway. If not, no one here is going to seekamillionaire.com. Give it up.
Group Rape Scene, Huh? by kevinwillis.net	Jul 8th, 2008 07:24:18 AM
I'm already having no interest in this movie. But I rarely have an interest in snotty elitist film makers telling us how naughty-bad humans will be punished for their humanity and/or how horrible human beings become in difficult situations. They need to make a film: "People Suck and Should Die (Well, Except Me and a Few of my Friends)" and be done with it.
It was shot in uruguay by lukasman	Jul 8th, 2008 08:10:33 AM
A big part fo the film was shot in Uruguay, and DP Cesar Charlone is from Uruguay. I guess not many of you know where that is, but we are just south of Brazil. Many parts of Miami Vice were shot here too...
Terrific book - like the casting by all	Jul 8th, 2008 08:14:32 AM

"People Suck and Should Die (Well, Except Me by CreasyBear	Jul 8th, 2008 08:22:04 AM
and a Few of My Friends)". LOL. kevinwillis, you and I have a mutual dislike for that tired, pretentious genre of movies.
Seeing BLINDNESS by SHMACKDOJO	Jul 8th, 2008 08:26:23 AM
Having read the novel earlier this year, I really can't imagine it working as a film. It's one thing to READ about blind people stumbling around for weeks on end, but quite another to physically visualize those images in a film, and I'm not sure how the public will feel about watching two hours of it. The book also really tries to create a sense of blindness with the writing style, utilizing minimal punctuation and nameless characters. The very nature of film as a visual medium seems to counteract that intention.
Hopeful by Cobbio	Jul 8th, 2008 08:38:44 AM
When I first read about this movie, I was excited. Everything about it, including shooting scenes in Uruguay, looked to be quality. But in the trailers, though I love the actors, there just seems to be... a lack of something. In order for me to care about people going blind and doing horrible things, I need the before and after so I can feel what's been lost. Maybe I'll get this in "Blindness," but I'm not sure. I'm a huge fan of Meirelles, so I hope he'll re-edit his film or include new scenes to clear up any lingering blahness.
i'll see it. by Gatsbys West Egg Omlet	Jul 8th, 2008 09:10:25 AM
great cast, great director. as far as it being a pretentious film, i didn't get that from the trailer. maybe i'm an elitist fuck. or maybe i'm just open minded enough to accept this type of film's interpretation of people.
Mithrandir16....unbelievable as in... by GrandMuffTarkin	Jul 8th, 2008 09:13:33 AM
...unrealistic. Actually, perhaps its the fact that I'm reflecting on that scene instead of when I first read it that I feel it was unrealistic, especially that the one woman with sight also partook in being raped (If I remember that correctly.) I mean, c'mon, would you allow your wife/daughter/gf to experience that and not do anything? At that point in the book I felt like the men were a bunch of milquetoasts.
I've no faith in this movie by Aeghast	Jul 8th, 2008 10:28:33 AM
..no faith at all
The book is so good.. by Aeghast	Jul 8th, 2008 10:35:07 AM
..hmm I'm still thinking about it :P
Looks awesome to the max. by Kurzinski Valentine	Jul 8th, 2008 12:58:06 PM
Loved Constant Gardener, and the DP is fantastic. Such great style.
This trailer has been up for a little while now by AgentArchangel	Jul 8th, 2008 01:24:39 PM
I was hoping for a "theatrical trailer" not a teaser. Meh. That having been said, I'll see it but I hope the film doesn't play like the book in the respect that the author didn't know what a paragraph or a quotation mark were. One of the most technically difficult, but worth it, books I've ever read. Oh, and before anyone cracks the joke, the sequel is actually entitled "Seeing".
worse than milquetoasts by mithrandir16	Jul 8th, 2008 02:48:18 PM
GrandMuffTarkin, I think the men in the book are worse than milquetoasts. They let their new blindness and the terrible circumstances of their internment take away all their dignity and sense of honor. I thought it was unrealistic when I first realized what was about to happen in the book, but I think the fact that they know no one else can see what they do makes a huge impact on their decision to do nothing. They can say everyone else is doing the same thing and that if they get their sight back, no one would recognize them anyway. I had a harder time believing the women's acceptance of the men's inaction. However, I think it is easier to make a scene like the gang rape seem believable in a book than on film, so Meirelles has his work cut out for him.
Not a fan of the book. by Onyx390	Jul 8th, 2008 04:03:46 PM
I do a lot of reading, and I thought I had stumbled across something great when I found out about Blindness. However, by the end of the book, I was comvinced that Saramago is a hack writer. It's very possible that Fernando Meirelles can put some life into what I thought were very robotic characters. The entire thing seemed very un-human to me.
Just watched the trailer. by Onyx390	Jul 8th, 2008 04:07:16 PM
Fernando Meirelles might be able to pull it off.
Also, about the author's style. by Onyx390	Jul 8th, 2008 04:09:13 PM
I also thought that he was trying to give readers a sense of Blindness with the lack of quotes and real punctuation, but no, he writes like that in all of his books.
Great book, not sure it's filmable by aversiontherapy2	Jul 8th, 2008 05:03:44 PM
They need a visual hook that the book didn't judging from the trailer, something like blacking or whiting out the pupils of the blind.
Onyx390 by aversiontherapy2	Jul 8th, 2008 05:07:16 PM
Many modern authors write like that, even mainstream ones. Tom Rob Smith just italicises spoken parts for example. Others, like Saramago don't even go that far. It's not about correct grammar it's about creating a rhythm, cadence.
Omyx/aversion... by TELF	Jul 8th, 2008 05:58:40 PM
Also it forces a stringent discipline on the writer. It determines that all meaning must be implied through style and linguistic evocation. McCarthy uses punctuation sparingly, yet you are never in doubt as to whom is speaking at any point - As McCarthy has to make the dialogue expressive of, and individual to, each specific character. Onyx390, what did you make of his other books? I haven't read them yet.
great great trailer but reveals TOO MUCH. what else is new by BurgerKing	Jul 8th, 2008 10:29:55 PM
However these bad early reviews have me worried. And to be fair I'm sick to fucking death of epidemic movies, blindness is original, but so was infertility, and it's all ending up the same. Also, typically, the trailer reveals too much, Moore goes into this camp with eyesight and no one knows, but the trailer she says "I wont forget your face". Great, now I know she blows her cover... The echo sounds were cool though...
Canadian versus American Armageddon by Chifoilisk	Jul 8th, 2008 11:02:53 PM
Canadian movie about armageddon: people trying to get laid as much as possible, rioting, spending time with family. American movie about armageddon: send oil workers to asteroid to blow it up, minimal carnage, and no actual destruction of earth. Who doesn't get movies about Armageddon??
Looks fantastic! by HoboCode	Jul 9th, 2008 08:57:10 AM
The book is brutal and intense and so is this director. High hopes for this. Bernal isn't who I imagined as the bastard who takes over but I think he can pull it off.

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