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"Surrogates" trailer (Bruce Willis, Radha Mitchell, Rosamund Pike)

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A bit of a warning beforehand -- this is one of those trailers that give A LOT away. You'd think Robert Zemeckis was the director or something.

Surrogates trailer (MySpace video)

Set in a futuristic world where humans live in isolation and interact through surrogate robots, a cop (Willis) is forced to leave his home for the first time in years in order to investigate the murders of others’ surrogates. Based on the graphic novel.

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I enjoyed the graphic novel. The movie adaptation appears to have a slightly different spin on the story (humans dying when surrogates destroyed, for instance), but I think it might be a good flick. I'm looking forward to it. :bolian:
 
Looking forward to this flick and I'm going to try to grab the graphic novel to read. I like the premise and it reminds me of old skool classic scifi that I used to read in high school. :)
 
I saw the trailer before T4, and was surprised...this happened totally off my radar and had no idea this movie was being made.

I thought it looked fantastic, hopefully like T4 should have been...a great action/adventure/mystery/noir with some real sci-fi substance behind it.

Looking forward to it!
 
T'Baio said:
I saw the trailer before T4, and was surprised...this happened totally off my radar and had no idea this movie was being made.
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Same here... I hadn't heard anything about this before I saw T4 on Friday. It's nice to be surprised every now and then. :)

As for the film itself, well, I think it's too early to call. Based on the trailer alone, I have mixed feelings. The premise seems very intriguing, but I fear it may just be reduced to a standard action/mystery flick that doesn't quite live up to its potential. Still, trailers can sometimes be misleading, so I'll give it the benefit of the doubt for now and hope for the best.

I agree that the preview does seem to give too much away,
like the fact that one of the main plot developments in the film, which presumably happens towards the end, involves the shutting down of all the surrogates.
But perhaps there's more to it than there appears. We shall have to wait and see...
 
Funny little tidbit: This was written by the writers of both Terminator 3 AND Terminator Salvation and directed by T3 helmer Jonathan Mostow.
 
Shit...that's not a good sign at all.

My anticipation just melted.

Thanks, JacksonArcher...thanks a lot, you party pooper. ;)
 
yeah I hadnt heard of this at all when I saw the trailer before T:S. I wish Bruce Willis wasnt the lead though.
Dont know if I'll be able to see it at the theater but it'll definitly go to the top of my Netflix queue...
 
^ Is Surrogates enough like another movie where Ratner can ape that director's style... except flat and completely devoid of any emotion?
 
T'Baio said:
Shit...that's not a good sign at all.

My anticipation just melted.

Thanks, JacksonArcher...thanks a lot, you party pooper. ;)
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Ha, I try? Regardless, the trailer looks...interesting. I always like seeing Bruce Willis, even though he always seems in post-John McClane mode every time I see him in a movie.
 
I saw this a few days ago purely by chance. It completely flew under my radar as well. It certainly looks like it could be interesting.
 
That Trailer pretty much showed the main plot points in the movie. Thanks for saving me $10 for a better promoted movie.
 
I'm pretty excited about this. Even Willis' worst films tend to at least keep me entertained, and I think of all the aging action heroes that he's doing the weary veteran bit better than anyone else. I actually happen to think he's a pretty good actor within the scope of the characters he plays, but I'm not sure anyone would agree with that.

I actually have yet to read the source material, but I am familiar enough with it to know that I have every intention of checking this out when it hits theaters.
 
JacksonArcher said:
Funny little tidbit: This was written by the writers of both Terminator 3 AND Terminator Salvation and directed by T3 helmer Jonathan Mostow.
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Oh....how...unfortunate.

*shrug*

Might be interesting---though the screw-up potential here is HUGE. It would also be nice if they didn't give away all the major plot points in the trailers.
 
Mistral said:
It sounds like a knock-off of an Isaac Asimov novel.......
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Isaac Asimov on the topic of plagiarism:

As a matter of fact, we authors in SF are more or less friends; we inhabit a small, specialized world in which we are comfortable, and the general feeling is that ideas are common property: if one SF writer thinks up something which is very useful, another may put it into his own words and use it freely. Nobody in SF is going to accuse any other person in SF of using his ideas; in fact, we borrow so generously that there's no way of telling whose idea it was originally. For instance, in my novel The Caves Of Steel, it was very important to the plot to have moving sidewalks, with an elaborate system of side strips that enabled you to work up to the speed of the sidewalks or to work down to the surrounding, motionless medium. This had already appeared some years before in Heinlein's "The Roads Must Roll." Well, I borrowed it without any worry at all. I'm sure that Heinlein in reading my novel would have recognized his system, but who knows where he got it from? He never said anything. It'd be different if I used the details of his plot and worked up a story that was so like his that nobody could fail to see it - that's plagiarism. But just to use the idea and build your own plot or story about it - why, we do that all the time. And they do it from me, too - you know, they use the three laws of robotics - and they're welcome. I have no objection.

http://books.google.com/books?id=04...off"+OR+rip-off&lr=&as_brr=3&rview=1#PPA23,M1
 
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