with these fairy tale movies getting darker i cant wait till Cinderella breaks her glass slipper and starts cutting throats
The movie's Facebook page has revealed the giants mentioned in the title of the upcoming fairy-tale adaptation, in which Nicholas Hoult (Beast in X-Men: First Class) takes on oversized opponents. Between this and the CG caveman Nicolas Cage in The Croods...I'm not sure I can tell the difference.
I do have faith in Bryan Singer - every movie of his I've seen has had something to like, and I would have liked to see him do a Superman sequel unburdened by either Richard Donner baggage or Super-Kid. But I'm losing faith in his production design team - these giants (see the rest after the jump) look like the ugliest latex puppets at a low-rent craft fair of the damned. Or troll dolls that've had a haircut. Gelflings on steroids, anyone?
If you're wondering why it says "Fee," on the poster above, you'll get the idea once you see them all...
Jack the Giant Slayer opens March 1st.
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Personally, I think bad latex puppets look more realistic than CGI. Case in point: "The Empire Strikes Back" Yoda (1980) looks *worlds more realistic* than "The Phantom Menace" Yoda (1999).
It's like someone took at all those videos on YouTube about video game glitches, ate them, and chased them with a bottle of Everclear and then hit themselves in the head with a brick.
I'll probably see it because Singer's a good directer (Super-Kid to the contrary).
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Fallon is the leader of the giants, so he probably isn't part of the traditional line if the others say it while out hunting or what have you. Also, his larger head is Bill Nighy, and the smaller is John Kassir. That's got to be worth novelty value at least.
So if the classic line is said, then Fallon is the one who would have to be saying right? As in, he is addressing his cohorts and telling them he smells an Englishman?
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Two things that have me unenthused about this movie:
1. This was originally set to hit theaters in June of last year and got pushed back, which is usually a sign that the studio is worried about it being a flop.
2. The reason Bryan Singer was the producer of X-Men: First Class instead of the director is because Newline wouldn't let him out of his contract to direct this movie.
Knowing that the director wanted to ditch the project and that the studio moved it from summer 2012 to March 2013 has me feeling like there's a lack of confidence in this movie, makes me wonder why I should care about it.
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@KevinGarcia.com Wanna bet he accidentally cracks up laughing in the middle of trying to kill Jack?
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@LYT @KevinGarcia.com Fuck Jimmy Fallon. Only thing he ever did right was The Door's Reading Rainbow. Beyond that? Beyond that, he can blow. (Apologies for the angry rant, for some reason he just gets my ire up.)
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@Lithroe His Neil Young impression was surprisingly competent. Other than that, not a fan.
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@Lithroe Well.......he does have the best band in late night........The Roots
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@Lithroe I hate his work too. I have never seen you rant like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_d_tll47GM#t=6m8s
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The giants should've been portrayed by Warwick Davis using cheaper & more realistic-looking trick photography as a nod to Leprechaun 4: IN SPACE!
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Oh gosh. They're turning the classic children's "bad guy grumbling" from the giant into the names of the actual giants that he kills?
*weeps bitterly*
I'll reiterate what I said before: I'll take my Nicholas Hoult for 2013 as an amorous zombie. That movie has me genuinely excited.
@rabidronnie I thought Fee-fi-fo-fum was the giant's own name in the original story?
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@mjgollschewski @rabidronnie As I understood it, it was just the thing that the giant said because giants say nonsense things like that. Could be wrong.
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@rabidronnie @mjgollschewski It's actually just a poem. The line "Fee Fy Foe Fum, I smell the blood of an englishman" is originally from Shakespeare.
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@Gallen_Dugall It's like you went into the future to find what the reviews will say of this movie.
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When I saw this preview I was, " Another Fairytail? Or combination of Fairytails."
http://data.whicdn.com/images/48655248/tumblr_mgd73d33rO1rgel7bo1_500_large.gif
