Promise, United 93, Bandidas, Stoned, Inside Man

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The Promise - Wu ji     HQ 15MB    HD480p 30MB    HD720p 74MB
A completely different US trailer for Chen Kaige's latest movie (The Emperor and the Assassin, Farewell My Concubine), a romantic tale of love, loyalty, ambition and destiny, that truly looks epic. The movie tells the fantastic story of a beautiful princess who becomes the object of

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[swordofthejedi]

i'll be interested to see how united 93 is handled. watching the trailer brought back some memories of where i was that morning, that entire day, and of a couple of friends who had family members working at the pentagon (the father of one survived, the other did not).

[swordofthejedi]

oh i forgot the promise....beautiful cinematography, as expected. will be interesting to see if i enjoy it as well...i know i watched another film a while back that was beautiful to watch but didn't exactly dazzle me in other ways....*scratches head* what was it.

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I had seen some other trailers from Asia and I believe France for 'the Promise', but this is another excellent example for how the technical quality of a trailer influences the perception of the movie.
Originally I didn't want to watch it because it didn't look too good and the reviews weren't very favourable. But after this trailer I'm at least thinking about it again.

Other Asian movies that 'looked good' were 'Hero' and 'House of Flying Daggers'. Although you didn't explicitly mention that the one you've seen was from Asia.

[swordofthejedi]

those were the exact 2 movies i was trying to decide between. i think it'll take a visit to imdb to determine which it was...i saw hero.

[anonymous]

Ah, The Promise. It looks pretty, very very pretty, but it just doesn't have anything going that the Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou movies haven't done a lot better. It's not exactly as pointless as Tsui Hark's Seven Swords, but I couldn't avoid the feeling that Chen Kaige was just doing That Asian Thing That Sells because the producers wanted him to.

Too bad, as I really liked The Emperor and the Assassin, the movie Hero is a paraphrase of. I really wonder if this CGI-enhanced wuxia trend has already run its course.

;)

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Yes, Asian producers don't seem immune to the Western disease of riding a trend to death. It looks a bit too kitschy to address a bigger Western audience and the reviews don't help.

I wonder if the movie is a success in India.

*waves*

[ji_xiang]

And yet my roommate claims that "The Promise" is a horrible horrible movie. But I'll probably go see it just for the pretty :)

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I have to admit that I can't remember reading a truly positive review. Not sure how much this can be attibuted to the lack of understanding of a Western audience.
But this trailer sure looked pretty.