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While I agree that I don't often find critical acclaim overlaps with my personal opinion on the quality of films, I don't think you're giving this movie a fair

While I agree that I don't often find critical acclaim overlaps with my personal opinion on the quality of films, I don't think you're giving this movie a fair shake :) Trailers are not edited by the director. The goal of trailers is to get posteriors into plush seats, and if you want 100% of your target audience to come out, anything short of "formulaic commercial crap" in the trailer is going to hurt the movie. I'm more inclined to treat the trailer as marketing (as that is what it quite literally is) than a newspaper critique (as much as I often find them devoid of substance or meaning).

Udik 9y ago
Of course, you're right. Still I am very suspicious. A couple of things that put me off in the trailer and that can't be purely due to the trailer marketing factor: snowy white and desert red environments have been added to the rainy metropolis one (they both are a cliche of recent science fiction movies) and, more importantly, the Jared Leto character, who seems to play a main role and be obviously evil, in a way no character in the original was (except for the bad cop, but he was small fry himself anyway). The simple, clear cut division of good and evil is always a trait of the dumbest blockbusters (and of the dumbest american politics, btw). Anyway, I'll go watch it and I hope I'll like it, though I think the odds are quite low.