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Post by agent817 on Jun 8, 2022 20:45:19 GMT -5
Origin story? Well he has the tone of the opening at least, so...good? So color, not B/W? Like The Munsters if they existed...today? Maybe it'll be like the 90's movie that shows them immigrating to the US? There were two Munsters TV movies in the 1990s. One of them was a Christmas-themed movie if I recall.
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Post by Banjo Is Broken on Jun 10, 2022 1:38:27 GMT -5
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jun 29, 2022 15:43:02 GMT -5
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jul 13, 2022 10:29:22 GMT -5
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Jul 13, 2022 10:41:44 GMT -5
The trailer for a fun, light-hearted family movie starting with "from the director of House of 1000 Corpses" got a good laugh out of me.
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Post by Welfare Willis on Jul 13, 2022 10:43:21 GMT -5
Wow, that was bad. I want to give Rob the benefit of the doubt given his love of the Munsters, but yikes. It looks so cheap.
Maybe he should stick to horror. The 90s Addams family films are the gold standard for what can be done.
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Post by DrBackflipsHoffman on Jul 13, 2022 11:03:25 GMT -5
oh wow that looks worse than I could have imagined, he really is a visionary, is this an adaptaion of Munster's Today rather than the Munsters?
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Post by Paul on Jul 13, 2022 11:19:58 GMT -5
Watching that trailer only makes me want to binge-watch and appreciate the original series.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 13, 2022 11:34:01 GMT -5
I think it looks pretty high quality, though I'm not sure why Rob Zombie is directing a high school play.
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Post by mrtuesday on Jul 13, 2022 11:39:49 GMT -5
It looks like an episode of the old series, which I like.
And there's people hating on it because of that.
The Munsters wasn't Shakespeare or anything like that. It was a cheesy 60's TV show that rode the popularity of Universal's monster movies. And the film looks to keep just as much of the cheese.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jul 13, 2022 11:52:37 GMT -5
Wow, that was bad. I want to give Rob the benefit of the doubt given his love of the Munsters, but yikes. It looks so cheap. Maybe he should stick to horror. The 90s Addams family films are the gold standard for what can be done. Stick to horror? You really can't win. P.S. props for using a retro Universal logo. Only that one predates the 60s by a few decades!
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jul 13, 2022 11:53:21 GMT -5
oh wow that looks worse than I could have imagined, he really is a visionary, is this an adaptaion of Munster's Today rather than the Munsters? He promised nostagia. Only it was 80s nostalgia (like THAT would get over on Netflix!)
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Jul 13, 2022 13:09:59 GMT -5
I think it could be goofy fun, but I can't get over how they overrotated on making it look like a "B" movie. It looks like a shitty horror flick you'd find in the corners of Amazon Prime and not something from Universal. I'm still going to see it, but it wasn't the best first impression.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 13, 2022 13:30:10 GMT -5
Holy shit, I've never felt such a whiplash from a teaser to the long form trailer.
The teaser looked really decent... but this looks... REALLY cheap... and not in a particularly charming way.
like the sets look like they come from spirit Halloween, outside of the Black and White bit from the teaser Herman looks really weird and bulky.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jul 13, 2022 13:31:04 GMT -5
and here's Film Brain explaining it better than I could.
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Post by Tenshigure on Jul 13, 2022 17:53:25 GMT -5
Friendly heads up on this one folks: it ain't Universal Pictures producing this, it's Universal 1440 Entertainment. This is the studio that looked at 'Foodfight!' (yes, THAT 'Foodfight') and decided they had to go all-in and sign a first-look deal with the animation studio. They know exactly what they're getting into with passing this production value onto the consumer.
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Post by Fade on Jul 13, 2022 18:31:01 GMT -5
and here's Film Brain explaining it better than I could. Yeah that guy nailed it as to why it looks so weird. Very unappealing. It does seem to be trying to match the tone of the series and make an “original” origin movie out of it. I dunno. This could be some fun cult-film-in-the-making or an absolute trash fire and I’m eager to see which it is.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 13, 2022 18:49:27 GMT -5
I don't hate it, but yeah, it definitely looks cheap. Cheap doesn't necessarily mean it can't work, and I do pin some of this on the trailer probably not doing it any favors (Why show Herman singing and have no music playing or singing heard? It looked awkward as hell), but yeah, this feels very small. Like it didn't make me nostalgic for the Munsters, it made me think, "This is what it'd look like if you filmed Mr. Boogedy today".
I guess it just kind of reinforces something that is the case any time Munsters and the Addams Family get revived, and that's that while I think the Munsters won in the ratings for their sitcoms, one of them has endured a whole lot more, and it's not the Munsters.
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jul 13, 2022 19:00:19 GMT -5
This looks f***ing awful.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Jul 13, 2022 19:34:01 GMT -5
I guess it just kind of reinforces something that is the case any time Munsters and the Addams Family get revived, and that's that while I think the Munsters won in the ratings for their sitcoms, one of them has endured a whole lot more, and it's not the Munsters. There's only one true way to resolve this decades-long struggle, and it's for someone to make a song about Uma Thurman set to the Addams Family theme.
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