New Johnny Depp movie "Transcendence"

I've seen the trailer for this twice at the theater. It looks pretty good. I'm a sucker for the subject matter so I hope its good. Anyone heard any buzz about it?

 

Here's the 2nd trailer for those unfamiliar:



I will definitely go see it, it looks interesting and I have a ridiculous crush on Rebecca Hall.

 

Yeah, the trailer looks pretty good. I hope it does better than the last couple of Depp movies (Lone Ranger and Dark Shadows)...

 

My only fear is that it looks a little "familiar." Honestly, I think Morgan Freeman is starting to scare me as a liability because of overexposure as the wise voice of reason.

 

Just got the the BD steelbook of Dark Shadows, a keeper.

 

Take my advice: keep it in the steelbook.

 

This movie was filmed in my little town here in New Mexico.

 

To me, Movies like this, that look good, are taken down a notch by having a big famous american actor as the lead. Having a very well known actor, kinda takes me out of the mood of the movie.

An unknown or far lesser known actor, might have worked a lot better for keeping one in the suspension of belief

 

I generally agree, although in this picture he looks like some high-ranking executive (at the start), so perhaps the associations triggered by a famous face appearing in that role will be less jarring.

The trailer looks as if it could be pretty good. But it isn't easy to make computer processes compelling and suspenseful, because they are not visually demonstrative. (At best they flash lights, like the dashboard computers in "Star Trek.") So what we often end up getting are humans breathlessly telling us what is happening: "If he gets to the Internet, he'll end up copying himself worldwide!" OMG!!! Or we get cliched visual cues like progress bars, with a tense hand holding a mouse in the corner of the frame

 

People need to get over this "name actor" thing, if you can't suspend disbelief because an actor is acting in a movie then you probably shouldn't be watching movies in the first place. If a name actor wasn't in the film, it never would have received financing and been produced.

 

Looks totally hokey......

 

looks ok I'd watch it, big name actors as leads don't bother me

 

Finally saw this. Absolutely hokey. Every cliche in the book. Ludacrist situations, terrible plotting, lousy pacing, full of holes, zero suspense. As bad as a b-movie scifi film from the 50s. Yak yak yak ... Bad science and bad writing. Acting was good but the Material....flat.

 

Is it anything like the Lawnmower man?

 

Disappointed to hear this, but its what I expected from the previews. The subject matter intrigues me, but every preview I saw looked as if it was done by Michael Bay, with big whiz-bang effects and whooshes and dramatic shouted lines. There's no reason a movie about this has to be done that way, but if you're gonna involved Depp and Freeman and a big budget, the producers will want to dazzle audiences, not try to actually get them to think about the nature of consciousness and humanity.

That was campy fun. "Transcendence" looks as if it intends to be serious, so if it comes off hokey, that's not a good thing.

 

That's disappointing news. Sci-Fi as a genre has been in the toilet for so long I'm beginning to believe we've seen the best it can offer...

 

Hope it's good and he doesn't just turn up and do his 'look, I'm acting' schtick and take the money.

 

Are you still posting about Transcendence or the Nolan Batman films? Wally Pfister worked on all of them.

 

I saw it last month (day prior to Record Store Day, actually). It was like Max Headroom meets Lawnmower Man.

 

Ugh...

 

Bad....bad movie. Too bad as it had potential.

 

Officially a huge bomb:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottme...-transcendence-is-a-no-fault-box-office-bomb/

http://www.businessinsider.com/transcendence-bombs-box-office-2014-4

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertain...-office-continuing-johnny-depps-slump-2014214

Watch Mr. Depp run, not walk, to Mr. Bruckheimer's office to get that new Pirates movie off and running...

 

No. Take a few years off first.

 

"This total barely makes a dent in the big-budget film's production expenses, which came in at a massive $100 million. "


What?! The movie looked like a low budget affair! Wow, I'm shocked. There was one set of the "medical" lab that was decent, but nothing else to even suggest a big budget. It looked distinctly 70s low budget!