This looks incredible/beautful to me. It seems to be very Terrence Malick influenced and ready to make me cry.
https://youtu.be/c_3NMtxeyfk
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"A Ghost Story" Trailer - Casey Affleck/Rooney Mara
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It's an incredible trailer. One of the better in recent memory.
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Trailer does show like the whole movie, especially what looks like the last act... it was on before It Comes At Night.
Looks too emotional for me but the concept is cute.
Looks too emotional for me but the concept is cute.
CountAntonius
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Beautiful trailer.
starchild excalibur
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The story looks amazing. I just kinda wish it wasn't Casey Affleck in the lead role, given his history.
Messofanego
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"Too emotional", do you mean like it's cloying, like in a bad way?
Awesome! I was wondering this.
ryutaro's mama
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It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
My first thought.
My first thought.
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For me personally, anyway.
I hate overly saccharine or melancholy movies.
Not saying this looks bad or anything just a bit much for me.
Wtf?
Fudgepuppy
Banned
I'll watch anything with Rooney Mara.
It's certainly going to be a pretty polarizing film heh. At the screening I saw it at last week over 30 people walked out of it.
I really dug it and found it to be a fascinating film, but there are a couple of scenes throughout this which are definitely going to test some viewers.
modernmalady
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They mean that some might think this movie is actually a horror instead of what it is actually.
Actuall, now that I think about it, a lot of recent A24 films have had this "problem" of the general audience thinking they're going to see a cheap, turn your brain off horror movie and then getting upset that it was actually something else.
Care to elaborate with spoiler tags?
I don't see how this trailer would mislead anyone into thinking this. It's pretty clearly a different tone altogether.
HarryKS
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soundscream
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Honestly the trailer is a tad misleading at least pacing wise as the film itself has a very slow deliberate pace to it with minimal dialogue for the majority of it.
The one scene which just broke people at my screening involved a two static shots of Rooney Mara eating a pie for a good 5-7 minutes.
modernmalady
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Yeah, I agree with you. But some random couple on a Friday night going to the movies and picking a movie titled "a ghost story" at random might not have seen the trailer.
I saw "The VVitch" and "It Comes at Night" and both of those had people walk out bashing the movie cause "it was slow" and "nothing happened" and "where was the monster."
tearsintherain
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I dunno, the trailer looks super pretentious to me, like "oh look at me I made a movie about how profound thinking about life and death is and I put in completely idiotic looking props because its MYSTERIOUS, man".
Granted, I am pretty much the exact opposite of what the audience for this movie is gonna be (John Wick 2 is my favorite movie of the year) so not a surprise I wouldn't like it.
Granted, I am pretty much the exact opposite of what the audience for this movie is gonna be (John Wick 2 is my favorite movie of the year) so not a surprise I wouldn't like it.
Whats the soundtrack like? Any actual music/score to the film?
I'm a huge Malick fan, so I hoping it's a kin to his style.
Inceptional
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It's A24, everyone should realize by now that it means the film's not going to be for everyone. That's kind of what A24 does. Trailer is great but you can tell it's definitely going to be more meditative than what they're selling it as. But again, that's kind of what A24 does.
Fantastic soundtrack and it's easily up there with Raw as one of the best scores of the year so far for me. Some really beautiful moment where the scenery and score just elevate the whole thing.
And yeah if you're going in with a Malick frame of mind you should be happy with it.
Messofanego
Banned
30?! That feels like a record.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
give me pie
I just mean people who go out for date night and think it's a James Wan style horror film.
I saw a trailer for this at the Drafthouse some months back. Not really sure I could deal with the format in this day and age to be honest. I read an article somewhat recently, maybe a month ago, that outlined the number of movies in recent years who have used non-traditional format (4:3 like this and others).. sort of surprising. All indie of course.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Ain't The Bodies Saints is such a weird movie to me because I love the individual parts of it but I can't say I love the movie.
Dude is aping Malick again, but it's all good.
Dude is aping Malick again, but it's all good.
To be the best, you gotta ape the best. I welcome Malick imitators.
Now if only some of them worked in animation. I need that Malick lite anime in my life.
Razorback
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Sold!
AuthenticM
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Saw this trailer the last time I went to the movies.
It honestly looks fucking terrible. And the trailer was super weirdly-cut; I had a hard time making out what was happening.
The fact that Casey Affleck is in it just adds insult to injury.
It honestly looks fucking terrible. And the trailer was super weirdly-cut; I had a hard time making out what was happening.
The fact that Casey Affleck is in it just adds insult to injury.
Psychoward
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Idiotic looking props like what?
The ghost is done as an actual sheet ghost and I think it's pretty hilarious actually, not really pretentious at all.
I liked John Wick 2 as well, it's possible to like dramas and action movies.
brianmcdoogle
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I say this as someone who is going to end up seeing A Ghost Story in theaters...
But, Ain't Them Body Saints is such effervescence nothingness. I can recall a scene with a pregnant Rooney Mara on a sofa (I think?) and a shot of her walking in a field, and that's about it. I'd call it a frustrating movie if it had any impact on me. Yet, it was so strange seeing someone in 2013 shamelessly coopting Malick's aesthetics and sensibilities with little to show for it and not be an embarrassment like the actual Malick film To The Wonder just the year prior.
Has anyone seen St Nick, the movie he made previously to Ain't Them Body Saints?
I don't blame people for walking out of The Witch. Its not a film for the casual cinema goer.
killertofu
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Just got out of a screening with the director and this exactly how I felt. There were certain scenes in the film that just hit such a high emotional cord for me but didn't feel like a cohesively great film. Like maybe if it sat and simmered for a bit longer it could have been a masterpiece, something like Synecdoche New York.
Also I can't look at Casey affleck withojt being irritated.
BlueTsunami
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This is opening near me tomorrow. Yisss. Been waiting for a while now.
Puck Beaverton
Banned
Me too! I am excited.
Lucky Bastard. Nothing here in Canada/Halifax
It started playing at the local art theatre here in Ottawa but nothing in the normal chains yet. I'm hoping next weekend it opens more in Canada.
Anton Sugar
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Haven't seen Bodies, but saw this last night. I can see where your critiques come from with his movies.
Didn't hate it, didn't love it. A lot to admire, but felt unsatisfied or kinda "well" at the end.