The Fall (“presented” by David Fincher and Spike Jonze) was directed by Tarsem Singh, the director of The Cell – a movie that had some pretty crazy visuals, but also Jennifer Lopez. From what we’ve seen of The Fall (opening May 9th), it has some pretty crazy visuals, but also a little chubby girl with an annoying accent.
For some it’s snakes, spiders, or midgets, but everybody has their irrational fears. Mine happens to be little kids with speech impediments. They creep me the hell out. Back when I was a substitute teacher, a kid came up to me to ask if he could go to the bathroom, but when he opened his mouth he had an atrocious lisp. Next thing I knew I was standing on top of my chair hitting him in the head with a rolled up newspaper.
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The Fall, opening in limited release in May, has two new posters. The synopsis sounds kind of cheesy:
In a hospital a little girl with a broken collar bone meets a bedridden man who starts telling her a fantastical story which reflects his state of mind. As time goes by fiction and reality start to intertwine in this uplifting epic fantasy.
But the trailer (after the jump) and the stills released so far look pretty badass. How shall we solve this dilemma? I say Russian roulette.
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This is the trailer for The Fall, directed by Tarsem Singh and “presented” by Spike Jonze and David Fincher.
In a hospital a little girl with a broken collar bone meets a bedridden man who starts telling her a fantastical story which reflects his state of mind. As time goes by fiction and reality start to intertwine in this uplifting epic fantasy. [IMDB]
Watching the main guy in it start telling the little girl a story, at first I figured it would be just another children’s fantasy flick where talking unicorns fight with evil centaurs and shit. But as it went along I started noticing that the cinematography was super badass (as the scientists like to say). But then I was worried Brendan Fraser would still show up at the end to give it the kiss of death, but he never did.
Instead it got Spike Jonze and David Fincher’s names on it, and a quote from Roger Ebert. Ebert quotes are a lot more persuasive now that the alternative is Harry from AICN (examples here, here and here). But I dunno, from what I’ve seen so far, I’d bone this movie. It’ll be in limited release in March.
