Well, that's not a guarantee of success either. See John Carter.
Long delayed Red Sonja movie being released in August.
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We could get the same actress wearing chain mail bikini in 20+ years just like Logan did in Deadpool & Wolverine!
Eh, I know I know.
I mean Jon Favreau definitely had a huge love for Iron Man and it shows.
Same goes for Chris Nolan about Batman and Sam Raimi for Spider-Man.
What's shocking it's been 40 years since Red Sonja was adapted for film!
That doesn't really shock me.Eh, I know I know.
I mean Jon Favreau definitely had a huge love for Iron Man and it shows.
Same goes for Chris Nolan about Batman and Sam Raimi for Spider-Man.
What's shocking it's been 40 years since Red Sonja was adapted for film!
And Spider Man was not as loving as I would like. Know little about Iron Man so any passion is lost on me.
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Maybe it’s the triumph of low expectations, as I’d seen the replies in this thread criticising it before I caught the trailer on Twitter (didn’t bother watching it here) and I thought it actually looked okay. FWIW, I quite liked Solomon Kane.
Okay, I watched the trailer now and... eh? It's okay. Nothing to write home about, of course, but - competently enough. Good, that one scene, where Red Sonja does the backflip is a bit on the cringy-side, but the rest - I'd give it a solid B Minus.
That's not a truck, I think it's just a bit wooden wagon.It's a bit Mad Max-ish but it's an actual part of the shot.
Indeed. Now, I know little of Red Sonja or Conan but as a trailer goes? It did its job.
Looks drab, dark, and generally no fun whatsoever. And the lead actress doesn't seem to have a mythic build in the sense that Schwarzenegger and Momoa did (not to mention Chris Hemsworth).
1. Fail to hire a 13-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl as consultants.
2. Fail to ask your consultants "Hey, look at this - is this awesome?" about pretty much everything, from sets to costumes to battle scenes to lines of dialogue.
3. Fail to excise anything that fails to pass the Step #2 test.
1. Fail to hire a 13-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl as consultants.
2. Fail to ask your consultants "Hey, look at this - is this awesome?" about pretty much everything, from sets to costumes to battle scenes to lines of dialogue.
3. Fail to excise anything that fails to pass the Step #2 test.
Eh - don't know... maybe they did hire a 13-year old edgelord? And that movies like this are a thing, is something, we don't just know since Snyder made his godawful DCEU-Movies.
Having just recently purchased a Red Sonya model kit (which is admittedly a bit exaggerated), and being a Frazetta fan from way back, I can't see why they cast someone so thin and average-looking.
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Red Sonja Female Warrior w/Weapons & Detailed Base 1/8 X-Plus Model Kits
Red Sonja Female Warrior w/Weapons & Detailed Base 1/8 X-Plus Model Kits
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To match the action figure!
The character has never been presented that way in the comics, and honestly, it ridiculous to expect heroes to always be body builders, they can't fight and most of them can barely even movie. Constantly presented every hero as looking like a massive body builder is one of my biggest pet peeves with movies and to an even greater extreme, comics.
Kind of excited for some trash that looks like a mediocre sword and sorcery movie from the 2000s to be honest.
I enjoy the original story, but that's because it is historical fiction.
And here I thought Red Sonja's bikini top was the most ridiculous thing ever.I enjoy the original story, but that's because it is historical fiction.
Well, if we're talking comics accuracy, isn't her hair a good foot too short?
And I admit I was being pretty opaque, but when I wrote that I'd expect a Red Sonja actor to have a "mythic build," I was thinking more in terms of traditionally female cheesecake than the male cheesecake of absurdly huge muscles, except on a woman character this time. Hey, I've got nothing against padded costumes, or even fake muscle prosthetics. If I had to choose between an actor of average build but with a demigod's charisma, who had to wear artificial muscles to appear buff, and a professional bodybuilder with enormous (possibly steroid-enhanced) muscles but no screen presence, I'll take the former any day. Not everyone can be a Chris Hemsworth in Thor or a Dolph Lundgren in Masters of the Universe. (Though when there are such actors, by all means use them, surely.)
Bottom line, I just don't see the point of doing a humorless and drab swords-and-sorcery flick - and, despite a CG beastie here or there, this preview sure looks like that.
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