Topic: God Bless America

[Jimmy]

I don't get excited too often with a new movie. You know me well enough to know that for me 99.9% of them are soulless hack crappy job done for dumb ADD teen who don't know better. Last time was with Red States and it turned that I was right since this movie is awesome...

Many months later a trailer for something new finally give me "Wow that look fricking great" reaction

God Bless America

Can't wait to get my hand on this cool looking movie coming this springtime

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

WantWantWant

EDIT:
You might as well name this "Jimmy's Fault" now.
Subsequently to your recommendation for "Red State" I watched the trailer, got my boots on, drove to my local MediaMarkt and bought my copy.

Thank you sooooo much for making me spend money.

[Jimmy]

Good thing I don't talk too much about the movies I watch

edit : checking this thread title make it looks like I've post a political "USA!!! USA!!! We are number 1!!!" topic

[addicted2dvd]

Looks like a good one. Looking forward to checking it out! Thanks Jimmy

[Najemikon]

Anyone seen Super? I watched it only last night. Weirdly, the plot of this one seems very similar in some fundamental details.

- Unassuming, normal looking guy loses his hot wife to a local drug dealer. (ok, not that bit)
- As he freaks out and goes slightly nuts (visions), desperate to get her back, he decides to become a super-hero and attacks local criminals. He isn't very fit, has a ridiculous costume and is armed only with a wrench. He attacks all manner of criminals from drug dealers and thieves to a guy who butts in line. "No butts! Shut up, Crime!", he says, before almost killing the guy and his girlfriend with before-mentioned wrench.  (alright, so this film's lead is no superhero, even a bad one, but he does have a skewed Travis Bickle zero-tolerance view of society)
- He bumps into a young girl who realises he is The Crimson Bolt, a nutter on the news, and is so enamoured with him she insists on being his side-kick, calling herself Bolty! (again, no costumes in this film, but still... girl sidekick who is a bit trigger happy? hmmm...)

I'm willing to bet on the ending of this one! 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Now if what you described makes the plot "similar in some fundamental details" "Das Boot" and "Titanic" are basically the same movie.
In both films a ship is sinking and no one is coming to help.
Lots of people die  

 

If you would have considered "Super" to be a mix of "Kick-Ass" and "Defendor", that would have been OK for me, because here the parallels are overwhelming.

[Najemikon]

Certainly, though the parallels are so obvious in those cases as to be pointless as they are just playing with the same basic idea, but are very different, and "films with ships in" goes to far the other way!  What I mean is a similarity between plot points, pacing and maybe even motive, not necessarily method or style... In the same way that Star Wars bears more than a passing similarity to The Hidden Fortress; or Rio Bravo being sort-of-remade as Assault on Precinct 13; and even an oddly uncanny effect between Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force and Robocop!  It just creates a sense of Deja Vu, and having only watched Super last night, that's the feeling I got from the trailer.

[Antares]

It does look good, have you ever seen Goldthwait's previous film World's Greatest Dad? Very dark, and very good.

[Achim]

I hope the trailer is not all the good parts put together and then all the connecting bits are slow and boring. I am definitely excited about this one as well!

I'm willing to bet on the ending of this one! 

I don't see them repeating the ending of Super, which I thought was rather cool and came fairly unexpected. However, the ending seems easy to predict, but it would simply be the logical conclusion of for such story, just as many other previous films have ended the same way.

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Bonnie and Clyde comes to mind

I see the resemblance though, although this seems to be of a bigger scope, in the sense that they travel around whereas Super (or Kick-Ass or Defendor) were "confined" to one city.

[Jimmy]

It does look good, have you ever seen Goldthwait's previous film World's Greatest Dad? Very dark, and very good.

No, but many people I know on other forums praise him highly as a director. Maybe I'll try to get Windy City Heat in a month or two as this one seem to be quite an original movie.

[samuelrichardscott]

It does look good, have you ever seen Goldthwait's previous film World's Greatest Dad? Very dark, and very good.

No, but many people I know on other forums praise him highly as a director. Maybe I'll try to get Windy City Heat in a month or two as this one seem to be quite an original movie.

Check out Goldthwait's Sleeping Dogs Lie. I really dug that (review in my marathon thread IIRC). I'm definately interested in this one though, tanks Jimmy.

[samuelrichardscott]

This link just came through the Rewind twitter feed from Magnet Releasing.
http://www.facebook.com/godblessamericamovie

The official facebook page.

[Jimmy]

The movie is now available for pre-order at Amazon and I guess most of the other retailers. Of course mine is pre-ordered and it will be release july 3

[Achim]

Was there even a theatrical release...?

I placed it on my Wish List

[Jimmy]

As most of the movie made outside the american studio system it will get only a limited theatre release. It's not for nothing if I say so often that the dissapearance of the independant movie theatre and the drive-in was a disaster for the cinema.