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Kim Hollis: This movie has dragons. This movie has airships. And although it looks utterly ridiculous, because it has dragons and airships, I'm there.

Brett Beach: Having seen the teaser last summer and now this, feels to me like the difference between having a slice of cheesecake and the whole damn thing. By this measure a feature film (with an epic running time, I presume) will leave me feeling like Mr. Creosote on the verge of accepting the mint. I hate to accuse a trailer of overselling the film, but I am frankly exhausted after two and a half minutes, even if they are simply the highlights. It seems like every possible male fantasy crammed into one film of women and (insert phallic accompaniment here), then coated over with a guise of female empowerment.

Which all shouldn't be taken as blanket criticism, just that I share the concerns of Josh and David. I am more intrigued for this than anything Snyder has done to date. If he could make a film with perhaps less narrative and the same level of visceral intensity, perhaps that would be to his advantage?

David Mumpower: Upon reflection, here's my question. Why does the giant gargoyle thing need a turret? He's 50 feet tall and made of granite. Also, which company makes turrets for monsters his size and how big are the bullets?

I probably should not try to put any realism into this commercial, should I?

Michael Lynderey: Outside of maybe 300, I wouldn't say Zack Snyder makes video games (nothing about Watchmen reminded me of a game - certainly not the two hours-worth of dialogue). But he certainly has made his share of divisive films, especially in the last three years, and Sucker Punch looks like another one. It's hard (if not impossible) to motivate the action movie base to turn out and see a special effects movie starring an entirely female cast (and a very young cast at that), especially when the source material isn't there to support it. The trailer fits that perception I have of the film, though it certainly does look intriguing, at least to me. The fantasyland element reminds me of The Lovely Bones, which isn't the type of movie you want to be compared with at the box office, though I'm thinking they may end up on similar ground.

David Mumpower: For what it’s worth, I think it opens to Watchmen numbers at a minimum. The term “opium of the masses” is applicable to shiny other world movies like this.

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David Mumpower: We are witnessing several different iterations of this same concept, done first and best in Unbreakable. Of course, this particular trailer looks more like Jumper and The Covenant than anything else. I like it anyway, which means that I'm willing to forgive D.J. Caruso for what went wrong with Eagle Eye, a brilliant concept that made for a wildly disappointing flick. I like the slow, Predators-ish reveal about how people are being hunted, presumably for sport. Then, the dude throws out the glow-y hands and we realize it's an entirely different genre. I also like when the woman knee-slides her way to stabbing a dude's anatomy. My primary concern here is that the Eagle Eye trailer was also white hot, but then the movie focused on some sort of giant red orb that proved to be a lot less competent than the first half hour had indicated. Still, it's got a stabby super-powered babe and Timothy Olyphant. That's all I ask from the genre.

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