Marie Antoinette Trailer

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 12/8/05 at 11:34pm

http://movies.aol.com/movie_exclusive_marie_antoinette_trailer

It's definitely an eye catching trailer.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:46am

I have a real problem with period movies that have contemporary music. If this is the music that plays through the movie, I can't go see it.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:50am

It'll end up being considered campy. I'm positive. That seems to be the way of things now.

[MyMeredithMonster]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:54am

That music was really distracting... It's too bad because I think it would have looked good if paired with a better soundtrack.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:57am

That's probably just music for the trailer, borrowed from another source. (Sort of like how the first Memoirs of a Geisha trailers used music from House of Flying Daggers.)
Updated On: 12/9/05 at 01:57 AM

[MyMeredithMonster]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:58am

Yeah, I really hope that music isn't actually in the film.

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:03am

I don't know if that music is in the film or not, but I do seem to remember hearing that the film would deliberately use anachronistic flourishes - it does, after all, have a very odd mix of decidedly modern personalities in the cast: Jason Schwartzman, Molly Shannon, Maryann Faithful. I'm pretty sure this isn't going to be Merchant and Ivory's MARIE ANTOINETTE.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:08am

Ugh Kirsten Dunst just is not a good actress and Sofia Coppola is a one-hit wonder (though I wasn't wowed by Lost in Translation at all). I refuse to be let down by yet another film; I'm going to expect this one to be campy in a bad way and plan not to see it.

The trailer recalls the offbeat tone of Lost in Translation so much. You do not take a story like this that hasn't even been filmed memborably yet as a straight drama and present it as some offbeat film about crazy twentysomethings, not with a high budget... God, Sofia! Didn't Halle Berry and Roberto Benigni teach you anything with their post-Oscar followups! A gold statue does not mean you can take ideas that would work for a low-budget film and use them in something big and lavish like this!
Updated On: 12/9/05 at 02:08 AM

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:18am

I don't understand the hoopla around Sofia Coppola, either. She's not exactly the second coming of cinema. I felt LOST IN TRANSLATION was overrated, and enjoyed the soundtrack to THE VIRGIN SUICIDES more than the movie.

[enjolrasissex]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:24am

Kirsten Dunst 'running' in that corset made me laugh out loud.

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:45am

I loved Virgin Suicides (though I am still annoyed at her for calling making it a "personal risk") and I adored Lost In Translation but having read this thread, I don't even want to watch the trailer.

[bwaysinger]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 6:58am

God, it looks miles better than Translation, I'll say that much.

[EvelynNesbit1906]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 12:03pm

Little doubt I'd like it more than Lost in Translation (unless it opens with a close-up of Dunst's butt in transparent panties). But really, writer-directors need more oversight. This film looks like it was not cheap to make, which is a scary thing given how irreverent it looks.

[katygrace84]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 1:57pm

Why do I get the feeling that Jason Schwartzman is doing this as a huge favor to his cousin?

[popcultureboy]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 2:18pm

*sigh*. I caved. I watched. Visually, the film looks like it could be stunning. But the use of a New Order song and the HORRIBLE modern font make me think it might all end up going horribly wrong.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:14pm

Haven't seen this trailer yet, but I thought that The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation were both great.

[WindyCityActor]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:22pm

Kirsten Dunst can be good in the right projects...I thought she was rather amazing in "Drop Dead Gorgeous."

But, oh my, she certainly seems to be running a lot in this upcoming movie.
Updated On: 12/9/05 at 03:22 PM

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:26pm

I'm one of the few who likes Kirsten Dunst as an actress.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:29pm

That trailer was awful. Told me little about the film, and made it seem like a coming of age college flick.

[lildogs]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 3:31pm

Sh!t, I thought this was for the Norma Shearer version...oh well...

[JulianHookbucks]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 4:50pm

..in the beginning, It looked like an Abercrombie fitch video gone arye... they also have modernized the costumes, makeup and hair... the make up is too shear, the dresses weren't ornate and binding enough, and the hair was not high enough... if it's a big production movie, than it should at least be period... and the title looks atrocious... it looks like a bad 80's movie...

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/9/05 at 5:50pm

Didn't like the trailer.