- Trent Reznor is doing the music for Timur Behmambetov’s next flick Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Without Atticus Ross, importantly, who helped craft the remarkable soundtracks for both The Social Network and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (and also worked with Reznor on How To Destroy Angels). Those were all wonderful projects; the presence of Ross brings the overall production down a bit –not in quality — in feel. The music is more ambient than Reznor’s other work, haunting and hypnotic. I hope they continue working together in the future, particularly on Fincher’s movies where they seem to blend so well with his desolate and cold visuals.
BUT, I am very interested to see what Reznor does by himself on a project with such a ludicrous title. I’m guessing it’ll hearken back to his NIN roots: heavy Industrial beats with a touch of evil. And I’m into that. It would match perfectly the visual style of Behmambetov — who’s “Night Watch” trilogy is a real trip for supernatural fans (if you like that kinda thing, I’d suggest checking out at least the first film): the high speed, which side is up camera work, the colors, the stylized violence (which I’m sure we’ll see in bucket loads in this movie).
As for the movie itself, I think it could be a whole lotta fun. I mean… it’s a supernatural slasher action flick with Abe Lincoln slaughtering the dead, all it has to do to be worth watching is look cool. An easy task for Behmambetov.
- As for the Abraham Lincoln project with Daniel Day-Lewis directed by Spielberg, holy shit what a cast. Lincoln features: along with Day-Lewis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tommy Lee Jones, John Hawkes, Jared Harris, Sally Field, Jack Earle Haley, James Spader, David Strathairn, Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Stuhlbarg, Hal Holbrook, a few other character actors who always play small roles but are always good. That is quite the who’s who of awesome character actors, I like every single one of those people.
The caveat for me personally is I’m not the biggest fan of Spielberg, at least for the last 20 years or so. Often times his movies end up being good because of a performance, a script he didn’t write, or subject matter it’s hard to screw up. As a director, he’s extremely overrated, using cliched devices over and over and over again until you stop thinking about it and simply anoint him one of the best film directors of all-time. So there’s that. But I’ll probably still watch this because of that cast.
Here’s a video of Terry Gilliam explaining why Kubrick rules and Spielberg sucks (yes… I realize that Spielberg’s movies have been, and will be, infinitely more commercially successful/viable than Gilliam’s; before someone jumps down my throat):
He hits it right on the head, doesn’t he?
Speaking of “having to think about it” , The White Ribbon has got to be one of my favorite films of the past few years. I went and saw that by myself and I remember leaving the theater feeling so uneasy; I wanted to see everything in black and white, of course grey metaphorically, there was this knot in my stomach and no matter what I did it would not go away. That’s what a good film does to you. It stays with you, either mentally or physically or both, for days after watching it. The same thing happened to me with Black Swan.
- Holy shit, Cartman is REAL??:
-Sonny
