M. Bates Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Variety of trailer sizes available at apple.com. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/enemy_at_the_gates/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holman Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Would someone remind me of when the film is opening? Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatmac Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 I just finished the book Stalingrad by Anthony Beevor. This movie seems to be about Zaitsev at Stalingrad. In the book it talks about a rivalry between Zaitsev and a German sniper ace, but it says that the accounts of a 1 vs 1 are largely false. Certainly there was a "cult of sniperism" that developed at Stalingrad, especially for the Russians. Excellent read, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Bates Posted January 14, 2001 Author Share Posted January 14, 2001 The trailer looks promising. I hope that the gimmicky special effect seen in the trailer (where one man is highlighted) doesn't make its way into the final film. It looks as if the computer effects will hold up well. Overall this can be the definitive Stalingrad film, hopefully curling a turd from a great height upon SPR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilhammer Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Well that looks like a damn good movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest *Captain Foobar* Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Holy freakin crap... I need to clean out my shorts now.... OOOOooohwwwhahaaaaaahhrrmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilhammer Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 BTW, the official site says the release in March 2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mirage2k Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 I just saw the trailer today when I went to see "Thirteen Days." It looks like the movie should be pretty good. I agree with Bates that the highlighting of the men getting shot seems like a little too much. -Andrew ------------------ "No, it's not that kind of relationship. We're just friends. We are together all the time, but I never touch her porcelain skin, her soft, red lips, like rose petals from the emperor's bathwater! Bathwater, I tell you, bathwateeeeeeer!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Another movie to look out for is Windtalkers. It's being directed by John Woo(!) and stars Nicolas Cage and Christian Slater. It's set on the Pacific during WW2, and revolves around a Marine Raider platoon assigned to escort a pair of Navajo "code-talkers" through Japanese held territory. Could be interesting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Clark Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 I don't like the "highlighting" special effect AT ALL, it reminds me of the terrible look of the combat scenes in Ridley Scott's GI Jane. (I normally love RS movies, but he apparently took a hard blow to the head before filming that one.) Pleeeeeeease don't let the actual movie look that way!!! Other than that, the movie looks EXCELLENT! (which makes it even sadder if the annoying effect is left in.) [This message has been edited by Mr. Clark (edited 01-13-2001).] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Check6 Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Mr. Clark: I don't like the "highlighting" special effect AT ALL, it reminds me of the terrible look of the combat scenes in Ridley Scott's GI Jane. (I normally love RS movies, but he apparently took a hard blow to the head before filming that one.) <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> You mean, GI Jane has combat scenes in it? If I had known that before you said they were terrible then I might have gone to see it just to find out how helpless Demi Moore looks shooting a rifle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Clark Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Like the typical "training" movie that has been DONE TO DEATH, GI Jane ultimately leads up to a "real" conflict. Ridley Scott uses a bizarre and irritating camera shake, while at the same time zoom in and out real fast technique which makes it impossible to tell what is actually occuring. Worse, the technique is so obvious (like the highlighting seen here) as a gimmick, that you don't CARE what is happening. Thank god he got his head straight before turning to Gladiator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 <sigh> They just can't resist putting some babe in the movie. I mean look at that gal. Nice makeup and everything in the middle of the Russian winter at Stalingrad. Ugh. I'll probably see it anyway...but man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forever Babra Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Well, our delicate western movie-going sensibilities probably won't take well to the notion of "as beautiful as a woman who never bathes could be" ------------------ My P-47 is a pretty good ship And she took a round coming 'cross the Channel last trip I was thinking 'bout my baby and letting her rip Always got me through so far... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pvt. Ryan Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Why do the Soviets speak with British accents? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Mirage2k Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Why do the Soviets speak with British accents?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> DUH! You didn't think the Soviets could've stopped the Germans all by themselves, did you? Why do you think James Bond could kill Russians so easily? -Andrew ------------------ "No, it's not that kind of relationship. We're just friends. We are together all the time, but I never touch her porcelain skin, her soft, red lips, like rose petals from the emperor's bathwater! Bathwater, I tell you, bathwateeeeeeer!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Clark Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Yeah, I noticed the Babe thing too. Always a love story, just like Pearl Harbor... which is going to try to be Titanic in my opinion. Ah well, I'll see 'em both anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Tom Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 I think this movie would be extremely interesting if they actually used German and Russian actors speaking in German and Russian with subtitles. It would make for a more authentic movie, avoiding the entire hollywood garbage by using 'established' actors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Clark Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Has anyone else seen Hunt For Red October? The director used a little trick in that movie... the Russians begin the movie speaking in Russian (with subtitles). After some time, it zooms in on Connery, and he begins speaking English, but you KNOW it is still supposed to be Russian. It was VERY effective. I wish others would have grabbed that technique up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Commissar Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 What the hell? When I open any of the trailer-links, it asks me to download a file for Quicktime. So I do, its always very small, and when I run it it's just a "click to play" window in Quicktime. It doesnt load anymore. What am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Clark Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Do you have 56k like me? If so, once you "click to play" you have to sit there for about 15 minutes while it loads, then press PLAY button. (Psssst... pick the small movie size!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Der Unbekannte Jäger Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 I gotta see it. Now heres a small question what was the music playing in the background? The last 10-20sec of the trailer is from the Braveheart soundtrack but how about the rest? ------------------ "The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Major Tom: I think this movie would be extremely interesting if they actually used German and Russian actors speaking in German and Russian with subtitles. It would make for a more authentic movie, avoiding the entire hollywood garbage by using 'established' actors.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Of course. But then it wouldn't have gotten a $100 million+ budget and "no one" would have gone to see it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panther131 Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Of course. But then it wouldn't have gotten a $100 million+ budget and "no one" would have gone to see it. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> ...execpt for us wwII nuts! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
von Lucke Posted January 14, 2001 Share Posted January 14, 2001 Well, it's a European co-production, filmed entirely in Europe, by a French director --- why shouldn't they speak German and Russian? Even most Hollywood productions see their biggest profit in overseas release. I think the individual freeze-frame is gimmicky all right, but I also think it was meant as a reference to that famous photo from the Spanish Civil War of a charging soldier taken at the moment he was shot. Besides, it's prolly only used in that one sequence. I don't know about ya'll, but I get the impression this movie will be more about how poor Russian peasant becomes a Hero of The Soviet Union against his will and then just another cog in the political propaganda machine, rather than an actual "war movie". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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