MONUMENTS MEN - Delayed to 2014

[AndyDursin]

My mom is reading this book and loves it -- the idea is fascinating, the story is real, and the cast is great...but what a freaking HORRIBLE trailer.

My vote for some of the worst, most inappropriate music I've ever heard in a coming attractions ad!! The only way it would've been worse is if Myley Cyrus was used!

[AndyDursin]

Well this is more like it...

[Monterey Jack]

That's why I don't watch trailers anymore. I remember you bagging on the trailer for Argo last year, Andy, and look how that film turned out.

[AndyDursin]

That's why I don't watch trailers anymore. I remember you bagging on the trailer for Argo last year, Andy, and look how that film turned out.

That's true. That ad sucked. BTW I'm not saying the film isn't going to be good -- more that this trailer was just embarrassing. The second trailer was better at least.

[Paul MacLean]

I love the premise, but they're trying a little too hard to sell the film as a "hip comedy" with that awful song.

Then again, I'm sure there's nothing very ear-catching in Alexandre Desplat's score.

[Mike Skerritt]

Interesting. They used music cribbing INCEPTION but not the Horn of Doom.

I like Clooney as a filmmaker but I think he's overrated as a writer. I look forward to liking this and completely forgetting about it.

[AndyDursin]

Delayed to 2014 because "the effects aren't finished"

Anyone really believe that? Probably not a vote of confidence on the studio's part with less than two months to go before release.

http://www.deadline.com/2013/10/george- ... nt-8333942

[AndyDursin]

No surprise here -- the trailers were limp. This is one of those times where if you can't make a 2-minute ad look exciting given that cast and premise, you know you're in trouble.

"A surprisingly lifeless prestige picture...Clooney has transformed a fascinating true-life tale into an exceedingly dull and dreary caper pic cum art-appreciation seminar — a museum-piece movie about museum people."

http://variety.com/2014/film/reviews/fi ... 201075441/

"Something less than monumental...Too much of the time, The Monuments Men falls into a compromised middle zone, not urgent and only mildly amusing."

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/ ... iew/675014