I don’t think we need a synopsis, do we? Thanks to FirstShowing for the trailer code.
As one of our readers, Paulo, points out, there’s impressive talent behind the camera:
- Director, Phillip Noyce (Rabbit-Proof Fence, The Quiet American)
- Screenplay, Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Mystic River, Payback)
- Cinematography, Robert Elswit (There Will Be Blood, Boogie Nights)
- Music, James Newton Howard (The Dark Knight, The Sixth Sense)
- Set Decoration, Leslie E. Rollins (The Departed, American Gangster)
- Costumes, Sarah Edwards (Michael Clayton, The Devil’s Advocate)
- Editing, John Gilroy (Michael Clayton, Narc)
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*******blank stare************
Wanted meets Missions Impossible meets every other awful action/thriller of this decade.
And who decided that “Salt” was a good title?
yeah Salt is a pretty terrible title, but this looks decent, Bourne Identity for the ladies.
Brad makes movies with wordy titles
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Angelina goes short and sweet:
Gia
Salt
Wanted
Changeling
Know your audience. Brad makes movies for people who can read.
Gotta admit, SALT looks cool in Russian. See what they’re doing? Setting up the sequels, BOOTS and MITTENS.
Ryan you made me laugh so hard!! This movie looks awful, I am a lady but this is not for me!!
looks great definately gonna see it so will her fans
naysayers will always be naysayers
is way better than stupid romcoms or oscar bait shit movies
It looks great. They payed her 20 million to do this. Best open ever for a women in the B.O. in her way.
the crew is incredible.
Helgeland – writer
Newton Howard, Elswit, Gilroy, Chambliss
Phillip Noyce has a very uneven and interesting body of work. He direct Rabbit-Proof Fence plus the movie Sliver, which was nominated for seven Razzie Awards.
This is just sad. I mean… really
Sad is celebrating one year of Obama without any change at all. Thats sad
I love her but she needs a whopper.
If you look closely, I believe they gave away a key twist/plot point in the trailer, too. So i’ve basically seen the film now.
And Gina, do you mean a whopper or a Whopper (as in Burger King)?
The Whopper was named as a tribute to His Royal Highness of Burger King’s, er, scepter.
Alan, no you havent. The question in this movie and in the new Helgeland script is – the elevator.
i think this kinda looks good!
@#5
In German it’s spelled SLÜT
While the quality of this film could go either way, I think it’s pretty amazing that a woman is carrying a film like this. This type of film has always been Tom Cruise, Denzel, Matt Damon territory. In fact, the role was originally written for a male, and Tom Cruise was going to star, but when he dropped out Angelina had it rewritten for a female.
“…the role was originally written for a male, and Tom Cruise was going to star, but when he dropped out Angelina had it rewritten for a female.”
Precisely the same thing has happened with The Tourist (based on a neat little French thriller called Anthony Zimmer). Originally acquired and adapted as a vehicle for Tom Cruise, it’s been reworked for Angelina Jolie now. I can see it working so much better with a female lead, because even a kickass female lead feels more vulnerable in peril than does a superhuman action-hero male.
Angelina Jolie is the new Tom Cruise.
(and Tom is the Thetan Precious.)
good point Ryan. But we must not forget the B.O. appeal of the Jolie-Pitt thing. I am not a fan of tabloid stories but these two have an incredible B.O. appeal specially overseas.
Her action movies would be slightly more believable to me if she weren’t so darned thin! Every time I see her punch someone or jump onto a moving vehicle I wonder how she can do that with zero muscle tone and how her bones aren’t breaking, not how cool the shot looked. I just can’t seem to suspend my disbelief!
I was teasing about the reading skills, Paulo, but you’re right about the box-office appeal. And that’s something to consider when we snicker at the simple familiar dialogue in movies like Avatar. Action films can easily earn more overseas than they do domestically. Nobody wants to be reading lengthy subtitles while they’re trying to keep an eye on the frenetic battles onscreen.
Take a look at this trailer for The Expendables. (I couldn’t bear to post it on the main page when it first came online.) There are hardly any sentences more than 3 words long in the entire trailer. International audiences with only the most basic grasp of English can follow this dialogue and not feel like they’re missing anything.
So even though I was joking about Angelina Jolie’s movies not requiring a huge vocabulary, there’s a serious side to that too — because that’s how those movies are designed; they’re intentionally written that way. Overseas audiences are not only able to understand them without much reading, these movies make everyone all over the world feel like they’ve mastered the English language.
It looks exactly like Wanted and Mission and Bourne but with a lead girl (assuming McAvoy was the lead in Wanted)…
There’s no reason for this to not succeed, it will gross a lot and will continue to proof that people like her in these roles. She’s actually very kick ass as the role demands and the movie looks cool because of her…but I agree with the comment that she’s just too thin to be believable as an action star…
Since I loved wanted and Bourne movies, this is right up my alley. Thin or not, Jolie is convincing action heroine. This looks like Alias with irina Derevko as the lead instead of Sydney. Sold.
I think it looks awesome. I always like her films though.
Ryan (re The Expendables),
well, given who’s starring and co-starring in the film, three-word sentences sound just about right.
Salt looks like a kickass no-brainer movie which is fine by me. Like BAMBI said, it reminds me of Irina Derevko in Alias. SMOOTH
You guys can say whatever you want but can’t deny that Angelina Jolie is one cool chick!
This must have happened before she met Pepa.
I LOVE bio pics! Although the casting questionable.
another bad jolie’s performance
Some people on this forum will eat Angelina’s shit even if she told them do. If this movie starred Nicole Kidman hell would have broken loose by now. Funny how some people start liking “kickass no-brainer” movies and immediately start putting down “stupid romcoms or oscar bait shit movies” when Angelina is involved. LAWD have mercy.
31, and some people will hate her no matter what she does. good or bad.
When exactly did the Cold War start up again?
Most rom-coms are insulting to women. It is very liberating as a woman to see a woman portrayed as physically strong and smart and capable of defeating all these men. Salt should be great fun. I forgot Helgeland wrote the script.
And really is anyone suggesting Jolie doesn’t do enough serious movies – I thought some complaints were just the opposite. I read the script written for the male lead, Edwin Salt, and it was pretty clever and relentless in its action. I couldn’t wait to see how it ended. It was a great read. Salt’s back story was very interesting.
You know, I don’t bitch when skinny basketball players are called great athletes.
The best actor in this movie is surely Daniel Olbrychski – one of the best living actors in the world. In the West he is probably best known for his multiple cooperations with Andrzej Wajda.
Mary B: I second that.
Afrika: please eat something cause you sound like an irritating and hungry s_head
I cannot imagine Nicole Kidman doing action like Jolie but hey I may be proved wrong one day
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