Catwoman trailer

[Klaus]

What I STILL don't understand is why they'd take a familiar character name and change so it's not familiar anymore, and all the reason to use the name is wasted.

Had they called this the Vixen movie, nearly all of the complains would be overcome.

Quick Recap: Vixen is an African American supermodel that inherits a mystical amulet called the Tantu Totem. With it, she can mimic the powers of animals, including the strength of an elephant, the speed of a cheetah and even the flight of an eagle. And with Vixen, you wouldn't need to hide Halle Berry's face behind a goofy-looking mask...

 

[Villano]

Haha! Is that for real?

Havn't read anything about it yet... but that sounds scary (not in the creepy way )!

Bye
Thanee

Here's a synopsis I pulled off of a movie website. I assume it's from a press release (it sure reads like one):

Catwoman is the story of shy, sensitive artist Patience Philips (Halle Berry), a woman who can’t seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammoth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What happens next changes Patience forever. In a mystical twist of fate, she is transformed into a woman with the strength, speed, agility and ultra-keen senses of a cat. With her newfound prowess and feline intuition, Patience becomes Catwoman, a sleek and stealthy creature balancing on the thin line between good and bad. Like any wildcat, she’s dangerous, elusive and untamed. Her adventures are complicated by a burgeoning relationship with Tom Lone (Benjamin Bratt), a cop who has fallen for Patience but cannot shake his fascination with the mysterious Catwoman, who appears to be responsible for a string of crime sprees plaguing the city.

Aargh! The pain! The pain!

BTW, what the hell is Catwoman's name in this film?! It's been listed as Patience Price, Patience Prince, and now Patience Philips. All these have been announce since the film began shooting. Either the studio doesn't care enough about this film to check these things out, or the script was being rewritten during filming. Neither one is a good sign.

Oh, one more thing, "a string of crime sprees"?! Can one person be responsible for a string of sprees? :\

 

[Filby]

Oh, one more thing, "a string of crime sprees"?! Can one person be responsible for a string of sprees? :\

I think the Joker could probably pull it off, but no one else.

I'm worried about this film. I hate the way DC Comics keeps making really stupid moves with their characters -- Birds of Prey TV show, anyone? Lois and freaking Clark?! -- thus letting the competition breeze right on by them. Catwoman just is not Catwoman with Batman and Gotham City out of the picture, and she sure as Hell is not Catwoman without Selina Kyle.

I don't think there's ever been a film version of Catwoman that I've liked. Michelle Pfeifer's portrayal wasn't bad, but Burton's changes to the Cat just went against the character (one thing I hated about Batman Returns was that its two villains, Catwoman and the Penguin, are among Batman's only foes who are not insane -- Burton seemed to have missed that point). And Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar in the 60s TV show... well, everything about that show sucked.

I wish that DC would get off its duff and make a decent movie that follows the comic. In my opinion we haven't gotten one of those since Superman. Even the first Burton Batman movie was way more about Burton than Batman.

I'm sure that I'll end up watching Catwoman -- on DVD, or on television. But I'm not going to waste ten dollars to see it in theaters.

 

[Piratecat]

And Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar in the 60s TV show... well, everything about that show sucked.

Sacrilege!

 

[Felon]

It's a pretty good trailer for a movie which is almost certainly going to suck badger nads. Ooooh, an evil cosmetics company as the villain -- hold me, I'm scared!

I dunno, maybe it's just me, but how can one action movie's trailer be good and another trailer can be bad when every trailer is made the same way?

First, you have the slow, tension-building cut-scenes where get some chinese-fortune-cookie style narration. Try to say something poignant, something profound. "For every shoe, there must be a sock....for every sock, there must be a foot..." That sort of thing.

Once mood has slowly built up to a head, we're treated to the five-second-long hear-a-pin-drop, bated-breath moment. The background score holds on a single note or stops altogether.

Then suddenly, BOOM, BAM, BANG, ZIP, ZING, BLAMMO! We get the ADD-style blitzkrieg montage of half-second-long cuts of people running, punching, kicking, lunging at the fourth wall, falling from ridiculous heights, dodging explosions and bullets, zipping through traffic, and (this part is mandatory) at some poiint something must leap through the air, be it a motorcycle jumping from one rooftop to another or a stagecoach hurtling across a partially-collapsed bridge. Of course, the actual movie doesn't contain this much condensed action, which is a good thing because more than 30-seconds of this and somebody sitting near you will have a seizure.

Then with abrupt finality you punctuate the trailer with one little bit that supposedly encapsulates the entire spirit of the movie. For a lot of movies, it's some cute one-liner, but sometimes they try to go for cool-factor instead and we get a nice pose from the hero.

Am I the only person who's so jaded by this utterly homogeneous formula that it kills any sense of surprise or wonder?

 

[Berandor]

Well, as the formula of trailers cannot surprise anymore, you can better concentrate on the snippets of movie you see. Most scenes shown in the trailer will be considered to be of the better scenes in the movie. So when these scenes don't seem to be interesting...

On another note: There was another trailer for Catwoman somewhere on the net. It seemed to be a first trial for a trailer, and was fairly bad quality (small stream, IIRC). But that trailer sucked more ways than I cared to count...

I tried looking for the trailer, but it's no longer hosted on the site it was.

As to this teaser: Well, it's alright, I guess, but we don't see Halle hissing at a dog, drinking milk in a bar, gorging herself on sushi... (like it was in the mentioned trailer). We don't hear her talking in that godawful voice that lets shivers run down my spine. What we see, however, is that silly whip-motion at the end of the teaser, and the ridiculous costume.
I'll see the movie on DVD (for rent), if only not to miss this trainwreck.

 

[Thanee]

But that trailer sucked more ways than I cared to count...

I tried looking for the trailer, but it's no longer hosted on the site it was.

What a pity...

Bye
Thanee

 

[Hand of Evil]

Still looks to be a waste of time. I expect to save it we will see Catwoman taking a shower, taking clothes off, or making love in next trailer.

 

[Silver Moon]

Eartha Kitt and Julie Newmar in the 60s TV show... well, everything about that show sucked.

The show was perfect for what they were trying to do. Most 1960's shows don't work that well a third-of-a-century later. Both Kitt and Newmar (and Merriweather for that matter) looked great in the suit and of all the villains in that show the catwoman character actually stuck closest to the comic book portrayal of the character.

 

[Silver Moon]

Still think the movie is gonna blow, though.

Yes, but it's from Warner Brothers, who are also putting out the third Harry Potter film this summer, so they can afford to have a bomb or two and still have a good year. The first two Potter films are listed among the top ten highest grossing films worldwide of all time (as are three Lord of the Rings films).