Children of Men Trailer is a Huge Bummer

Well... the novel "The Children of Men" by P.D. James has been available for purchase since 1994, so perhaps you might check it out and get a better idea of what the story's about. That way you'd know better how to set your expectations. The trailer pretty much sums up the plot of the novel.

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I'm gonna have to agree with you. Looks bad....I trying to like it, but uh just doesn't look good.

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Well, I agree that the trailer isn't as impressive as, let s say, Spidey... but, you know, I usually prefer a movie that turns out to offer more than the trailer promised. Unlike, lets say, POTC 2, the Island (in which cases the trailers were at least as good as the movies... if not better).

So, what I've read in the reviews of CoM so far it seems to be a wonderful movie (which is very likely, considering its a Cuaron movie). I'll give it a shot when it comes out...

Cheers

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Are we having a bad day dear? I thought the trailer was great. I'll go see the movie, great story, great cast.

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The trailer is egregiously rote but the movie, I'm fanboy positive, will kick major butt.

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Come on, girl. You can trust Cuaron. If he can get you to sit on the edge of your seat during a Harry Potter movie, you know he can make this movie work.

If nothing else, it has Julianne Moore in what's probably her first role worthy of her talents in about 5 years.

Oh, wait. There were 5 screenwriters on this and one of them wrote Brokedown Palace? Run! Run for your life!

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I really like the trailer, but had heard nothing of the film before. It looks fascinating - what a conservative movie - the valuing of the young and pregnant. It was the first movie that I been interested in seeing in a long time. It seems much more intellectual then most.

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Wow, that was terrible! I went straight to the trailer before I read about your dissapointment and have to agree that this thing looks boring as all Hell. The cast looks phenomenal but wow, really though, seriously. C'mon.

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I dig the trailer a whole bunch. It seems to take the not-too-distant future route of V for Vendetta rather than the hard sci-fi, big effects, post-apocalyptic one. I mean, do we really need another one of those? Cuaron inserting a more character and relationship based plot (like Y Tu Mama Tambien) into something that could be just another blockbuster? Sounds good to me.

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May I give you some Prozac to recue your depression?

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Cant wait. And it starts with a shot of CLIVE's face, what's better than that, really?

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Yeah the trailer does make the film look a bit naff.

However the trailer to "the weatherman" made the film look alright, when in fact it was complete rubbish!

Dont always judge a movie by its trailer...

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I completely and utterly disagree, i thought the trailer looked great, and i think the movie overall will be AMAZING infact it was so great i called over my room mate to watch the trailer, she says it looks amazing aswell and were going to the midnight first showing.

Do you honestly think this will be a bad movie?

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sorry to be slow in the reply! but charlie hunnam IS in that trailer. When they push Clive Owen out of the van, charlie's head sticks out the van - he has long blond dreads. Then the next scene, its charlie that pulls off the hood from Clive Owen's head. I know you can't see his face but a fangirl knows, trust me :D

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The trailer looks good in and of itself, but some important plot points from the book have clearly been jiggered with.

First, Theodore Faron in the novel was a somewhat priggish 50-year-old history professor; Clive Owen is somewhat younger and is apparently not an academic.

In the book the revolutionaries were bumbling amateurs, and their leader was one of Faron's former students, Julian. In the book she first approaches Faron for help because he is the cousin of the "Warden of England" who rules with an iron fist, and they want Faron to appeal to the Warden for reforms.

Based on the trailer it appears that the revolutionaries are much more competent, the Warden of England sub-plot seems to have been jettisoned, and Julian has been transformed into Faron's ex-wife; the two had had a child together who died tragically many years earlier.

The latter plot point makes me very uneasy about this film. The "couple-whose-ideal-marriage-was-shattered-due-to-tragic-death-of-a-child" device is designed to tug the heartstrings and it's been done to death ("Minority Report" is one recent example). To me it suggests that the screenwriters lacked confidence in the emotional impact of the subject matter and felt they needed to make it more "personal". As if the end of the world wasn't "personal" enough.

Nice trailer, but it looks like the changes in the plot are going to weaken a great story.

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Please don't presume a movie's merit based purely on it's trailer. It's foolish. Quit worrying about it and see the film. For Alfonso fans, you know what to expect. And those who aren't yet, most likely will be.

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Went and saw the film yesterday. Dont judge this on the trailer the film was amazing.

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