Just saw the trailer for this movie today and it looks really cool. It's basically an action movie entirely filmed in first person.
I have no idea how they do this since I imagine you're going to need to cut at some point but that's not an easy thing to do well in a movie filmed like this.
Yeah, I saw this trailer the other day at the movies and I'll admit I'm a little interested. It will probably be a pretty regular action movie with a gimmick, but it's doing something more than other action movies to stand out by pushing the limits of the medium a little and I can respect that.
^What do you mean by "regular action movie"? Like examples? I just don't see very many good action movies come out a lot and they seem to have various aspects forced into the movie that ruin it even if the action scenes are fine. Not to mention how they're edited, which as I say below, I love long takes and having movies like the Expendables 3 where every shot is like 2 seconds long just gets on my nerves as it feels so jerky. I think the most recent action movie I've enjoyed was Raid 2.
Here's another trailer. This is the one I initially saw.
The action looks pretty coherent and with long takes but it's hard to see from the trailer if there will be cuts or not. I just really love long takes so stuff like this makes me really interested. Also it has Sharlto Copley in it.
It's begging for a video game tie in too.
Reminds me of Crank.
I saw this trailer the other day and it definitely piqued my interest. Was instantly reminded of this rad music video that went viral a couple years ago and as it turns out, it's by the same dudes! Apparently the movie is supposed to be a sequel to the music video.
Yeah, I've known about this movie for a while now and actually randomly thought about it like a week ago. I didn't know it was actually coming out in theaters though. It looked like a straight to DVD or streaming service type of thing. Even if it's limited release that's still pretty good.
Here's the video that I think started their interest in this project.
^What do you mean by "regular action movie"? Like examples? I just don't see very many good action movies come out a lot and they seem to have various aspects forced into the movie that ruin it even if the action scenes are fine. Not to mention how they're edited, which as I say below, I love long takes and having movies like the Expendables 3 where every shot is like 2 seconds long just gets on my nerves as it feels so jerky. I think the most recent action movie I've enjoyed was Raid 2.
Here's another trailer. This is the one I initially saw.
The action looks pretty coherent and with long takes but it's hard to see from the trailer if there will be cuts or not. I just really love long takes so stuff like this makes me really interested. Also it has Sharlto Copley in it.
It's begging for a video game tie in too.
A regular action movie is a movie heavy on action with a bare minimum plot. The gimmick is the first person view shot in the whole movie. It's not a bad gimmick either. It looks very interesting. It's literally a new perspective.
As KingJC mentioned though it does remind me of 'Crank'. A lesser known example is also a pretty good straightforward action movie, 'Shoot Em' Up', or a better known one like 'John Wick'. These are all examples of "regular action movies" without the special gimmick that Hardcore Henry is utilizing.
Yeah, plot and writing seems pretty generic, but…I dunno. Has there ever been a film made entirely in 1st person POV?
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I saw the trailer for this during Deadpool. The movie seems like generic action, but I'm probably going to see it for the first person gimmick alone.
Yeah, plot and writing seems pretty generic, but…I dunno. Has there ever been a film made entirely in 1st person POV?
Depends on what you consider it to be. There's a lot of found footage movies that are basically first person. Even if you discount handheld cameras some have head mounted cameras. The movie Russian Ark was shot in one take and is from the point of view of one of the characters.
This looks like male ego from concentrate. This shit is bad for the world….
How sexually repressed are you?
Watch Hardcore Henry to find out!
Do you like murder? (That is, how sexually repressed are you?)
Watch Hardcore Henry to find out!
I'm annoyed sorry everybody.
This looks like male ego from concentrate. This shit is bad for the world….
How sexually repressed are you?
Watch Hardcore Henry to find out!
Do you like murder? (That is, how sexually repressed are you?)
Watch Hardcore Henry to find out!
I'm annoyed sorry everybody.
Your apology will only be accepted if you upload no less than 24 hours of you playing GTA V. Not just meandering around your crib. I mean actually completing missions and side missions if need be. Then tell me how sexually repressed and murderous it made you. Only then will I accept your apology.
The only thing that can repress my sexual urges is to see Sharlto Copley in movies.
For a (mostly) first person perspective film that's heavy on narrative, I'd suggest Humphrey Bogart in Dark Passage. It's classic film noir.
Movie was pretty cool but not really as good as I was hoping, and it was somewhat different. It got super silly at points and really the tone was all over the place though I still thought it was good. A lot more violent than I was expecting too even going by the trailers and it just got more and more violent as the movie progressed really. What story there is is fine too I thought. Some of the people I went with got motion sick though, which is what I expected. They even had a sign up at the ticket booth.
! Highlight is Henry using his optic nerve to sever the bad guy's head at the halfway point. I also thought the ending was perfect and I liked the twist, though a lot of people don't really like those kinds of things.
Lol you know they were going for an authentic experience if people got sick watching it.
I imagine it'd be ever worse if violence makes you squeamish. I'm not sure if I agree but I've seen people saying they were surprised the movie had an R and not an NC-17 considering the violence and other things. It's definitely hard R though. The opening credits sequence even is a slow motion montage of close ups of people getting killed in progressively more brutal ways.
Yeah I cringed at the opening bredits a few timed. Movie highly reminded me of the Crank movies but with the obvious inclusion of the POV. Sharlto Copley was very amusing , especially since he basically carries the movie.
Did they ever explain how the villain got his ability? Or are we just to assume th s t in a world with super cyborg enhancements and clones that telekinesis is just another thing at the buffet?
Nope, bad guy's power was never explained.
