Hanna, wherein an ass-kicking girl assassin outwits cate blanchett's southern accent

and the incredible hulk is her fugitive dad
and the sun never shines except in the frozen north
teenage fem-bourne? this movie is possibly tailor-made for me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj6zCJyTq2I

directed by the guy who directed atonement though, which i liked really, but makes me concerned that this will drag a bit more than the trailers let on. hm...

I've been tracking this movie for a couple of months. Do u think the director reads our posts on ILX?!??

Because I mean, Sucker Punch can bite me when this comes out a month later.

I'm actually wondering how they're going to cover all this ground and resolve anything in the time allotted! There's her training w Eric Bana, then them being discovered, her being shipped off to Cate Blanchett-land, breaking out, making her way in the real world with some itinerant people in a trailer, being hunted/discovered/betrayed, and the whole mystery of her parentage and possible genetic manipulation. That's like TWO movies.

At least!

i know right! i trust the magical magic of the movies to do right by us

director also directed the k knightley pride & prejudice, which covers a lot of story and time too, as does atonement. i haven't seen the soloist bc someone said it was super heavy and i wasn't in that mood and then i forgot about it. i like sense of heavy subjects though. i mean, i think even his p&p def zoned in on the heavy stuff while still letting the story flow along.

Saw it this morning. Leans waaay too heavily on the fairy-tale imagery IMO, but there's a few interesting wrinkles in terms of style and sexual politics. (Hard to get into it without spoilers.) Also, I don't think I've ever liked Blanchett less - she seems to be doing a 3rd-rate Swinton impression.

Chem. Bros. score helps, a lot.

yeah, no spoil-O!

ooh yes electro-action score!

fairy-tale imagery sounds like a plus to me tbh!

I know. That's like saying, "It was good, except there were too many dragons."

hahahaaa yeah!

but I appreciated the voice of dissent. I just love the creepy side of fairytales.

I thought it was a novel idea, but it really does it to death. "Teenage fem-Bourne" is an apt capsule description.

Saiorse Ronan is good and all but I was more impressed w/ her in Lovely Bones for having to act through P. Jackson's green-screen maze of bullshit and still coming out with dignity intact. By comparison, convincing badassery is kids' stuff.

I really want to see this one. I'm kind of hoping from the director's track record that he gets how to write/direct women better than some of the other recent female action characters. ugh.

that's one of the reasons why I'm excited abt this film too. He seems to direct actors playing "outsider" women well.

pretty psyched for this

Want to have NY movie outing?

does it come out this weekend?? maybe!!

after sucker punch, discovering this existed and was coming out immediately felt like hollywood was pulling some avuncular prank where they act like your present's going to be awesome and then it's socks or something, or a notebook, or a movie with no sense of humor, and then they're like WAIT NO JUST KIDDING it's a teenage fem-Bourne.

Oh I can't go this weekend, I can't spend any money until the 15th. Nev mind, I'll see it when I can.

im trying to save money too. why dont we know anyone who works at a movie theater??

this is coming to my one-theater town in the middle of nowhere! i like the trailer.

i will see this. mostly for cate.

this looks like it could be dope, and ive heard good things about it - havent seen anything by Wright aside from the Soloist (sucks) but he seems like a smart enough guy:

http://www.badassdigest.com/2011/04/06/hannas-joe-wright-talks-shooting-mos-the-chemical-bros-and-one-kick-ass-tracking-shot

im a big blanchett fan but im ambivalent about... whatever it is she appears to be doing in this movie. i should prob just see it and find out~

so this movie pretty much ruled

hoping to see it this weekend...excited!

i saw it this past weekend, p. nice lil action movie. cool opening/closing title card.

blanchett was awesome

i wanna watch a movie that's just hanna and the hippie family backpacking around europe

The accents in this movie were so over-the-top.

Finally watched this. I enjoyed the lack of exposition dialogue!

"She's from Sri Lanka!"

really want to see this

The score was good, and in ways I didn't expect! Lots of subtle noodling

1st half of this movie is excellent. and then they get to germany...

this looks beyond awful.

If you can't say anything nice, go sit next to some other thread.

Liked. Looked good, zipped along, didn't arse around over-explaining stuff, pleasing structure, liked almost all the cast (Ronan, obvs, but also Hollander doing wetwork in 80s tennis/yachting casual). Was down with all the scruffy wet mitteleuropa stuff - enjoyable texture in a thriller.

i finally saw this and it was everything i'd hoped it to be
and more: the score was noticeably weird and totally great! (as i think was said ages ago on this thread but let me reiterate)
and beautifully shot, plus such amazing locations and art direction
it's just really fucking good (and i'm going to try not to be pissed that it got like no media attention, because that is a waste of my energy when i'd rather be learning how to speak russian while knife fighting)

I bought the score on my phone in the parking lot as I walked out of the theater.

haha! i'm just looking for it right now!

i'd rather be learning how to speak russian while knife fighting

marry me

i need a new exercise regimen, and crossfit seems so pedestrian, so

p good!

ya i enjoyed this!!

big fan

enjoyed this film a lot, fairytale stuff not overdone at all cuz fairytale x action film is such a novel blend in the first place. actress who played hanna was incredible. would've quite liked to know what happened to the hippie family? i hate loose ends.

the ending seemed to be the one it had been building up to all along but i've just been told that it was a last-minute change of ending due to budget constraints - original ending would've played on the genetic stuff more (adding sci-fi to fairytales and action?!) which makes sense cuz come to think of it that thread seemed way underdeveloped and the whole internet café revelation both underwhelming and implausible (the girl is freaked out by kettles but can work out a computer and the internet just like that?)

eric bana is WELL fit in this, the scene where he comes out of the sea, my god

the sequel, about all her cloned female siblings, should be interesting

this was fun. very pretty, sort of music video-ish but lots of entertaining choices re: shots and sound design.

also nice to see some actual fight choreography done in single takes, instead of blurry close-up quick cuts.

couldn't get over how much cate blanchett's accent sounded like hans gruber's

haaaa

i'm totally going to watch this again asap

I love the ambiguity of where they've taken her at the beginning. American-sounding people, underground facility, desert, English-speaking accented tourist child. Puzzle out whether it's Africa, the American southwest, or something else entirely.

just seen this... really enjoyed it. that scene were bana takes caree of four dudes in the subway was very impressive. also, quite nice to see an action movie where the action scenes aren't all done in bourne quick cut style (which i do like but it's been (badly) done to death these past few years)

can somebody point me toward information about the intended ending?

apparently there's an alternate ending where she goes back to her home from the beginning and chills with the wolves

I loved this movie.

I liked this far more than I expected

Just watched this last night. Liked it a lot, couldn't get over how gorgeously designed and shot the whole thing was. Bits and pieces reminded me of Lynch and Todd Haynes, but the reference point I kept coming back tonwas Seijun Suzuki. It was like Bourne remade as Tokyo Drifter. Way more inventive (and funny!) than I expected.

to_was

wtf, I own this and somehow I haven't rewatched the whole thing yet. I got started one day and had to leave. Soon!

I enjoyed this. Liberal British family with precocious daughter were lol.

couldn't get over how much cate blanchett's accent sounded like hans gruber's

― the jazz zinger (s1ocki), Monday, November 7, 2011 10:19 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be clear here, i mean hans gruber's AMERICAN accent

lol