Not a very good trailer but the actual footage looks good.
Sight of Eternity
... for a moment I thought it was gonna be about this
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That trailer makes me utterly confused as to what the story is.
Is that Hit Girl?
intellectual rapist
the trailer looks kinda stale
and i cant imagine why they need 3d
though it looks like there's Clock Punk which is cool
I Am The Walrus
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Yes it is.
Is that Sasha Baren Coen?
I Am The Walrus
Yes it is.
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intellectual rapist
i must say
the casting director made a good choice to put him in a kids movie
Looks okay, but i still can't get past that fact that Martin Scorsese is making this
Mad Scientist Wannabe
I think that should prove to be interesting.
The trailer looks like it was made from half an hour of screen-time.
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I dunno why everyone is getting that weirded out by Scorsese directing a more family oriented/kid's film. I mean, come on, plenty of authors/directors/actors/etc who were known creating stuff targeted at an older audience have made children targeted media before (Neil Gaiman, for example). So, it's not that bizarre that he's doing a kid's film.
That being said, watching the trailer, I have mixed feelings about it. Looks like a cool premise, but, to be honest, that trailer doesn't seem put together very well.
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And if anyone else asks: yes, that is Ben Kingsley.
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Early word: it's a great movie.
The reaction at the New York Film Festival (where it screened as a work-in-progress) was good but the first two Academy screenings (with a 99.9% complete edit) went extremely well. James Cameron and Slash attended the screenings and loved it while Oscar buzz is beginning (a Best Picture nomination is possible).
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Holy cow.
We have an Oscar contender on our hands?! The trailer certainly didn't show it!
WOW. I may have to revise my opinion of this movie and actually go see it when it comes out.
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I'm expecting of massive amount of Getting Crap Past the Radar.
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Perhaps the entire movie is treatment for the main character's madness.
"Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person that doesn't get it."
I don't remember The Invention Of Hugo Cabaret very well, but I remember enjoying it a lot, so I'll definitely be looking out for this.
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Exactly. This is an adaptation of The Invention Of Hugo Cabaret, so if you're confused as to the story, that's worth looking at.
This seems to be Playing Against Type-O-Rama here.
"Proto-Indo-European makes the damnedest words related. It's great. It's the Kevin Bacon of etymology." ~Madrugada
If nothing else, looks like the special effects department's a winner. And this does seem like a more cerebral kind of film, regardless of whether it's appropriate for children or not, so Scorsese can probably handle it well. Probably.
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I eagerly expect something good to come of this.
ALL CREATURE WILL DIE AND ALL THE THINGS WILL BE BROKEN. THAT'S THE LAW OF SAMURAI.
Based on what I've read about Martin Scorsese, I can imagine how he got the job:
Agent: Scorsese, I got the perfect film for you. It is based on an award-winning all ages book about a kid living in a train station in the 1930s trying to fix the only thing that was left by his father.
Scorsese: I don't know...
Agent: It is also about silent films and Georges Meleis.
Scorsese: I'LL TAKE IT! 
Anyway, I want to see the film myself.
Martin Scorsese plays against type... I have mixed feelings.