Also known as, 'What the hell kind of movie is this?'
There are two movies coming in 2012 featuring Abraham Lincoln. One is a biopic directed by Steven Spielberg and stars Academy Award winner Daniel Day-Lewis. It's been a passion project of Spielberg's for several years, and he finally has all the pieces in place to make the film he wants. I'm betting it will be pretty good.
The second movie featuring Abraham Lincoln just released a trailer. This one is by the director of Wanted, Timur Beckmanbetov, and stars Benjamin Walker. I have zero expectations that this will even be watchable.
Have a look:
I gotta say, unimpressed. Re-imagining Abraham Lincoln as a vampire-hunting super-human takes an interesting historical figure and turns him into a joke. I fail to see anything interesting in this. It looks a lot like The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, which, as you recall, made Sean Connery look like a tool. They're going to have to show me more to get my interest up for this one.
It doesn't help that they show a completed Washington Monument. Either nobody involved in this film knows or nobody cares that the Washington Monument was not completed until 1884. Construction was actually halted during the Civil War. They've apparently thrown out all semblance of history for this film, so why bother having Lincoln in the lead role?
If you do go see this on opening day, June 22, 2012, don't say you weren't warned.
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