Matt Damon in The Adjustment Bureau

Peyton Manning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJ0TP4nTaE

John Murphy really is pimping out that music isn't he? Time to compose something new methinks. Film looks good enough, although the trailer hardly blew me away.

Boo Radley

Tom_Brady wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJ0TP4nTaE

John Murphy really is pimping out that music isn't he? Time to compose something new methinks. Film looks good enough, although the trailer hardly blew me away.

Seeing the trailers on TV a lot lately. So is this just a new take on Dark City?

don ramo

sweet jesus its bourne meets inception, cant they give it a rest, alright we get it, matt damon was jason bourne, last time they referenced bourne in a non bourne film i was very dissapointed,

this looks alright, concept seems very contrived, but id say ill be swayed to view,

adamski8

don ramo wrote: »

sweet jesus its bourne meets inception, cant they give it a rest, alright we get it, matt damon was jason bourne, last time they referenced bourne in a non bourne film i was very dissapointed,

this looks alright, concept seems very contrived, but id say ill be swayed to view,

thats an understatment. looks absolutly terrible from the trailers. worst trailer ive seen since the last airbender.
how the hell can anyone suspend disbelief with the concept of this movie!

AnonoBoy

It looks muck. Another shoddy Philip K. Dick 'adaptation'.

pocketvenus

adamski8 wrote: »

thats an understatment. looks absolutly terrible from the trailers. worst trailer ive seen since the last airbender.
how the hell can anyone suspend disbelief with the concept of this movie!

I saw a preview on this in the US last weeK & it is nothing like Bourne or Inception and annoys me that they are using that quote.

It actually is a good film, ok it won't up up there as an Oscar non but it is entertaining and concept though not original is refreshing enough.

Worth a watch.

JP Liz V1

It dont look great to me tbh

Giggernaut

I reckon the marketing guys have ruined any chance this movie had with the tag line "bourne meets inception".
Critics will hate it and those who see it first will feel disappointed resulting in widespread negativity.



Just my opinion I hope Im wrong but the trailer makes me think the films tagline should have been
"Adjustment Bureau: the lite side of Inception and the guy from bourne" :pac:

Sad Professor

I like the concept. Kinda just hoping it's a bad trailer.

pocketvenus

Giggernaut wrote: »

I reckon the marketing guys have ruined any chance this movie has with the tag line "bourne meets inception".
Critics will hate it and those who see it first will feel disappointed resulting in widespread negativity.

Just my opinion I hope Im wrong but the trailer makes me think the films tagline should have been
"Adjustment Bureau: the lite side of Inception and the guy from bourne" :pac:

Well considering it is nothing about dreams or dream stealing and Matt Damon plays a Senator called David Norris ( I nearly LOL as nothing like our own David Norris) who is not like Bourne, they should not have bothered to compare it to either.


But being having worked in marketing I know why they did it. It has a bit of a similarity to aspects of Fringe than anything else and that is only slightly.

Still it is worth a look and at time trailers have a way of making good films look bad.

DoesNotCompute

The costumes on the G-Men type guys look like the costumes on The Observers from Fringe.

I guess they should have called this movie "Bourne meets Fringe", so :P

Giggernaut

...But doesnt Emily look amazing probably the best reason to go see it

Hunchback

and matt damon is a big ridebag too

Giggernaut

Check out the Emily orgasm face in the trailer screenshot...:P

Skerries

was this delayed for some reason because that trailer has been around for about a year and it even says in it "this fall" meaning last autumn?

Sad Professor

Skerries wrote: »

was this delayed for some reason because that trailer has been around for about a year and it even says in it "this fall" meaning last autumn?

Yeah, I think it was supposed to be out in September, but they pushed it back. Never a good sign.

losthorizon

What a dire film - if running up and down stairs and opening and shutting doors is your thing well then you will like this film.

brendansmith

I went to see this last night. I hadnt read anything or heard anything about it, it was just that this and 'hall pass' were the only films on and hall pass dosnt look good to me.

I was really happy with this film. Fantastic chemistry between Matt and Emily and the whole film flowed well i thought.

I would recommend going to see it as its an easy and intresting watch.

brendansmith

losthorizon wrote: »

What a dire film - if running up and down stairs and opening and shutting doors is your thing well then you will like this film.

Its getting good reviews left, right and centre, I dont see how it could be considered dire by anyone but maybe thats because I was so impressed myself.
I didnt think that they over-did the getting around of the watcher guys either.
It wasnt overly complicated to like inception either which broadened its audience enjoyment base in my humbler.

Kiith

Saw this last night, and enjoyed it. The plot was pretty ridiculous, so you'll need to suspend some belief on that front, but it was decently paced and the leads were pretty good. Not a blockbuster, but an enjoyable sunday nights viewing imo.

Killinator

The ending seemed like a complete cop out:

The cause mayhem for the 'chairman', and despite all the warnings of resets, in the end "it was a test, go on about your business now".:mad:

Other than some 'major' plotholes it was decent enough viewing, without a single gunshot its funny to think of it as Bourne meets Inception though:D

Also, you got the feeling 'The Hammer' was gonna be really evil, he seemed quite reasonable to me, "I didn't have the heart to tell you", :eek: SINISTER!!!

iMax

Was disappointed with it. Would have preferred a 20 year fast forward with some suspense at the end to see how things turned out, rather than

"He re-wrote your path"

Uriel.

I was pretty disappointed with this myself. I think it promised a lot, but had minimal delivery. Undoubtedly the chemistry between the two leads was the best part about this film, imo, but the execution of the story and the ending were pretty woeful.

kraggy

OP, what did you mean by John Murphy pimping out the music?

indough

its his piece from 'sunshine' playing in the trailer. i believe its been in a couple of films since then including kick ass for one

Mitch Connor

agree with the last few posts - decent enough movie, that didn't really go anywhere or do anything special with what was a very decent premise. Ending was incredibly weak.

Raekwon

I liked the concept of this film but it felt alittle flat and rushed and it could of been alot better then it actually was. I enjoyed looking at Emily Blunt for a few hours though

Top Dog

Saw it last night and would echo the majority of posters - enjoyable watch, and not even remotely related to Bourne (I think Damon threw 2 punches in the entire film ). Chemistry between the leads definitely made it for me.

brendansmith wrote: »

I went to see this last night. I hadnt read anything or heard anything about it, it was just that this and 'hall pass' were the only films on and hall pass dosnt look good to me.

Hall Pass is $hite - you made the right choice

Sad Professor

Meh. A cheap romance story with a bit of pop philosophy wrapped around a recycled and watered down sci-fi plot-line. Oh and a crappy

deus ex machina

ending. But the actors are good to watch and I really enjoyed the chase sequences. Very watchable but not nothing more.

Bullseye1

Went to see it last night. Not bad but not great either. Well acted but script weak in places and the ending was disappointing.

ziedth

Went to see this tonight. I have to say that yes the ending was a cop out but all in all I enjoyed it. I think that a skip forward and back in time to see what differences was would have worked well.

ValJester

Things that annoyed me about The Adjustment Bureau:

- Everything about it

- The two gormless human-like androids whose passionless, bland romance in the film was meant to be something we actually cared about whatsoever, let alone gave two ****s about whether or not it lasted in the face of "adversity"

- The script, which sounds nothing on Earth like anything anyone on Earth has ever said, like genuine, real human dialogue was taken verbatim, put through Google Translate to Japanese, translated BACK into English, and then **** on by the scriptwriter, the pages thrown up in the air and reassambled in a random order. (He must have cited Juno as an influence in terms of "fantastic dialogue".)

- The POS plot, a muddled "theological" affair in which "angels" (eugh eugh eugh eugh) interfere with human romances to KEEP THINGS TO GOD'S PLAN, but Matt Damon discovers they're doing it to himself and the other robot he has met all of once or twice in his life ever and has decided is his soulmate for definite guaranteed and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins in which absolutely zero is at stake, nobody cares about any single one of the protaganists involved, and it all ends in horrible insipid VERY LITERAL deus-ex-machina that pisses all over its audience, laughing all the while, and wraps it all up with an ACTUAL Scrubs voiceover summing up the "moral" of it all.

- Sample dialogue which shows how INCREDIBLY ROMANTIC Matt Damon's character is, that the female automaton ooos and coos over when she hears it (she hasn't seen him in over three years, and has only ever met him twice before in her entire life, each for "meaningful chance encounters" that last all of four minutes:
"I only knew your first name, Elish - Did you know that there are 70,000 people with your first name in this city?! I looked it up with Google. You weren't ANY of them."
HOLY ****ING **** ELISH RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

- The "villains" - Sterling from Mad Men, who you can see visibly thinking "ACTING!! MUST.... ACT.... HARDER!" every time he's on screen, which would be fun in a Nic Cage kind of way if he was actually in any way entertaining to watch. In the grand scheme of things, "fedora wearing angels" don't make for incredibly engaging goons.

- The way it ripped off at least 20 good films AND terrible films and was too boring even to be worse or better than any of them, only incredibly mindnumbingly boring. (SEE: Inception, The Matrix, Blade Runner to an extent, Total Recall, City of Angels (I REFUSE to write Wings of Desire which is too fantastic to be associated with this), Brazil, Sliding Doors, and very very very heavy elements of the kind of romantic ideas heavily subscribed to in Serendipity, which you can imagine how much I agreed with or loved.

- The way even the bits without the ****ing angels in it were wildly ****ing implausible and not based on anything that has ever happened in any universe ever. "CEOs talk about what would be best for the world instead of spending all day doing cocaine off their secretaries and cackling wildly." "People in New York refer to their own city as The Big Apple multiple times while hanging out in divey bars in working class areas because they love and subscribe to that nickname so much - and if for plot-related reasons you should to need to know where a particular ballet studios in some random place in the city is located, at least one person in the bar will have been there and know its address if you shout around to ask." "US senator candidates can happen go off-grid for the bones of a week, go on the piss, attend raves, punch people in the face, break into university libraries, bend the rules of time and space, and still be considered viable candidates for election."

tl;dr don't ****ing see it more to follow

foxyboxer

What annoyed me is the Poster

He looks like he just walked out of Saville Row. :rolleyes:
She looks like she just walked off a catwalk. :mad:

Mr E

ValJester wrote: »

tl;dr don't ****ing see it more to follow

Well I did read. Nitpick much?

- John Slattery (Mad Men guy) was great. Just the right amount of cool, menace and later, panic. He didn't overact in my opinion.
- Norris didn't actually look up 70,000 Elises on google. It was just a line.
- The script was pretty good, and the banter between the two leads wasn't too forced or cheesy. Great chemistry too.
- You're making too much of the angels thing, to be honest. Its a high concept idea - the bureau were there to steer people along a path through life, and there is no such thing as free will. To get aggravated about "****ing angels" is missing the point (or focussing too much on a single point and missing the wider picture).

I saw this last night and really liked it. The chemistry between David and Elise reminded me a lot of Charlotte and Bob in Lost in Translation. There was something natural and believable about it.

I will agree with most posters here, though - the ending could have been better. A little flash forward of

David as a senior politican, Elise teaching 6 year olds how to dance and both very happy with their lives

would have been a better bookend to the story.

Richard Dower

Saw this last night, it was OK....best thing about it was Emily Blunt...liked her character and sass, the story had potential but the script didn't deliver. It had some Inception like concepts, the doors etc. Hint of City Of Angels.

My biggest issue was, WHY couldn't the girl just call HIM up!...wtf?, he was high profile, not some random dude in a crowd of 9 million. She could have easily tracked him down + as for Damon's character, again....he easily could have used the media to find her!

Go on Jon Stewart and tell his lovestruck story, the media would have lapped it up!...she'd see it or the media would find her no problem....i don't get it!

Angels as agents, sorta like The Matrix.....there was *something* here storywise but it was wasted on a poor soppy lovestory dressed up as action or something of more substance.

Hank_Jones

Watched this the other day.
Have to say I quite enjoyed it, well acted, looked good and I thought the storyline was good.
The ending was fairly obvious, but the build up to worked well.

I honestly thought that there was a little bit of originality within the story,
which is very, very rare these days.
Might be the Philip K. Dick connection that appealed to me, big fan of his work.

jeckle

Great views of New York.

Good mid-week tv movie.

LittleBook

What I find with films like The Adjustment Bureau is that up to the point I'm enjoying it and it absorbs/intrigues me, I can forgive some of the weaker aspects of the story and suspend reality. But once it hands me a piece of shít ending like this one, all the minor irritations come back to the forefront and the entire experience is ruined.

We'd been told (by someone who's opinion we'd respect) that it was absolute cráp so we went into it with eyes wide open and it really sucked us in, we were loving it. Then it all went horribly wrong.

Frickin' love Dick too.

iMax

LittleBook wrote: »

Frickin' love Dick.

QFT

Minstrel27

Some ****e. It was a waste of time.

jonnyfingers

I really enjoyed this movie. That is all.