Oblivion (Tom Cruise)

Sad Professor

Tom Cruise stars in this sci-fi action-adventure from the director of Tron Legacy. Looks pretty cool!

It's out in April.

Synopsis:

On a spectacular future Earth that has evolved beyond recognition, one man’s confrontation with the past will lead him on a journey of redemption and discovery as he battles to save mankind. Jack Harper (Cruise) is one of the last few drone repairmen stationed on Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying threat known as the Scavs, Jack’s mission is nearly complete. Living and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, his soaring existence is brought crashing down when he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he knows and puts the fate of humanity in his hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ3Mt9yiz6k

In HD:

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/universal/oblivion/

Mickeroo

My only tiny gripe is the post war earth looks like an untouched paradise Looks pretty promising though!

johnny_ultimate

Jack Harper - it's totally someone's job in Hollywood to come up with generic action hero names for Tom Cruise.

pixelburp

So... am I the only one whose initial thought was it might be an adaptation of the Bethesda game? lol

Looks ok, I'm no fan of Cruise as any actor by any stretch, but could be fun. I don't think the Tron Legacy hate was entirely deserved, so should be interesting to see what Kosinski does next.

Mickeroo

pixelburp wrote: »

So... am I the only one whose initial thought was it might be an adaptation of the Bethesda game? lol

If only, though I wouldn't want Cruise in that movie!

Sad Professor

Trailer was pulled. I've put a new link in, but it's a bit out of sync.

EDIT: Fixed.

krudler

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Jack Harper - it's totally someone's job in Hollywood to come up with generic action hero names for Tom Cruise.

Coming to cinemas 2013: John Q Everyman.

Cantona's Collars

http://www.deadline.com/2012/12/video-oblivion-trailer-tom-cruise/

TheUsual

I like Olga.

KilOit

Trailer isn't great but i imagine the film is pretty decent from reading the story

Galvasean

I like his gun.

krudler

Tom Cruise is: Wall-E

nix

Hmmm no sign of him sprinting in the trailer, could be ****...

Mickeroo

Nice Poster

Galvasean

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Jack Harper - it's totally someone's job in Hollywood to come up with generic action hero names for Tom Cruise.

Jack is making a comeback. He hadn't used that ame since Legend and now he's got two in a row.

kerrywoman1

I love the poster do you know where i could get a copy

krudler

That is a nice poster alright, steps away from the usual Cruise giant face used in most of his movies.

pixelburp

krudler wrote: »

That is a nice poster alright, steps away from the usual Cruise giant face used in most of his movies.

I guarantee that poster won't be the one used in multiplexes; there'll be another one produced, a little more Cruisian

Sad Professor

Yeah, it looks a teaser poster to me, which is the only time you see any creativity from big studio marketing departments.

JP Liz V1

Looks quite good plus the cinematographer for it is Claudio Miranda (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button & Life of Pi)

FlashD

Didn't think much of the trailer but with the Cruiser & Morgan Freeman I have high hopes for this.

We don't get enough good big budget sci-fi so fingers crossed.

speedboatchase

FlashD wrote: »

Didn't think much of the trailer but with the Cruiser & Morgan Freeman I have high hopes for this.

We don't get enough good big budget sci-fi so fingers crossed.

We have plenty next summer so hopefully they all do well and persuade Hollywood to push the envelope - Oblivion, Pacific Rim, Elysium, After Earth, Star Trek Into Darkness.

Mitch Connor

Reckon this is going to be a work on I am Legend.

Oafley Jones

I was surprised at how visually uninteresting the trailer was. Still, nice poster.

FrogMarch

Oafley Jones wrote: »

I was surprised at how visually uninteresting the trailer was. Still, nice poster.

Agreed. I don't have high hopes as the trailer looks a bit, em, odd. Or maybe they're intentionally not giving much away. Too early to tell but could be good. Certainly 'looks' nice.

Frisbee

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Jack Harper - it's totally someone's job in Hollywood to come up with generic action hero names for Tom Cruise.

Ha, the first thing I thought of when I read the name was

Sad Professor

Kosinski is getting M83 to do the score. Risky, but if it pays off as well as Daft Punk did in Tron Legacy we could be in for a musical treat.

johnny_ultimate

Oafley Jones wrote: »

I was surprised at how visually uninteresting the trailer was. Still, nice poster.

Yeah, me too. We can say a lot about Tron Legacy, but it was one of the most visually interesting blockbusters of recent times. Even the real world stuff was imaginatively filmed. Hopefully this will offer the same bold visuals.

Sad Professor wrote: »

Kosinski is getting M83 to do the score. Risky, but if it pays off as well as Daft Punk did in Tron Legacy we could be for a musical treat.

This I like. Too many Hollywood scores sound identical these days, always nice to see someone thinking outside the box.

pixelburp

Sad Professor wrote: »

Kosinski is getting M83 to do the score. Risky, but if it pays off as well as Daft Punk did in Tron Legacy we could be for a musical treat.

Now I am interested; M83's most recent album was arguably a soundtrack in of itself, it could be a real treat to hear what they come up with as a score for an actual film.

krudler

Sad Professor wrote: »

Kosinski is getting M83 to do the score. Risky, but if it pays off as well as Daft Punk did in Tron Legacy we could be for a musical treat.

the score was probably the best thing about Tron Legacy, I liked that movie but its purely for the visuals and music and a few of the setpieces.

now if only someone could compose trailer music that isnt all Inception horns we'll be laughing.

The Recliner

I have to say that it looks interesting

Kind of like a better Battlefield Earth :pac:

I will go see it anyway

Sad Professor

New trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA8tHJZrGm0

Big budget sci-fi. I'm psyched.

Technocentral

I love Sci Fi but this looks more like a "high concept" action film that happens to be set in the future, not Science Fiction. The trailer is bloody awful, just one big cgi w*nkfest, are there even any humans in this film? The last Sci Fi flick I enjoyed was Looper, at least there was some Sci Fi basis to it and good human performances.

Sarxos

Third trailer

Oafley Jones

Sarxos wrote: »

Third trailer

Much more interesting. Unfortunately, it also seems to give away the entire movie.

krudler

I saw a bit of the teaser and thats enough, I've sworn off full lenght trailers this summer, gonna be tough when the next Man of Steel one comes out

Raekwon

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Much more interesting. Unfortunately, it also seems to give away the entire movie.

Damn, I'm sorry I watched that now. Why did they give away the entire plot of the movie in under 3 minutes?

Would it be too hard to just try and make the audience believe that

the resistance fighters led by Morgan Freeman were alien creatures living underground

instead of revealing it in the trailer?

JP Liz V1

Tom Cruise is coming to Dublin for the premiere

TheUsual

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Tom Cruise is coming to Dublin for the premiere

I plan to be there with my "Scientology ruins families" t-shirt.

Kirby

Christianity does too. They butchered and murdered in holy wars. And something tell's me that molesting children ruins families too.

Listen, I'm no fan of scientology. It's a cult. But people should be talking about the movie, not about the "religion" of an actor in it. Not everything he does has to be about it. He's an actor, promoting a movie. You wouldn't show up at another actors premier.

I'm hoping your remark was tongue in cheek.

TheUsual

@Kirby

You are on my ignore list a long time so I don't know what you said
No to your question.

krudler

If you don't know what he said how'd you know he asked you a question?

johnny_ultimate

Well that escalated quickly.

Not really the place for a religious argument. Plenty of other forums on boards for that.

krudler

Anyhoo, this looks interesting, love me a bit of post apocalyptic Earth action so hope its good. Cruise really needs to start demanding better names for his characters though, he may as well be called Joe Everyman.

Tom_Cruise

This movie is going to be movie of the year - go see it.

Zardoz

Oafley Jones wrote: »

Much more interesting. Unfortunately, it also seems to give away the entire movie.

That seems to be a major problem with so many trailers nowadays .
I try to avoid trailers by and large because of this.
Film looks stunning though .

pixelburp

krudler wrote: »

Anyhoo, this looks interesting, love me a bit of post apocalyptic Earth action so hope its good. Cruise really needs to start demanding better names for his characters though, he may as well be called Joe Everyman.

Well if he is, it ain't happening for his next picture; another sci-fi yarn (adaptation of a Japanese novel) entitled All You Need is Kill, where he plays a soldier called ... *drumroll* ... Bill Cage

constitutionus

do ya reckon thats because "johnny" is trademarked ?

Your Airbag

Anyone else pissed off with this current trend of movie trailers giving away the whole plot. There will be one or two surprises in Oblivion but we basically have been handed the spine of the story from the trailer.

Jonny7

Avoiding trailers at the cinema is pretty hard

but I recommend seeing films without watching trailers or reading about them beforehand..

generally makes a good film better..

I typically just ask someone I trust if it's good or not

FlashD

Was this premiere on yesterday?

Has anyone gotten to see the film yet?