The Wachowskis lost me (etcetc) but I've put the book on my hold list at the library.

Looks lovely, but so did the preview for "The Fountain". Also, they give so much away in the trailer, I feel like I've seen the damn film already - or at the very least, I've been clearly informed of all the emotions that will be expected of me in the theater.

Suddenly I want an artichoke.

The original Long, Long Trailer.

Does it have the swirly thing that shoots up into the clouds and forms a disk in outer space? Or the three things flying in formation?

To think of all the original work like this that other filmmakers could also be doing instead of stamping out yet another generic super hero movie. More like this. Less of that.

Watching this, I can't help but be reminded:
- how completely the latter 2/3 of the Matrix trilogy got away from the Wachowskis;
- how completely Perfume: The Story of a Murderer got away from Tykwer;
- how the nested narratives of 2046 got away from Wong Kar-wai; and
- how overblown Hurry Up, We're Dreaming is.

This will be a visually sumptuous, riveting, appalling mess. I'll certainly see it, but my expectations for coherence will be low.

I loved the book, and was pretty skeptical when I heard the Wachowskis were making it into a movie.

The trailer leaves me...hopeful. Excited is certainly too strong.

But in any case, if it gets more people reading David Mitchell, that would be a very, very good thing.

You can never accuse the brothers of not being hyper ambitious.

The still image looks as gorgeous as FFXIII. The plot can't help but be better than that abortion.

@9: You can no longer accuse them of being brothers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wachows…

I agree with @7. This looks positively gorgeous, and will probably be a mess. But I'd far rather see a gorgeous ambitious mess than another stupid Transformers movie/commercial.

Still, no reason for the trailer to be this long. It's no less cogent (and far more exciting) if you start it right at the 2:00 mark.

Looks interesting. But please, tell us what you think in the form of a stacked poll, cause that's so endearing.

@2: I loved The Fountain.

Also looking forward to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0xVp3N-M…

@12: I'm not sure how I missed hearing about Lana Wachowski. Thanks for the heads up!

I want to see a movie about the Jim Broadbent and Susan Sarandon characters. But this movie will be stuffed full of those other twits. No I haven't read the book.

It appears overdone and overstuffed. Like the F. Scott Fitzgerald remake. Impress the natives with smoke and paste jewels and they'll never notice that the protein has been boiled out of the story. Make it confusing and throw in some spacey stuff and the herd will think it is mystical and has a deeper meaning. I could go on, but I have neither seen the movie nor read the book. If it gets a passable review from people whose tastes I trust, then I'll see the movie and then read the book in that order so that I won't sit through the movie dismayed at how they ruined the book. I wouldn't have watched the preview to the trailer all the way through if my opinion hadn't been solicited. And because my interest in the book had been piqued by a description of its literary merits. The 'director's cut' of the Trailer is a bunch of Britts kibitzing thinking they are so clever but not really saying any thing. The trailer gives no concept of what the story line actually is, except that it might have some thing to do with reincarnation. oooowoooo.

Remember when I fell in love with Terrence Malick's Tree of Life trailer? I really don't feel like getting fucked in the ass again.