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This looks great! Admittedly, if you turn the trailer into a drinking game where you have to drink every time someone says “he’s my brother” or “he taught me everything I know,” you would already be trashed, and I bet if you turned the full movie into a drinking game with the same rules, well, you should definitely buy your tickets at the Mount Sinai IMAX, just in case. But still! Mark Wahlberg! Christian Bale! David O’Russell! Human Seabiscuit! And it’s weird to see Amy Adams with a human face instead of a Photoshop Holoface, but I think I like it. Hi, Amy “So Raw” Adams!
My only problem with this trailer, and it’s not so much a problem as just a thing, is that the movie itself looks like a very serious drama with real Oscar potential (the most important potential) filled with very talented actors and directed by a very talented director, and yet I’ve watched it twice now and the only thing I can think the whole time is this:
Let’s make “Who’s Gonna Train Me?” jokes while standing in line at the Fandango Outlet! Everyone else in line will be like “I wish those were my friends.”
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I had to watch this on mute (office time, y’all), so I imagined that every line he said was “Say hi to your mother for me.” It worked out pretty well.
Something something Daoowwrrrchestuh… Something something Southie. GO SAWX! gofukyaself.
PAH!
Now I’m gonna talk to a donkey. Say Hello to your mother for me alright
This was actually filmed where I live, and my uncles have nearly gotten into several fistfights with Micky Ward.
Mr. Hollywood Life over here.
We got fights in my neighborhood all the time, too.
You know another Bale movie, The Prestige, reminds me of MY uncle. He was a great magician. My aunt always nagged him to get a job, which i didn’t get because the man could make quarters appear out of thin air.
You know another Bale movie reminds me of MY uncle JG Ballard……….Shaft! BWWWAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH!!!
Right now I think I understand Steve Winwood, if only just a little, because although I know he is most likely a giant asshole, all I can think when I see Christian Bale is “He’s pretty.”
So, so pretty.
If you think HE’S pretty, you should see his business card.
How do you think I was wooed so completely, against my better judgment? That subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even had a watermark!
Not to be dad over here, but I advise you to stay away from “pretty” guys like this. Sure, the first couple dates are bliss, but don’t come crying to me when you’re sitting at home, shorting out your Kindle with tears while reading Eat, Pray, Love. Don’t call me sobbing about how he never has time for you and spends all of his time returning videotapes and none of his time teaching you how to box.
dad also knows that when that inevitably happens, he can’t say “i told you so.”
unless he’s the same dad that has his daughter do his trash talking on xbox live.
Your comment was sufficient lilbobbytables
That may be so, but can we just point out he seems to starve himself for every role anymore? Like, first it was the Machinist then Rescue Dawn and then he was doing it for Terminator and now this. Relax, Christian Bale. Have a tastykake. You won’t be such a dick.
Bale’s slipping. He couldn’t figure out how to give this character the Batman voice? Weak.
am i the only one who can’t get past mark wahlberg’s pipsqueaky voice? he’s never delivered a believable performance to me because i always imagine that he’s really a smurf.
Given Bale’s face and the fact I can’t see Wahlberg’s hand in the following picture, I imagine that he too will be dropping a couple of octaves from that Batman voice…
When I saw that goofball face of his, i, for a brief second, wondered “Wait, is Steve Carell in this one as well”?
When I saw his face, I really thought it was going to be a movie about Marky Mark fighting for the money for his retarded/Rain Man brother. I was like NOOOOOOOO Christian Bale, don’t go full retard!
I upvoted based on the reference, not the use of the word. Also, you got me thinking; Isn’t it weird that smart people are offended by the word “retard”, but retards are not?
What? Mark Wahlberg is a boxer? Oh wait, it’s just a movie. I get confused because he’s a compelling, Oscar-winning actor, who tells believable stories with his craft.
F this. Everything that needs to be said about boxing was said in “Rocky Balboa”.
Also, in the hundreds of thousands of boxing movies produced prior to and following Rocky Balboa (most of them other Rockys).
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You are not, sir.
sorry Mark Wahlberg but this is all I can think of:
there has to be a corelation between people finding out they have accents in boston and movies made about people in boston.
“does it require an accent?” is question #3 on the Oscar Bait checklist every actor gets in their first SAG envelop.
Christian Bale needs to pick a body type and STICK WITH IT. (twss)
the evolution of bale:
There’s a 100% chance this is better than The Happening, so good job Marky Mark.
There’s about a 0% chance it’ll be more entertaining though,
Ugh, I’m so tired of these boxing movies. Every one seems the same to me!
Also, anyone else think that that was Sam Rockwell at around :13?
Oh, I bet they’ll make some sort of pun about getting a ‘fighting chan-’. Oh, they went ahead and did it.
Whoa. Maybe being white IS hard.
Only if you’re from Boston, apparently.
I failed the firefighter’s exam. It’s totally biased against the Irish.
Glad to see Christian Bale reverting to his Cowboy accent.
“Don’t you disrespect her!’
Yeah! Teach us about being polite to women, character in a David O. Russell movie!!
My friend’s dad was an extra in this! They kept asking him to come back and be in more scenes because he looks like an amazing Masshole version of Tom Skerritt.
I love trailers that feel like they’re roughly 4 and half hours long and are courteous enough to give every plot point in sequential order of a movie that we’ve clearly seen a hundred or more times. Killer southie goofball moment from Bale though. I haven’t seen him crack anything remotely resembling a smile since that millisecond in the hotel room with Russell Crowe toward the end of 3:10 to Yuma.
Here you go:
Why did you put TWO photos of Mr. Bale?
The Funky Bunch must be so pissed about the direction their careers have taken them.
Bloody micks.
So Aronofsky stepped out to work with Natalie Portman and Russell steps in…
Ok, works for me!
‘He taught me everything I know. So, I’m glad it’s he whose pulling the plug.’
This looks fun! Marky Mark is boxing again!
Given the pugnacious reputation of Wahlberg, Bale AND Russell, I’m hoping some behind-the-scenes footage gets released of all of them insulting each other at the same time.
They’ve just released a special behind-the-scenes look at Mark Wahlberg’s weight training program. http://streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/marky-mark-work-powt/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter