well, it's about time some good Sci-Fi is being made!!

hey.. I loved the matrix trilogy, ALL of it. This could get me to purchase a theater ticket.

woah

The Wachowskis have a pretty mixed track record. Since this gives barely a hint of a plot I might wait for reviews.

Got burnt by Prometheus, so I'm not trusting any more movies based purely by specky sci-fi and an intriguing concept.

i dunno it doesn't look like there's any depth to the plot like with the original matrix

Speed Racer was fantastic!
...I'm pretty sure that unscrupulous promotion of Spiderman 3 had something to do with the negative reviews.

Well, at least they found a synonym for "Rising". Finally.

I was about to say - one of my pet peeves is how bookstores have combined sections for "SciFi and Fantasy". Stuff like this reminds me why the two get clumped together.

Taking a fantasy plot and replacing magic with technology doesn't really count as sci-fi for me... I mean, we've got some kind of Space Queen here? Really?

Dude-Speed Racer was a sensory-overload mind-fuck of a recent forgotten film with a sheit script and disinterested actors who seemed stultified from making an entire film in front of a green screen.
Craptacular is how I'd describe it.

Yeah.. I know that's what the reviews say, but you should go see the film

Hmmm... I say Sean Bean's character dies in it. Probably fairly early on, because the elf alien seems to think highly of him.

Maybe I'm just jaded... but I don't see anything that interesting here. It looks pretty, but what doesn't these days?

I'm glad the trailer doesn't outline the whole plot, but this is the other extreme. There's no hook here. What's the concept?

Prometheus, for all it's flaws, had a great concept. It was just let down by lousy writing and characters. (when you're watching an Alien movie and you're routing for the xenomorphs, the writers have fucked up).

This? As @rebuilder said, a space queen?

I hope I'm wrong. I hope the Wachowskis can still do something amazing.

Looks like a bunch of sci-fi tropes slammed together incoherently - featuring Magic Mike, Jackie, and Ned Stark.

Wachowski bros may pull off another trilogy

The Wachowski's... destroying sci-fi one turd at a time...

This movie looks like a sketch from SNL
So do the Wachowski's....

Please stop making movies !!!!

I don't think Clarke meant to imply you can turn a fantasy story into a sci-fi one by adding the word "space" to everything.

well, if there is going to be a space queen, I'm glad it's Mila Kunis.
(Summer Glau would work too)

You may be right- I was way too high at the time to remain confident in my assessment-I think the theater had the damn volume turned-up too high maybe....I'll revisit it through the wonder of torrents.

Just for the record, they're not the Wachowski bros anymore.

Genetically they are, hormones and wigs do not change gender.

In a medical scenario and physically he's still a brother. And I stick to genetics :-)

Political correct movement that seeks to redefine everything should be shunned, and done away with

Eh, and I'll stick to being a human being who recognizes someone else's desires and pains. Not to mention, genetically speaking, there will be a lot of markers and chemical compositions indicating that she should in fact be calling herself a she. But that's just biologically speaking.

ANYWAY, the trailer looks pretty cool. I don't mind a mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. Who says just because you have magic that the non-magical people can't develop technology?

It depends on what the "magic" can do. What would be your motivation for developing technology if magic could do the same job?

Because some people wouldn't have magic. For instance, you may not be able to teleport, so eventually automobiles would be invented, or trains etc. Making a fireball appear doesn't help you get from point A to point B. It also wouldn't stop industrialization, or the invention of electricity and lighting either. Of course, those who could levitate, or turn people into frogs would still be revered etc, but it still wouldn't take the place if an iPad Air, now would it.