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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is the last big Oscar season movie that remains on every pundit’s prediction list despite no one having seen it.  

And now the trailer is out and it looks terrible.  It looks like it might just be the worst movie ever made.  It looks absolutely horrifying.  It looks like someone went and used 9/11 as a set-up to remake Pay It Forward.

I wrote a month or so ago that I was looking forward to Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy as the film with the best pedigree I could imagine of any film being made today (Le Carre, Alfredson, Oldman, Firth..)

ELAIC on the other hand has the worst pedigree I can imagine.  From the director of The Reader and Billy Elliot.  By the writer of Benjamin Button and Forest Gump.  Based on a novel by Jonathan Safran Foer.  Starring the stars of Larry Crowne and the Blind Side.

The only good thing to be said about this is since they got all those people together they only will ruin one film this year.  On their own, they could have gone off and ruined a dozen between them.  

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4. burbanked said: It does look extremely cloying, but isn’t there also something just nakedly audience-pandering about it? What seems like it has more obvious things on its mind and will therefore find a more massive, willing audience: this or WAR HORSE?
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10. dietcock said: That kid’s weird robotic intonations are frightening. As is Sandra Bullock’s seemingly recently-reworked face.
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