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Sahil says:

WTF is this? How come it looks like a home video instead of a movie? Did they use the new “red” camera on this movie or Game? Any class that Jason Statham had left after the Transporter series is complete gone after that trailer alone.

Sound Designer Dan says:

Sahil,

They used two Canon HD cameras for this one: the HF-10 and the XH-A1. Keep in mind that this is what the first one looked like as well.

Sahil says:

Sound Designer Dan,
It’s been a while since I watched Crank but for some reason I don’t remember it looking that way. This one looked like it was a low budget b movie.

how many different ways can you say FUCK YES!!!!!

“is Dr (watever) gonna have to choke a bitch!?” i think i woke the neighbors laughing so hard

tom. says:

At 40 seconds: I forgot her name, but I sure do recognise her face.

Sahil says:

Tom
Its sad that I know this but that’s Jenna Haze.

total jiu jitsu says:

uh ya, not exactly safe for work.

Calviin says:

@tom.

I’m not even going to rewatch the trailer. I’m just going to assume you are asking about the Jenna Haze cameo.

AARON says:

…………ok that is terrrible but still thanks

AARON says:

and i’m thinking “crap, Hazmat found out!”

lol

Gareth says:

whoa I didnt kno they got Jenna Haze to be in this flick? SWEET!!!

That looks awful. Is it produced by Troma? It looks like straight to dvd crap.

Uber Barrett says:

i loved the first Crank. especially the idea of stuntmen directing, but i think i would have rather seen a new idea type of follow up film than a sequel.

it definately looks much worse than crank 1, which was shot on the top professional hd cam of the time, the f900 (a $100k cam), while this was shot on $3k and $5k cameras. As has been said, the way it’s shot also makes it look like a home video…

it appears the filmmakers chose the cheap cameras to minimize the set up time and shot with 5+ cams at almost all times in the hope that this would maximize the energy of the action and performances… i guess they’re betting that that will overcome the crappiness of the look. I’m curious how well it will do.

Mr. Chris says:

That’s still better than Delgo. :)

Evan says:

This looks like its gonna be crap. It just looks like a testosterone movie for undereducated high school meatheads.

Mr. Chris says:

I read somewhere that they used cheap hand-held cameras because they intended to wreck them.

frankwolftown says:

This will either be the worst sequel I’ve ever seen or the BEST worst sequel I’ve ever seen.

@Frank

ya, i know about Wayne Brady. thats y it was so funny. it was funny then and its funny now.

Alfie says:

I do not understand how you can sya the “hand held” look of crank is no worse then the “shaky” cam work of bourne. At least bourne doesn’t look like It was shot on a handy cam

AARON says:

That is true John, this is a first, so we will see for sure

alfie says:

if these guys were not your friends i do not believe you would like their movies,

alfie says:

“With shaky, you can’t tell who is doing what, what is going on or who is fighting who. It’s used to create the illusion of action”

so you mean like in 95% of the transformers battle scenes then?

total jiu jitsu says:

@alfie

how true that line is “if these guys were not your friends i do not believe you would like their movies”

you said what i was thinking.

happy new year!

“With shaky, you can’t tell who is doing what, what is going on or who is fighting who. It’s used to create the illusion of action and to hide the fact that they can’t do action properly.”

This is a pretty extreme generalization. To assume that someone like Paul Greengrass shoots the way he shoots simply because he doesn’t know how to handle action is a little naive. Christopher Nolan used a lot of ’shaky cam’ in Batman Begins, but clearly demonstrated a great sense of action in The Dark Knight.

Although you may be right about some films, in most cases, the ’shaky cam’ is used to create a more visceral experience for the audience.

“This has never really been done before (using consumer cameras to film a Hollywood narrative feature film).”

28 Days Later. I know you’ll come up with a reason why that doesn’t count, so I might as well mention some others that probably won’t fall under your set of rules: Julien Donkey Boy, November, Timecode, Blair Witch Project (mixed with 16mm), Dancer in the Dark, Full Frontal…

Hardly the first film to do this. However, still an interesting choice. People should also realize that they’ll more than likely be seeing a blown up 35mm print of this video footage and it will look much much different.

Hiland says:

Well John, share your thoughts on the trailer…

sweet, an f900 for $1000 - please post a link jonza, i have a little christmas money left over.

btw, the xh-a1’s outdated mpeg-2 compression of the image to 25mbps a little far off from the f900’s hdcam intraframe 184mbps, not to mention that 24f isn’t true 24p, nor the diff between 1/3 inch and a 2/3 inch sensor in terms of dynamic range and DOF….

as for the f900 being out of date, fincher shot buttons on the viper, which is essentially an f900 optical block outputting log data to an hdcam sr deck.

I’m not saying the film is bad - I’d have to see it first - just that you don’t know much about cameras….

alfie says:

no christian I am not confusing it at all.there may be degrees of how shaky it looks but it is shaky.

AARON says:

Gutpunch, the first Crank looked exactly like this, and it was in theaters

dax says:

This looks like a cheap direct to dvd home movie Troma shit. I was worried when u said they were shooting on low cost 3k cameras. I had no idea it would look this bad. Seriously, this looks even cheaper and worse than the first one did. Statham needs to stop appearing in these sorta crap, it will eventually tarnish his name.

kaneda979 says:

Fuck Ya! Can not wait!

CrypticHill says:

Can you please fix your post to where the earliest “post” is at the beginning and the end, it so annoying to have to go to the last page to see the most recent….
I think I speak for most of us….
Thank you in advance.
Aaron

Bender Bending Rodriguez says:

i thot dude fell from a helicopter at the end of the first movie,that’ll turn anybody’s body into mush,i how did his bones not break?,anyway its the kind of movie i’ll watch only after my final exam,and i dont feel like thinking,or using my brain for anything.

I have mixed feelings about that trailer. While I enjoyed the first Crank, maybe not as much as most people but I thought it was good, this looks a little too similar. Sub out the ’synthetic Chinese shit’ for a ridiculous looking artificial heart and ‘keep your adrenaline pumping’ to ‘keep your artificial heart charged’ and sub out Verona and Carlito for some other cookie-cutter bad dudes and you have Crank 2. Maybe it’s too much to ask for, but I was kind of hoping these guys would evolved the ideas of the first movie a little bit for the sequel. Let’s hope the action is at least better because honestly, for a movie about a guy that has to keep his adrenaline up, the first one didn’t have the non-stop action I was hoping for. All that ‘take a Redbull and put your hand in a waffle iron’ bullshit was just a cop-out. If you’re going to make a no holds barred action film with a stupid plot, at least deliver on the action part.

FINALLY I CANT FUCKIN WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SHIT LOOKS CRAZY

This Movie looks like the biggest piece of crap film making I have ever witnessed…sad…just sad….

Tony says:

this movie looks ok but im not that pumped about it just looks ok

SO rediculous and SO over the top!! FUCKING AWESOME!