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Battle of the Terrible Trailers: Ironclad vs. The Ledge

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (13)

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In this corner, we have the shit-stain of Sundance, one of the worst films I’ve ever had the displeasure of viewing, The Ledge, which features an impressive cast, including Charlie Hunnam (“Sons of Anarchy”) Liv Tyler, Patrick Wilson, and Terrence Howard. Do not let the cast influence you. It is an embarrassingly awful experience, which the trailer fails to convey. In fact, the person that edited together the trailer would’ve been a much better director for The Ledge. Charlie Hunnam is terrible in ways that I never thought a guy with amazing facial hair could be, and Terrence Howard makes a case for supplanting Cuba Gooding, Jr. as the King of Redbox. If I can dissuade just one of you from not watching this film when it’s released, then my life has served an honorable purpose.

In the other corner is the second trailer for Ironclad, which also looks deceptively good. Maybe it will be, but it’s one of those films that will be released VOD six weeks before it’s theatrical release in July. I want to find the box-office statistics for those movies to see if any of them actually made money in theaters and to compare their critic’s scores. The medieval action flick stars James Purefoy, Kata Mara (mmMMMmmm Mara) and Paul Giamatti, who in the trailer alone chews so much scenery I’m surprised there’s any film left in the cannister. But, somebody gets a sword in the eye and that, folks, is reason enough to watch at least the trailer. The film? Who knows? I’ll wait for the review.

GIVE THEM HELLFIRE.


Loser: The Ledge, by a skyscraper’s length.










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Comments

I think dissuading us from not watching the film would kind of defeat your honorable purpose.

Posted by: Meghan at May 5, 2011 12:56 PM

shit! the guy in the header totally looked like Ledger n i was stoked to click it to see if there's another unreleased movie of his and .... it's the dude from Anarchy. lame.

Posted by: haplo at May 5, 2011 1:08 PM

Hmmm... The Ledge does look pretty good from that trailer (minus the religious nut angle). Sucks that it sucks.

Posted by: Mel C. at May 5, 2011 1:32 PM

The entire cast of Rome will forever be awesome in my book!

Yes, even if they wind up on Grey's Anatomy!

Kevin McKidd can earn a paycheck however the fuck he wants and it won't ever diminish him in my eyes. Dude's in Dog Soldiers and Call of Duty, screw anyone who disparages the man!

At any rate, I'll watch James' movie, but not Jax's one! Sorry Jax.

Posted by: MurderBot at May 5, 2011 2:28 PM

Are blue-painted guys leftovers from Braveheart?

Posted by: FabMax at May 5, 2011 2:33 PM

James Purefoy...yup I'll be watching it.

Posted by: Miss Heather at May 5, 2011 2:52 PM

Yeah...I may NOT have watched the Ledge had you not called attention to it, but...yeah, even if its wretched, I have to see that cast.

FTR, Terrence Howard hasn't been a selling point for me since he dropped out of a certain franchise.

Posted by: Kat at May 5, 2011 3:15 PM

I agree, they make The Ledge look interesting.

Posted by: DeistBrawler at May 5, 2011 3:20 PM

See, now, that Ledge thingie does look ABSOLUTELY awful, but it might be worth it for the sexiness of Liv Tyler and Charlie Hunnam. Rowr.

Posted by: Anna von Beav at May 5, 2011 4:02 PM

Paul Giamatti and Brian Cox? Alright, I'm in.

Oh, and did I see Jason Flemyng from Lock, Stock for a second there?

Posted by: Wintermute at May 5, 2011 5:50 PM

the ledge looks bad but why simply focus on charlie hunnam? yummy.

Posted by: splinter at May 5, 2011 7:03 PM

Does no one else think the cinematography from Ironclad is a wee bit BloodRayne? Giamatti is normally fantastic, but this is something else entirely; I may need to be either drunk/high to appreciate the shite tumbling onto my screen, ja? And let us not even MENTION the horror of Patty Wilson hamming the shite up for Liv Tylor. I thought the man scraped the bottom of the barrel for the Phantom of the Opera, but this is truly a league unto itself...

Posted by: Blondie at May 6, 2011 1:59 PM

James "the best Marc Antony ever" Purefoy is in it. Enough said.

Posted by: Claudia at May 6, 2011 11:31 PM