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Haywire Trailer: Come For The Excellent Trailer, Stay To See Fassbender Get His Ass Handed To Him

By TK | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (19)

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There’s a new trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s Haywire, and it’s night and day compared to the first one. The first one was a decent action showcase, but it was marred by USA movie of the week editing and an absolutely atrocious voiceover. Take a second look if you’ve forgotten. The new one, however, finally feels like a Soderbergh film. It’s slickly edited, flows together well, and makes the film look far more interesting and exciting. Whatever marketing nimrod who did the first one should receive a Gina Carano elbow to the throat.

It once again does an excellent job of showcasing MMA fighter Carano’s fighting talents, which makes sense since Soderbergh basically created the movie for her. It’ll be interesting to see how she actually acts — I’m sure the action scenes will be great, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up overshadowed by her coworkers. Understandable since it’s her first film and her costars are Ewan MacGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Pullman and Michael Fassbender.

My favorite part so far is the hallway beatdown and watching Fassbender get his ass handed to him like a hat after he sucker punches her. Take that, Joanna.

Oh, and here’s the new poster, which I dig:

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(h/t to haplo for the embeddable vid)









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Comments

I will be purchasing that movie poster. The question is will it hang in our hallway, or shall I pin it over my bed....

Posted by: Stella at November 11, 2011 9:08 AM

Holy Shiiiit! A woman in an action film, a strong character, a bona fide legit fighter?? Sign me up!
I am so tired of seeing Angelina Jolie billed in almost anything action-related. I can still get behind Tomb Raider, but poor lollipop-headed anemic Angelina in Salt? At least with this woman, I believe she can throw a punch that has some impact.

Posted by: amicus diptus at November 11, 2011 9:52 AM

Wooo! That thighs-around-the-neck-flip-to-the-floor move... I have to learn that one.

Posted by: MelBivDevoe at November 11, 2011 10:15 AM

"...she ends up overshadowed by her coworkers. Understandable since it’s her first film and her costars are Ewan MacGregor, Michael Douglas, Antonio Banderas, Bill Pullman and Michael Fassbender"
I see you left out the most important of them all, Channing Tatum!
Damn, sarcasm does NOT translate well into writing. That's 70% of my charm lost in translation. No wonder nobody on the Internet likes me.

Posted by: Irina at November 11, 2011 10:21 AM

You know what I like about that poster? it's not sexualized or fetishized. This woman is not a fantasy version of an ass-kicker, she's just an ass-kicker.

Posture, wardrobe, everything: that is clearly a pic of a woman who has just whomped a man, period. There's no cleavage, no fucking stilettos, no bullshit sexual trappings that somebody has to fanwank into "empowerment"--there's just power.

Despite Stella's admiration, which I share: it ain't porn, it's just admirable.

Bravo.

Posted by: Salieri2 at November 11, 2011 10:58 AM

I thought ScarJo patented the crotch on face move by now?

Posted by: haplo at November 11, 2011 10:58 AM

"it ain't porn"?

And here I thought it was a man being forced to perform cunnilingus at gunpoint. "Make like a moth and eat through the cloth, bitch!"

(Me next, please please please.)

Posted by: , at November 11, 2011 11:10 AM

and oh, i had to watch the trailer here: http://youtu.be/yqA6gvMKWEA

Posted by: haplo at November 11, 2011 11:11 AM

Can I be her when I grow up?

Posted by: jvo at November 11, 2011 11:14 AM

Whee! Who knew Soderbergh had it in him?

Posted by: Cindy at November 11, 2011 11:18 AM

My favorite part so far is the hallway beatdown and watching Fassbender get his ass handed to him like a hat after he sucker punches her. Take that, Joanna.

AH, but you're talking about him. Which is all part of my plan. Exxxcellent.

Posted by: Joanna Robinson at November 11, 2011 11:40 AM

Sploosh!

Posted by: Seany D at November 11, 2011 1:48 PM

@Salieri2: There's a line in there somewhere, where someone says they don't like the idea of their target being a woman, and the response is "don't think of her as a woman. That would be a mistake." It's nice to see them allowing Carano's character to stand on her own as a bonafide asskicker, and not just a *female* asskicker.

I've already coined the term "beating the seven pound six ounce baby Jesus out of him" to describe what she does to Channing Tatum in the first trailer. I can't wait to see this film.

Posted by: Markus at November 11, 2011 2:16 PM

...watching Fassbender get his ass handed to him like a hat after he sucker punches her.

I'll watch it just for that.

Posted by: snapnhiss at November 11, 2011 3:01 PM

It's the little details that make this so effective. The fact that she takes off the high heeled shoes at the door of the hotel room, a perfectly reasonable act that also means she doesn't have to fight in them, a completely unreasonable act. Also lots of ass-kicking.

Posted by: Mrcreosote at November 11, 2011 3:44 PM

y/w TK

Posted by: haplo at November 11, 2011 7:32 PM

that poster

Posted by: Protoguy at November 11, 2011 10:02 PM

How come everybody gets to play with a flamethrower but me?

Posted by: , at November 12, 2011 11:57 AM

I was sooo excited to see an action heroine who looks like an athlete and not like a pilates student kicking some ass, and then I heard that last line. Seriously? Did I misunderstand, or did MacGregor say, "Don't think of her as a woman"?

Posted by: jzhz at November 12, 2011 4:09 PM