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COLD Trailer… But Brilliant… For Killing Them Softly

If they had used this trailer, the film sure wouldn’t have been slapped in exit polls… many of those people wouldn’t have gone… but others would have and they would have seen this terrific movie.

(trailer tweeted by Megan Ellison, producer)

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13 Responses to “COLD Trailer… But Brilliant… For Killing Them Softly”

  1. Captain Celluloid says:

    This trailer IS better than the one they used.

  2. McRaj says:

    I agree this trailer is better and represents the film more accurately. However, I just need to ask: how the hell did this film make so little money in any case?

    It doesn’t matter if the movie is horrible (which it wasn’t, I too think very highly of it) if you have a gangster film starring Brad Pitt you should be able to OPEN it to much more than this grossed in total otherwise you suck major balls as a distributor.

    Weinsteins buried this, no doubt about it. I do remember Harvey mentioning how stubborn Andrew Dominik is, maybe that had something to do with their attitude toward the film.

  3. spasky says:

    “suck major balls”

    is this an industry term, or something?

  4. Keil S. says:

    Phenomenal film.

  5. Don R. Lewis says:

    Love this movie. Scoot McNairy should have been nominated for an Oscar. Also- that scene where Ray Liotta gets his ass kicked is by far the most relistic version of a genuine ass kicking ever put to film.

  6. Matt says:

    Best trailer I’ve seen in a long time.

  7. GG says:

    This trailer is great, less rockstar. I like it better.

  8. Jen says:

    Wow! This is a really sharp, provocative piece. Couldn’t agree more, it’s absolutely more in-tune with the film than the other trailer was…not surprising that it’s from Mark Woollen and Associates.

  9. Anthony C. says:

    Definitely sells me more on the film. Love that song in the second half too.

  10. anghus says:

    great trailer. sad to see all that work for nothing.

  11. berg says:

    thought this film was great, recommended it to people at work and one loved it, another absolutely hated it //// “they just sit around and talk” was one response …. perhaps not ironically I watched a copy of The Friends of Eddie Coyle (based on a novel by the same author) this weekend that I got from my local library …. Richard Jordan in particular was aces with his line “April Fools mother fucker.”

  12. Etguild2 says:

    All of Dominik’s films have gotten rough treatment. CHOPPER and ASSASINATION OF JESSE JAMES are both phenomenal.

  13. Captain Celluloid says:

    . . . . and it shows Megan Ellison has great taste . . . . and the cash and tenacity to back it up

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