For a couple of months now........I've had a growing disquieting feeling about the movie.
I loved the trailers just fine, got me stoked.... but something......I couldn't put my finger on it until last week....and even then.....the quality of the trailers didn't let me embrace this idea:
There's not a whole lot of scale here.
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You know, you really hit the nail on the head. I liked the trailer, but you are right, something was off. Couldn't figure it out, until your post. The trailers seemed like it was the story of 5 Joes, which is un-Joe like when there are so many great characters.
Moreover, there was somewhat of a lonely feeling about the movie. Hard to describe, but the Joes get smoked in the first scene (presumably), than we don't know what happens, than they break into Bruce Willis's house in the suburbs and then there is a climax fight scene (presumably). What do they do most of the time between the first and last scene? Run? Hide? Are they even in the movie? Seeing Joes sitting around a kitchen table with Bruce Willis planning just seems, sort of lonely and sad...maybe it is just me.
Plus, there is a sort of Sixth Sense about the movie....outside of Roadblock punching FF, we never really see the Joes in the same scene with another person, right? Again, that just gives it a lonely, Sixth Sense vibe.
I'm not a big fan of the movies where you just follow a few characters on a journey...feels like the Wizard of Oz a bit. Roadblock, Lady Jaye and Flint could just as easily be Dorothy, the Lion and the Tinman.
Okay, I digress.
