preacher wrote:Agreed Nathan, spot on there.
Having only watched the trailer a couple of times I can't say the double was more extra visible to me this time. In any case this exessive use of doubles is just lame. When done as sloppy as is often the case in these low budget films it just cheapens the entire experience of the film.
Like Tom I think it is a way to get more screen time out of the stars on a limited schedule. But in the end it backlashes on the stars them selves because it seems like they don´t give a fuck about the films they put out.
The trailer is bad ass and the film seems like alot of fun!
Seagal really started the trend in a big way, just in regards to how they do it now. He's lead in most of his DTV films from 2003 onwards, and he'd normally be around for maybe a half, or two thirds of month long shoot at most. That's why lots of shots of him in the distance, or from behind in dialogue scenes, and in a lot of fight scenes, he gets doubled with stunt guys or stand ins. It's filling out his role.
Unfortunately now, other companies are following suit and seems they can pad out roles from the name actors so that they're in the film more frequently and it makes the project easier to sell. It's yet to get anywhere near as bad for JC, DL etc as it was for Seagal's DTV action flicks. The doubling, and then voice doubling, for him is ludicrous. But he really doesn't care about his films at all. He'll shoot for the bare minimum he has to. He's essentially on a shoot for the amount of time a support player might be, so the director has to use doubles to pad his role out to leading length. Sometimes even that doesn't work. I've seen a lot of Seagal flicks where his character, despite being protagonist, disappears for long stretches of the film.
Van Damme's 6 Bullets had a lot of doubling, stand ins and periods where Van Damme wasn't on screen for 5-10 minutes. They didn't help themselves either, because it was nearly 2 hours. It was half an hour too long for that kind of film. It was not bad, but forgettable and a bit disappointing.
