But you can't cut around the sets, the wardrobe and the hair. Where's that trailer?

My understanding was that the budget for this thing was fairly low (mid-30's). If that's correct, then the issue can't be about the financial return. Also, doesn't Redford have final cut?

I seriously can't stand that poster with Redford's digitally smoothed over face.

Final cut just means you can never be shown the door, it doesn't preclude everything written in Wells' post.

Remember kiddos: Every oak tree was once an acorn.

I admire Redford and have liked some of his directing efforts, but this trailer gave me a bad feeling. This could be another "high-pedigree" catastrophe along the lines of "Breaking & Entering."

Is there no trailer in the US yet, T. Holly? I saw one in front of Bourne Ultimatum a couple of weeks ago. I'm in New Zealand. Surely one has been screened in the US by now.

I am disappointed in Redford's refusal to let himself age. Same thing for Warren Beatty, whom I also otherwise admire. Lose the silk screen. At least Beatty hasn't gone the surgery route, like Redford has. There is something so lovely about a real age face. Plastic surgery almost always looks awful.

Plastic surgery...god, did anyone else see Mary Matalin on MTP this morning? She's starting to make Carville look attractive.

As for LFL, I asked Cruise how it was cutting together while I was installing two-way mirrors at his pad in Brentwood, but all he wanted to do was audit me. Which he ain't gonna do.

I still have a lot of faith in the man who directed ORDINARY PEOPLE, A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT and QUIZ SHOW. Has he ever really made a terrible film? THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE is kind of overcooked, but I still think it's signifigantly underrated with some magical moments and a dynamite, albeit "magic negro", performance by Will Smith.

I'll go see this b/c of Streep, but the dialogue in the trailer has me fearing for the worst: sledgehammer politics a la Stanley Kramer. I hope these lines play better in context; otherwise, they'd sound phoney except on Bill Reilley's show.

I saw the trailer and pedantic is the word. Looks like a two-hour lecture. Years ago--decades ago--even when Redford got political, he was smart enough to make sure the film worked first. He seems to have lost that somewhere along the way.

"Has [Redford] ever really made a terrible film?"

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... "The Milagro Beanfield War". There's a reason Chick Vennera (or whatever his name was) never had a career.

Oh man, I totally forgot about MILAGRO. Good call. Yeah.... yeesh.

What was the last hit that Redford was in?

This has bomb written all over it.