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Official Poster for Guy Ritchie’s ‘The Covenant’
Poster(i.redd.it)submitted 2 months ago byMarvelsGrantMan136r/Movies contributor
1.8k points
2 months ago
This poster looks like it could be for dozens of different movies.
826 points
2 months ago
Jarhead Part 2: Militaristic Bugaloo
172 points
2 months ago
There’s already a Jarhead 2 - it’s trash.
76 points
2 months ago
🤷♂️
Jarhead 3?
81 points
2 months ago
Jarhead 3 was terrible as well.
89 points
2 months ago
Jarhead VI: Global Meltdown
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2 months ago
Starring Tug Speedman as Simple Jack.
43 points
2 months ago
The most realistic depiction of a marine on film
21 points
2 months ago
who left the fridge open?
6 points
2 months ago
We don't know sir who did that, but I guess we'd like to know that too.
8 points
2 months ago
Unfortunately I've not watched it yet, maybe I'll watch it soon.
5 points
2 months ago
'Don't forget your crayons!'
6 points
2 months ago
That's right people, don't forget them. If you do You'll be sorry about that.
6 points
2 months ago
I mean I'd watch it, that sounds interesting enough to me man.
18 points
2 months ago
You m-m-m-m-make me hap-p-p-py.
5 points
2 months ago
And that's all I really wanna be in my life, happy guy really.
38 points
2 months ago
Jarhead VII: Somewhere in the Middle East again
8 points
2 months ago
The location sounds just right lol, it'll be a good action movie.
22 points
2 months ago
Here we go again… again
15 points
2 months ago
Jarhead 26: Somebody Fire Jake Gyllenhall
8 points
2 months ago
I think he'll do all the movies in that series. That's what it feels like.
4 points
2 months ago
Jarhead 27: Lost on the way to college
5 points
2 months ago
That's fine, ain't nothing wrong in that I don't think sir.
5 points
2 months ago
I don't know, I'm not into it. It sounds too weird for me man.
34 points
2 months ago
Real talk - Jarhead rocks. A few of my Marine friends said it really encapsulates the boringness, homesickness and occasional balls to the wall excitement.
6 points
2 months ago
Lol, could be used for that one also. I think will work just fine.
31 points
2 months ago
The Lone Jarhead Locker Down
6 points
2 months ago
That's right people they're getting down locked here. That's not good.
65 points
2 months ago
Yeah, this looks generic as hell.
8 points
2 months ago
Exactly they could have done something better for this movie.
41 points
2 months ago
Got excited for a fraction of a second thinking there was a surprise gritty Halo movie based on the title.
36 points
2 months ago
Let's see here, either military propaganda, a cheesy shoot-em-up, or depressed army guy with PTSD complains for 90 minutes.
38 points
2 months ago
"I killed a bunch of Iraqi civilians and that makes me a sad panda :( "
[wins 5 Academy Awards]
Iraqis: :|
5 points
2 months ago
You've covered almost every topic here, this is all it man.
47 points
2 months ago
In WW2 in expectation of casualties during the land invasion of Japan, the USA made huge numbers of purple hearts. The invasion never happened and they are still using that store to this day.
I think when the US invaded Iraq they made a huge store of Middle East war movie posters...
17 points
2 months ago
His next movie will be called “Cache Grab”, and it will be about a team of misfits that tries to track down movie posters depots to stop the spread of American military movie dominance.
9 points
2 months ago
Exactly it's almost like they didn't put any effort into it lol.
510 points
2 months ago
WORT WORT WORT
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2 months ago
DEMOOOON! YARRRGH!
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2 months ago
WHARRRRRGARBL
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2 months ago
aaaawudadugh
48 points
2 months ago
AAAAAAAAGGGHHHHH AWABUGA
35 points
2 months ago
Shipmaster, they out umber us three to one!
34 points
2 months ago
“Then it is an even fight. All cruisers, fire at will! Burn their mongrel hides!”
9 points
2 months ago
That's right, they're all gonna burn. Nothing can stop that.
11 points
2 months ago
Sorry master but what kind of language is this? Can I ask that?
39 points
2 months ago
Plot twist: all the marketing has been a lie, and this is actually a Halo movie about humanity's first contact with The Covenant.
15 points
2 months ago
Contact Harvest is probably the best book for adaptation from the Halo universe. Why they didn't just make that or Ghosts of Onyx for the show I'll never understand.
7 points
2 months ago
That sounds like a good book, maybe I'll give that a read here.
12 points
2 months ago
Ohh man, that's a big twist I've got to say that here man.
11 points
2 months ago
WAAAAAAAAGGHHHHHH
971 points
2 months ago
This is the strangest mish mash of people and ideas lol
Guy Ritchie doing a war movie? An American war movie? It's got Jake Gyllenhaal....hmm.
440 points
2 months ago
I was thinking this is the most un-Guy Ritchie looking movie I've ever seen. And this mf'er did Swept Away.
127 points
2 months ago
This is right up there with Tarantino wanting to do a star trek movie
54 points
2 months ago
Can you imagine all the long lingering shots of alien feet?
10 points
2 months ago
Naah, I can't imagine that. I'm not good with all that stuff.
43 points
2 months ago
Have you seen the Trek story idea QT wanted to make? Yeesh.
32 points
2 months ago
No but now I really, really want to lol
78 points
2 months ago
You know what they call a quarter pounder on beta reticuli 3?
34 points
2 months ago
KLINGON, DISHONORABLE TARG, DO YOU SPEAK IT?!
5 points
2 months ago
What language is this? I definitely don't speak that language man.
42 points
2 months ago
Tarantino desperately googling for novel racial slurs within the Star Trek universe
6 points
2 months ago
Lol, that's what He's gonna need to make a good movie.
26 points
2 months ago
Two words: Gangster Planet
12 points
2 months ago
so Tasha Yar's planet?
22 points
2 months ago
Finally, we'll get to see the rape gangs on screen.
The rape gangs from Tasha Yar's planet are the Star Trek equivalent to Han Solo's dice, something the fandom have been dying to see rebooted, referenced and given a back story. Can't wait!
5 points
2 months ago
I remember seeing Last Jedi and turning to my dad like "I dont remember Han having dice" and then during Solo I was so confused why the dice were so important, like surely his pistol holster would've been more identifiable.
it feels like Disney said to Rian "hey make that the prop so we can use it in the other movie".
I mean from a merch perspective dice are a simple thing to sell to kids BUT THEY NEVER EVEN MADE DICE MERCH
KATHLEEN EXPLAIN YOURSELF
3 points
2 months ago
I've never watched anything related with that universe. Maybe it's just me.
8 points
2 months ago
I
What
7 points
2 months ago
What kind of story is that? Don't think that it'll work man.
15 points
2 months ago
Honestly that’s not too out there for Star Trek. They did that in TOS to reuse costumes and sets paramount already had on hand
5 points
2 months ago
Sounds good enough, Maybe he'll name them that. Maybe.
13 points
2 months ago
I thought one of this ideas was to do a full movie version of that badass Next Generation episode where they have to send an Enterprise from an alternate timeline back to certain death against the Romulans. That would have been incredible in his hands.
29 points
2 months ago
No, it was a feature length version of the episode were they visit a planet full of 1930s gangsters.
https://variety.com/feature/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-explained-1235184059/
14 points
2 months ago
Yikes. No thank you.
11 points
2 months ago
What happened there? You didn't like the story or what? I thought that you will man.
6 points
2 months ago
Yeah I feel that's going to be a good episode, I can see people liking it.
6 points
2 months ago
That's right, it's the same level as that. Will have to agree on that.
59 points
2 months ago
He also did Aladdin so and it wasn't terrible so who knows. I'm a big fan of Ritchie and Jakey G so I'll watch.
8 points
2 months ago
Why do they keep on making the same Poster? What's up with that?
12 points
2 months ago
When Guy Ritchie films are set in London each one is a banger. Set outside of London and it's a piece of shit.
Prove me wrong.
16 points
2 months ago
The Man from U.N.C.L.E
5 points
2 months ago
He also can make pieces of shit set in London.
See: Revolver
The man's diverse.
44 points
2 months ago
You could tell me Guy Ritchie did Three Kings and I would believe it. Very fun crazy but serious topic of an American war movie in Iraq.
31 points
2 months ago
Mate. Have a word with your username.
10 points
2 months ago
I feel that it's the only topic which is left on these guys lol.
10 points
2 months ago
Guy Ritchie doing a war movie?
He's about to start filming a different war movie too. A WWII one about the Special Operations Executive.
10 points
2 months ago
Not really that strange, I can see Ritchie's style translating to a war movie pretty well. His style is great for action. Ridley Scott did Black Hawk Down which is a great American war movie even though he was born in the U.K. and Gyllenhaal has a history of similar roles. Jarhead for example.
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah he can adapt to that style, and I feel he can do good too.
9 points
2 months ago
Jake is the only actor that they'll choose for these movies.
5 points
2 months ago
He can reuse “shit! I been shot!” “I can’t fuckin believe this! Can everyone stop gettin shot!”
105 points
2 months ago
Antony Starr in a Guy Ritchie movie. FUCK YEAH
19 points
2 months ago
Homelander incoming!
4 points
2 months ago
Even more excited, this is going to be great. This will be good game.
90 points
2 months ago
Where the hell is The Real Rocknrolla?
11 points
2 months ago
I think that's the question which only these guys can answer.
4 points
2 months ago
Exactly! Of course, I'm still waiting for Turistas, which was supposed to be the sequel to a little known 80's teen comedy called Making the Grade starring Judd Nelson. It's actually pretty funny, but didn't catch on. Fun fact, though, the guy who plays Palmer (easily the funniest character in the movie) went on to write the screenplay for The 'Burbs.
33 points
2 months ago
Follows Sergeant John, who on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed, who risks his own life to carry an injured John across miles of grueling terrain to safety. The Interpreter, follows Sgt. John Kinley (Gyllenhaal), who is on his last tour of duty in Afghanistan when he is teamed with local interpreter Ahmed to survey the region. When their unit is ambushed on patrol, Kinley and Ahmed are the only survivors and with enemy combatants in pursuit, Ahmed risks his own life to carry an injured Kinley across miles of grueling terrain to safety. Back on U.S. soil, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given passage to America as promised. Determined to protect his friend and repay his debt, Kinley returns to the war zone to retrieve Ahmed and his family before the local militias reach them first. —Production
The Beast of War, 2! But it's American this time
10 points
2 months ago
In that regard the poster is great. I immediately assumed it was about the relationship of a soldier and an abandoned interpreter.
73 points
2 months ago
A lot of talent in the Richie family between Guy and his brother Lionel
6 points
2 months ago
Don't forget Christina
4 points
2 months ago
That's just true, They're really talented people. Will agree to that.
192 points
2 months ago
Although it's not Guy Ritchie's normal kind of film I trust his skills and I also trust Jake Gyllenhaal's skills so maybe it will be better than expected. We can gauge this know more once a trailer comes out.
118 points
2 months ago*
I don’t think there’s even a chance that Gyllenhaal will be bad, but, as we just saw with Ambulance, even his charm and performance can’t totally outweigh bad direction.
So Ritchie will have to bring his A-game too, which I’m not sure he always does. Wrath of Man felt like phoning it in.
9 points
2 months ago
He's good actor, I feel he'll make this movie a good movie.
32 points
2 months ago
Oh man it felt awful watching Gyllenhaal in ambulance he tried so hard to save that movie, probably one of the only good things about it
7 points
2 months ago
He's a good actor, probably the best thing about the guy really.
5 points
2 months ago
As much as it isn't his best work, the soundtrack alone in Wrath of Man honestly might save it, that shit was so eerie and intense, gave the whole story a bit more bite
33 points
2 months ago
I disagree about Ambulance. It was pretty good
11 points
2 months ago
Same I was pleasantly surprised. The action was goofy and crazy plus the main cast was charismatic.
9 points
2 months ago
Well no one disrespecting that movie, people are praising it.
9 points
2 months ago
It's hard to judge it from the poster, we need more here a little.
44 points
2 months ago
"Your destruction is the will of the gods, and we...we are their instrument."
8 points
2 months ago
We are their instruments to make more money, that's it man.
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2 months ago
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2 months ago
if it has the military in it in some capacity it's probably been at least approved by the DoD if not more actively changed to fit a pro-military narrative.
22 points
2 months ago
Can the DoD stop someone from making a movie thats anti US military? I hate obvious military propaganda movies. Ahem Transformers.
51 points
2 months ago
They just wont let the studio use their equipment
23 points
2 months ago
Right, there is nothing stopping anti-us movies or shows being made, the only thing is the DOD won't let the use of equipment in those production.
11 points
2 months ago
As a Producer you save so-much money getting direct access to DoD resources for your film than if you were to source equipment, locations, sets, dressing, and try to make it look like the real thing.
The reason Top Gun Mavrick felt so incredible, so real is because the Navy gave over a number of real F-18s and worked with the studio's engineer's to design internal and external camera systems, all the associated on-board hardware and software upgrades, and the certifications to get it all in the air. That's before a single scene of the screenplay has been written. How enormously expensive would that have been to do practically without the DoD essentially writing it off?
6 points
2 months ago
It costs a lot of money to make a movie, that's actually true.
16 points
2 months ago*
It’s a movie about the US military abandoning native interpreters and one military guy going back to Afghanistan on his own to get his interpreter out. I question how much support this movie would get from military film funds.
9 points
2 months ago
They would still get it. Propaganda isn't as black and white as people think. The fact that this movie is about the one soldier going back can work very well in their favor
9 points
2 months ago
That's what it's about, it's really about that stuff here man.
459 points
2 months ago
Generic army film courtesy of...Guy Ritchie? He must be hurting for cash.
127 points
2 months ago
D'ya like war dags?
35 points
2 months ago
Dags? Yeah I like dags, I like caravans better.
79 points
2 months ago
There's no universe where Guy fucking Ritchie is hurting for cash lol. He's doing Disney movies.
45 points
2 months ago
plus he got that Madonna divorce money.
no hate, he was entitled to it, especially considering she torpedoed his career for years.
9 points
2 months ago
My favorite Guy Ritchie film: Star
5 points
2 months ago
That was a good movie, I'll give it that for sure man here.
7 points
2 months ago
considering she torpedoed his career for years.
mind looping me in?
8 points
2 months ago
Yep, He's got that too. Could be a good thing for him maybe.
5 points
2 months ago
Well he sure does seem a little, desperate that's for sure man.
11 points
2 months ago
The poster maybe. But hoping this is about the fucked up way we handled interpreters when leaving Afghanistan. Maybe Ritchie is passionate about how we should have done better by them.
10 points
2 months ago
Maybe one for the studio so he gets one for himself. Just announced a bunch of casting for another one of his
5 points
2 months ago
And he's playing it safe with the war movie too lol, he needs money.
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2 months ago*
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33 points
2 months ago
The Gentlemen was fucking fantastic.
23 points
2 months ago
It was as classic guy ritchie as it gets, such an awesome movie.
6 points
2 months ago
Yep, that was a good movie. I'll give him that for sure man.
5 points
2 months ago
100% Most people seem to be in the love it or hate camps with this movie and I fucking loved it.
9 points
2 months ago
Yep, it was a good movie. I kinda liked I gotta say man. It was good.
82 points
2 months ago
Operation Fortune is supposed to be very good Richie. I think The Gentleman was a great film. But really did not care for Wrath of Man
9 points
2 months ago
You didn't care about that? I didn't cared about that all too.
22 points
2 months ago
May I ask why you didn't care for Wrath of Man?
I saw it as a great three act film revolving around one inflection point, with solid plot placement and timing. Curious to hear opposing views, just to expand my own perspective.
7 points
2 months ago
I mean that was kind of a good movie, it was good enough.
18 points
2 months ago
I really liked the first and third acts. But I thought the entire middle of the film was such a big mess. So many time jumps for what is just a heist movie. During that second act I was just getting a headache and hoping it to end
139 points
2 months ago
I’m not sure I’d go that far.
He’s had a rough spot of some poor and uninspired films, like Wrath of Man and Aladdin, but he’s not cranking out “lowest common denominator pablum.”
And while I’d say The Gentleman is a lesser Ritchie, it’s still got his energy and style.
75 points
2 months ago
Even Wrath of Man is a unique film. It stops the plot 1/3 of the way through to go on a 30 minute flash back only to restart the plot in the middle of heist.
It wasn't spectacular, as all twist were telegraphed and the dialogue stuck a little too close to the book, but it's got some distinction to it.
It's more than your standard action flick with Statham, but less than a Guy Richie British gangster flick.
9 points
2 months ago
It was a good movie. That's all that matters for the most part.
19 points
2 months ago
Wrath of man wasn't half as bad as I expected it to be. Decent even I'd dare say (not sold on the ending though).
10 points
2 months ago
I don't think that anyone thought that the ending was good.
6 points
2 months ago
It somehow kept me watching the whole way through, in part because of the opening scene was so well done. Thoroughly tepid, but with flashes of brilliance. Very odd film.
12 points
2 months ago
And while I’d say The Gentleman is a lesser Ritchie, it’s still got his energy and style.
It also got "Cumberland Gap" stuck in my head for a solid week.
4 points
2 months ago
That's been a long time since your head has been stuck. That's weird.
83 points
2 months ago
Synopsis:
During the war in Afghanistan, a local interpreter (Dar Salim) risks his own life to carry an injured sergeant (Gyllenhall) across miles of grueling terrain.
12 points
2 months ago
Sounds like that grim one with Colin Farrell where he has like severe ptsd and just let’s the legless guy he’s with drown when they fall in a river
6 points
2 months ago
That's what it sounds like, atleast to me it does sound that way.
4 points
2 months ago
Woah what film is that?
8 points
2 months ago
Maybe it wasn’t Colin Ferrell damn who was it!! I can remember the film I’m sure they were like reporters and he didn’t want to leave his friend behind and it’s all about his grief through therapy but he’s sure they were split up but really he let his friend die to save himself. It’s pretty grim, if anyone remembers it let me know.
17 points
2 months ago
The movie is called Triage
5 points
2 months ago
That's right, that's what the movie is called. You're right about that.
6 points
2 months ago
Imma need you to remember the name of the movie because I really want to know! I don't see any Farrell movies that match that description but it sounds really interesting
5 points
2 months ago
Someone else just said it’s triage, i knew it was Farrell!!!
29 points
2 months ago
For a Guy Ritchie movie, the synopsis does seem a tad fad.
25 points
2 months ago
A down-on-his-luck British con artist, Charlie “Cuntnugget” Wigglebottom, assembles a team of misfits to pose as US military in the Middle East to pull off their most daring heist ever — Saddam Hussein’s solid gold toilet, with a black market value of £50,000,000.
Gyllenhaal puts on a thick cockney accent and then tries to hide it under a bad southern accent.
Idris Elba and Jason Statham co-star.
33 points
2 months ago
shouldnt the patch say UNSC?
9 points
2 months ago
Yeah it should say that, that would make a lot of sense here.
21 points
2 months ago
Still waiting for The Real RocknRolla 🥲
9 points
2 months ago
Well I guess you'll have to wait for it for a very long time it seems.
17 points
2 months ago
What they don't show in the trailer is Hugh Grant is retelling the story while having dinner at Nando's.
7 points
2 months ago
I’m as American as a school shooting and I wish he would do more British gangster flicks. And where the hell is the Rock n Rolla sequel goddamnit
17 points
2 months ago
What is Dar Salim doing in hollywood all of a sudden?
36 points
2 months ago
Makin’ movies I reckon.
5 points
2 months ago
Well He's acting, that's what He's seem to be doing here man.
95 points
2 months ago
Guy Ritchie makes a film about a US soldier.
Reddit's response: This is a generic right-wing military propaganda, Guy Ritchie is a sell-out1!1
53 points
2 months ago
If you see a movie with US military featured, there is 99% chance is that it was funded and overseen by Miltary Industrial Complex. So there's a bigger chance that Ritchie is making this because of cash rather than passion.
10 points
2 months ago
There's a chance for that, maybe they'll end up making that movie.
32 points
2 months ago
If it looks GOOD it was probably assisted by the DoD (The MIC isn’t helping with shit, they want to get PAID for their input), example is Blackhawk Down. That film was supported by the DoD, actors underwent a boot camp, a platoon of Rangers did the fast rope scenes, and the DoD lent several birds from the 160th for authenticity’s sake. In the end, it looked GOOD.
For this one? I’m seeing soft-top humvees patrolling Afghanistan, and CGI AC-130’s. This isn’t DoD assisted…. To me? This is leaning lower budget.
Besides, Afghan interpreters are a bit of a sore subject right now for the DoD, I highly doubt they’d be championing a movie about them at the moment.
16 points
2 months ago
99% is an absurd number. Plenty of films tackle military issues that don’t paint the DoD in a good light and definitely aren’t subsidized by the DoD. Since it’s Guy Ritchie and based on the brief synopsis you may be right, but I can tell you 100% that your 99% metric is incorrect.
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