Comments on: Clint Eastwood’s Invictus Trailer Starring Matt Damon

By: eber hart

eber hart — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:45:28 +0000

—STILL MORE safe, by-the-book, PC project
work from the LONG rich ‘daring maverick’
one-note ‘earnest’ —Clint Eastwood.

MEANWHILE, Korea era draftee Eastwood,
who NEVER saw Korea —along with our ENTIRE
RED China sellout Hollywood and media establishment
once again manages to ‘TOTALY overlook’
the staggeringly relevant 60th Anniversary
of the KOREAN WAR —–EVEN AS
people continue to suffer and die imprisoned
and ignored —-by—-the——-MILLION!

—–Thanks Clint! —-GOOOD WORK!

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:47:47 +0000

The guy playing Jonah is an England-based Samoan player called Zak Feau-nati.

By: uhtiger

uhtiger — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:23:42 +0000

thats not jonah lomu, its a guy from england. given he does look abit like him, hes about 40 pounds lighter and 4 inches shorter.

By: Marymary

Marymary — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:35:11 +0000

I am very much looking forward to watching Invictus. From the trailer, Matt Damons South African accent sounds convincing enough, can’t say the same for Morgan Freeman.

Being a huge rugby fan, I remember the 95 world cup, it was an amazing. I’m also a huge Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon fan, and all the more reason to be excited about this film, its directed by the one and only Clint Eastwood.

By: xego

xego — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:54:00 +0000

This could be cheezze ala “Stand and Deliver,” but Eastwood knows how to tell a story. Unfortunately he knows that audiences tend to love cheezze so there is the dilemma. As for the accents I don’t know? Irish and Australians have been faking American accents for so long turn about is fair play I guess. I am just wondering if (as an American) I can care about Rugby anymore than I don’t care about Soccer?

By: Maopheus

Maopheus — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:24:26 +0000

I like rugby and I really dig the fact that there is going to be a film about rugby as there are very few in the non-rugby loving world, i.e. the US. Having said that, I don’t necessarily buy Damon as Francois Pienaar. I like the touch of having Lomu reprise his actual real-life role. I’ll be curious to see how many real players they use in the match scenes. I think he had a huge World Cup that year. Lomu was on pace to become arguably the greatest wing back ever but kidney disease cut short his career. I suppose how you view the movie depends on whether you like rugby or not. I’m sure fans of the sport will watch it just out of curiosity. You have to give Clint a lot of credit for tackling subjects that are out of his comfort zone.

By: rus in chicago

rus in chicago — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:55:30 +0000

I’m crying already…

By: Niklas

Niklas — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:35:59 +0000

well, this looks terrible.. unless cat eating aliens show up somewhere..

By: Napalm

Napalm — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:23:11 +0000

this actually doesn’t look good to me at all. freeman seems like he’s trying too hard to be “south african”.. that accent doesn’t work too well either.

By: Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:06:37 +0000

I’m a rugby fan and can remember 1995 world cup – it was awesome – this looks great and they seem to have everything correct right down to the advertisement boards in the stadium. Look out for Jonah Lomu in the film. Awesome player
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN3KuenjmaY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvR8CsGcwyQ

By: Ashley

Ashley — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:47:44 +0000

I’m not buying the accents at all. I’m no expert on South African accents, but even if they are authentic, they don’t sound right coming from American movie stars, especially Matt Damon.

Also, this looks horribly cheesy, and I don’t think Freeman physically resembles Mandela at all.