{"id":18144,"date":"2015-02-14T16:33:22","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T00:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/?p=18144"},"modified":"2015-02-14T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:53:16","slug":"trailer-del-toro-returns-small-scale-fantasy-crimson-peak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/trailer-del-toro-returns-small-scale-fantasy-crimson-peak\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer: Del Toro Returns to Small-Scale Fantasy in Crimson Peak"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>While it&#8217;s a bit of a stretch to call\u00a0<em>Pacific Rim<\/em> a true departure from Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s aesthetic style, that movie, which came out in 2013, was the largest, riskiest endeavor of his entire career. He made a valiant attempt to match a budget the size of Massachusetts with the unique vision of his earlier films, the result a creature feature featuring creatures the size of cities and a color palette belonging in a European rave. By no means was this movie a failure, critically or financially, but it wasn&#8217;t the, er, peak of the Del Toro way.<\/p>\n<p>His staunchest followers have no doubt been waiting for him to return to the other side of his ambitious self, reflective of the first <em>HellBoy\u00a0<\/em>and the masterful\u00a0<em>Pan&#8217;s Labyrinth.<\/em>\u00a0Que <em>Crimson Peak,\u00a0<\/em>a full tilt horror-fantasy more concerned with bubbling id and ego than rumbling iron and flesh. And ghosts. There&#8217;s going to be a lot of ghosts. If anything, this movie should erase all memory of that terrible Eddie Murphy stumbler\u00a0<em>Haunted Mansion.<\/em> Here&#8217;s the first trailer for <em>Crimson Peak<\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"620\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4zBlG8Lv01k\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>With a cast of A-listers that people never remember to list and the words &#8220;Comes His Ultimate Masterpiece&#8221; splayed across the screen, there&#8217;s enormous potential for another classic from the unique director-writer.\u00a0<em>Pan&#8217;s\u00a0Labyrinth\u00a0<\/em>may never be topped. You&#8217;ve got to give him credit for trying.<\/p>\n<p>And before you go all knee-jerk on the so-so ghost CGI, remember two things. First, the CGI in a trailer is rarely the finished material, as has been exemplified over and over again in recent years. Second, Del Toro almost resents believability, and it&#8217;s the viewer that fully embraces the thing that doesn&#8217;t quite fit in the image that gets the most out of his movies. What you&#8217;re getting here is a mixture.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/hellboy-meme-image.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18151\" src=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/hellboy-meme-image.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Hellboy Meme Unrealistic\" width=\"1216\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/hellboy-meme-image.jpg 1216w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/hellboy-meme-image-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-content\/uploads\/hellboy-meme-image-1024x628.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1216px) 100vw, 1216px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s a bit of a stretch to call\u00a0Pacific Rim a true departure from Guillermo Del Toro&#8217;s aesthetic style, that movie, which came out in 2013, was the largest, riskiest endeavor of his entire career. He made a valiant attempt to match a budget the size of Massachusetts with the unique vision of his earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":18154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18144"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18153,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18144\/revisions\/18153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}