Needless to say, this thread will have some spoilers inasmuch as the trailers give stuff away.
Four of the trailers I saw before District 9 made me take note, for different reasons. So I thought, let’s talk about trailers we’ve seen lately and what’s coming out sooner or later, and how it looks.
The Fourth Kind looked kind of spooky at first, but the constant references to an owl got Narmy real fast, and “ancient drawings show spaceships and aliens!!!11!” just made me groan. Then the insistence that this is all a true story seemed kind of desperate.
Speaking of Narm, The Final Destination features a death-by-carwash that makes me laugh every time I see it.
Final Destination movies may be bad, but at least they seem to embrace their own cheesiness on some level. Legion, however, looks like it’s trying to be totally serious, and my guess is it will be MST3K-level bad. It’s a survival horror movie where the bad guy they have to defeat is . . . God. Apparently he’s having a flood-grade hissy fit with humanity and sends angels (eviiiil angels, from the look of them) to kill everyone. Only Michael rebels and wants to save the unborn child who can (somehow) redeem humanity. Or something. It looks *deliciously *horrible. Also, it should make both James Dobson and Bill Donohue apoplectic, so that’ll be fun.
Finally, best for last. Zombieland, baby! Woody Harrelson in a cowboy hat and snakeskin jacket, kicking zombie ass, and a sweet little church lady dropping a piano on the undead. YEAH! We’re definitely seeing this in the theater.
I’ve been blown away by both trailers for the forthcoming adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are. I was initially dubious at the idea of turning the book into a full-length feature film, but Jonze et al. have completely won me over - I don’t think I’ve ever been as emotionally affected by a movie trailer before.
If the new Vince Vaughn movie (Couples Retreat) gets an “R” rating, then we’ll go see it. Light-weight fluff, but the actors involved are all competent.
I have to say, I recently saw District 9, The Perfect Getaway and Inglourious Basterds and thought that every single trailer shown before the movies was dreadful. The previews for Zombieland, Final Destination and (especially) Halloween 2 (or whatever it’s called) were fairly repellent. And event though I know he’s not in it, Legion looks like every bad movie Nicholas Cage has been putting out for years.
Daybreakers could be interesting. It’s set in a world where the majority of people have turned into vampires and humans have been reduced to blood banks. The trailer is pretty slick and the cast is solid. Sam Neil is always good as a evil guy.
The Box on the other hand seems lame. It’s a film version of the Twilight zone episode Button, Button. I can’t see how the story is going to work as a feature length film without serious padding or completely changing the story. The trailer is just a series of incoherent quick cuts. Pass.
To be fair, it was cut down a bit when it was adapted for The Twilight Zone. I think it could be okay. Hell, I’ll watch it just because it features Cameron Diaz breathing.
My first objection is the title change. I get that “Button, button” may need a little work in the title department to sell as a Big Movie Event, but “The Box”? There are something like thirty movies with that title, and four of them have a 2009 release date. The title needs a little more work.
I laughed so much, so loud and so hard during the preview for Zombieland that my 17-year old daughter threatened to leave the theatre. So I’ll probably go see it. Alone.
I don’t have a link but saw the (teaser) trailer for Inception this week and I can’t for the life of me figure out what it’s supposed to be about. All I know is that Leonardo DiCaprio is in it and all of the sets seem to have gravity issues with characters runniing on walls and ceilings and the water in glasses tilting.
Here you go. Directed by Chris (Dark Knight) Nolan, it’s got a pretty cool supporting cast: Batman Begins vets Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe & Cillian Murphy, plus Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Marion Cotillard, and Tom Berenger.
Not a trailer, but there is the Institute for Human Continuity that is preparing to colonize other planets in order for the human race to survive after the destruction of Earth in 2012.