I went to see League of Extraordinary Ineptitude the other night, and they had at least a dozen trailers before the movie started. I was annoyed at first, but later on I was appreciative that I had something else to think about while waiting for the movie to end.
Veronica Guerin, with Cate Blanchett. Also known as “Erin Go Bragh O’Vitch.” I think that Blanchett is an outstanding actress, and this had all the signs of A Very Important Movie, and it just made me feel guilty I didn’t know who Veronica Guerin was or what was her story. Was this really big news in the UK? Or am I just horribly out -of-touch with non-entertainment-related news?
The Order, with Heath Ledger and the guy from The Full Monty. Looks like a tiresome gothic horror movie.
Please Give Me Another Oscar, with Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall. I forgot what the real title of it is. When it started, with Duvall giving his crusty cowboy guy narration, I really thought it was a parody of cheesy western movies. I kept waiting for the shoe to drop and they’d all reveal that it was a big joke, but it just went on and on.
Freddy vs. Jason. I don’t get this one at all. Was it just delayed several years, and that’s the explanation? I’m thinking the target audience for slasher movies nowadays is too young to care about Freddy or Jason, while the original audience is too old to care. Is anybody remotely interested in this movie?
The Runaway Jury. Whatever; another John Grisham movie. You’ve got to love Gene Hackman, but seeing him as Corrupt Powerful Guy is just played out. The only reason I noticed it at all was to say Damn Rachel Weisz is hot in that trailer. I saw both of the Mummy movies and she didn’t do a thing for me, and I don’t think I’ve seen her in anything else. What is it with this one? The accent?
I think that the trailers are getting longer, too. I got in an argument with someone the other day because I swore that I’d seen Malibu’s Most Wanted, but it turns out I hadn’t. I’d just seen the trailer so many times that I thought I had.
The Kevin Costner western is called Open Range, I think. When I saw that trailer at Pirates of the Carribean I turned to my friend and said, “I thought they don’t make westerns anymore.”
They shouldn’t. The last western I saw, Tombstone, was awful beyond belief.
I haven’t seen this trailer yet but I saw the TV commercial and couldn’t stop laughing. It’s like they took every worn-out tired wild west cliche and crammed it into one movie. Every line seemed like they wanted it to be the rootin’est, tootin’est, dust-in-my-mouthiest, rawhidiest, spur-jangliest thing to ever come out of anybody’s mouth, and as a result it’s downright hilarious. The part where Kevin Costner says “People are gonna die today…and I’m the one gonna kill 'em.” ROFL! My sides!
Re: length of trailers. They’re usually 2 to 2.5 minutes long, with the exception of “teasers” which are 30 to 60 seconds long. Usually a theater will try to have a healthy mix of each to keep your attention but if for some reason they run the full length of their entire trailer playlist it does seem nearly as long as the movie itself. The reason you felt you’d already seen “Malibu’s Most Wanted” was because they advertised it on TV at every commercial break on every show on every channel for about 2 months before it opened. Sheesh! Way to make us sick of stuff before it even opens!
Guerin was a Journalist who played a very important part in revealing the truth about the drug culture in Ireland at the time when most people refused to believe there was one. I wont say anymore so as to ruin the movie for anyone, but I dont know if it was big news in the UK. It was massive news in the Rep. of Ireland, but I dont know if it made big news in the UK. Youll need a UK doper to answer that Q…
Yeep. Sorry, I didn’t catch that typo/mistake when I was posting so late last night. Like many Ugly Americans, I tend to use “UK” and “Great Britain” and “British Isles” interchangeably, when I know good and well that the UK does not include the Rep. of Ireland (much to their chagrin). I always considered myself a loyal Irish-American; I should know better.
1.) If they could just turn up the trailer’s volume another notch my ears would stop ringing and begin to bleed in earnest.
2.) All those 150 millisecond duration high-impact intercut sequences really make me regret not having the attention span of a fruit fly.
3.) If only the entire movie was of similar quality to just one of those teaser scenes in the preview it might actually be worth paying $7.[sup]00[/sup] to see it.
4.) When the film itself contains a scene of equal sophistication to the one printed on their poster I’ll go in and watch it.
Heh. Well, I truly enjoyed the Untouchables trailer preceding Finding Nemo. Until the very end - when I was informed that it would be on the big screen ONE YEAR FROM NOW. My long-term memory is inadequate, at best.
I recently saw the trailer for the new Tom Cruise movie- I think it’s called The Last Samurai. The young man seated in front of me verbally summed up my thoughts quite nicely:
What bothers me about trailers is that they sometimes spoil the movie’s best moments. For instance, in the trailer for Alien Nation the human cop gets insulted in a bar by an alien in alienspeak, and the cop’s alien partner translates the phrase for him as “Your mother mates out of season.” Every time I saw that trailer, the audience laughed the roof off. When I saw the actual movie, the joke didn’t get a chuckle from the house – everybody had already heard it!
And I don’t know how to make it a link, I guess, but that’s where it is, and it’s pretty funny. I didn’t know that the stupidity of this had seeped into the public consciousness enough for the Hollywood pinheads to be aware of it yet.
Do you mean The Incredibles? Or is somebody making another movie about Elliot Ness?
I’ve become more and more not a fan of Kevin Costner over the years. Don’t know what it is, he just irritates me, even in good movies. I wish Bull Durham had starred Kurt Russell, like it originally was going to. (The director was friends with Russell from when they both played ball in the Minors.)
Now if Open Range starred Duvall and, say, Sam Elliot…
I truly hate the trailers that give you a three-minute version of the movie; I see this especially with comedies or “heartwarming” movies. They tell you what the premise is, what the main character tries to do, what problems lie in his way, and how he eventually succeeds, while presenting what are probably the best jokes in the movie. So why the hell would I pay $8.00 to see the movie now?
The trailer for the movie What Lies Beneath actually kept me out of the theater because it gave away all the main plot points. The trailer for the movie Rat Race included an entire comedy sequence – not just a joke, but the premise, development and denoument of an entire sequence.
Me! I’m more excited for that than I was for any summer movie aside from X2. I do agree that the timing is somewhat odd, but I couldn’t care less. Can’t wait!
On topic, the trailer for Underworld makes the movie look like an incredibly stupid Crow rip off or something. Granted, I know nothing about it, so that might just be what it is, but everything in the trailer looks like something a 15 year old goth kid put to paper.
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life: I hated the first one a lot. But the trailer makes this movie look kind of fun, so maybe I’ll give it a chance after all.
Brother Bear: I tend to think that statements about movie trailers being cliché are hyperbole, but for this movie, man…
Having gone to the San Diego Comic Con yesterday, and having sat through New Line’s stupid Freddy vs. Jason presentation so I could see Lord of the Rings stuff, I can say that the answer to these questions is a resounding (and in some cases, disturbing to the extreme) “YES.”
I’m excited about Freddy vs. Jason, but then, sometimes my taste in movies is the entertainment equivilent of ripping out my own intestines with a spoon, so…Jason X was absolutely wonderful in that “We’ve done everything we can with this premise that anything else would just be waaaaayy too silly” kind of way. I’m hoping they do the same here and get passed that “No, really, these guys are scary” thought.
I also hate how with foriegn films, they have to show all the best parts in order to convince people that just because it’s foriegn, doesn’t mean it’s crap. Shaolin Soccer is a hilarious, and absolutely funny as hell movie. Of course, if you’ve watched the trailer, you’ve seen everything there is to see about it, INCLUDING THE ENDING!!! I know there are some trailers that give the ending away in some sense, but this was just blatant! There’s absolutely no reason anyone should go see it now, which is a real shame.
I saw Charlie’s Angels 2 last night, and can’t really remember any of the trailers. I remember one about some rich chick who loses her money and ends up becoming a high class babysitter for a really neurotic child, but the only thing really interesting there was the pig. Oh, and that Gigli movie…holy CRAP! Why is this movie in existance? Ben Aflek talking about his “Tough guy exterior”? What?
Outside of that, there was nothing interesting. Sometimes trailers are fun, but the majority of them are rather forgetful. But they’re a hell of a lot better than those f#@king Coca Cola commercials!
I tend to think that statements about movie trailers being cliché are hyperbole, but for this movie, man…