So I have nothing to do at home, and just too tired for computer games; hence I begin to hunt down youtube movie trailers, especially those upcoming movies in 2010. Youtubing (look ma, new internet verb!) the terms “upcoming movies trailers 2010” yield lots of fun, so I am just going to look at the interesting ones…
Prince of Persia : The Sands of Time
The dialogue makes me cringe, thought the lead actor looks like he emerges straight from the cover of the box art. Sadly I never played through the game, but it seems that the movie is truer to the gameplay than Max Payne, which the wall jumping and the time-twisting elements.
However, the trailer isn’t particularly exciting. It gets just a ‘mmm that’s interesting’ from me.
I think Prince of Persia looks better than Clash Of The Titans, which not only is in the same vein, but is just too epic for its own good, and feels like it’s trying too hard to be cool, in a Terminator: Salvation / Transformers 2 way.
As Prince of Persia is a Jerry Bruckheimer production, I think they’re trying for the same appealing approach as they found success with for Pirates of the Caribbean, by not pushing the dazzle too far at the expense of character, but still with plenty of whizzbang. Plus they’ve done a good job of maintaining the game elements.
Curiously, the next review is the Clash of the Titan trailer, and the premise is cool, but the trailer is boring. A lot of close-up shots of Greek warriors, monsters and gods, but no long establishing shots, and it filled with hamy one-liners.
The music…I was hoping to hear some fantastic orchestral music with haunting vocals, and got some rock music overlaid on top of it. The CGI looks dated too…well, any CGI looks dated after Avatar is out, I suppose.
I rarely watch trailers on Youtube; in fact, I only tend to watch trailers anywhere other than Apple TV - Apple TV when it’s one I’ve been particularly waiting for that is released elsewhere exclusively (usually Yahoo!).
I think the best trailers I’ve seen in recent years were for 300 and The Fountain (in both cases, I prefer the first trailer to the later versions).