Movie Trailers

[legaleagle]

The Solondz piece looks interesting. I'm looking forward to it. I really liked Welcome to the Dollhouse and Happiness. Storytelling? Not so much, but b/c the other two were so good, I'm willing to give him a pass.

The Ballad of Jack & Rose looks interesting. It's directed by Rebecca Miller, the wife of Daniel Day Lewis, and stars DDL and Catherine Keener. Here's the imdb link: www.imdb.com/title/tt0357110/

Blockbuster season starts May 6 w/ Kingdom of Heaven. May 16th brings us Episode III. War of the Worlds is up on June 29th.

[phunkymunky]

The trailer at the moment the I am watching over and over again because I can't get over the fact that it looks unbelievably cool is Sin City. The music, the stylized black and white images and the ensemble cast names thrown at you left, right and center makes me wish I can see it now.

I'm not sure if anyone else noticed this but almost all comic book movies have really excellent trailers. Spiderman, The Hulk, X-Men 1 and 2, DareDevil and Blade. Am I right here?

IMO, greatest trailer ever has to go to Matrix Reloaded. I mean, this is after The Matrix folks and I was really looking forward to it....

..and I then I saw Reloaded....and I bawled my eyes out.

[Binky]

IMO, greatest trailer ever has to go to Matrix Reloaded. I mean, this is after The Matrix folks and I was really looking forward to it....

I don't recall the Matrix 2 trailer, but obviously after the first one, expectations were enormous and the sequel didn't deliver at all. I would have gone to see the second one if the entire trailer consisted of "The Matrix: Reloaded" text.

A similar sense of expectation awaits Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest. I think all they need to do is have 15 seconds of Johnny Depp walking around as Captain Jack Sparrow, with the release date.

The last few times I've gone to the movies, I've seen the trailer for The Weatherman. It makes me want to kill Nic Cage.

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Why does Monster-in-Law look so unappetizing?

I love Wanda Sykes---Michael Vartan is OK. But Jane Fonda---she's been gone from acting for 15 years and all she remembers of her craft is how to mug and badly at that? And Jennifer Lopez---is there ever a moment when she is not self conscious? Does she ever react to another actor? Miss Lopez ought to be doing green screen work---she don't need no stinkin' scenery or actors---she is The All. Damn! George Lucas should have hired her for Star Wars, Over and Over Again.

That said---everyone does look good. But the movie don't.

[Maddiemoo]

Serenity looks awesome, but maybe I'm just thinking that because I'm a rabid Firefly nerd and the idea of a movie version geeks me out to no end. I'd be curious to see what people who haven't seen the show think of it, though. Link is here www.apple.com/trailers/universal/serenity/.

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I looked at Serenity. I didn't watch the TV shows Firefly, or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, or Angel.

Serenity didn't catch my interest. Just standard TV Sci Fi stuff with the same static camera work and scene compositions that go with that sort of TV. And the same standard sarcastic remarks for dialogue. Anything approaching originality was stolen from movies like The Grudge or The Ring---and I'm talking about the girl with the bad hair and the affinity for lying on the ceiling.

The special effects look as though they are up a notch from TV FX, but again, no where near Star Wars stuff---nothing special.

And why is the trailer full of words---BUFFY! ANGEL! JOSH WHEDON111!? The trailer is mainly Title Cards that would shame a Silent Movie writer. Why aren't we looking at mini-synopsises or action or some sort of character quirks that would draw someone like me in? The visual effects and short splurts and blurbs of the story don't do it for me. It ain't scary; I don't get a feel of any great momentous story; I don't want to go to see it.

The only part of the trailer for Serenity that made me look again was when some guy drew his space gun and shot his antagonistic interlocutor at the beginning of their conversation---finally somebody in a movie gets that right. Screw the exposition; kill your opponent!

BTW, the best trailer that I ever saw was in a movie theater for The X Files, the television show. It was for the second season of X Files, I didn't watch the first. But I did start watching the TV show after I saw that trailer. I had to watch---that trailer was so compelling. AND BBTTWW, the best espisode of X Files was Jose Chung's From Outer Space.

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Maddiemoo, that is definitely fabulous looking. I can hardly wait until September. After seeing that movie I just might become one of those convention attending fans (who at times I've been known to mock).

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I can't put my finger on why, but every time the Episode III trailer comes on I cannot look away. It's sucking me in with all of its blips and sound bytes. Perhaps it's because my heart hurts a little bit whenever Ewan Macgregor screams, "But you were the Chosen One!" Yes, I am a geek, but really, it's just the trailer that interests me - I doubt I'll even go to the movie.

[marywebgirl]

I saw Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy last night and while most of the trailers were boring and family-oriented, the trailer for Chicken Little actually tied into the movie by opening with a screen that said "Don't Panic."

[shriekingeel]

I have to complain about the trailer for Stealth, which is guilty of the cardinal sin of trailers: It tells the entire story of the movie with almost nothing left to conjecture. There really is no reason to see the movie at all after you've seen the trailer.

Well, except for Jessica Biel in a swimsuit. But that's it.