apple.com/trailers just put up a buttload of new trailers on its site. So, having recently completed some mind-numbing cms work, I’m checked them out:
1-18-08 – This is the new super-secret J.J. Abrams movie. It’s pretty hard to figure out what’s going on in the trailer, but it seems to be a Blair Witch-style monster movie. I’ve always thought Abrams was overrated as a writer/director, but I must admit that the trailer intrigues me.
Margot at the Wedding – The Squid and the Whale Guy makes another quirky/funny/relationship movie with Jack Black, Jennifer Leigh, and Nicole Kidman. I could go either way on this one. Jack Black is funny, Nicole Kidman is beautiful, and I thought The Squid and the Whale was fairly solid. On the other hand, it’s a relationship movie (read: chick flick) and the directory also made Kicking and Screaming, which sucked. I’ll say moderate interest.
The Jane Austen Book Club - I’m going to go ahead and say no. A movie about a bunch of women whose lives revolve around Jane Austen (who, quite frankly, sucks) and fall in and out of love is not exactly my genre.
The Ten - This looks like it has potential. A comedy with 10 vignettes about the violation of a specific commandment. However, it also looks like it might veer into that sort of “wackiness” of the Stella variety, which is patently and in every way not funny. The fact that it’s directed by the guy who made Wet Hot American Summer does nothing for me either way.
The 11th Hour - I dunno, I think I liked it better the first time when it was called An Inconvenient Truth and had Al Gore.
Introducing the Dwights - Christ, is every independent film about awkward relationship stuff? And I use the term stuff because it’s all sort of a mishmash that vaguely pisses me off. Despite that, this movie actually looks kinda funny and I like British people. So my interest is piqued.
I Know Who Killed Me - Yeah? Well I know what you did last summer, and that was make what looks to be a crappy movie with Lindsay Lohan, who appears to have a split personality that is a stripper. Anyone remember Freaky Friday with her and Jamie Lee Curtis? or Mean Girls? Those were good movies. Sigh.
Daddy Day Camp - Hey remember that shitty movie Daddy Daycare that no one liked or watched? How about a sequel? Hurray! Fucking awful.
30 Days of Night - Holy crap this looks sweet. Vampires + Alaska, I mean, come on! I’m legitimatly excited about this, the graphic novel that it’s based on is pretty awesome and Sam Raimi is involved (although just as a producer and that can be misleading see: Tarantino –>Eli Roth). So far it’s the trailer that got me the most pumped.
Vantage Point - Wow, two good ones in a row. This one is a political assassination thriller with some sort of convoluted “bad guys always one step ahead” plot. Looks like it might be decent.
Becoming Jane - What is it with Jane Austen? Pass…excuse me sir…I said “Pass”
My Best Friend - I dunno, I find it hard to judge foreign films without actually seeing them. It looks cute.
The Wendell Baker Story – Looks pretty funny. Luke Wilson and Owen Wilson are generally pretty reliable. Plus, I like the kind of hick bad-ass that Wilson seems to be playing. It’s kind of a trailer-park-boys/My Name is Earl thing.
Dans Paris – Another foreign comedy, again hard to judge, although my first impulse is that it doesn’t look all that great. Yes, I am aware that these little blurbs keep getting shorter.
This is England - At first this looked like an earnest little comedy, then it turned into a depressing skinhead movie. I’m a little upset. I wanted light and quirky not all sad and whatnot. Despite this, it looks good, although I fear I may be culturally rudderless in a film about the 80s in England, which I know nothing about.
Goya’s Ghosts – This is, of course, the Natalie Portman nude/torture scene movie that made some waves during its production. Besides that, it looks like it’s going to be a Good (capital G intended) movie, an Important Film (again intended). It certainly has the pedigree, both in cast and in the people behind the camera (Milos Forman who did One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and Amadeus). So, I’m fairly excited about it.
Finally, and holy shit is this list long, Lady Chatterly - A French movie about an affair between a woman and a grounds keeper. I really can’t get over how ugly the male lead is. That nonwithstanding, the movie itself does not look particularly compelling, no matter how many “French Oscars” it won. Note: I’m pretty sure that French movies are eligible for Oscars so “French Oscars” is basically like what? the Golden Globes?
Well that’s it. I just watched like 40 minutes of trailers. *Phew* I’m tuckered out.
