Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are
to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: I hate
everything.)
Beast of Burden:
no, of course everything's not going to be OK. Why do we care about
this guy? The film may establish it, but the trailer doesn't bother.
Yet another unlikeable role for Daniel Radcliffe, who seems to have
made a speciality of them after Harry Potter.
Leaning Into The Wind:
not usually my sort of thing, but this manages to make itself look
genuinely interesting.
Tomb Raider (trailer 2):
meh, "I want to find my dad" is about the most boring motivation they
could have picked. Great shot with the plane over the waterfall, but
the rest has nothing to say to me.
The Cured:
smells of careful setup to make the Author's Point.
I Kill Giants:
seems like a pretty heavy-handed Child With Problems Story, and the
cast aren't particularly appealing.
Submergence:
very pretty, though clearly hacked out of order to go with the
narration. Might be worth a look if the film itself actually has a
narrative sequence to it.
Unsane:
pushes the easy buttons to try to get rewards it hasn't earned.
When We First Met:
starts off with the evil myth of the Friend Zone, but with a horribly
unappealing lead whom we're supposed to hope gets the girl, because
that's what time travel is for.
Ant-Man and the Wasp:
does at least seem to be trying to answer the huge unresolved question
of the first film ("why the hell didn't the scientist's competent
daughter get to try out the shrinking gizmo and battlesuit, rather
than J. Random Schlub").
Hereditary:
drowning in Significance and Symbolism, and easy scares.
Mute:
feels like an overblown gimmick on a generic nasty criminals plot, but
Duncan Jones gets it a second look.
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