Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are
to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: Few people
can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.)
Blue Story (2020):
a revolutionary communist would point out that setting the underclass
against each other is exactly the point. And this isn't the level of
conflict that interests me.
Artemis Fowl:
all right, I've never been interested in Colfer as an author because I
first came across him as the writer who took the money to extend the
Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series. Yeah yeah, somebody would
have done it. But he's the one who did. Meanwhile, this film has
been in development for nearly twenty years and isn't directly based
on one of the plots from the books, because we gotta have that
all-important lost-father story…
Connected:
sentimental family drama, or post-apocalyptic survival comedy? Why not
both? Because everything will feel desperately squeezed, is why not.
On the other hand Lord and Miller have done reasonable jobs before.
Antebellum:
probably hard to watch, but looks very solid. If they can make the
time-hopping actually part of the story, rather than mere narrative
framing…
Greyhound:
I've enjoyed some of Forester's WWII stories, but he doesn't half grim
on at times. And I'm a bit bored with this long run of Tom Hanks
playing perfect people.
Jungle Cruise:
I'm also a bit bored with Dwayne Johnson showing up in everything that
has a vaguely Rock-shaped part in it. I mean, sure, make the money
while you're still marketable, but. Otherwise this doesn't seem to
have much to say.
Soul:
but not as little as this, which apparently creates a cosmology purely
in order to subvert it.
The Willoughbys:
meh, but I'm thoroughly not the target audience here.
Survive the Night:
I've never seen a home-invasion story that I liked. Doesn't look as if
this'll be the first.
Murder House Flip:
OK, I don't usually do TV series trailers, but this was such obvious
barrel-scraping that I couldn't resist.
(Also, I suspect TV series are all we're going to get for a while,
with most film release dates being postponed indefinitely.)
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