Some trailers I've seen recently, at least the few that are still
being released, and my thoughts on them. (Links are to youtube.
Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: There is only one thing
that can kill the movies, and that is education.)
Peninsula (Teaser):
see, you show me a guy with a rifle, I don't assume "that's our hero".
But that's all the establishment he gets. Doesn't appeal particularly,
but it might work.
Extraction:
is this about grunty macho men, or is it about growing up a bit from
the shooty-bashy? Nah, it's about grunty macho men.
Capone:
what, again?
The Wrong Missy:
we're supposed to sympathise with this guy? Also, har har har biff
bang bonk and a human being who had that happening to them would
almost certainly be dead. All right, I laughed at that in Mike and
Dave Need Wedding Dates, but this makes me itch.
The Secret: Dare to Dream:
so you take a self-help book that's basically the prosperity gospel
minus the God trappings plus some nonsense about quantum physics, and
you make a romcom out of it. Uh-huh. Why does everybody here look
melted? And why does the whole thing have that Nicholas Sparks aura
about it?
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