Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are
to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: a pastime
for helots, a diversion for uneducated, wretched, worn-out creatures
who are consumed by their worries, … a spectacle which requires no
concentration and presupposes no intelligence,… which kindles no
light in the heart and awakens no hope other than the ridiculous one of
someday becoming a "star" in Los Angeles…)
You Should Have Left:
the trailer wants me to think this is Generic Horror Film. I want to
know how it is different. This is a basic clash of objectives. Still,
there is apparently an audience for generic horror.
Bill & Ted Face the Music Teaser:
there is no end to the desire of middle-aged men to recapture their
youths. And I suppose this does less harm than a Porsche or a mistress.
7500:
yeah, because the only role you can think of for a woman is to look
pretty and be threatened in order to motivate a man.
Eurovision Song Contest - The Story of Fire Saga:
one assumes that the song contest organisers must have given their
consent to this. I hope they were paid a lot of money.
Train To Busan Presents - Peninsula:
Could this be the Aliens to the original's Alien? (But it's also a
heist movie and an underground fight movie and sometimes I love Korean
film.)
The Nest (Teaser):
more pretty white people problems. If there's anything more than that,
eh, the trailer won't say. I was waiting for the zombies.
Most Wanted:
crusading journalists, how quaint.
The Fight:
I suppose it's helpful to let people know what happens. But I find
this sort of film tremendously dispiriting.
Palm Springs:
those who do not understand Groundhog Day are condemned to repeat
it? Might have something to say, but it seems unlikely.
Hamilton:
since the entire world and their pet ferrets are more familiar with
this than I am, all the trailer needs to do is point out that it's a
film of the popular thing. Well, and it's doing it in a "stagey" style
rather than filming it against more realistic backdrops, so fair
enough.
The Broken Hearts Gallery:
looks all right but it's coming down right in the middle of the
"generic romcom" landing pad.
Capital in the 21st Century:
but I'd rather read the book.
Ava:
why do they always fail this way? Why not just have a retirement plan
for your stone cold combat chick? Pretty cast but we've seen it all
before.
Waiting for the Barbarians:
great visuals, but Depp is cranking up the Depp-o-matic to play his
usual role.
Animal Crackers:
no, of course it's nothing to do with the Marx Brothers film; don't
you know this is a licenced property? Why not make a film based on a
snack food? It's probably got more plot than Battleship. And my word
that animation looks cheap, so it'll probably be very profitable.
(With a side message that using animals for entertainment is just
fine, they like it really.)
Greenland:
yeah, maybe it's the complete rubbishness of the last Gerard Butler
film I saw, but I really can't take this seriously.
Respect (Teaser):
doesn't say anything to me, but I can see how it might say things to
other people.
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