Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are
to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal. Calibration: The
experiments that the Payne Fund carried out concentrated on such
issues as the extent to which children learnt from film and how well
they retained what they learnt; the possibility that exposure to film
affected attitudes; and how moral standards might be affected by what
was viewed. The findings of these studies showed that the human mind
could be shaped and moulded by persons in positions of influence; and,
in this context, the film maker was in an almost unique position of
influence.)
Get Duked!:
a ripoff of The Most Dangerous Game which makes the victims so
unsympathetic that I'm close to rooting for the hunters.
I Am Woman:
I guess? Doesn't resonate with me, but it doesn't have to.
DC Fandome (Teaser):
it's a trailer for… a promo event?
Alone:
but why is this story any different from every other piece of
woman-imprisoned-by-lunatic porn?
Critical Thinking:
sure, Chess is an equaliser: anyone who's got plenty of free time in
quiet places to study it can learn to be good. (Also, generic underdog
sports story.)
I'm Thinking of Ending Things:
more Kaufman white people problems. Can Kaufmannery sustain interest
in this dreary story? Maybe.
Judas and the Black Messiah:
at last, something I might actually want to watch. Even with a bit of
nuance to it. And it's not even meant to appeal to me.
Bad Hair (Teaser):
not for me, but looks like a new take on body horror at last.
The Devil All the Time:
rural sordidness or sordid rurality: you choose. (And animal cruelty
and Robert Pattinson, neither of which is a point in its favour for
me.)
The War With Grandpa:
everything that makes him an individual is melting away, and it's a
comedy.
The Secrets We Keep:
looks well-made, decent cast, but somehow it doesn't grab me.
Death on the Nile:
very pretty. But hasn't this story rather been done by now? (Yes, I
know, the new Murder on the Orient Express made money so this was
inevitable.)
On the Rocks:
pretty white people problems now include a black person. Yay. (And
paranoid white dad doesn't trust black boyfriend, well that'll bust
the stereotypes.)
12 Hour Shift:
tawdry crime… just doesn't grab me. I like Bettis here, but that's
about all.
Let Him Go:
tawdry rural decay doesn't really grab me either. Well, I guess it's
the tawdriness.
The Suicide Squad (Teaser):
all this says is "we have actors who don't look completely unlike the
way the charaters are depicted in the comics". Lots of actors.
Black Adam (Teaser):
if you don't know the character (as I don't), there's nothing to
distinguish this from any other superhero story.
The Batman Teaser:
don't keep digging him up. Just let him rest. There are thousands of
films that don't get made because all the money goes on yet another
iteration of the same eighty-year-old character.
Ammonite:
might work. The colour palette is a bit obvious, but there's some
potential here.
Enola Holmes:
if we must recycle Sherlock, let's at least not idolise him. In
spite of all the red flags there's something here that might just
possibly work.
The 40-Year-Old Version:
doesn't grab me, but there is at least something here.
Come Play:
too much of the generic horror for my taste. And like most child
actors, this one looks subtly wrong.
The Doorman:
the basic model is one that works, and Jean Reno and Jonathan Banks
make everything better. But I can't help noticing that this is not
about a random hero but about an employee putting their life on the
line for the benefit of their rich employer. Eh, maybe I'm just in a
weird mood.
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