Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are
to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal.)
Jiu Jitsu:
looks like complete crap, but may be enjoyable complete crap.
Happiest Season:
you mean they're still doing coming-out-to-the-parents? Still
without a trace of originality?
Superintelligence:
be afraid of technology, middle-aged audience. But not of the tech
companies that are actually screwing you over, no, ignore them and be
afraid of fantasy AI instead. Also fat women are funny.
Breach:
I don't mind a mindless action film, but all this trailer says to me
is "it's Alien, plus Aliens, plus Bruce Willis, plus zombies, all
stuck in a blender". Which, weirdly, somehow fails to appeal.
Wild Mountain Thyme:
with no obstacles between them, people will still find ways to make
themselves and each other unhappy. (Also, welcome to Ireland, where
the colour is so over-saturated we burned out the chroma processor.)
Ip Man - Kung Fu Master:
now unlike Breach this is doing cliché in a way that makes me think
it might just possibly have something original to say as well as the
product of the Plot-o-Matic – though the latter is definitely here.
Sister of the Groom:
ha ha ha, let's all insult and degrade this woman.
Some Kind of Heaven:
yeah yeah OK it's all strange and weird. We've seen strange and weird
before. What does it have to say?
Castle Freak:
no doubt will appeal to people other than me. A bit too heavy on the
screaming and the expendable meat for my taste.
Pieces of a Woman:
because nobody has ever lost a Baybee before.
Tom & Jerry:
well, they got the animation to look vaguely like the originals. But I
don't think I've seen an animation/human combination that worked since
Who Framed Roger Rabbit which put the essential disconnection into
the foreground of the story, and with the amount of money behind this
I'll be amazed if it does anything other than play it very safe. And
hiring Ken Jeong is never a good sign.
Born A Champion:
sports movie / daddy movie. Woman stands there and looks Adoring. Woo.
Let Them All Talk:
standard Soderbergh people do standard Soderbergh things.
One Night in Miami:
it's great that there are now lots of films about this time and place.
But it does mean that you have to answer the question of why this is
more worth my time than the others.
Chaos Walking:
very prettily made but the characters and plot seem so very much the
same as everything I've seen before.
Wonder Woman 1984:
now that there's a trailer which is more than "gosh, we can make a
film look like the 1980s" this starts to seem vaguely worth paying
some attention to.
Life in a Year:
manic pixie dying girl. And Jaden Smith.
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