Some trailers I've seen recently, and my thoughts on them. (Links are
to youtube. Opinions are thoroughly personal.)
Two of Us:
Barbara Sukowa was the best thing in the Twelve Monkeys TV series and
it looks as if she's the anchor of this too.
The Mauritanian:
Cumberbatch should not try to play Americans until he can do the
accent a bit better. Foster looks good. Otherwise…
Fatale:
women be crazy. I mean, you sleep with them and dump them, and they
get all upset.
The Dig:
love and Spitfires are much more interesting than Sutton Hoo.
The Marksman:
that really ought not to be a survivable firefight for him, but hey,
magical Marine powers and he's played by Liam Neeson. No contest.
(Looks like a motivational dead woman too.)
Falling (Teaser):
the most important thing is to keep crazy old dad happy even as he
endangers everyone else, because old men must be pandered to.
The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee:
remember when Paul Hogan had a career? Tee hee, let's cause property
damage.
[Wonder Woman 1984 Exclusive Featurette - Behind the Frame:
I'm putting in this trailer for IMAX™ (and incidentally for a film)
just to point out that the makers of this film would rather you die
than that you not pay them the extra few bucks to see this in an
expensive cinema instead of your home.
French Exit:
pretty people problems. And Pfeiffer is wackily ker-razy.
The Midnight Sky:
still looks very pretty. Still looks empty of actual people.
Nobody (Red Band):
the Good Guy Who Doesn't Do That Any More sinks to a new level. Might
be fun for the balletic violence but the toxic masculinity is strong
in this one.
The Vigil (Teaser):
ooh, let's mine yet another set of folklore for jump scares.
Shadow in the Cloud:
if it were an actual WWII film I might enjoy it rather better than the
horror/WWII hybrid it's apparently intended to be. It's great that
you can now set a film in an aircraft with an actual sense of
location, rather than having to have cut-apart sets and static cameras
that never really connect one place to another, but oh dear that
explosion bounce shot…
A Glitch in the Matrix:
solipsism with a pseudoacademic face.
Nomadland:
yeah, but is it a pseudo-documentary or a work of fiction with a plot?
Outside the Wire (Teaser):
gosh, they're getting a lot of mileage out of that CGI Osprey aren't
they? Throw it in the background of every shot. Oh well, just more
shooty beaty tough guys; I'm boringly demanding of character to go
with it.
Savage:
"as the child so the man" is hardly a new or contentious thing to say.
What else do you have to say?
No Man's Land:
yet another example of why guns casually turn an argument into a
murder, and so the victim's friends get bigger guns, and… it's always
framed as individual decisions, a person to be blamed, a person to
be praised, when what you need to fix is the overall system that
expects untrained scared people to make sensible decisions about the
use of lethal force.
Fear of Rain (Teaser):
well, we've seen "is it a real threat or is she mad (spoiler, it is a
real threat)" before. So if that's a film you like to see, this
trailer tells you that you can see it again.
Palmer:
Faaaaaatherhood. (And gender roles.)
A Boy Called Christmas (Teaser):
Adaptation of Beloved* Children's Book. * may not actually be beloved.
Murderous Trance:
very pretty but wot do it do molesworth wot purpose hav it?
Land:
with a cast like this, and a setting like this… it might just work.
Coming 2 America:
you know, I've actually never bothered to watch the original. Great
cast here, selling their dignity for (I hope) a lot of money.
The Little Things:
this cop-and-killer stuff just doesn't appeal in film (in TV I find it
can work better, possibly because nobody's trying to be all Portentous
with it). Might well work for someone else; it seems competently done…
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