WTF? No Seriously, WTF? That is one weird trailer. Honestly, after watching I still have no idea what the movie is about? perhaps it’s a bout a guy living with nine different versions of himself? Some parts of the trailer seem to point to something like that, but there a whole lot of other things in there that seem to go much beyond something like that.
The Nines has gotten some pretty good reviews since it premiered in Sundance. And John August, who wrote and directed the movie, is certainly a very talented screenwriter. So I was already interested in the movie, and the trailer made me more curious about it. But if I knew nothing about the film and I watched that trailer, I’m not sure what my reaction would have been.
This second trailer for The Golden Compass is much more effective, in my opinion, than the first. It makes both the movie’s visuals and story seem more compelling. It still lacks a great visual or story hook to really make you have to go see the movie, but it certainly made much more interested.
I’m not at all a fan of Roland Emmerich. Godzilla was a missed opportunity and Independence Day, despite some major qualities, was in the end too stupid and unbelievable to be really good. But the idea of making a Hollywood style effects extravaganza movie that takes place during pre-history is just too good for me to just dismiss it because he is directing.
The trailer itself is just a teaser and doesn’t show us much. It also doesn’t tell us what the story is about. But still, I’m sort of excited.
The kid discovers a parallel world close to our own genre is getting a little crowded. But I have to admit that this Spiderwick trailer makes the movie look really good. And I mean both that it is beautiful and that it looks like it could be interesting.
Somehow I get the feeling the the actual film will be less scary than the trailer leads us to believe, since this is aimed at kids and all. But I’m now, much too my surprise, sort of eager to see at the movie. Could this actually turn out to be good?
I’m a little torn about this project. On one hand, I’m finding very hard not to think of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when I see anything from this film. On the other hand, the idea of a magical toy store is very interesting and could be turned into a movie filled with crazy and funny scenes. And the movie has Dustin Hoffman, Natalie Portman AND Jason Bateman. That’s quite a cast.
The trailer itself left me cold. The jokes didn’t really work, it failed to truly convey a sense of wonder surrounding the store and it seemed like it might be aimed just at kids. Which would be a shame, since this is the kind of project that could work with all ages, if done well.
I have to admit, I hadn’t even heard of this movie before I saw the trailer linked over at FilmIck. Seems like an entertaining kids movie, the kind of thing my younger self would love, but will probably have very limited appeal with teens and adults.
One of the reasons why Will Smith is now the biggest star in the world is that he has made interesting choices when it comes to which movies he appears in. Not all of this interesting choices turned into good movies, of course, but at least they always had the possibility of becoming good movies.
I Am Legend was another interesting choice, and the trailer gives me hope that it might turn out to be a good movie also. Since this is just a teaser, it doesn’t actually show us much. But it does give us an idea of who the character is, of what happened to him, and of the world he is in now. And the shots of a desolated, crumbling New York are mesmerizing.
The movie only comes out in December, so we should get more trailers before that. But it’s looking good so far.
I know that any trailer for a fantasy movie will, for a good time, try to make people think about The Lord of the Rings. But this one was a bit too on the nose, wasn’t it?
Beyond that, the trailer didn’t really impress me with either it’s visuals or with it’s story. I’m still keeping an open mind, but right now I’m a little less sure about this movie than I was before I saw the trailer.
I hate to admit this, but the I think the trailers for FF2 look really cool. This seems, to me, like the kind of movie that could potentially be very good.
Odds are that the movie will actually be really bad. Why? because the first film sucked, and the second one comes from the same people. But I still have a glimmer of hope tough.
