Seen Any Good Movie Trailers Lately?
I was going to title this, "Seen any good movies lately," but alas, I go too infrequently. Of course, I can't blame that on The Boy or the cost of a babysitter, either. I can, however, blame it on the fact that I haven't seen an interesting movie trailer in many, many months. There are 2 possible reasons for this:
- The folks in charge of trailer-making suck.
- The folks in charge of making movies are making boring useless movies.
The latest ads for films I've seen either on TV or at the theatre have featured, in no particular order:
- Pained middle-aged people being played by either Susan Sarandon or Tommy Lee Jones.
- Animated bees, which might be interesting, except that Jerry Seinfeld's voice is so distinctive and distracting that I can't pay attention to the bee as a character because every episode of Seinfeld ever made is running through my head as soon as I hear him speak.
- George Clooney striding purposefully up a hill - why? We don't know! But it's George Clooney! And he's STRIDING! UP! A! HILL!
- American flag imagery over a backdrop of despair. Gee, I wonder if this is a war movie? And if so, I wonder what sort of take on it the moviemaker will have? Hmmmm. It's a puzzle!
- Russell Crowe versus Denzel Washington in the dark, with guns and wet pavement. Woo.
- Vampires!
- Angelina Jolie with a tail. In 3-D. And CGI. And it's Beowulf. I'm...well, uh...Huh.
And these are the ones that have at least made an impression on me - God knows how many others are floating around out there. Sigh. At least I enjoyed 3:10 to Yuma.
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But perhaps you, like me, will see about anything that Russell Crowe, or for that matter Denzel Washington, would deign to be in?
What about Elizabeth? I heard Cate's butt is not her own.
I would like to see Elizabeth, but the Washington/Crowe thing just doesn't grab me. Maybe Netflix, if the reviews are good enough.
I recommend the cockpit videos of airliner landings on YouTube.
You can duplicate it in a Google Earth window for the same runway, for extra entertainment.
Completely soap-free.
I saw the Elizabeth movie. It was dreadful. Nowhere near as good as the first. The costumes were great, but it looks like that's the only detail anyone paid attention to. The script is sloppy and uneven, the soundtrack is one of those in your face scores that tells you "feel this emotion here!," and there are about 100 shots of Elizabeth pointlessly gazing over horizons or staring pensively into space that could have been removed and easily chopped 30 minutes off of a way-too-long movie. They spent huge amounts of time on the Sir Walter Raleigh subplot and then gloss over the Spanish Armada in minutes like it was no big deal. And Clive Owen looked like he was sleepwalking through the whole thing. I wouldn't recommend wasting the extra money to see it in the theater.
Here's one you may enjoy by yours truly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3io-vG9_0s