Latest Trailers

It’s been a while since I’ve done a trailer trawl, so when I nipped out and had a look at a new trailer for War of the Worlds linked through JoBlo, I was amazed at the amount I had missed. Here’s a few snippets for you all, and if like me you love trailers as their own little art form, then there are some good ones here.

Crash
Just check out the list of stars here, Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Matt Dillon, there’s loads of talent here and a couple of names that will have a nice shot at a serious movie, Jennifer Esposito (Mmmmm!) and Brendan Fraser. The trailer and cast make me think of Magnolia et al, but it looks to have a style and feel all of its own, and the trailer itself makes you feel something which I hope is what is in the movie. This really does look good, and it’s totally sneaked by us.

War of the Worlds
Well I have to say, I wasn’t that hot for this when the news came out, and that poor excuse for a teaser trailer arrived, but then I saw this. Teaser is now excused. This looks really cool, and although a few of the shots seem to be lacking some effects as yet, there is plenty in there to make you realise this is gonna be a lot bigger and better than anyone thought. Not just for the names. I reckon we’ll be looking at box office records for this one, or my names not Geraldine.

Zathura
Time for a reality drop. Despite the effects, this looks like it’ll suck. Following the writing style of Crichton (create one novel on an idea and redo it – Westworld(s) and Jurassic(s)), the writer of Jumanji has decided to go and write Jumanji in space. Oh dear, even the house looks similar.

OldBoy
Another trailer appears for this movie, and it’s even better than the previous I’ve seen. It’s amazing how different trailers can make this movie seem totally different each time, there are quite a few styles pulled into one movie here. If, like me, you’ve yet to see it, this is a biggie. Listen to the word of mouth hype.

Into the Blue
Oh this made me giggle. Not the trailer, but the picture at the start with the glued on head for Mr Walker…doesn’t it look so Photoshop’d? He’s gotta be embarrassed by that. Okay guys, that’s for the ladies, here’s the bit for us…oh my god…Alba in a bathing suit. I think I’ve just…started the trailer. Die Hard meets Point Break? I hate when reviewers do that kind of thing, but that just slammed in my head when I was watching it. Still, it does look like a lot of fun, and not just for the flesh.

Layer Cake
We’ve been talking about it, you non-Brits can check it out with this “foreign” trailer. That makes me laugh when I see that word on a British movie, I know it’s right, it is foreign to the US market, just seems weird to see it. Anyway, the film looks stylish, and some snappy dialogue – he does like that gun. I think we’re going to see just what Vaughn can bring us, and there’s going to be a lot of hope for X-Men 3.

The Amityville Horror
I remember the first trailer, and the feeling of “not another remake”, and I think we all then went off on one. However, seeing this second trailer you can see there’s a lot more than just horror. It looks like there’s a lot of Asian influence in there too, good and bad ghosts, visions, behind the camera movement, etc etc. Now we all know trailers can misrepresent, but going purely on trailers this looks like it’s pulled away from the straight horror idea. In fact there’s a lot of the feel of the other recently released movie, Darkness.

Dallas 362
Jeff Goldblum. There, said it, now I can move on. No, really I love Goldblum, in many of his roles he really is the same old guy, but there’s so much charisma and style in him you just can’t say no to watching. He does bring some very different roles to the screen though, and I always remember that of Deep Cover, very good movie. This looks like it’s peppered with dark laughs but all in all a painful morality tale. Kelly Lynch is misused actress, and should be in a lot more serious, big roles. It’s a shame that Hollywood favour a top percentage of reused stars, and doesn’t dig a little deeper into the acting world, there is so much talent available that isn’t brought forward enough because of the blockbuster attachment to the big names. When sometimes the big names don’t have half the talent of these other actors. Anyway, this looks like an emotionally charged and often funny movie.

Gunner Palace
I’ve been looking forward to some of the movies that are on schedule to come out of the recent world events of the Iraq War and the War on Terror. Not so much from the American gung-ho war movie perspective, but to see more of the factual based, if not full documentary, movies. I think in these days of over saturated and Government influenced and controlled media the movie can often bring more truth out than a thirty second news report sanctioned by a Government official. This is probably one of the first that I’ve been wanting to see, pulling no punches, making no excuses and offering no reasoning, it is merely a straight look at the Soldiers based in what was Saddam’s Palace. It claims to tell the soldiers story the best way possible, by letting the soldiers tell it.

Unleashed
Another trailer arrives for this anticipated movie, and from previous looks it’s seemed stylish and exciting at the same time. I’m hoping Li can be cast in a decent Hollywood movie soon. It’s been remixed, and some of the action sequences look very, very cool. I think this could well be the one, especially with the skills of Freeman and Hoskins involved.