5 posts tagged “trailer”
I am the only person I know who hated Knocked Up. And it nearly destroyed me.
During the summer of 2007, I went on a rampage, trying to figure out the draw surrounding this film. Everyone around me was rolling in the aisles, while I was scratching my head. I'm all for film fantasy (where it might not work out in "the real world," but it will in the movies), but I could just not get on board with Knocked Up. Not only did I feel Alison and Ben wouldn't end up in together in "the real world"; I literally couldn't understand how Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogen could end up in this movie together.
But enough of my Knocked Up rant (believe me a few relationships were nearly destroyed over this movie).
Knocked Up director Judd Apatow might be able to redeem himself with his new film, Funny People.
In the first half of the trailer, I was thinking, "Here we go. Sandler and Rogen. I don't know if I can take the whining." But then once Ringo Starr's "Photograph" chimed in, and we learn that George Simmons is NOT supposed to die, I suddenly changed my mind (even with the annoying Jonah Hill appearances). I did not expect this twist. I was thinking that this would be like Michael Keaton in My Life, documenting one man's self-awareness of mortality (although, because Funny People involves death, there's still a chance for the gun to go off in the last act). The twist makes me feel like Apatow is really gunning for that Oscar, or at least some dramatic recognition (ala "comedian" Woody Allen). Either way, the trailer is rather thoughtful and intriguing. Strangely enough, I'm "in" with this one. Hey, it's gotta be better than Smart People.
For about three months (from November to January), "good" movies are released in time for the Oscar push. Come February and March, "crap" movies that have been on the backburner for a year are given their time in the sun. However, sometimes it takes a while for a film to be released because it's too independent, too unappreciated to see the light of day during the Oscar push. Wendy and Lucy is one of those films.
Frankly, I can understand why it's unappreciated. Wendy and Lucy is a movie that clocks in at an hour and 20 minutes, there's no real plot, and one of the title characters is a dog. Yet, after seeing this movie, I left the theatre having gone on an emotional roller coaster.
While we don't really know much about Michelle Williams' Wendy (other than she's on her way to Alaska with her dog Lucy), director Kelly Reichardt's choice to withhold Wendy's backstory from the audience is an intriguing tactic. After all, Wendy is a drifter. Michelle Williams' ability to make us care for Wendy and somehow know what she's been through is a testament to her acting. Sometimes, it's hard to remember when she was Jen on "Dawson's Creek." Also, the scene where she encounters a hobo in the woods is one of the scariest moments I've experienced in cinema all year. If your heart isn't beating a mile a minute during this scene, you might not be human.
Without giving too much away, I think that this movie is one of the most important movies to be released in 2008 (although it didn't reach more mainstream audiences until now). This film shows the choices some individuals have to make in order to survive and pursue a new way of life. With the nation in economic turmoil and tent cities popping up around the world, Wendy's story almost hits too close to home. Even though one doubts Wendy's house foreclosed or she lost her job at the top of the corporate ladder, her story is still one that resonates in today's unstable world.
Renee Zellweger is back in this new trailer for New In Town, a comedy about a pampered business woman who gets relocated from Miami to Minnesota.
New In Town actually reminds me a little of Diane Keaton's 1987 comedy, Baby Boom -- which was about a woman who moves from New York City to Connecticut after she inherits a baby. While there's no baby in Town, it's the same type of comedy where the country folk make the city folk look foolish.
P.S. Is it disturbing that I knew Baby Boom's release year off of the top of my head without IMDBing it? What can I say. I know my movies about asphyxiated fish.
It's like CSI meets In Her Shoes!
It is indeed, for real. And it looks totally good! Finally, second-fiddles Adams and Blunt look like they are finally going to get their due -- a deserving starring-vehicle. Is it just me or does Emily Blunt look like Kate Winslet a little bit?
The new trailer for Gus Van Sant's Milk is online now, and I'm officially psyched for this movie.
Anyway, back to the trailer. . .
I wonder how they'll handle the "twinkie defense." I've got to give it to Josh Brolin. Long gone are the days when he was simply "Brand" from The Goonies. With Milk and W. coming out this Fall, he could be headed to the Oscars again (and not as a limo driver as some may have thought years before).
Plus, I'm excited to see Alison Pill in this movie (i.e. the lone girl a.k.a the "fag hag" a.k.a. the "Grace" to many Wills). I've loved her since Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen. My copy of the movie might have been sold to the highest bidder on eBay, but the memory of her performance still warms my heart. I wonder if she and LL still talk. . .
