[imdb still waiting]It’s like when you hear someone yell, “I’m gonna puke,” and you look. You knew what you were about to see; you didn’t really expect anything different. If that wasn’t what you wanted to see, you simply should not have looked. Yeah…that’s this trailer. I don’t know what I was expecting from a trailer of the sequel to Waiting. I guess this is about it.
It is kind of sad because alongside some absolutely crummy actors, are some really good ones. It’s cool to see Maggie Lawson (Juliet from “Psych”) getting a starring role, but a starring role in this is not saying much. She may as well star in an American Pie sequel. With her is Luis Guzman and John Michael Higgins, who are always brilliant to watch, in a worthwhile film.
I will say that the trailer knows who its audience is, and its caters to them…strictly to them. It doesn’t attempt to reel in people who would not be interested in T & A and bodily fluid humor. There is no bait and switch going on here. The trailer says, “This is a gross crappy movie with lame jokes,” so if you rent the film thinking otherwise, you totally deserve what you get. Thus, while this this trailer is putrid, especially since it thinks a major selling point of the film is a cameo by Adam Carollla, at least it’s honest.
[imdb the brothers bloom]The Brothers Bloom trailer does not dilly-dally around the point. It hurtles the audience into the plot just as the actual film would. It shows that the trailer author knows exactly what audience the film wants to attract, and how to attract them. The way the characters are presented mimic the “Heist” film style. The sequence of events have the action and questions constantly escalating to the point where the audience is on the edge of its seats waiting to know what comes next.
The writer/director, Rian Johnson, has only two other credits to his name, one of which is a dark, brilliant film called Brick, which completely emobodies the film-noir style. Although The Brothers Bloom has a strikingly different tone, it seems as though Johnson does have a grasp on how to revamp a tired genre.
I do hope this trailer is a good sampling of the humor. The preview has excellent comedic rhythm that gives me butterflies when I watch it. It doesn’t help that I’m madly in love with Rachel Weisz, who looks absolutely huggable! I succumbed to a thrill of excited giggles after I saw this trailer, and I do hope that the film will be just as awesome.
[imdb tt1099212]Well…the trailer for Twilight was pretty much on par with the film. It definately exhibited the beautiful scenery in the film, and also how they build up drama with the camera work. It also, sadly, gave away how bad the acting was. In the trailer, all of Kristin Stewart’s lines are delivered in the same monotonous drone, but I figured the trailer editor just happened to use clips that had the same emphasis. No, pretty much all her lines are delivered like that. Furthermore, Robert Pattinson’s long, agonizingly worried face never changes expression in the trailer or the film. The actors didn’t give the editor much to work with.
I assume marketers figured a trailer chock full of angst, drama, angst, and more drama would certainly reel in the teenage girls, but the boys wouldn’t care without a little bit of action. Thus, half the trailer is about the bad vampires who kill like animals and beat up on the good vampires…but this is a teeny tiny bit of the movie, towards the end of it. They built up the crazy vampire murder action, when that is only twenty minutes of the film…the rest is simply drama, angst, and MORE ANGST. If I was a teenage boy, or girl for that matter, I’d want those two hours of my life back, or at least my fifteen bucks. Hell…I DO want my fifteen bucks back!
[imdb four christmases]In Blake Snyder’s book “Save the Cat,” he writes about having read this script in its infancy. My fiance, Dan, and I started speculating on what the poster might look like. I pictured the poster separated into four sections with the same couple standing in front of four different front doors. I only bring this up in order to boast that in the preview, there is a tiny clip where the screen is separated into four sections with four different front doors. Damn straight.
Because I was aware of this movie before it was produced, I do feel a fondness for it. I also love the roster of actors, from Vince Vaughn to Mary Steenburgen to Jon Voight. But I also can identify with having four different families. I think this trailer does a fantastic job of realistically setting up these crazy characters and this semi-surreal situation, while giving us just a little taste of the underlying sweetness that you know the movie will inevitably have.
From the trailer, I get the feeling that the main couple has been together for at least a couple years, but they don’t seem to know anything about one another. The husband doesn’t know the wife formerly had weight issues, and the wife doesn’t know her husband’s real name. My curiosity is piqued; do these sorts of revelations only come about when your significant other meets your family, or is this couple just uncommunicative. This trailer does exactly what it should, make me want to see the film. I also must say that although I’m not fond of vomit jokes, this has the best one I’ve seen, although that could be due to Vaughn’s delivery. He is adorable.
[imdb tt0397892]I do not like the narrator in this trailer. I’ve watched the preview a couple times now, and I feel there is no real need for him. I think the plotting of the clips are crystal clear enough without the voice of God being all snarky. Besides, the trailer beautifully sets the audience up in the beginning, showing clips of Bolt the superdog in action. I was tricked into thinking that was the movie. Then the shot of the director yelling cut perfectly demonstrates the twist that Bolt is simply a normal dog, albeit a little confused.
The narrator only succeeds in yanking me out of the immersive storytelling of the trailer. Instead of the preview saying “This is the story, come see our film,” it’s saying “This is a movie, it is for kids, it comes out at Thanksgiving, it’s Disney, it’s going to be big.” Ick. How dumb do they think we are? How dumb do they think kids are?
Disregarding the narrator, the trailer is dead on. It shows exactly what that stupid voice over reiterates. Bolt is a tv star, he is delusional, he joins up with with a cat and a hamster. Even the most stupid, idiotic, brainless dolt watching this trailer (i.e. my little brother) would be able to deduce what the movie is about. Give us a little credit, will ya? Anyway, you hired a top notch trailer editor to give you a concise, cohesive movie pitch, why pay more money to muck it up by being redundant?
[imdb tt0796366]From Star Trek’s trailer, we get a couple tiny battle clips, a shot of the bad guy, and some angsty Kirk moments, but the preview gives nearly nothing away in regards to plot. Instead, the two minute montage is rife with character development. For those of us familiar with the show, it tugs on those heart-string attatchments we have for these characters, and yet it still presents a little more humanization, particularly in those small peeks into Kirk’s background. I love the blips of Sulu, Uhura, and Scotty. Even more so, I like that the five seconds of screentime Bones gets, he uses to lecture Kirk.
I think the opening of the preview was great. It was exciting, enthralling, and fun in its introduction of James Siberius Kirk…HUH?! Either this kid read his line wrong or he needs to learn to ennunciate, but I’m pretty sure I heard Siberius, and last I knew it was Tiberius…with a T. Maybe it’s like in Wicked where Galinda changes her name to Glinda, Kirk changes his name to Tiberius. Or maybe he just decides that James T. Kirk is more manly. Maybe I’m just nit-picking…or heard wrong…but the brat’s little slur of words irks me. It sets a bad precedent for the accuracy of the rest of the film.
However, my fiance and roommate, who are both extreme, mega Star Trek geeks, who practically had a coronary because the left central turret of the Enterprise ship was off by a centimeter (I’m exagerating of course…it was probably closer to an inch), didn’t even blink when the kid said Siberius, and when I bitch they look at me as though I just sprouted a Bajoran nose. Blarg, what do they know?
I do think that the person (or peoples) who cut this trailer had a mini-gasm when they used the clip of Eric Bana proclaiming “The wait is over.” How supremely, nerdarifically perfect is that little gem?! I couldn’t supress a little giggle, that’s for sure. And I love the use of the transporter sound effect and the bit of original Star Trek theme song at the close of the preview. I think a fan or two cut this trailer, or so I’d like to believe.
Dreamworks has done it again, and I swear, I’m going to have their babies. Monsters Vs. Aliens not only looks pretty, has a fantastic, star-studded cast, but also promises to be side-splittingly hilarious.
The trailer does a good job presenting the film, which pokes fun at 1950’s pulp sci-fi and monster films. I love the cute asides, like the reporter complaining that America seems to be the only country aliens ever land in (although Japan should be a close second). The trailer does an excellent job presenting the humor and the plot at the same time.
We get to see the basic plot, aliens attack Earth, and Earth is so desperate, they decide to fight back with monsters, who are just as “scary.” However, it does a good job of not giving away what happens between the monsters and aliens, because never once in the trailer do the two groups meet. We also get just enough humor in it to make me excited, but it doesn’t give away all the good jokes. I know what I’m going to see for my birthday!
[imdb fast and furious]Boo-yah. If I had any interest whatsoever in this hyped-up, drawn-out, steroid-induced, sorry-ass excuse for a franchise, THIS would be the trailer that would make me stand in line (all by my lonesome, by the way) for opening day. The teeniest bit of testosterone I have lying dormant in my body hit a boiling point when I saw this trailer.
The opening is brilliant, and makes us go, “hey, is this the movie?” As much as I love a good montage; giving us an excerpt of the movie is an excellent way to setup the plot and feel. In thirty seconds we’ve got a heist, a car chase, guns, couple of car crashes, a freakin’ mega-explosion, and KER-BLAM, the Deeze himself! After the reveal, there’s the best shot-music syncopation I’ve seen in a long time. The cuts are so well-timed with the beat I must download that song! Beat beat, Vin Deisel, beat beat, hot chick, beat beat, fire ball, beat beat, awesomeness! Who doesn’t love that?!
Even the little tag line “New Model, Original Parts” made the nostalgia part of my brain go “Whoa!” and fall off its chair. This trailer could easily trick me into seeing this film, if it wasn’t for my conscience tapping me on the shoulder saying, “but you hate these movies!” It’s alright, despite the kick-ass Tokyo Drift trailer, I managed to miss that movie, so I’m sure I can resist seeing Fast & Furious. I’ll just rewatch the trailer.
[imdb tt1099212]I had heard so much praise about the Twilight series of books, that I admit I wanted to like the movie.The trailer does present the angsty, action-filly, lovey-dovey story I was expecting.However, I get dizzy and nauseous just trying to watch the preview.There are so many scene cuts and fade-to-blacks that my stomach never stops lurching.
The preview tries to set a nice slow pace in the beginning, symbolizing the mystery and seduction that exudes from…well, his name is Edward…and hers is Bella…although we wouldn’t know that from the preview.These mysterious cuts, though, turn into action-packed cuts, without really changing the length of the clips, so there is no real difference between the love-story setup and the vampire fight setup; my brain has a hard time wrapping around the story.
The trailer shows some really good examples of the effects in the movie.I was not distracted by cartoony looking trees or people.The clip of Edward and another Vampire digging into a hardwood floor looks pretty realistic.All in all, the trailer presents an interesting story, although it does it in a way that leaves me feeling like I just stepped off a carnival Gravitron.
Dreamworks has done it again, and I swear, I’m going to have their babies. Monsters Vs. Aliens not only looks pretty, has a fantastic, star-studded cast, but also promises to be side-splittingly hilarious.
