- As we've previously noted, the Social Network trailer is great, but at least the past couple of times I've seen it, I've noticed that it's been just slightly recut, I'm guessing in response to MPAA concerns, to remove a shot at 2:05 that Linda Holmes was surprised made it past the censors.
- Devil certainly has a stylish trailer, with the Panic Room-esque letters hanging in air, and a high-concept premise (five people are stuck in an elevator, and one of them is, unbeknownst to the others, the Devil) that would seem to sell itself, but when "a new nightmare from the mind of M. Night Shyamalan" has come on screen, it's been greeted by some audible derision--perhaps that could be edited out.
- Yes, Zach Galifianakis is quite funny in the Due Date trailer, but doesn't it need to sell the concept of the story to at least some degree, like why they are going to LA together?
Saturday, August 7, 2010
TRAILER PARK: Three thoughts on current movie trailers that inexplicably seem to be attached to every movie I see of late:
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I think the conceit of "Due Date" is that Robert Downey Jr.'s character needs to get back to LA for his child's birth, but why Zach G.has to go with him is not apparent.
ReplyDeleteI don't know, Due Date = Planes, Trains & Automobiles seemed clear enough. I don't know that any more explaination was needed. That opening (with the "My dad loved me" line) was brilliant. Still probably won't see the movie, but I loved that line.
ReplyDeleteDevil looked cool at first, then started getting a bit too high concept, then looked like it was giving away all sorts of spoilers, and then "M. Night" came on screen and the audience (pre-Inception) groaned. Yeah, a 'from the makers of the Sixth Sense', at least leaving some doubt, would have been better.
Same theater was also a preview for The Town, Which includes the line, "Charlestown is the bank robbery capital of America". Since we were sitting in Cambridge, pretty near Charlestown, that line provoked some comments. But the movie did look good, if a bit too Point Break.
There is no such thing as "too Point Break." There is only "not Point Break enough."
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