My fellow blog readers – all two of you – I’m officially out of excuses for not contributing to my own movie blog in approximately two months. My primary excuse has been finishing up drafts of my latest screenplay opus. As a side note, I’ve probably never had more fun writing a script than this one. It’s been so much fun in fact, perhaps I’ll write about it in a future post.
But for now… what’s been going on in the world of movie trailers since this blog went silent? Unfortunately, not much. The best trailer of the past couple months is Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The look and feel of Indy 4 is great. Looks like vintage Spielberg stuff, which is a good thing. I love the silhouetted shot against the Army vehicle of Indy donning his fedora as the famous John Williams score kicks in. Cliché alert: it made me feel like a kid again. One minor quibble is that dorky title. Somebody please outlaw George Lucas from titling his productions!
I also really like the trailer for Get Smart with Steve Carrell and a bunch of other movie stars. Steve looks perfect for this role and there is a lot of funny on display here. Plus the supporting cast is swell.
A couple other decent trailers are The Love Guru and The Happening. Guru will likely only appeal to those who like Mike Myers. I like Mike and wish he made movies more often. I also wish Guru didn’t look so much like an Austin Powers retread with the dwarf bits, but I’ll still give it a shot.
The Happening is the latest spooky flick from M. Night Shyamalan. I’m also a Night fan, so I look forward to checking this one out, even though it doesn’t look as intriguing as several of his other movies. Then again, I didn’t care for the Sixth Sense trailer either, and therefore was one of the last people in America to see it – a delay which caused the big twist ending to be ruined for me, thus I’ll never really know if I would’ve figured out the truth about Bruce Willis on my own. People in general and people who write about movies should be fined by the federal government for purposefully ruining key movie plot points for people who haven’t seen a particular movie yet. All that to say, though Happening isn’t an awesome trailer, it’s still good enough to get me in the theatre.
Other watchable trailers of the past couple months include Drillbit Taylor (welcome back Owen Wilson!), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (those sisters are pretty easy on the eyes), Step Brothers (I’m a sucker for Will Ferrell being immature), Nim’s Island (looks good for families, and it’s good to see Jodie Foster lightened up) and that’s about all.
Everything else I’ve seen has been either pretentiously laughable (Sex and the City), nasty (Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo), drug-related/uncalled for (Pineapple Express, The Wackness), plagued with horrible effects (Meet Dave), blasphemous (Hamlet 2), 100% unsolicited by movie-goers (The Incredible Hulk), or just ho-hum (Superhero Movie, The Forbidden Kingdom, 88 Minutes, The Bank Job, Street Kings, Ice Age 3, Lakeview Terrace, Bangkok Dangerous).
Coming soon: Summer Movie Madness!
