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We’ve already talked about two of this week’s biggest trailers: Battleship and New Year’s Eve. Wait, did I say biggest? I meant most awful looking. Easy mistake to make as they both sound so similar! But there were plenty of other trailers this week for us still to talk about! There is the one where Orlando Bloom plays a southern cop for some reason. And also a trailer with all the comedians in the world LARPing. Oh, also Margin Call! That looks good. And, of course, we are still feeling the after-shocks of Ryan Gosling Week with another Ryan Gosling trailer for his politics movie with George Clooney. Let’s look, why not:
Main Street
I wouldn’t care about this movie even if all the actors WEREN’T British, but here’s a question: why are all the actors British? That seems completely unnecessary. Bloody hell. Hahahha. Get it? England!
Margin Call
This looks good. Let’s see this. The end. CASE CLOSED.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
Ugh. Is it just me, or has Jason Sudeikis made some really odd choices about non-SNL side projects? More importantly: why does this trailer make what is obviously a dumb comedy seem so complicated? Like what are all those title cards? And all those 80s hair metal wigs? Like, OK, we get it: they love to party and their losing their party house so they throw one more party. Got it. “What if friends for a lifetime only had one last chance to make it all go out with a BANG!” What?
Knights of Badassdom
This is a very talented cast, and I’m sure there’s plenty of joke juice to squeeze out of renaissance festival/LARP scenarios, although that one might be tapped out pretty soon. We will see! I am giving this one two thumbs sideways because it really go either way. Winter may or may not be coming.
Haywire
So much of this seems like it would push my buttons. Stephen Soderbergh directing a female Jason Bourne spy thriller with ultimate fighting? Yes, please! But this actually looks kind of terrible. I think the problem is that casting non-actors is really only interesting when you’re doing something very small and human where you’re really trying to dig into the nitty gritty of LIFE. When you cast a non-actor in an action movie it just looks like a shitty action movie.
Ides of March
“You had me at Ryan Gosling and George Clooney.” – Jenny McGruber.
Looks good! Will see. Next trailer, please.
Tower Heist
No comment. Next trailer, please.
The Hunter (Teaser)
Whoa. I have not heard of this movie until just now but it looks very good! Animal Kingdom was very very good, what a good movie. And for the most part, Willem Defoe is a very good actor! Also: Sam Neill reprising his role from Jurassic Park and also beautiful landscapes and a vague Werner Herzog feel to the whole thing? You got it!
Red State
If Kevin Smith can do for horror what he has done for comedy, this movie is going to be completely unbearable. I pray (get it?) that Kevin Smith has not done for horror what he has done for comedy.
Red Tails
This trailer just came out today. NEW TRAILER ALERT. It looks very epic and full of courage and hope. I’m sure it’s going to make white people feel really good about all the brave white people who helped the brave black people be courage. Honestly, this movie looks perfectly reasonable from here, but it was produced by George Lucas, so, you know, we should all stay on High High Binks Alert.
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Oh dear god, did Kevin Smith just use his fucking Twitter handle in a movie trailer?
I’ll be the one to comment on Tower Heist I guess
I actually kind of want to see this, I know Eddie Murphy has been asleep since he was in Bowfinger, which by the way if you haven’t watched Bowfinger watch it, but Ben Stiller and the rest of the cast are pretty reliable, and the trailer actually had some funny jokes
Thanks for taking that trailer for the team.
I agree though, Eddie Murphy looks like he’s almost borderline funny in this which I haven’t said ever because I was too young when Eddie Murphy was funny.
i agree…almost. Eddie Murphy seems to be doing an impression of Eddie Murphy. i’d be 10 times more likely to see it if it was, say, JB Smoove in the role.
I agree, Bowfinger was pretty good.
I like most of the people in A Good Old Fashioned Orgy.
That is a good sentence in or out of context.
I really want to see Margin Call, but I have to be honest. I am not sure if it is because it looks really good (it does!) or because Zachary Quinto is dreamy (he is!) I suppose it does not really matter because I will enjoy it either way.
I had the exact same dilemma. Then I thought, “Stanley Tucci, he’s great!” So many reasons to be sold on that trailer.
From IMdB:
“From an early age, Orlando Bloom’s Puberty Mustache has played a prominent role in selling Orlando Bloom’s smarmy film roles. After being noticeably absent from the handsome actor’s equally-handsome upper lip area in the Lord of the Rings trilogy, allegedly due to heated disagreements between the mustache and Rings director Peter Jackson, Orlando Bloom’s Puberty Mustache made its on-screen debut as a major supporting character in the firstPirates of the Caribbean film. Said Orlando Bloom’s Puberty Mustache about the role, ‘I was proud of my work in transforming the Will Turner character from a charismatic, charming ne’er-do-well into a smarmy creep.’ From that point on, Orlando Bloom’s Puberty Mustache has made cameo appearances in many films and television shows, most recently appearing atop Steve Buscemi’s upper lip in the critically-acclaimed HBO series, Boardwalk Empire.“
“Puberty Mustache” is the name of my alt-rock band.
Is anyone else thrown off by the number of big names in Margin Call? Like I’m sure it’s a good dramatization of the story and could even be related to that This American Life (just kidding, there were
on what went down in 2008 but the whole time you talk about the movie it’ll be Kevin Spacey and the guy from Gossip Girl and the Mentalist and Ashton Kutcher’s wife did this and this? They could have least gone with the guy from Psych over the Mentalist.
Honestly any time Demi Moore is in a movie, it’ll pull me out. I don’t hate her in crap like a Charlie’s Angel remake but I can’t take a drama seriously if every. single. actor. is. very. famous. as. an. actor.
But I will see Zachary Quinto in anything so… Netflix?
That should say …there were eight), not there were smiley emoticon with sunglasses.
BNPG: Inappropriately-placed Whoops-icons
Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 196
I want to run my fingers through Ewan McGregor’s hair.
Wasn’t LAST week Ryan Gosling week?
You are somewhat correct, Senator. This week is actually Nostalgia Week, which includes looking back fondly on Ryan Gosling Week.
Knights of Badassdom really mined HBOs Sunday night for actors.
That movie looks like it has a little too much orgy preparation and not enough orgy.
Why is there a trailer for Main Street? This is a movie I have seen, it came out in 2010. It was meh. I liked Joan of Arcadia in it.
Is this the thing where they repackage a movie that didn’t do as big as they’d like as a new movie? And there are human parking cones?
The Ides Of March
Knights Of Badassdom
Margin Call
The Hunter
Haywire/Good Old Fashioned Orgy
in that order. That is all.
Oh wait, no its not. FUCK @THATKEVINSMITH
No one who LARPs in real life ever looks as good as anyone of the people in that trailer.
Yeah Kevin Smith is really terrible, but I like that John Goodman is working again.
Ides of March- Yay! West Wing: The Movie…. wait… no… Ryan! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? STOP IT. Let Clooney be Clooney!
I believe the animal Willem DeFoe is hunting in ‘The Hunter’ is a Tasmanian Tiger AKA The Thylacine AKA VERY cool animal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thylacine
Constantly claiming or implying (as is the MO of videogum) that every movie depicting black people and culture positively is for the purpose of making white people feel better, makes you a one-dimensional, overeager, self-satisfied caricature of the kind you’re trying to append to others.
or perceptive.
By “non-actor” you mean Channing Tatum, right?