After Prometheus last week, when we were all sitting around chatting about it, someone said that it was just one of those movies where the trailer turned out to be better than the movie itself, and then there was this momentary pause before everyone else said, “you mean all movies?” Because it’s true: 9 times out of 9, the trailer is the best part of the movie. Trailers are so great! They’re fun and quick and beautiful and have either exciting action or cream-of-the-crop jokes. Trailers! Love ‘em. Get some hot trailers!

2 Days in New York

For years we have known that being white is hard, but now it turns out that being black is hard, too! Especially when everyone around you is white. JKJKJKJK! This looks good! I like movies like this, why not. Julie Delpy directed it? Sure. Everyone’s a director now. Scarlett Johansson learned everything she knows from Julie Delpy.

Sinister

Hahaha. So this is basically that movie Pulse about the haunted Internet except instead of the modem it’s the super 8 projector? Perfect. “I’m going to write the best story anyone’s ever read.” And that man’s name was O’HENRY. This movie looks mega-dumb, have fun seeing it with your mom.

For A Good Time, Call…

I feel like I’m supposed to hate this but there were actually a couple parts in the trailer that made me laugh and if you actually think about it, it’s basically just an extended episode of Girls but with a plot and we all love Girls or whatever. Right?

The Queen of Versailles

This looks great.

Pitch Perfect

Nahh.

Comments (21)
  1. Here are my Rotten Tomatoes predictions for these movies based solely on the trailer:

    2 Days in New York 83%
    Sinister: 72%
    For a Good Time Call: 65%
    the Queen of Versailles: 37%
    Pitch Perfect: 54%

  2. Ethan Hawke totally cancels out the dumbness of that Sinister trailer. And I really like Queen of Versailles, but what are our feelings supposed to be towards that family? Pity? Schadenfreude? Evil cackle?

    • because he’s written novels!

    • I think it’s meant to show us that everyone felt the crisis? It does look good, but I don’t know. The trailer was eye-opening for me because, having been very poor for a very long time, I’m a very frugal person and I can’t imagine using more than maybe 70k/year (and that’s if I’m really splashing out and going on vacations and living in a super nice home with more rooms than I need). So I always wondered what the hell rich people do with their money. Like, after that 70k has been used up, do you just put the rest of it in a jar? Donate it to charity? Apparently it’s like goldfish growing to the size of their environment. If you make 100 million a year, you build a 600 million dollar house (or whatever). Consider me educated.

  3. For the record, Julie Delpy already wrote, directed, starred in, and scored the excellent 2 Days in Paris, which this is sort of a sequel to.

  4. hello evil pagan deity, you have reached the winter of our discontent.

    • by the way, does everyone remember what an asshole ethan hawke was in reality bites? i still cringe thinking about how winona gets with him in the end. i’m pretty sure in the prologue to that film, troy does something shitty approx 2 days later and then gets kicked out. just kidding, she probably put up with it again due to his super witty mean banter and violent femmes covers. dickbag.

      • They must be divorced by now, right? I no longer understand that movie. I used to think it was ~*romantic*~ but now I’m like Benn Stiller has a job, is really nice to you, you seem to enjoy fucking him, and he got you a TV show. What is the matter with you Winona? Take the TV show, it was a fairly decent TV show from what I saw.

      • I’m pretty sure she put up with his shit because he was insanely hot

  5. i always forget that i get super scared of scary movie trailers until after i finish watching them :(

  6. “Almost as good as a Woody Allen movie!” If that’s not a glowing endorsement, I don’t know what is. I guess movies are getting lousier. I look forward to seeing quotes like, “There are worse ways to waste time!” and “Had its moments!” on posters in the future.

  7. Guys, why is no one just commenting “ADAM DEMAMP!”

  8. “I don’t sing.” – Anna Kendrick

  9. Pitch Perfect made me get chills with how embarrassed I was for everyone who acted in it.

  10. Pitch Perfect is going to be fabulous in the exact same way that the Step Up sequels are. I leave the interpretation of fabulous up to you.

  11. What the HELL are Regionals?! (They’re THIS close!)

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