Despite what Lindsay says, I judge every vampire project on a case by case basis, and this looks totally decent. It's got that late-'90s air of disillusioned youth struggling to come to grips with their often mediocre place in the world, and even some laffs. It's like Reality Bites meets Whit Stillman meets Buffy meets Waiting for Guffman. Maybe. And after a summer of Step Brothers and Tropic Thunders and Pineapple Expresses and Hamlet 2s and The Strangers, we could use a light-touch comedy that goes for the soft chuckle. I predict that watching this will take us all back to some distant dorm room of years past, sitting around drinking cheap beer from the mini-fridge and thinking we could do this, we could make a movie like this, if this is all you need to make a movie. Good times.
Humboldt County, a new comedy/drama that looks like Into The Wild meets The Beach meets Up In Smoke (because there's pot in it), opens in theaters September 26, but more notably, on OnDemand on Monday, September 1. Everyone wondering where Frances Conroy and Fairuza Balk have been hiding, here ya go:
Looks maybe a little too valuable-lessony for my taste, but is more proof that indie moviegoers will never tire of directionless young men. And I'll watch anything on OnDemand.
It's not coming out until next summer, but we're FINALLY getting a look at the new Fast & Furious trailer.
You know what, fair enough. I was going to make a joke about how they never gave us the updated price point on a gasoline train after you sideswipe the cab and lead tanker over a cliff in a raging fireball, and I was going to make a joke about how we can't seriously still think of Vin Diesel as a threatening hoodie-wearing hooligan now that he's 41 years old and was in Find Me Guilty. But I'm not going to make any of those jokes because I think this movie is going to do exactly what it set out to do. Would you criticize the sun for shining in an unimaginative way? Would you ask the stars not to be such a cash-grabbing rehash of a worn out idea? Would you tell the ocean not to open with one of the least thrilling stunt sequences you've ever seen, and that's coming from someone who loves stunt sequences? It is what it is.
I do think that they should change the tag-line to "Summer 2009 Can't Come Fast And Furious Enough," and give me a million dollars thanks.
Good news for fans of New York, vignette movies, ensemble casts, serendipitous coincidences, and moments of quiet beauty captured from big city chaos. New York, I Love You, a sequel of sorts to Paris, je t'aime, stars all the actors and all the directors and now has a trailer:
I can't put my finger on it, but something about this movie seems like it's made to annoy Woody Allen.
There's finally a trailer for the Anne Hathaway/Patrick Wilson thriller, Passengers, which opens October 24 and stars Hathaway as a therapist who counsels plane crash survivors. The trailer is in Spanish, though, with the voices dubbed in Spanish with no subtitles. Somehow, it still entertained me:
- David Morse: Your patients are susceptible to external influences.
- Anne Hathaway: How do you know where i live?
- Anne Hathaway: He knows personal things about me.
- Patrick Wilson: Do you have a sister?
- Anne Hathaway: Yes.
- Patrick Wilson: You should call her.
- David Morse: You are losing your credibility.
It seems like something was lost in translation, but sure! Anne Hathaway and Patrick Wilson are pretty.
Normally, Hollwyood's crass cash-grabbing remakes of classic films are sad and disappointing events. It's one thing to be creatively frustrated and rehash the same old plots over and over again, there are only so many stories out there. It's another to cast Cedric the Entertainer in the fucking Honeymooners. But if this trailer is anything to go by, the upcoming remake of 1974's It's Alive is not a crude and cynical attempt at squeezing a few begrudging dollars out of an undiscriminating audience. It's an attempt to make the funniest movie of all time.
LOLOLOLOLOL. It's hard to put into words what is so great about this, so I have tried to do so with pictures, after the jump.
Hey, look, some nice person has bootlegged the fake trailer for Satan's Alley, one of the movies Tropic Thunder character Kirk Lazarus (Robert Downey, Jr.) won one of his Oscar-bait Oscars for, which is in the movie Tropic Thunder. I didn't even recognize Tobey Maguire, who looks much cuter than usual! Also, this trailer is hilarious:
Any joke predicated on an Enigma song is fine by me.
People are saying that this is the International trailer for Ron Howard's Frost/Nixon, but wouldn't Occam's razor tell us that the movie simply has German subtitles running throughout? What?
Movies that capture unique historical moments are not as bad as biopics, which are very, very bad, but this still basically looks like I Am Sam for presidents. The border between imitation and mockery is a fluid, semi-permeable one that results mostly in disaster. Then again, it is interesting to learn about our nation's history. For example, today, just from watching this trailer, I learned that Richard Nixon was the inspiration for Batman's voice in the Dark Knight. C-, Frost/Nixon, come see me after class.
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