The Great Buck Howard Has A Credibility Problem
A trailer was released this week for a movie called The Great Buck Howard starring John Malkovich and Colin Hanks. It also features Ricky Jay, Tom Hanks, Steve Zahn, Gary Coleman, all of the talk show hosts, and Michael Winslow. The story is about a college kid (Colin Hanks) who takes a job as an assistant to a washed up mentalist (John Malkovich) to the ridicule and concern of his friends and family, only to have the washed up mentalist suddenly hit the big time all over again, presumably putting the college kid right at the heart of all the action. It looks like a relatively benign movie that could really go either way. And by either way I mean it could be a family friendly comedy that is good, or a family friendly comedy that is bad. (With how you feel about family friendly comedies in the first place being another story.)
But there is one aspect of the The Great Buck Howard trailer that really strikes a false note, and its not the idea of a parlor magician suddenly being the most famous person in America. Trailer, you guys, after the jump:
"Suddenly, Buck was hip."
Hip? Who says hip? A recent college-grad trying to break in to the entertainment industry anyway that he can doesn't say hip. Grover Norquist doesn't even say hip anymore. Not that a person who drops Grover Norquist references as his idea of a joke necessarily knows what is or is not cool to say. Never mind.
Posted by Gabe at 5:00 PM in Trailer
Tags: Colin Hanks | John Malkovich | Steve Zahn | The Great Buck Howard | Tom Hanks
Y'know, the more times he says he "loves this town" the more I start to think maybe he's being insincere
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The production team behind this trailer should step back into the Delorean who brought them back from 1994.
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I really like lots of the actors in this movie but, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Unless Emily Blunt was intentionally going for a nasal valley girl sound, her american accent is ooooof and ugh.
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Colin Hanks is a terrible actor.
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What anger! I can't believe my fellow posters are such cynics! You have to see a movie to judge it. Trailers are just an ad pitch! Like a sign for laundry detergent!
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I liked the trailer, John Malkovich always cracks me up with his delivery, no matter what he's saying.
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So many Hanks!
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I'd like to think that this is just a bad trailer, and that a stack of great actors didn't just all sign up for a shitty movie.
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What's the moral of this movie? That you shouldn't write off irrelevant has-beens as a joke because they just might show you? Who wrote this movie? Tom Hanks?
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Exactly. I think The Great Buck Howard has a credibility problem because it doesn't seem to have a point.
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This is an awful trailer for a movie that might be awful; even if the movie is awful though, I bet the trailer is way more awful. I want to at least, because John Malkovich normally does good movies.
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I'm on the fence. I think this could actually be random & subversive ("tossed salad", putting the force in Sulu, Michael Winslow) or just a shitshow. Hard to tell with this AWFUL trailer. The music sounds like the B-roll from Oceans 13 and Colin Hanks should never do voiceover. Ever. Or act, really. Prolly Netflix-worthy.
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