A Single Man teaser/trailer

I really don’t know what to call this.  It’s probably a trailer, but it acts like a teaser.  There’s no dialogue and after watching it you’ll probably have no idea what the movie is about (besides Oscar nominations).  But this is likely a trailer.

This trailer (and the movie) is about getting Colin Firth and Julian Moore Oscars.  We can pretend that it’s an art house movie, or perhaps a passion project from the director Tom Ford.  But for those of us who aren’t in L.A. or New York or Venice or Cannes this is simply a beautifully shot movie that will likely win some Oscars.  I don’t think that these two don’t deserve Academy Awards, I absolutely love Julianne Moore.  I’m quite indifferent towards Colin Firth (mostly because I’m not a 30 year old woman, I have heard that “that man can wear a sweater”, but he just seems to play the same grim character in all his movies.  Maybe that’s the point, maybe this movie is supposed to change that.

I have to say that this is probably the best looking trailer I’ve seen in quite some time.  I probably won’t see the movie, it’ll be very hard to find a theatre that will show it, but the trailer is visually spectacular.

Click poster to watch teaser or trailer or whatever this is.

Salt teaser

Salt is an interesting movie.  I starting having doubts about it when Tom Cruise dropped out of the project and Angelina Jolie was recast in the lead.  Objectively that should be good.  I don’t like Tom Cruise and I do like Angelina Jolie, but it concerns me that a script can be so casually and drastically changed.  Beyond that craziness this film looks like some simple, mindless fun.  It doesn’t look as bad as Wanted, but it’s hardly going to be one the most exciting movies next year (for me).  I do want to know what happens, and I guess that’s the point of the trailer.  By all accounts it looks like she’s quite guilty, but that’s going to be pretty hard to sustain throughout the whole movie.  There have got to be some serious twists.  We shall see.

Click the picture to watch the teaser (it’s almost a full trailer).

From Yahoo.

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Caprica trailer

First off, this is a trailer for a TV show.  Now that more than half of you have left the site we can begin discussing this show.

I’m extremely excited about this show.  It is the prequel TV series for Battlestar Galactica.  Supposedly it’s going to be a more intimate drama as opposed to BSG’s epic drama.  The pilot/mini-series has already aired and been released.  It was quite good, an unnecessary amount of nudity, but it’s forgivable.  The show is about the creation of the Cylons (well, some of them) and the ancestors of some of the characters from the main series.  Battlestar Galactica was an outrageously good TV show, I had lost some appreciation for it but after a friend of mine rewatched it I was reminded of how epic it was.  This show won’t be quite as great, but it’ll still be good.  And there are a few members of the cast that I love.  Magda Apanowicz was great in Kyle XY (honestly, she was the only person on that show that wasn’t over-acting).  Also Polly Walker is in the show (hilariously I always get her mixed up with Molly Parker).  Polly was great in Rome.  This role doesn’t seem quite as powerful as her role in Rome, but I’m sure she’ll make things complicated.

Before you watch the trailer you should be warned that it has a truly awful voice over, and it contains spoilers about the mini-series.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From SyFy Aintitcool

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Sherlocke Holmes

For some reason it seems like people are losing faith in this movie.  The excitement level has gone down fast.  Regardless, I’m still excited.  We have to remember that this is a Guy Ritchie movie, he has so many twists planned that he’s probably only showing us clips from the first quarter of the movie.

One thing that I was confused about in this trailer was Rachel McAdams accent, she seems to be a full blown Canadian in the film.  Interesting.  She probably could have managed a slight accent, we’re already going to have to listen to Robert Downey Jr. the whole film.  How bad can she be?  Anyways, the cast looks quite good.  I still don’t know who Mark Strong is, but that hardly matters.

Click poster to watch trailer.  (Check out Mr. Downey Jr.’s hair in this poster.  Someone went to town on it.)

From MTV.

Or try Coming Soon.

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The Road trailer 2

I actually never posted the original teaser or the first trailer for The Road.  I have been keeping track of this movie, but it’s just taken sooo long to come out.  It was supposed to come out last fall, but apparently someone didn’t have confidence in the movie.  So they delayed it until March or something.  Now they’ve regained confidence in the film and it’s being released this fall for the next Oscars.  Here’s hoping this doesn’t happen again.

I tried to read this book.  My cousin insisted that I read it, she said it was extremely emotional.  So I gave it a try.  I didn’t get far.  I can handle tragedies, they’re great, but I guess I need poetic tragedy.  This apocalyptic, unending tragedy is just too much.  So I didn’t get through the book.  I still want to see the movie.  I figure I can handle an hour or three of sadness.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

Or try Movieweb.

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Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief trailer

I am very unsure about this movie.  When I first watched the teaser I had a lot of hope.  It looked like a Harry Potter knock-off with Greek mythological characters instead of witches and wizards.  Sounds good, right?  Then I read the book.

Whew, the book is truly awful.  Granted it wasn’t written for adults, but technically neither was Harry Potter.  Honestly though, this book is terrible no matter how young you are.  I now have no intention of reading more of the books.

After I read the book I watched the teaser again and discovered that despite the terrible book the movie might still hold some promise.  Then they released this trailer.  Now I’m back on the ban wagon.  As long as the director and the screen-writers really change the story then this could be a good movie.  So this isn’t a full endorsement, I am not behind this movie, but I will say that it looks significantly better than the book.

Click on poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

Or try Coming Soon.

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The Attic Door teaser

I’m slowly catching up on my trailers.  I watch a lot of trailers and make a lot of notes about which ones I like.  I try to post them as soon as I watch them, but at times I watch unfinished trailers, some without posters, some without titles.  And then I forget about trailers.  This is one of those trailers

This movie seems to be a western about two little kids who are abandoned on their little homestead.  Quite awful, kinda like the Blue Lagoon… but way better, and without the awkward sex. Also there seems to be something behind the attic door.  That should probably add to the tension.

I’m quite sure that I won’t enjoy watching this movie.  As I recall, the portion of Babel where the kids are alone in the desert almost killed me, that was way too stressful.  This is a movie all about that.  It’s going to be rough.  I still want to watch it, but it’s definitely going to be an experience.

I just wanted to add that the scene where the parents are driving away (presumably) and the kids are chasing.  That was beautifully done.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube (or embedded on the Official Site)

Or try Vimeo (or embedded on the Official Site)

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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time trailer

This is another attempt by Disney and Jerry Bruckheimer to create another Pirates of the Caribean type franchise.  This is probably their best bet.  This one is based on the series of games.  The games have always been very popular and for good reason.  Ubisoft has never let the game get old.  They keep on refreshing the series.  The newest game was totally different, light on story, but heavy on style.  This movie seems to have borrowed the style from the newest game and the story from the best game.  The trailer explains the story, it seems quite different from the game, but that’s not a bad thing (there are more humans in the movie).

The cast seems quite good.  I was very concerned when I heard that Jake Gyllenhaal was going to play the prince.  But once they started releasing pictures of him my worries were gone.  I was very excited when I heard that Gemma Arterton was playing the other lead.  I loved her in James Bond, even if she was only in for a few seconds.  Ben Kingsley will make an interesting villain, hopefully he doesn’t overdo it.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From MySpace.

Or watch a shorter version on YouTube.

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Cracks trailer

Very interesting stuff.  Cracks is a new movie directed by Jordan Scott.  Never heard of her?  Probably you’ve heard of her father, Ridley Scott.  Those are some big shoes.

But on to this movie.  It looks like a lot of fun.  I loooove Eva Green, she could just glare at the screen for an hour or two and I’d pay to watch.  This movie is about a boarding school with a very influential teach, played by Eva Green.  The girls are completely devoted to her and she to them until an Spanish exchange student comes in and steals all the attention.  You’ll probably understand the story better once you actually watch the trailer.  The operative word about this movie should be ‘intrigue’.

The acting looks like it’s going to be very good.  Eva Green is always good, and it’ll be awesome to see her as a delusional villain.  Juno Temple has an infinitely interesting face, and mix that with that crazy hair and she looks like a very fun character.  This new Spanish girl is amazingly beautiful.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

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Nowhere Boy trailer

For some reason this biopic shocked me.  It was ok OK make a movie about the Queen, a movie about Johnny Cash, but suddenly I hear about a movie about John Lennon and I’m shocked.

Anywho, this movie looks very good.  It’s about the teenage-hood and origin of John Lennon and the formation of The Beatles.  It looks very good.  Ironically I really don’t like The Beatles early work.  But I’ll enjoy the movie nonetheless.

As for the acting, it seems quite good.  John Lennon had a very distinctive voice and I think this kid did pretty good.  The Paul McCartney kid looked pretty good too.

Click poster to watch the trailer.

From Twitch.

Or try YouTube.

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