Greenberg trailer

Ben Stiller rarely motivates me into seeing a movie.  Even though he is in my favorite movie (guess what that is) and he did quite good in Tropic Thunder, I still don’t feel the need to see any of the movies that he makes.  This is an exception.  He looks quite good in this movie, although he looks like he’s lost a huge amount of weight.

This movie was written and directed by Noah Baumbach, who is insisting that he is a good director.  He’s probably right, but it does seem quite forced sometimes.  He did write The Life Aquatic, and he had something to do with the Fantastic Mr. Fox.  He seems to excell at depicting lost 30 year olds (that seems to be a big theme in movie and TV these days).  Anywho, this is another movie with that same situation.

Click the (very small) poster to watch the trailer.

From Apple.

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.

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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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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The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus trailer 2

This trailer isn’t terribly different than the last trailer, but I think it does a better job at selling the movie.  The CGI looks amazing.  Heath Ledger is still front and center, and I’m still worried that people will raise their expectations a little too high because of these trailers.  But I guess Terry Gilliam has to do something to get people to watch his movies.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From Yahoo.

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Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer 2

I’m quite surprised that Wes Anderson released another trailer for this movie, that’s slightly unusual, it’s not like the first trailer was a teaser.  But that’s beside the point.

I’d say this trailer is targetted more at adults rather than kids.  Whereas the last trailer made the movie look kinda like a kids show, this one makes more complicated jokes and concentrates on the critical acclaim this movie has attracted.  The “cussing” joke was an interesting joke for a trailer, not what I would expect.  And that Pixar dig was very interesting.  I love Pixar to a ridiculous degree, therefore I don’t really know what they were trying to accomplish with that quote.  Were they implying that this movie is better than Pixar in a mean-spirited kind of way?  Or were they complimenting Pixar and trying to attract that kind of fan-base?  Weird.

If you go watch this trailer you’ll see two featurettes about the movie on the Apple site.  They’re quite interesting.  One is about Roald Dahl and the other is about how Wes chose to film the movie.  He’s filming in a kind of method directing.  Obviously he put a lot of work into the stop motion part of the movie, but apparently he didn’t want to record the voices in a studio, so he made the actors (well most of the actors) act out the scenes in different environments and he recorded the voices there.  Interesting idea, hopefully it sounds good.

From Apple.

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Valhalla Rising trailer 2

A few weeks ago I noticed that I posted the first trailer to this movie almost a year ago and then forgot about it.  I wondered whether I had been wrong about the movie, perhaps it wasn’t as good as I first though.  But then I watched this new trailer.  It still looks great.  Although I should admit that I am consistantly tricked by over-saturated period movies all the time.

Click picture to watch trailer.

From Twitch.

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Gentlemen Broncos trailer

It’s hard to believe that the teaser/viral video for this movie was released more than a year ago (when I say more than a year I mean approximately 366 days ago).  This movie is full of too much hilarity.  Jennerifer Coolidge is almost enough to get me into the theatre, especially with those ill-fitting sweaters.  But this Ronald Chevalier character is just too glorious.  Then throw in some sci-fi spoofing.  It’s going to be epic.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From YouTube.

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New York, I Love You trailer 2

Short films are great, and all that, but I find that I never have a reason to watch them.  That’s why this movie sounds so interesting.  It’s a collection of short films about New York.  The trailer is more of an end credit sequence rather than a real trailer but you get the point: there are a lot of big names here.

Click poster to watch trailer.

From the Official Site.

Or try Apple.

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