Salocin: New Trailers! New Trailers!

November 06, 2004

New Trailers! New Trailers!

So here comes the new batch of trailers for the Christmas movies. Looks like some of this might even be decent stuff. First up is Ocean's Twelve, they finally replaced that rubbish teaser trailer with something that gives us a few plot points. I'm looking forward to this one. Next, of course, we have that disaster-in-the-making, Star Wars Ep III - although it looks like Lucas may have tried to return to some of the style and feeling of the first trilogy, I find it hard to get my hopes up for something so clearly capitalising on hype and past success - they're even trying to bleed some value out of the trailer by limiting its distribution, but you should be able to see or download it by using the link above if you have the right filesharing software. Then there's National Treasure and Imaginary Heroes, both of which are new to me and may be good or bad - it's kind of hard to tell. One looks deep and meaningful and the other could be lots of fun. If you like slightly arthouse movies that remain extremely well written, you could go see Primer which I reviewed after I saw it at Sundance, and which I loved. The trailer doesn't do it justice, and frankly isn't that representative of the movie itself. Alexander looks like it has high production values, but I fail to see Colin Farrell as a historical mega-figure. Maybe I'm being unfair and he'll pull it off. Either way, Angelina Jolie looks fantastic as ever. Elektra looks like poor mystical gobbledygook and Cars from Pixar looks fantastic, but we'll have to wait until November next year for that one!

Posted by nlvp at November 6, 2004 01:32 PM

Comments

Lets not forget 'The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou'

Could be essential viewing for anyone who loved The Royal Tenenbaums.

Posted by: Incandenza at November 9, 2004 11:55 AM

I think the Ep III trailer looks fantastic - I have to have a little faith in Lucas!

Do you really think Cars from Pixar looks "fantastic"? I wasn't impressed. Given, it will be hard for any animated movie to impress me after seeing the incredibles.

Posted by: Andreas at November 9, 2004 10:49 PM

Maybe the problem is that I haven't seen the Incredibles. I just love cartoons. I've always thought that the people that make them go to much greater lengths than ordinary screenwriters, probably because so much work has to go into every scene.

Of course you've got your less brilliant cartoons also, but so many are so carefully crafted that you have to give credit where it's due. I thought the animation in the Cars trailer (the wobbly suspension and the haze as the racecars came round the track) were exceptional.

Posted by: Nicolas at November 9, 2004 10:53 PM

And I quote: "Ooh, I came from Blog Explosion too. Aren't we all just traffic whores?" Seriously, I'm sort of looking forward to National Treasure - it looks very cool, plus I've heard Sean Bean is in it, and he can do no wrong in my eyes.

Posted by: golfwidow at November 10, 2004 12:25 PM

Sorry am a total traffic whore. Love movies though and happily clicked on your Ocean's Twelve trailer link, can't wait for it to come out. My husband and I are serious DVD fanatics. Am saving you in my IE favorites for a return visit. Going to check out Zen boards too haven't heard of it before. Thanks!

Posted by: Tara at November 10, 2004 06:17 PM

My roommate and I saw the EpIII trailer on "The Incredibles." I must now begin rocking and hugging myself and muttering "Do not get your hopes up...do not get your hopes up..."

The most exciting thing I've seen at Dark Horizons lately is the new advance teaser poster for "Charlie and the Choclate Factory."

In the words of the immortal Marshall J. Flinkman...Love!

Posted by: Lori at November 10, 2004 07:59 PM