John Carter Trailer - Disney does seem to like these sorts of things. It’s like they’re trying to recreate Pirates of the Caribbean, first with Prince of Persia and now with this. Hopefully the story will be as fun as former rather than latter…
Up In the Air trailer - Juno was one of my favourite movies of last year. Something about the casting, the music, the overall feel of the movie just hit the right notes for me. Is Jason Reitman becoming a favourite of mine (I loved ‘Thank You for Smoking’ as well)?
Toy Story 3 trailer - Came out a little while ago, but I’ve been busy with other things. Part of me really wishes they left these characters alone and concentrated on new ideas (like The Incredibles and Up). In Pixar we trust, but is this a missed opportunity or one of those all to rare trilogies that is amazing?
The Men Who Stare At Goats - It’s always an event when you get this calibre of actors all in one movie.
Avatar Trailer - This is ‘old’ but it’s an important trailer to watch, seeing as how it’s going revolutionize the way cinema is shot and all of that good stuff.
Lemonade - Documentary on some of the 70,000 people who lost their job in this, the latest great recession, within the advertising industry. What’s interesting to me is the fact that due to ‘Mad Men’, I’ve been able to peer into this little industry and the characters inside. The documentary itself looks relatively pedestrian and very, very American but at the same time there is something nice from people that have lost their jobs that move forward to something bigger and better. I know several friends (good and talented) that have had to do this.
Fantastic Mr. Fox trailer - First there was Coraline, now there’s this. Two great looking stop-motion animated movies in one year? What are the odds.
Flynn Lives - Tron Legacy trailer. Watch it, then watch it a few times more.
Toy Story Teaser Trailer - Pixar doesn’t stop blowing my mind. So simple and yet so effective. Best storytellers of our generation, full stop.
Sherlock Holmes Trailer - I do love Robert Downey Jr’s career renaissance of late, but I’ve got to say that I’m still not sure about this adaptation of Holmes…something just feels terribly wrong about it. I keep waiting for the voice over person to say ‘Holmes is back and he’s pissed off’.
New 9 Trailer - Looks even better than the first trailer and the story is much more apparent to me than in the previous trailer. Reading the first comment though, people laughing at the trailer is just ridiculous; which can only be attributed to people’s complete ignorance and the stereotypes of what animation is and what animation can be - you know who you are.