I love movie trailers. Ideally, when I go to a movie I want to see so many good trailers that for a moment I forget what film I’ve come to see. (I also want to not see that goddamn MovieTickets.com commercial. I swear to you I will kill that couple if I ever find out where they live.) After watching all the current trailers that it seems are out there to be watched, there are four movies that I’m most excited to see. From this selection, my tastes look painfully mainstream, but this isn’t entirely the case. It’s just that, while I do enjoy my indie fare, a trailer for Sideways or Vera Drake doesn’t make me chub out in quiet the same way. Here are my top four, ranked in order of anticipation.
Sin City – The only bit of Frank Miller I’ve ever read is the Dark Knight Returns. My comic book days have long since passed my by and even then I only read the crappiest DC titles, but I’ve watched this trailer more times then I’d like to say and now I’m dying for April to get here. Visually, it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. This looks to be the most fully realized comic book world set to film, with its own set of physics and its own properties of light. It's hyper-real film-noir, supercool, and in case you haven’t figured it out yet, I can’t wait. And man, I’m a nerd.
War of the Worlds – Aliens have invaded the earth and this time we won’t be saved by Randy Quiad or President Bill Pullman. Creepy tone, good use of narrative from the book, a battle for suburbia: I’m sold.
Batman Begins – Forget the batsuit with nipples. Forget the governor of California and his aluminum suit and his godawful one liners. Forget Alicia Silverstone (except in those Aerosmith videos. Reeeoow.) This one has Christian Bale—who in my eyes has done no wrong with his career (I'll forget Newsies if you will)—and Christopher Nolen, the director of Memento. Sign me the frig up.
Revenge of the Sith – No teaser trailer teases quite so well as a Star Wars trailer. We can all agree that Lucas dropped the ball on Episode 1, then got sacked so hard he shit his pants for Episode 2, but I watch this trailer and I know I’ll give him another chance.
Sin City – The only bit of Frank Miller I’ve ever read is the Dark Knight Returns. My comic book days have long since passed my by and even then I only read the crappiest DC titles, but I’ve watched this trailer more times then I’d like to say and now I’m dying for April to get here. Visually, it’s like nothing I’ve ever seen before. This looks to be the most fully realized comic book world set to film, with its own set of physics and its own properties of light. It's hyper-real film-noir, supercool, and in case you haven’t figured it out yet, I can’t wait. And man, I’m a nerd.
War of the Worlds – Aliens have invaded the earth and this time we won’t be saved by Randy Quiad or President Bill Pullman. Creepy tone, good use of narrative from the book, a battle for suburbia: I’m sold.
Batman Begins – Forget the batsuit with nipples. Forget the governor of California and his aluminum suit and his godawful one liners. Forget Alicia Silverstone (except in those Aerosmith videos. Reeeoow.) This one has Christian Bale—who in my eyes has done no wrong with his career (I'll forget Newsies if you will)—and Christopher Nolen, the director of Memento. Sign me the frig up.
Revenge of the Sith – No teaser trailer teases quite so well as a Star Wars trailer. We can all agree that Lucas dropped the ball on Episode 1, then got sacked so hard he shit his pants for Episode 2, but I watch this trailer and I know I’ll give him another chance.
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You really need to go to http://www.quicktime.com where you will see a behind-the-scenes special about how WETA is doing the special effects for "The Narnia Chronicles". Eyes will bulge. And so will your pants, I assure you.
Ok. Onto the movies...
Sin City: Amazing Trailer. Looking forward to it. Hellboy was pretty good as an adaptation, but this looks so amazing that it threatens to leave all else in its black-and-white dust. PLUS it has Bruce Willis and Mickey Rourke. Damn that Harley Davidson and the Marlborough Man confusion....
War of the Worlds: This could go either way, I think. They need HG Wells. Eating french fries.
Batman Begins: FINALLY, something focussing on the ORIGIN of Batman, rather than casual flashbacks. As cool as the first one was, this one will kick ass, and hopefully redeem DC.
Revenge of the Sith: I can't believe you were so nice to Lucas in your comments. He'd better redeem himself, or I will be quite upset. The two words of this movie will be "General Grievous". Oh yeah!
Jorge