Movie Trailer Review, Episode 1

Flags of our Fathers

I am sick and tired of this trailer already and I have seen it only three times. And I am sick of Clint Eastwood films. Eastwood has gotten into the habit of making big films like Martin Scorsese makes big films, they are gritty, they are big and they are bloody and somewhere in there are characters. There is a huge difference between the movies that Scorsese makes and the ones Eastwood makes and that difference is quite simply how much fun they are. Eastwood films are tedious and not very entertaining despite how “good” the movies might be, they just aren’t fun. And the trailer for Flags of our Fathers is just that, not fun.

Déjà Vu

The trailer for Deja Vu has lots of explosions and state that it is produced by Jerry Bruckheimer (like you want to advertise that fact for some reason) and directed by Tony Scott, and then you realize they are the same people who made Enemy of the State and then you realize that the trailer for Deja Vu looks and feels like Enemy of the State… except really retarded. The premise is that the government has made a time machine to stop crimes before they are committed (wasn’t Minority Report a great movie?) and all of their time travel is what causes Deja Vu. It stars Denzel Washington and it looks like the must miss blockbuster of the year.

300

This was a great looking trailer. I hate epic war movies as a rule (of course rules do have exceptions). The film is about Sparta (not Sparticus apparently) and a war and sun blocking waive of arrows, I guess, I don’t really care, the trailer got me pumped. And then they said it was based on the graphic novel by Frank Miller and I got a little bit more excited. I’m not quite the comic book fan that I should be and I have never heard of 300 but I bet the graphic novel was great and I’m sure the movie will be fun.

The Good Shephard

The Good Shephard is the second film officially directed by Robert De Niro (he had an uncredited directing roll in The Score which leads me to ask how can you be an “uncredited director”?). It stars about a million celebrities and it could be a good movie. It is about the people that formed the CIA and their personal lives and yadadada. I’ll go see this movie, maybe even on opening weekend (super matinee style).

Blood Diamonds

The trailer for Blood Diamonds is epic. It shows a man in Africa finding a gigantic diamond and then everyone in the world trying to kill him for the diamond. Along the way he meets a South African mercenary (Leo Decaprio) and an American journalist (Jennifer Connelly) that help him escape and then his son gets kidnapped and he has to give up the diamond in exchange for his sons life. The trailer carries on for what seems like the length of a 90 minute movie and then they tell you that it is directed by Edward Zwick (The Last Samurai) and it all makes sense. Blood Diamonds seems like a good premise but in the hands of hack film maker Zwick the film will likely be a three hour epic with a million loose ends, a dozen endings and a heaping hunk of waste-of-time. I will probably not see this movie.

I saw all these trailers before the film The Departed. Scorsese pwns n00bs so if you are a noob then you might not want to go see the film, otherwise it’s awesome.

-Josh