Movie Trailer Review, Episode 3

We went out on Saturday night and saw Stranger Than Fiction, I think that movie deserves two Academy Awards for best picture.

Evan Almighty

The Trailer for Evan Almighty was about eighty percent trailer and twenty percent advertisment for a movie theater gift card bearing the Evan Almighty moniker. The trailer showed some funny moments about Evan (Steve Carell) building an ark. I can help but feel that this movie is just trying to ride the coattails of Steve Carell. I might see it, but not on my own free will.

Dreamgirls

Imagine the movie Ray except about the Supremes and Jamie Fox plays a woman. I’m joking about him playing a woman, but he is in this movie that is a remake of a musical about a trio of black women singers like the Supremes. The trailer was fun and for some reason Eddie Murphy is in it. The trailer bored and confused me.

The Pursit of Happyness

Will Smith plays a down and out single father who quits his door to door sales job to persue a better life for him and his son. This movie was designed to make you cry and it probably will make you cry. The misspelling in the title is intentional and has something to do with the movie. This is the only movie out of these four that I’m likely to see.

We are Marshall

College students playing football and Matthew McConaughey acting all charming. Before the movie starts the college football team is killed in a plane crash and while the town is still recovering from the tragedy McConaughey has to rebuild a winning football team. Wow. There are great formulas and then there are great formulas. With all of the natural drama that comes with sports movies mixed with the drama of the town recovering from loosing the sports team, this is a sure fire winner. Since I hate sports movies almost as much as I hate epic war movies I am going to avoid this one like the plauge, but it will likely set box office records and maybe even get nomiated for an Academy Award.

-Josh