Movie Trailer Review, Episode 5
I just got rocked so hard watching Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny. Amazingly I saw four brand new trailers.
Ghost Rider
This trailer tells the whole origin story of Ghost Riding and gives a lot away about the movie. We get to see Nick Cage as Ghost Rider with a big chain whip thing. I’m not interested in seeing Ghost Rider, but it was a fairly convincing trailer. My favorite part was at the very end when Ghost Rider drives off the roof of a building and then drives down the side of the building. Now that’s metal.
Norbit
For some reason people keep giving jobs to Eddie Murphy, and in turn Eddie Murphy keeps making terrible movies with him in multiple rolls. Norbit is a young and unconfident black man who has a large and confident black girlfriend (also played by Murphy). The trailer is pretty typical, but it had some funny moments and some gross-out moments. I’m not going to see the movie, but the trailer wasn’t half bad.
The Invisible
I dunno, some kid gets murdered but fights to come back to life by solving his own murder with the help of his still-living girlfriend. I’m not sure what they were aiming for when they made this trailer (or the whole movie for that matter) but they ended up with a steaming pile straight from the movie poopshoot. Seriously, who bankrolls these projects and do they actually expect them to make money? The trailer pretty much tells us the whole movie and then has some intense music and fast cut scenes.
Mr. Woodcock
What is this? School for Scoundrels II? Billy Bob Thornton plays Mr. Woodcock, the gym teacher at a high school who mentally scared the main character who grows up to be a self help guru. Then he finds out that his mom is dating Mr. Woodcock, can’t you just see the comedy? Thornton used to play likable characters but he seems to be stuck in a rut of playing jerks. However this was probably the best of these trailers, with Sean William Scott playing a normal (non-Stifler) roll and Susan Sarandon wholly out of her element. I might even go see this movie based entirely on the strength of this trailer.
-Josh
Posted on November 22nd, 2006 by schalicto
Filed under: Josh Rants, Movie Trailer Reviews
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