Movie Trailer Review, Episode 9

I went to see Grindhouse today and I’m pretty sure that Planet Terror is the best zombie movie ever.

Hot Fuzz

One of my favorite horror/comedy movies is Shaun of the Dead by director Edgar Wright.  Well, we are in luck with Hot Fuzz where Wright makes a farce of the super cop action movie.  The movie stars Simon Pegg, who also starred in Shaun, as London’s best police officer who is so good that he makes the rest of the force look bad.  Then the London police decide to relocate him to the part of England with the lowest crime rate, Sandford.  The trailer has lots of great jokes in it but I think they will be even funnier in the context of the movie.  I can’t wait for this one.

Vacancy

This wasn’t really a trailer, it was a weird interview/commercial for the movie with Luke Wilson and Kate Beckinsale talking about their characters.  The movie has Wilson and Beckinsale are a husband and wife that stop for the night at a sleazy roadside motel when they discover a snuff tape that was filmed in the room they were sleeping in.  Then it gets worse.  It’s a neat idea for a movie. But I’ll pass this one up for the next horror movie down the road.

Fracture

The movie Fracture is about a rising district attorney played by Ryan Gosling trying to prosecute a high profile murder case.  The murder suspect is played by Anthony Hopkins who planned the crime down to the smallest detail.  The trailer makes the movie look very interesting as every piece of evidence Gosling tries to use in the trial becomes inadmissible due to something Hopkins had planned while committing the crime.  It looks very cool and I hope to get a chance to see it.

Live Free or Die Hard

What can I say?  BOOOM!  FAST CAR EXPLODING TIME!  This time Justin Long (the mac guy) plays the unlikely sidekick to Bruce Willis’ John McClane.  The trailer is fast and exciting and I’ll be seeing this one on opening day.

1408

John Cusack plays some sort of disenchanted paranormal investigator who hears about room 1408 at some hotel.  The legend of the 1408 boasts that nobody has ever lived for more than one hour inside the walls of the room, so Cusack goes to test the legend.  Samuel Jackson is the hotel manager who warns Cusack about going into the room, but the warning is not heeded and then the terror starts.  The movie is based on a short story by Stephen King, big deal.  And the trailer proudly exclaimed that the movie is directed by Mikael HÃ¥fström which is kinda weird because the only other movie that he has done was the 2005 Clive Owen vehicle Derailed.  I really want to see this one, but I probably won’t get a chance because I can’t get Lindsay out to a horror movie to save my life.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry

Kevin James, great! Right?  Adam Sandler, great! Right?  Adam Sandler and Kevin James in a movie together?  This thing couldn’t be bad!  And they are pretending to be gay! … what? … Damn.  The trailer is kind of long and dry.  There are some jokes, most of which involve Sandler oogling a social worker, played by Jessica Biel, who they are trying to convince of their gayness.  The movie boasts a great cast which also features Steve Buscemi, Dan Akroyd, Ving Rhames and myspace celebrity Tila Tequila.  The plot looks forced but the movie might be good for some laughs so I’ll probably see it.

-Josh