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Trailer Watch: 7500
There are titular reasons why I'm not interested in this.
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Plot Summary: On a cross-ocean flight, the passengers find themselves assaulted by an unseen and murderous force. Release Date: August 31, 2012 |
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Rating: None Commentary: Poster was a placeholder at the time this post was written. |
Rating: C Commentary: The trailer just doesn't seem that exciting. It looks like a paint-by-numbers supernatural horror film that's built around an interesting, if unexceptional gimmick. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: Resident Evil: Retribution
Another sequel to another pointless, yet popular franchise.
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Plot Summary: Milla Jovovich is back and combating the diseased creatures that plague the world. Release Date: September 14, 2012 |
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Rating: B+ Commentary: It's a nice design, colorful and busy, but not overzealous and I love the hidden Umbrella Corp logo in the poster. |
Rating: B- Commentary: I didn't care much for the original film and had no desire to see the others, but this trailer is quite well done. Although the ad that opens the trailer could be for any product, it seems almost impossible that it isn't produced by Umbrella Corp. I know it's not original, but it's clever enough to stand out in the crowd. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: The Kid With a Bike
The Dardennes have a solid reputation, so it should be good.
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Plot Summary: A young boy, desperate to know and be loved by his father finds himself seeking out trouble in the hopes it will bring them closer together even though his father has proven he doesn't want him by leaving him with a nearby business owner to raise. Release Date: March 16, 2012 |
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Rating: C+ Commentary: It's overly simplistic and has far too much unused space. |
Rating: B Commentary: On reputation alone, which is displayed in the trailer, it seems like a capable and thought provoking film. The trailer isn't too exciting or evocative, so it will likely keep most casual moviegoers away...if the subtitles don't already scare them off. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: Unicorn City
Lesson 3: Claims to be a cross between a good film and a bad film usually means you're getting a bad film. Hell, crosses between two good films generally result in a bad film, so you lose when you cross.
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Plot Summary: In an effort to obtain a prestigious job at a prominent video game manufacturer, a witless role-playing gamer attempts to create the ultimate gaming mecca by creating a real life community where participants can live out their dreams in a fantasy environment. Release Date: February 24, 2012 |
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Rating: C+ Commentary: For everything that the trailer is not, the poster does a better job at. It's still an unfriendly, minor tribute to the slapstick comedies of the 1980's, but it's at least better than the trailer. |
Rating: D- Commentary: This idiotic, simplton comedy is utterly unnecessary, filled with ludicrous situations and inexplicable jokes, and it takes someone whose been a part of that community before to get all of the jokes. Make no mistake, this isn't your favorite Community episode come to life. This is a shitty geekfest that does more harm than good. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: Brake
Lesson 2: If it stars Stephen Dorff, it's probably going to stink (and that's not speaking ill of the actor, but his role choices).
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Plot Summary: Locked in a plastic box inside a spacious trunk, a CIA agent is psychologically and physically tortured so that his captors can uncover the secret location of the U.S. President's bunker whereabouts. Release Date: March 26, 2012 |
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Rating: C+ Commentary: It looks more like a design that would accompany a horror film than a trailer. It's also disheveled and overly chaotic. |
Rating: D+ Commentary: I had hoped this wouldn't become a movie meme, but here we have a new take on the film Buried. This time it has more action, more tension and less originality. I like Stephen Dorff, but he has seriously got to pick better projects. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: Dorothy and the Witches of Oz
Lesson 1: Never choose to cover a trailer to a film based on its premise...you'll be disappointed.
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Plot Summary: From the imagination of a young woman, the stories of Oz take physical manifestation as the Wicked Witches team up to eradicate the land of Oz through its real world creator. Release Date: February 17, 2012 |
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Rating: C Commentary: If you've seen one bloated, overindulgent kids film poster, then you've seen this one. |
Rating: C- Commentary: Horrid acting and lame effects, coupled with an interesting, if terribly executed story idea, leads to one of the biggest question marks of the modernized fairytale genre. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: The Amazing Spider-Man (trailer #2, poster #2)
The new cast doesn't look bad.
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Plot Summary: The popular webslinger gets the Hollywood reboot taking us back to Peter Parker's origins. Release Date: July 3, 2012 |
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Rating: B+ Commentary: It's a bit predictable, but it will be enough to entice fans of the character and the franchise back to the theater. |
Rating: B+ Commentary: This trailer almost makes the series look salvagable. Sure, this is really a reboot and not a sequel, but after the painful third film in the previous trilogy, it's hard to imagine anything making things worse for the character. This one looks exciting. Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone seem perfectly suited to the material and we'll even get to grimace at Denis Leary. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: Like its predecessors, nominations in the tech categories is about as far as the film will go. |
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Trailer Watch: The Bourne Legacy
We start the week off with a bang and end it with a whimper.
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Plot Summary: Jason Bourne gets a new image and a new origin...at least this version of him. Release Date: August 3, 2012 |
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Rating: B Commentary: Taking its inspiration from the disjointed early imagery from the trailer, the poster gets most of the details right and has no problem showing us the face of their new Bourne. |
Rating: A Commentary: It's not a common design choice for trailers, but the early scenes in the trailer as a disjointed personality is slowly rebuilt into a new identity, we're then thrown full on into an exciting trailer showing us that life after Matt Damon won't be so unpleasant after all. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: The prior films have been nominees in Editing, Sound Mixing and Sound Editing, so I'd consider this film as a potential nominee there as well. |
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Trailer Watch: The Five-Year Engagement
Of all the films that could have sat on the shelf for five years, why not this one?
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Plot Summary: A simple short-term engagement turns into a five-year engagement as various issues fall in the path of a young, in-love couple. Release Date: April 27, 2012 |
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Rating: C Commentary: It's not quite what you would expect from a romantic comedy. This might have flown for a film like The Hangover, but for this it's simply out of place and frankly unattractive. |
Rating: C Commentary: How the bumbling, inept Jason Segel could ever find himself in a serious relationship is beyond me and further mystifying is that it's with the normally wonderful Emily Blunt. There are some fairly funny scenes in the trailer, but overall it looks like a colossal waste of time. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: Undefeated
Although the team may not go undefeated at the Oscars, the trailer may go undefeated at the box office.
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Plot Summary: The story of the Manassus football team and their extraordinary march to victory against significant odds. Release Date: February 17, 2012 |
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Rating: C Commentary: The trailer plays out almost precisely like most fiction stories we see on the big screen. That it's a documentary should surprise a lot of viewers and might even make it a hit. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: This is a 2011 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature. It is a major contender for the award and if Harvey Weisntein has his way, it could be a winner. |
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Trailer Watch: Silent House
I don't know about you, but I heard lots of screaming...
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Plot Summary: A young woman finds herself trapped in a secluded house with someone or someones who want to kill her. Release Date: March 9, 2012 |
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Rating: B- Commentary: The trailer does a bang up job creating suspenese and setting expectations, though not enough is made of the film being a single-shot experiment in the vein of Alfred Hitchcock's Rope except on a more wide-ranging scale. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: This Is Not a Film
This is definitely a trailer even though this is not a film.
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Plot Summary: Jafar Panahi, the jailed Iranian filmmaker forbidden from making movies for 20 years, finds a way to craft a documentary about his incarceration and the story he has rolling around in his head. Release Date: February 29, 2012 |
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Rating: C+ Commentary: This rather simplistic poster will appeal to the demographic it needs to, though not on a very visceral level. |
Rating: B Commentary: The trailer paints this film as being a rather oblique attempt by a censored filmmaker to escape the creative imprisonment forced upon him. Based on that simple statement, it sounds like a winner, but the trailer isn't quite as clever. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: Iran will obviously not submit the film to the Academy, though producers could push it through the festival circuit and earn Panahi a Documentary Feature nomination. Then again, to protect Panahi from retribution in his home country, they might consider it "not a film" as the title suggests and keep it out of circulation. |
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Trailer Watch: Bullhead
The general description of the film seems rather innocuous compared to what the trailer suggests.
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Plot Summary: An unscrupulous veterinarian attempts to convince a young cattle farmer to make an unfair deal with a shady beef trader only to become embroiled in a sinister plot. Release Date: February 17, 2012 |
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Rating: C- Commentary: It's an enigmatic poster, mostly causing the viewer to wonder what the point is. |
Rating: B+ Commentary: While the poster is a bad enigmatic, the trailer is a good enigmatic. The puzzling use of seemingly unrelated images to create a tapestry of a potentially unusual and unsettling film will do nice to goose up business from the curious. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: It is a 2011 Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, but will be honored just to be nominated. |
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Trailer Watch: Tim & Eric’$ Billion Dollar Movie
My brain tried to escape my head after seeing all the wrongness in evidence.
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Plot Summary: A pair of knuckleheads set out to film the greatest movie in history but have absolutely no idea how. Release Date: March 2, 2012 |
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Rating: C- Commentary: There's too much cheese to really take the poster seriously. However, that's what the producers want. It's not very brazen when your manipulation is this obvious. |
Rating: D+ Commentary: The trailer is designed to bounce from cameo to cameo and comic set piece to set piece, leaving little room to expect more than a brain-crushing waste of time. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: None. |
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Trailer Watch: Detachment
This title is what I feel about Adrien Brody's work.
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Plot Summary: A substitute teacher tries to reach out to his students in his short education gigs, but his past threatens to catch up with him. Release Date: March 16, 2012 |
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Rating: C- Commentary: Choosing a scene from a film can be a positive step in building a rapport with the audience. It can also be a bit too pushy for its own good. That's one of the biggest problems with this one. |
Rating: C Commentary: As much as the talent involved in the film looks spectacular and it got some decent reviews, the trailer is so unexceptional and filled with cliched moments that I can't bring myself to wanting to see it. |
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Preview Link: CLICK HERE for link to the trailer, more posters (if available) and other commentary not featured here. Oscar Chances: I would say unlikely, but one never knows how a film like this will play in the intervening months. |
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