I'm a movie trailer addict. Nine times out of ten, if I see a good movie in theaters, but I have to sit through fifteen minutes of bullshit previews, I have a bad feeling in my gut for the rest of the film.
File under reason #2046 why I loves the interwebs. Trailers are just a click away!
There's something about movie trailers that makes them almost superior to the films themselves. Everyone knows a comedy trailer has all the funny parts in the movie condensed into two minutes, complete with funny sound effects used as censors for the f-bombs and what have you. Case in point: Tropical Thunder
I want to see this movie, but I'd just as soon not. Why? Because the trailer's got me fucking covered. Ben Stiller will be entertaining for his usual twenty minutes before I get sick of seeing his face. Steve Coogan will be an underrated scene-stealer. I will continue to wish I was Robert Downey Jr. I'm good to fucking go.
Everyone knows the comedy trailer. You should. Its what pretty much everyone actually leaves the house to watch. Less viewed, but equally interesting are trailers to twisty, nothing-is-what-it-seems dramas that never make enough money to matter to the general public and lack the gravitas it takes for awards.
This year, we've got Deception, an erotic-thriller starring Hugh Jackman and Ewan McGregor that is guaranteed to change titles for another time before its theatrical release.
See? That's a trailer.
- Easy to follow, dangerously unrealistic Hitchcockian premise? Check.
- At least two(2) familiar actors playing opposing forces? Check.
- At least two(2) hot female characters whose sole narrative purpose is gratuitous displays of flesh? Check.
- Hammy and ridiculous titles designed to make everything seem foreboding and uncertain? Check.
Now, if Ewan was playing Obi-Wan and Jackman playing Wolverine, this movie would be even more appetizing.
Lastly, my personal favorite.
David Ayer has made a nice little niche for himself in Hollywood. He wrote Training Day and did some script doctoring on SWAT and has been the go-to guy for Los Angeles-set, gritty crime dramas ever since. This latest collab with legendary noir writer James Ellroy (Ayer also worked on Dark Blue) was originally titled The Night Watchman but was changed to Street Kings.
I'm just happy they didn't spell it with a 'z.'
The Street Kings Trailer from Alltid Aldri on Vimeo.
Everything an urban crime drama needs in today's marketplace.
- Rappers turned actors. (see American Gangster)
- Forest Whitaker (see:, well, nothing, he's just awesome)
- A hip-hop song reminding us of what the "street" feels like (yeah, it's Lupe Fiasco, which seems almost like a mistake. Everyone knows black people don't like Lupe. Maybe Rick Ross wouldn't give a clearance.)
- Keanu letting out the badass, which sounds exactly like Keanu in everything, including The Lake House.
Ben Stiller will make an assload of money and try and keep the comedic juggernaut that is Judd Apatow at bay. No one will see Deception except bored people thinking its some kind of porn, and Street Kings will either be fantastic and a new staple of the genre, or a joke. I'm hoping the former, but I'm totally prepared to get down with the latter.
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