Movie Trailers

The movie trailer for Gus Van Sant’s Milk is online, and it looks like we could have an outside Oscar contender on our hands. The movie stars Sean Penn as the first openly gay elected official in – you guessed it – San Francisco and looks to have the right combination of grit, power and acting to propel it into awards season. Honestly, I haven’t heard any buzz about this film one way or the other, and in fact hadn’t even heard of the movie itself until the trailer was released. Milk is not exactly a title that stands out to me, though now that I know the film is about Harvey Milk – a person I’ve never heard about – it makes sense.

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Having just watched the movie trailer for Transporter 3, I’m quite amused by how cocky the B-grade Jason Statham franchise has become. The studio seems to be taking the film for granted, as it blatantly markets that the film is about the same as the last two. Of course, they’ve thrown in a Crank twist just to appeal to those fans, too (though I’m pretty sure there is only one kind of Jason Statham fan) – this time, Statham has an explosive device fastened to his wrist.

The Transporter 3 movie trailer is pretty weak; it has poor setup, shoddy editing and really is quite incoherent. I have it listed as the full trailer, but it plays like a teaser trailer, so maybe I just have it poorly named – but regardless, as a teaser trailer, it doesn’t do a good job of setting the stage. It just jumps right into the action and what’s done is done.

That being said, everyone knows what to expect from a Jason Statham action movie, so why beat around the bush, right? Everyone knows they are going to get a pretty silly and dumb action movie, but one that’s full of adrenaline and some snarky British dialogue. Frankly, that’s enough for me, though I could certainly wait until DVD and not be any worse for it.

The movie trailer for the upcoming Anne Hathaway flick Passengers is now online, giving us a look at the increasingly sexy Hathaway as a federal psychologist who is assigned to work with the only ten survivors of a fiery jetliner crash. While most of the passengers show the typical signs of post traumatic stress, one passenger (Patrick Wilson) stands out as curiously different. Specifically, the guy is in a great mood, but also appears to have developed special powers since the crash (apparently, some kind of connection to the next world). This doesn’t stop Hathaway from breaking her professional ethics and sleeping with the guy, of course.

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I just watched the new movie trailer for Body of Lies, the action-drama starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe (directed by Ridley Scott), and it’s a lot better than the original that I saw in theaters a month or two back. That first trailer implied that the movie could be good while trying its hardest to prove otherwise; this new one is much more focused and developed.

Body of Lies, about a spy in the Middle East (DiCaprio) who finds himself on the outside when his handler (Crowe) goes over the edge, looks to have plenty of action and, of course, terrific acting. Of course, following the flop that was The Kingdom, will this one earn some bucks?

Watch the Body of Lies movie trailer here.

Has anyone watched the movie trailer for The Haunting of Molly Hartley yet? It comes out on October 31, 2008, but, frankly, does it matter? This movie does not look good at all. The movie trailer is plagued with cliches, and, more importantly, it’s as boring as Hell. The lack of engaging music or even an attempt to do something clever with the presentation (think of the camera flash technique used to advertise The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) absolutely kills its chances at being successful. The entire plot is revealed in the two-minute trailer, which seems to drag on for five.

Seriously, I don’t even think Halloween can save this one.

I watched the Rachel Getting Married movie trailer the other day. Pretty good, but not great. I’m starting to believe more and more that Anne Hathaway has potential to be a pretty good actress, but I still have a bit of trouble taking her seriously (even though she has had serious roles in the past, she is best known for “fluffier” films). Perhaps this indie role will help change my viewpoint.

Nevertheless, the movie trailer for Rachel Getting Married does not have me clamboring to get to theaters in October. There are some mildly funny bits, but the offputting outcast story has been done better to funnier results. The movie looks like it’s going to be more of a drama than a comedy, which is fine, but it seems like the studio thinks that there are more laughs then there actually are. That could spell trouble.

Here’s the Rachel Getting Married movie trailer for your perusal:

Check out the all-new movie trailer for Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. God, I hate it when “2″ is used in place of a word, but since it’s a kid’s movie I’ll let them get away with it.

The new teaser trailer for Saw V is now online, and while I have no interest in seeing the film (the last four have sucked, why won’t this one?), once again the Lionsgate marketing team has done a good job with this preview. Between the music and the simple footage, they keep you guessing until the last second – the perfect teaser trailer.

I’ve added a couple of video clips from the upcoming Luke Wilson comedy Henry Poole is Here. Check it out:

Watch the new teaser trailer for the upcoming movie Twilight. For a teen action-horror, it looks pretty good… then again, it still comes off as teen action-horror. The line, “I’m only afraid of losing you,” while not bad, does not exactly escalate the film above teen drama.

A coworker sent me this YouTube video today. It’s been online for two years, but that doesn’t make it any less funny. Can you name all of the films shown in here, which depict some pretty ridiculous death scenes? I sure as hell can’t.

I particularly like the one with the hook through the guy’s eye, though I wouldn’t call that the funniest of the bunch. Some of the shark deaths are pretty classic, although I think the throwing star one gets me chuckling the most.

Watch the new movie trailer for Ghost Town, which stars Ricky Gervais (from the British version of “The Office”) as a man who, after dying for only seven minutes, discovers that he can see ghosts. Greg Kinnear plays one of those ghosts, who enlists the man to hit on his wife (Tea Leoni), who in turn is dating a creep of a dentist.

Ghost Town looks OK, but not particularly funny. The marketing department will have to do more to make this one look appealing.

OK, what the heck. I had been worried when Daniel Craig mentioned that they were trying to inject more humor into the James Bond franchise a few months back, but shrugged it off as silliness. After all, Casino Royale was an amazing movie, and a financially successful one to boot. It was a grittier, more realistic Bond that seemed to connect with audiences in a way that some of the previous efforts had failed to do. Why mess with a good formula? Why?

But the new James Bond movie trailer is here (that’s Quantum of Solace to the lay person… wait, or is it the other way around?), and my fears are confirmed. Quantum of Solace is a comedy, or at least the closest thing to a comedy since the original Peter Sellars Casino Royal back in the 1960′s, or at very least Roger Moore’s Moonraker. I mean, what the hell is going on here. How, after just one film, could they change the formula so much? Marc Foster, who has directed such films as Finding Neverland and Stranger than Fiction surely doesn’t have a clue as to how to direct a Bond flick, especially a 21st century Bond. I mean, did anyone see The Kite Runner? It wasn’t exactly movie good.

I’m terrified by the below James Bond movie trailer, at the amount of jokes Daniel Craig cracks. The scene where he runs into a door and falls backwards is just blasphemy. Walking in on Judi Dench naked? What the hell? And the Bond girl… is actually a man.

Of course, I’m joking. The new Quantum of Solace movie trailer looks awesome. It has the same serious tone, has some great action sequences and all around maintains the look and feel of Casino Royale. I am so excited for this one.

Before Wanted graced the screen last night, the movie trailer for Death Race – which has been online for a couple weeks now – reared its ugly head, and wow, does it look just as bad as the original Sylvestor Stallone movie.

I never liked the original cult classic, of what little I can remember of it, but I did have some strange hope that this new 2008 version, which stars Jason Statham, would be some visceral form of entertainment. Boy, was I wrong. This new Death Race, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, who, with Alien vs. Predator under his belt, can rival Uwe Boll at times,  looks about as bad as movies get. Dreary and plotless, a remake of Stone Cold’s The Condemned only with more recognizable actors, Death Race just looks stupid. And dull. The action doesn’t look interesting in the least, and the presence of Joan Allen is just more shocking than anything else. Statham, who has made a career out of starring in bad action movies, I can understand, but Allen? Really?

The only saving grace, though, is Statham, who does seem to make even the worst action movies somewhat entertaining. Crank was pushing it, and Death Race looks to push that theory even further.

If you haven’t watched the Death Race movie trailer, click here.

The movie trailer for Guy Ritchie’s RocknRolla is online, and the crime thriller looks a lot more like his earlier films (Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) than his later, less desirable flicks (Swept Away and Revolver). Watch the RocknRolla movie trailer now: