Jul 14 2008'Ghost Town' Trailer Now Haunting the Internet
Dreamworks has released the trailer to Ghost Town, starring Ricky Gervais, Greg Kinnear, and Tea Leoni. It looks something like if The Sixth Sense was a broad, moralistic comedy, or like a non-Christmas Carol-based Scrooged. Gervais looks typically entertaining as another variation of a jerkier version of himself, but the film appears otherwise unwatchably trite. How are assholes still being exemplified by stealing cabs and purposely closing elevators on people? At this point, that's no longer acting like a jerk--that's intentionally imitating the way poorly-written jerks act in movies, which is more like acting like a highly-disturbed sociopath. But I guess the summary "mean-spirited man gets rehabilitated by amusing ghosts" probably sells better than "imitative sociopath haunted by memories of Talk Soup."
Thanks to Clay for this offering. Bigger version at the official site.
Reader Comments
1. snarf - July 14, 2008 2:08 PM
Yeah. I saw this trailer this morning actually. I really like Gervais but Greg Kinnear?
Ew.
He= instant bad movie mix.
I was interested before I saw the preview but now I don't think I can. I wonder if Gervais makes it better than it looks.
2. Jerod Cykoski - July 14, 2008 2:43 PM
I saw snarf's post this morning. snarf + iwatchstuff comment post = ass pirating dingleberry salesperson.
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3. Liz A. - July 14, 2008 2:48 PM
Saw an advance screening of this movie a couple months ago. It's at least as bad as you think it is. Gervais is fine. Leoni isn't bad. Kinnear is just as Kinnear-y as he can manage & the overall effect is underwhelming, at best.
4. emily - July 14, 2008 3:57 PM
Gervais as Oda Mae Brown? Really?
BAM! Ghost reference! I'm all over topical humor!!
5. Ben - July 14, 2008 7:21 PM
I guess 'This is how we do it baby' was a line in the movie after all
6. Dan - July 15, 2008 1:46 AM
@ 5: Beat me to it. That awful poster could have been a work in progress then.
Overall impression: very average. Bring on This Side of the Truth.
7. about me? - July 15, 2008 4:15 AM
i love the cops in the movie . Remember people it is the police or people in uniform not the politicians or news reporters that keeps you free.
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8. Adam_Y - July 15, 2008 7:10 AM
I'm allergic to anything containing Kinnear – 'Stuck on You' nearly hospitalised me following a particularly severe reaction.