Jul 6 2009'Brothers' Trailer: No, Not the Movie About the Reunited Tiger Cubs
When news comes back that Tobey Maguire has died in the line of duty, brother Jake Gyllenhaal makes sure he really "takes care" of the widowed Natalie Portman. Yeah, that's right, "takes care" with quotes. (Sex.) Which wouldn't be such a big deal, except it turns out Maguire has survived! He's home! He's making intense, award-baiting faces! And he's understandably displeased with the whole wife-sleeping-with-his-brother thing.
I can't believe the trailer gives away the shot where he turns into Vader:
God, who is that girl to talk? As if she's having sex with anyone at all. They really need to stop giving her wine and balloons at dinner.
Reader Comments
1. Mike - July 6, 2009 3:09 PM
first
2. Mike - July 6, 2009 3:14 PM
first!
3. Mike - July 6, 2009 3:14 PM
second!
4. ktb ( . )( . ) - July 6, 2009 3:22 PM
No doubt about it...war sucks.
IF I see this movie, I'll cry my eyes out.
Both my brothers were in Iraq...luckily both made it home.
But if my sister-in-law was Natalie Portman, and I had a brother that looked like Jake Gyllenhaal, I'd hide in the closet and watch :0
5. Anthony - July 6, 2009 3:42 PM
That's a wonderful way of portraying our returning veterans. Make the guy who went through hell to get home out to be a crazy lunatic who threatens his wife and brother with a gun and urges the police to shoot him.
The movie might not turn out that way. There may be a deeper storyline that exposes major character issues.
6. Aroinak - July 6, 2009 3:54 PM
Wow, that's... horrible. Not the movie, not the plot, the fact that the trailer alone gave away the WHOLE FREAKIN' MOVIE! Why would they do that? There's no point in even seeing it now. We KNOW that the brother sleeps with the wife, and the husband comes back alive when thought dead, and goes crazy! Both major plot twists were given away right there. Does anyone else miss suspense and surprise in movies?
7. Mike - July 6, 2009 3:59 PM
Is Rambo the only ass kicking war veteran? also, is he the only one who's able to battle war caused insanity? in the first movie he's crazy, in the second...not so much
8. PurpleJedi - July 6, 2009 4:06 PM
@#6
YES!!! I hate it when I watch a trailer and then go see the movie only to find out that the best parts of the past 2 hours that I paid $10 to see were already broadcast to me for free at home.
I really hope that there's more depth to this film.
9. Nick - July 6, 2009 4:24 PM
Are you kidding me? Go rent classic movies like Westworld and watch the trailers included on the DVDs. If you want to see trailers that give -everything- away, then you'd see the best coming from years gone by.
10. jonathan - July 6, 2009 4:31 PM
uh... isn't that the plot to Pearl Harbor? err, i mean, i never saw Pearl Harbor. i'm not gay or anything. at least jake gyllenhall isn't having narcissistic sex with tobey maguire, cos they're basicly the same person.
11. Hal - July 6, 2009 5:44 PM
Screw the trailer - IWS Guy gained another shout out for referencing a Guy Pearce children's movie in this post.
12. Pete - July 6, 2009 8:53 PM
I saw this movie already, I liked it better when it was called Brothers and was about a soldier who's MIA and his wife sleeps with... hey wait a minute...Yeah ummm this is a remake... like all Hollywood movies these days.
http://www.allmovie.com/work/brothers-314783
Im glad to see that they didn't go through all the hassle of changing the name or plot we all know what budget killers those can be...oh but it is in English this time so at least there wont be any of those subtitle things to deal with. Wait! more savings, it should be great!
13. ABOVEANDBEYONDMAG.com - July 6, 2009 10:44 PM
and it's not even an old film ... it's a 2004 film lol
14. Rachel - July 6, 2009 11:18 PM
@ 10 - yeah, definitely the same as pearl harbor.
15. Jess - July 7, 2009 9:23 AM
Isn't that basically the plot to Pearl Harbour?
16. A random black guy - July 7, 2009 1:45 PM
Weak or Lame? Weak or Lame? Weak or Lame? Def. Weak dude!
This seems to be lazy writing. Let's just take the most crazy guy wrenching movie'ie'ed up things with a twist and write like 8 years olds telling their dad "your just mad cause mom would rather sleep with uncle billy" and write them into a anti war movie.
Lame... wait... i mean weak! yea weak dude
17. AnthonyIsABitch - July 7, 2009 3:32 PM
@5
Are you kidding me? So now movies can only show war veterans in a positive light? Some of these guys were assholes when they left and are even bigger assholes when they come back. There are real people with personalities just like this and their story has every bit or credibility to be told than any other war vet or human being out there.
18. Forlourned - July 8, 2009 1:06 PM
Most people can't abide to this hollyweird crap, and proved it last year with the dearth of shit that came out last year. Hollywood made great movies in regard to returning vets decades ago like 'The Best Years of Our Lives'. I loved that movies take on several returning veterans from WWII.
This one has already told everyone what happens, so if I'm interested in seeing emo-tastic paper thin characters emote. Well, I'd go.
It shows that all returning vets are insane emo-boys with guns, guns, and more guns. Ready to gun down their family at the taste of betrayal. The easily swayed rats the vet spawned shows how poorly brought up they where by the emo-wife who cries at the sight of her lost emo-boytoy. Ready to spread wide her legs at the new taste of brother slong if he'd be so willing. Which is shown to be in the trailer. Another movie in the FIVE dollar dumping basket.
19. air compressor - January 26, 2010 3:58 AM
war is terrible