April 11, 2006
Mission: Impossible III Laugh Reel
Just when I was starting to think maybe I'd check out Mission: Impossible III, the makers have shown me a reason not to: a "laugh reel." While I'm sure the idea of a "laugh reel" sounded great while it was being extracted from Dick Clark's dying brain, seeing writer/director J.J. Abrams acting like someone from the Friars Club while Tom Cruise laughs like an idiot makes me realize that I'd never want to see anything either of the two have produced. Besides in ten years, when I'll want to see Cruise's kid being brought down from a clock tower, where he's been picking people off with a rifle for just under an hour.
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The Zodiac Trailer
Since no one at all is getting sick of "psychological thrillers" (they're like horror but with less monsters and breasts, but more serial killers), they've gone ahead and made a trailer to promote another one. Zodiac tells the semi-true of the Zodiac Killer and a father and son who become obsessed with finding him. I'm convinced it will do for the psychological thriller genre what Sanford and Son did for the junk store dealer genre, in that they both have fathers and sons. Since the Zodiac Killer was known for his complex codes, I thought I'd try my hand at the same. It LoOkS TeRribLe!
John Tucker Must Die Trailer
The popularity divining rod for kids, MySpace, has the trailer for the upcoming teen comedy John Tucker Must Die. The story is about three high school girls out to get revenge on the most popular guy in school for his infidelities, possibly even to the point of murder-- sort of a 9 to 5 for high schoolers. It looks like your standard teen comedy, except I'm a bit confused about how they portray John Tucker as "cool" by showing that he was able to wear a woman's thong to school. If wearing women's underwear were all it took to be cool in high school, I would have been double-cool! (I wore panties and a bra).
An Inconvenient Truth Trailer
What makes the trailer for An Inconvenient Truth so intriguing? Is it the charts and graphs? Could it be the photographs of lakes and mountains? Or is it simply Al Gore's monotone lecturing? It's too close to call. You can judge for yourself at Moviefone, where the trailer is now up. As for me, this is the Powerpoint presentation I'm most looking forward to this year.
New Nacho Libre Trailer
JoBlo got their hands on an exclusive trailer for Nacho Libre, the newest from Napoleon Dynamite director Jared Hess, Jack Black, and School of Rock writer Mike White. There's not much new footage, but something about it seems more "on" this time. Still, something's stopping me from getting too excited about this one. I try to remember, now matter how good it may look, even Hitler probably seemed pretty appealing at first, and look what he became. You wouldn't trust a re-animated Hitler, would you? After that whole Holocaust fiasco? If you're like me, the answer is a resounding, "probably not."
I Am a Sex Addict Trailer
I hadn't heard of I Am a Sex Addict until seeing the trailer, but it looks pretty great. Here's the description:
Autobiographical filmmaker Caveh Zahedi has made a cult career of his unabashed willingness to be vulnerable on camera. I Am a Sex Addict, a comic reconstruction of his ten-year struggle with sex addiction, is one of his most ambitious, hilarious confessions yet.
Hopefully, in addition to providing some laughs, this movie will give others, possibly even some women, the courage to admit they have a sex addiction. Then, those women should send me their addresses, a few Polaroids, and an availability schedule. Or at least send me some pornography. Anyone.
