April 11, 2006
Peaceful Warrior Trailer
From the movie, based on the best-selling novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior, comes the trailer for Peaceful Warrior. And believe me, you're probably going to want to see this more than committing to either of the prior tasks. From what I could gather, the plot is as follows: After a career-ending motorcycle accident, a popular male gymnast, with the help of a 100-year-old Nick Nolte, learns that there's more to the world of competitive gymnastics than the partying, popularity, and success with women. There's also all the embarrassing, kind of gay parts, that you have to try to hide. Like wearing little spandex leotards and flipping around on mats with some other guys.
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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.
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."
