Oct 30 2009 New 'The Road' Trailer: Big Budget Bumfights

It's still hard to tell if The Road is going to be an overblown Roland Emmerich of a mess or a post-apocalyptic classic that will do its source material proud, but just from this new trailer I'm ready to give the film its first two awards.

Award 1: Best Score That Makes Me Think the Trailer Will End with Someone Landing on the Moon. I'm not sure if this is the film's actual score or a track lifted from a classic I'm failing to recognize, but hearing it has me on the edge of my seat waiting for that American flag to strike the lunar surface.

Award 2: Most Disarmingly Gratuitous Use of the Wilhelm Scream. If you're going to be that blatant about it, it should at least be followed by a cartoon "splat."

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Oct 21 2009 New 'The Road' Poster: "Stand Back, Son -- I'm Going To Rappel Down Something, Then Shoot Something."

If you're still looking for a Halloween costume idea, how about Viggo Mortensen in The Road? It would be pretty easy to put together, plus you could probably use it again next year as a mountain-climbing-hobo-assassin costume. That's capital-V Value.

New Poster for The Road [ComingSoon]

Sep 4 2009 'The Road' Poster: Where's Thomas Jane?

I think I like this new trend of marketing movies as if they're Arrested Development's Homeless Dad

Let's stop chastising hobo paternity; celebrate it!

New Posters For The Road [Latino Review]

May 14 2009 'The Road' Trailer: Apocalyptic Disasters Have Really Messed Up Our Roads

Ready to follow Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and their fictional son on a post-apocalyptic Homeward Bound: Incredible Journey? Then it's time to watch this new trailer for The Road, John Hillcoat's upcoming film based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy.

If you take one thing away from this, let it be the knowledge that even after a worldwide disaster that leaves few human survivors, hill-jacks will still act pretty much the same way they always have:

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Aug 26 2008 'Good' Trailer ('Good' is the Name, Not a Judgment Call)

Good tells the story of a German author and literary professor whose book advocating compassionate euthanasia becomes a support tool for the Nazi party, forcing him to choose between his career and his values. Also, it stars Viggo Mortensen dressed exactly like Harry Potter, so it's only a matter of hours before the internet will produce the requisite Harry Fuhrer mash-up trailer. Until then, here's the original:

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Aug 8 2008 Viggo's Hat Can Barely Keep the Photoshop Filter from His Eyes in 'Appaloosa' Poster

Here's the poster for Appaloosa, the upcoming Western starring Ed Harris as Old West Guy, Viggo Mortensen as Old West Guy Also, and Renee Zellweger as Female Beetlejuice.

Aug 7 2008 'The Road' Photos Reveal Pennsylvania's Hopelessness

USA Today has the first look at the bleak, post-apocalyptic world of John Hillcoat's The Road, starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, and a child with an annoying name. Wondering how they ever found such a stark, depressing landscape in the real world (pretend you're wondering)? The answer: Pittsburgh!

The film, which stars Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and 11-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee, also was shot in Katrina-ravaged New Orleans and on Mount St. Helens in Washington state for scenes of devastation.

But most of the film was shot in and around Pittsburgh.

Hillcoat found abandoned coal fields, a deserted amusement park and an 8-mile stretch of closed freeway as locations.

"It's tangible, the misery and hopelessness and the bleakness," Mortensen says. "It gives you much more to work with if you're filming in that world instead of a green screen.

So basically, "Thanks for letting us shoot there, Pittsburgh, but man, you guys are absolutely drenched in misery, and you wear sadness like a cape made of pure melancholia--that is, if you still wear anything, since you're so weighed down by despair you probably can't even lift yourself to dress anymore. And by the way, the Penguins really blew it in the playoffs this year."

More here.

Aug 7 2008 'Appaloosa' Trailer Enters the Cyber Saloon

Sorry for delays today. I had to get past some trojan cookie wyrms that were disrupting The Superhighway. Anyway, here's the trailer to Appaloosa, starring Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris as old west guys. No further explanation is really needed. Just think of things old west guys do in movies, and that's what happens here.

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Jul 3 2007 Eastern Promises Trailer

David Cronenberg re-teams with his History of Violence star Viggo Mortensen and adds Naomi Watts in his latest effort, Eastern Promises. When Watts finds a diary that gets her involved with a notorious crime family, she gets in the most dangerous adventure with a journal since Indiana Jones hid his father's Grail diary from the Nazis. Or when Anne Frank hid her standard diary from the Nazis, for that matter. My point is that mobsters and Nazis hate written daily recollections of events.