Coming Attraction Trailers - Brief Reviews
Submitted by slipkid71 on Tue, 01/20/2004 - 09:44
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- Man on Fire: Denzel Washington plays a bodyguard protecting a family in Mexico City, the targets of potential kidnappings. He develops, against his better judgement, a relationship with the daughter, played by Dakota Fanning. The relationship between bodyguard and child has a lot of potential, but I'm turned off by Tony Scott's directorial involvment with this picture. It's probably going to be all flash and bang and no substance, like every one of Scott's film (except True Romance), which is a shame. It'll ruin the makings of a good psychological drama.
- The Ladykillers: Great, another damned remake, of a pretty funny British comedy starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. But wait! There's a lot that makes this potentially worth watching. One, it's a Coen Brothers film. Two, Tom Hanks stars, and three, from what I could gather from the trailer, Irma P. Hall as the landlady too smart for Tom Hanks' own good steals every scene. Unfortunately, Marlon Wayans is in it (immediate letdown), and, holy Christ, Tom Hanks looks like he's been hanging out at the Krispy Kreme every day for the past year. Sheesh, he's packed on a bunch of weight, and that Colonel Sanders look he's going for isn't at all flattering. Oh hell, I'll probably go see it.
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Three words: Charlie Kaufman, Screenwriter. I don't care, it's written by Charlie Kaufman. For all I care, Charlie Kaufman can screenwriter Dirty Slutty Cheerleader Orgy 12 (not a real film, by the way), and I'll still go see it. The trailer is absolutely funny and brilliantly original as well.
- Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights: This is probably a waste of everyone's time, and an attempt, shameless or not, to cash in on the original Dirty Dancing. It even bears a startling plot line similarity to the first film. But it stars Diego Luna, who shone oh so greatly in Y Tu Mama Tambien, and for all I know, I could be incredibly wrong about this movie as I was when the first one came out in '87.
- Laws of Attraction: So-so premise from the trailer; two lawyers, played by Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore, wake up one morning after a night of way too much drinking to learn they've married the night before. So, of course, being lawyers, they have to annul the marriage. We've probably seen this premise before, but from the looks of it, Moore and Brosnan exhibit a good amount of chemistry to make this film work.
Viewed at the movie theatre (1/20/04) after watching Lost in Translation for a second time.