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Mid-2000 Trailers Introspective

by : DokBrowne [ email this article to a friend ]
 
"Where the Heart is" (B-) - knock-me-down beauty Ashley Judd makes this entirely worth seeing

"U-571" (C+) - Seen way too many trailers, all containing the same set of about 4 scenes (people yelling, submarine dipping below surface, quick shot of Matt McConaughey, and the depth charges). Hope there's more to it than this

"Gossip" (B-) - Teen Movie! And with long-forgotten "Disturbing Behavior" guy James Marsden, and of course the almighty Pacey

"Held Up" (C-) - Jamie Foxx should stick with Oliver Stone, the only guy who's made Foxx worth something since "In Living Color"

"Loser" (B) - Some pretty funny sight gags. Jason Biggs reminds me of a junior Ben Stiller (kudos to that)

"Road Trip" (C+) - Looks high-spirited enough to watch, but it's kinda irritating to know that Tom Green is barely in the movie at all despite his heavy publicity for it

"Gladiator" (B+) - Buzz and early screeners suggest it may be a summer masterpiece. Wow...

"Shanghai Noon" (B-) - It LOOKS much funnier and entertaining than the premise sounds (Jackie Chan is another cultural fish-out-of-water, and his new whitebread partner is unproven comic Owen C. Wilson?)

"Gone in 60 Seconds" (B+) - Finally, Nic has been removed from the gutter (8mm, Snake Eyes, Bringing Out the Dead) with Jerry Bruckheimer's help. They're a pair that shouldn't separate for too long

"Dinosaur" (B-) - Impressive fx but seems like a dull story (and I'm not looking forward to more talking dinos...considering the risk they took in making it all CGI and more real, they should've gone one step further and had NO dialogue at all. I sadly portend ruinous kiddie jokes and throwaway characters)

"The Flinstones in Viva Rock Vegas" (C-) - I thought the first one made $140 million and was co-produced by Spielberg? How come there's no buzz at all for this one, and the cast has been downsized to second-rate losers?

"The Patriot" (C) - Drab trailer, but exciting word-of-mouth

"Battlefield Earth" (C-) - Incredibly standard sci-fi action, with lots of "-fi" and no real "sci". The only good thing is John Travolta's wacky evil laugh

"Titan A.E." (C) - The computer effects are too easily distinguishable from the actual animation, a very bothersome defect

"Me, Myself, and Irene" (A-) - Of the summer trailers I've seen so far, this one's got my heart racing most. Jim Carrey, back in pure comedy form after 3 years, and looking better than ever

"The Perfect Storm" (B-) - That final shot of the wave completely usurped my disinterest in this

"The X-Men" (B-) - Always hated Wolverine and all his "poor-me" raging depression, but mindless comic book adventures are usually fun. And I'm curious to see how the filmmakers handled so much anticipation

"Mission: Impossible 2" (B) - It looks like Tom Cruise has an entirely different personality, with the long hair and the heavier inclination towards action, particularly that of the physically improbably Matrix kind. Too bad. The trailer's got style, though. Viva John Woo

"The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle" (D) - Jason Alexander rocks, but the CGI R & B duo look abominably fake. Their bodies are 10 times brighter and more simplistic than everything around them in the shot. Ewww

"Rugrats in Paris" (C-) - More minor adventures. It was disturbing to see that at the end of the preview I saw on Nickelodean, some cartoon reporter looks at the camera and tells us to "get off your ass and go". What's the demographic for this movie about 1-year-old babies?

"102 Dalmatians" (F) - Nah

"Lost Souls" (D) - It's gonna miss the End of Days-Stigmata-Sixth Sense-Stir of Echoes flash by over a year, and looks far less interesting than all its predecessors anyway. But then, I didn't want to see "The Sixth Sense" when its previews unspooled everywhere, so ya never know...


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