Thanks to $5 Tuesdays at a couple of the local movie theaters, I have started seeing a bunch more movies in the theater. Since I've been spending more time in the theater I thought a fun new post would be reviewing the previews. I'm not sure how frequent a post it will be (is once a week to often to keep it interesting? is once a month to far apart?) but will try it out and see how it goes...
The Hobbit - D
I probably shouldn't be reviewing anything involved with Peter Jackson and J.R.R. Tolkien. Fair warning, I'm extremely biased at this point with my hatred of what Jackson did to my most beloved novels. If you ever want me to go off on an hour long rant all you have to do is make one of two comments: 1) Joe Montana was a better QB then Dan Marino. 2) Peter Jackson did a wonderful job translating the Lord of the Rings books into movies. I have very little faith that he will do much better with The Hobbit, so all this preview did was make me mad.
To Rome With Love - B
It's very rare of late for Woody Allen to put together two good movies. It feels like its only one out of every four or five is worth watching. So after last year's Midnight in Paris I figured it would be a few years before we saw a quality piece of work from the master. This preview seems to say other wise. Of course there is always the chance that the preview captured all the funny moments, but with someone like Allen I wouldn't think that would be the case. After seeing the preview, I'm looking forward to this one.
Monsters University - B+
Monsters Inc. was probably my least favorite Pixar movie, so the idea of a sequel does very little for me, but the preview before Brave was really funny. I still won't be running out to see this when it's in the theaters, but this first preview is worth checking out.
Pitch Perfect - A
Here's an example of a trailer that is good enough to get me to see a movie that you never would have been able to pull me into otherwise. If you told me you were making a movie about a bunch of college girls who put together an A Capella group to enter competitions, I would have laughed in your face and said "I've seen Glee, it sucks, no thank you." But the trailer is really funny, the cast is phenomenal and the music seems pretty good. This may be a case of all the good moments in the trailer, but it has me hooked.
Step Up Revolution - A+
This is the type of trailer that makes this kind of post fun and interesting. There is no way in hell I am ever going to see this movie, not in the theater, not DVD, not for free with a gun held to my head, yet the three or four minutes that this trailer runs is three or four minutes of genius. If I made a parody trailer it couldn't be as perfectly ridiculous as this one. It has what could easily be the trailer line of the summer... "Enough with performance art, it's time for protest art!" I almost fell out of my seat laughing. Please, stay far away from this movie, but by all means check out this horribly awesome trailer.
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