We saw several (a huge number, it seemed) of previews before Cowboys & Aliens. It was a different audience, obviously, than a lot of the flicks we see with Katherine, and so a different set of movies.
But nothing that really grabbed me and made me say, “I must see it! Soon!”
- Battleship: Look, it’s Top Gun, with scrappy rebel Navy youth falling in love with the Admiral’s daughter! No, wait, it’s a giant alien artifact being encountered by a naval squadron! I don’t know which movie we’re supposed to be wanting to see, but neither does the trailer.
- Conan: Pounding rock sound track, plus unimpressive effects, plus too many close shots of what should be broad and epic vistas, plus very little of the titular character aside from sword-swinging. Very ho-hum.
- Shark Night 3D: Um … okay. Classic “teens threatened by horror while away in an isolated place for the weekend” is apparently not a vanished genre.
- Immortals: Now this is epic, gods at war and 300-style over-CGed style. But somehow uninspiring, in the brief glimpse we got. I could see eventually going to this, if it gets seriously good word-of-mouth, but not otherwise.
- Final Destination 5: Guy foresees disaster. Guy saves several of his friends due to foresight. Guy and friends are told that death doesn’t like to be cheated and that either it will catch up to them in gruesome ways, or … they can kill someone in a gruesome fashion as a trade. Hilarity — and/or gruesome deaths — ensue. No thanks.
- Tower Heist: This is the only one I would be likely to go to — but I don’t go to comedies. “When a group of hard working guys find out they’ve fallen victim to a wealthy business man’s Ponzi scheme, they conspire to rob his high-rise residence.” Except in this case the business man is Alan Alda, and the robbers include Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Matthew Broderick, and some other decent-looking talent. Those who like this sort of thing may very well find it the sort of thing they like.
- War Horse: From Steven Spielberg, a movie that looks very much like a classic Steven Spielberg movie, about a horse raised in the lovely English countryside who goes off to war in the cavalry (etc.) in WW I, and the country English boy who loved him. It looks very epic and will doubtless make oodles of money, but is too overtly Spielbergian cinematographic and heartstring-tugging for my tolerance.
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