Not, surprisingly, tonight. Of the trailers I saw before Guardians of the Galaxy, there was very little I was particularly interested in seeing, and lots I'm actually chewing my leg out of the trap to avoid:
When the Game Stands Tall — Oh, boy! A movie about a football team! Wow! When can I start camping out for tickets? Or … not.
Into the Woods — Okay, I can see seeing this. Though I'm beginning to worry that "live action fairy tale" films and TV shows are beginning to be a glut on the market.
Night in the Museum 3 — Looks as charming and childlike as the first couple. Which I also didn't see.
Annie — Well, they managed to avoid The Song, but, really, this does nothing for me.
Dumb and Dumber To — Okay, that would make me go see a football movie, if that was my only alternative.
Interstellar — Looks profound, dramatic, awe-inspiring, moving — and I really don't have any clear idea what's going on or why I'd want to see it.
Expendables 3 — I eschewed the first two as well.
Big Hero 6 — This looks actually pretty good, even better than the earlier trailers for it. And the 3D works well, too.
Hobbit 3 — So, of course, I'm going to go see this … but I hope to God (for the sake of those who will be seeing it in 3D) that the 3D in the trailer was a rush job for the trailer itself, not how the 3D in the movie will work, because, ye gods, that was bad.
So, three winners out of nine. And that's why I don't contribute more to Hollywood.
While we await your review of GotG, can you give us an idea of how good it was? Say on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being any Pauly Shore movie and 10 being Casablanca in space performed by Muppets while Jim Henson was still alive.
Whoops! Your review has been posted. Excuse me whilst I go read it.
I think Into the Woods gets the look exactly right, although I'm a bit concerned that there's no singing in the trailer for a musical…
The only reason I know what Interstellar is about is because I searched it. In a nutshell, the Earth is going crap so a team is assembled to find a new planet to call home. Matthew McConaughey is upset because the physics of long-range space travel means he either won't see his children ever again or they'll be senior citizens by the time he returns.
+Scott Randel In absolute terms, I'd give it an 7.835. In "Movies I'm likely to grab on disc and as soon as they are available and possibly even go back to the theater to see a second time" terms? A 10.
+Brittany Constable There was no singing in the Annie trailer, either. I assume, since they kept dropping the song titles as narrative text, there's going to be.
Maybe they're just concerned that musicals don't sell as such. Ironic, given how heavily GotG sold itself, tonally, on its soundtrack of old hits.
+Marty Shaw But … the … DRAMA. It was so thick you could cut it with a knife. DRAMA. Oh, and AWE.
I mean, the dramatic effects of time dilation is a legit theme (dating back to the 50s, at least — thinking of at leastd one RAH juvenile), but this just came across as sooooo over the top, it made me completely uinterested. Which is a shame, because it looks like it will be, technically, an interesting work.
so much drama that they forgot the story 😛