Also in the trailer bin with Never Let Me Go this week:
- Writer-director Sofia Coppola examines anew the heavy emotional toll of a life of ridiculous privilege in the first trailer for Somewhere, with Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, and Michelle Monaghan. (Its emo-hipster kvetching aside, I’ll still probably see it.)
- Team Narnia returns again with the whole gang in tow — even the nifty witch and the platitudinous Jesus-lion! — in the trailer for Michael Apted’s The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (I remember Treader being one of the better books, but, frankly, this looks as stilted as the last two.)
- Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, and Gabriel Macht have the bright idea of putting pr0n on the Internet — yes y’all, there is pr0n on the Internet…allegedly — in the Blow-like trailer for George Gallo’s Middle Men, also with James Caan, Jacinda Barrett, Laura Ramsey, and Kevin Pollak. (Eh, it lost me with the dumb Kelsey Grammar bit.)
- And, just when I thought Russell Crowe resurrecting The Equalizer was the most ridiculous, Hollywood-is-broken bit of news I’d hear this week, along comes the teaser for the live-action Smurfs movie, Tone-Loc mash-up and all. Saddest thing is, this will probably make Alvin and the Chipmunks money.
Oh God. The Smurfs trailer…. Oh dear God.
The kinders in my class do not understand my dislike of Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hannah Montana, and Justin Bieber. It looks like I’ll be adding the Smurfs to that list. They make me feel so guilty for it! I should just lie and say that the new Smurfs movie looks awesome.