Movie Trailer of Awesome

I feel like movie trailers have gotten completely uninspiring lately (it doesn't help that the actual movies have done the same thing).

So, imagine my complete delight when I stumbled upon the following while cruising around on the Xbox last night:



Love!

And here's a more normal trailer with a better hint at the actual plot:



Looks seriously promising come August.

Upcoming Movies

(Click on the posters for trailers)

Will definitely go see:


Because I have enjoyed all of Apatow's movies so far. And the trailers made me laugh.

(Ponyo)

Because Miyazaki's kid-oriented movies are my favorite of his. And it's about a mermaid!!

And I won't be taking the boys because they can be frickin annoying at the movie theater and I don't want to be distracted. They can watch it on video.


Will Probably Go See:

Even though I only got about 2/3 of the way through the book because I just didn't like Julie and didn't care to read about her anymore. This is usually my problem with non-fiction memoirs. I like Amy Adams, though. And Meryl Streep.


Note: This post was brought to you with hardly any complete sentences. Just the way I like it.

To Paris, With Love (Whatever that means)

Happy New Year!

But before I depart, I have to share the strangest movie trailer I've seen in a very long time.

It looks like a buddy-cop movie staring John Travolta and Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

Yeah, I just said those two names together.

Makes no sense, right?

And I didn't even get to Travolta's bizzare bald/beard combo and bazooka-shooting penchant.



Seriously, what the hell was that? Probably really awful. Possibly totally awesome.

Again, happy new year.

Man, I want to see this movie. I'm such a sucker for underdog "man with a dream" tales. We all know how I feel about "Hustle and Flow." I'm sure if it's playing around New Years in Ithaca that A. would go see it with me.

Also, that Springsteen song playing over the trailer? Damn.

"Tell me, friend, can you ask for anything more?"

I know that if you dissect Springsteen songs up, they're mostly very simple, repeating melodies with easy rhyme schemes. But that's always been the key to Springsteen. I like to think of them as lean, instead of simple. It's like there's nothing superfluous or showy tacked on that doesn't belong there. It also helps that Springsteen's got such a full voice that it ebbs and flows and fills in any gaps. Man, I love that voice.

Proof? I downloaded a goddamn Christmas song the other day because of Bruce.

I even managed to find a single youtube video featuring the version I downloaded. My favorite part is when he can't stop laughing at the member of his band doing the "ho, ho, ho" bits.

One of these days, you'll get an entry without youtube videos. Probably not soon, though.