The Trailers Shown Before Other Movies Thread
Posted: October 31st, 2009, 6:23 pm
This is the place where you post what trailers showed before the print of a certain movie that you saw. I used to do this at The Fantaverse Resurrected but there is currently no post devoted to this.
For my first post, here were the trailers shown before This Is It.
Nine
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Spy Next Door
Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Alice In Wonderland
2012 (new trailer)
All of the trailers except for New Moon (saw this trailer before Zombieland) and Alice In Wonderland (saw this trailer before Halloween II) were new to me. Here are my opinions on each one.
-Nine's trailer reminds me of some of the trailers from the 1970's, in which instead of explaining the plot they would show you the highlights of the film as if it were a mini-movie (see The Godfather trailer for a visual explaination). I might like a second trailer before I make a full decision on seeing the film.
-The Spy Next Door looks as if Jackie Chan has hit rock bottom. Though the concept of seeing Jackie Chan play a normal person could work, it just looks like a ripoff of The Pacifier, The Tuxedo and Are We There Yet (oddly enough, this film is from the same director as Are We There Yet).
-Did You Hear About The Morgans? looks like a decent comedic variation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot. Marc Lawrence has proved to be a decent rom-com director and Hugh Grant is always entertaining (as is Sam Elliott). I liked the Sarah Palin reference in the trailer and the bit with the bear.
-The new 2012 trailer may be the most inappropriate trailer of the year. Shots of end-of-the-world destruction being played to upbeat music by Adam Lambert (who did a song for the film). I can't believe the people at Sony approved this trailer to be used.
For my first post, here were the trailers shown before This Is It.
Nine
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
The Spy Next Door
Did You Hear About The Morgans?
Alice In Wonderland
2012 (new trailer)
All of the trailers except for New Moon (saw this trailer before Zombieland) and Alice In Wonderland (saw this trailer before Halloween II) were new to me. Here are my opinions on each one.
-Nine's trailer reminds me of some of the trailers from the 1970's, in which instead of explaining the plot they would show you the highlights of the film as if it were a mini-movie (see The Godfather trailer for a visual explaination). I might like a second trailer before I make a full decision on seeing the film.
-The Spy Next Door looks as if Jackie Chan has hit rock bottom. Though the concept of seeing Jackie Chan play a normal person could work, it just looks like a ripoff of The Pacifier, The Tuxedo and Are We There Yet (oddly enough, this film is from the same director as Are We There Yet).
-Did You Hear About The Morgans? looks like a decent comedic variation of Elmore Leonard's Killshot. Marc Lawrence has proved to be a decent rom-com director and Hugh Grant is always entertaining (as is Sam Elliott). I liked the Sarah Palin reference in the trailer and the bit with the bear.
-The new 2012 trailer may be the most inappropriate trailer of the year. Shots of end-of-the-world destruction being played to upbeat music by Adam Lambert (who did a song for the film). I can't believe the people at Sony approved this trailer to be used.