Movie Trailer Friday: Easy Virtue

This is the wrong time to peddle a movie built on the idea that brash, declassé Americans are going to break down those stodgy old European walls and set the people free from prisons of their own making, etc. Even if the stodgy people in question are another Imperial power.

I watch this, and I think, how nice it would be too hang out on that elegant country estate, as long as that annoying bitch on the motorcycle wasn’t there to mess it all up.

Quicktime trailer for Easy Virtue.

Movie Trailer Friday: Winter Of Frozen Dreams

The main point of this trailer is that Thora Birch is looking hot.

Don’t you want to see this movie so that you can get confused, depressed, and sexually frustrated?

Playboy has some great articles. Just saying.

Here’s the Quicktime trailer for Winter Of Frozen Dreams.

Movie Trailer Friday: Imagine That

It’s hard to tell whether Eddie Murphy’s presence is meant to make this formulaic plot appear fresh and interesting, or vice versa.

The idea of the preternaturally wise child is so ingrained in all of our minds that it’s an easy sell. We all remember the clarity and confidence that allowed our young brains to combine fantasy and reality. If only we could have some of that magic back, etc. etc.

It’s weird that this trailer doesn’t include any hint of a love story. Surely, the little girl eventually predicts another kind of marriage, between her father and some co-worker or something.

Here’s the Quicktime trailer for Imagine That.

Movie Trailer Friday: The Informers

Rumor has it that Oliver Stone gets angry when fans thank him for Gordon Gekko’s “Greed Is Good” speech in Wall Street, because Gekko is the villain, and that speech is the opposite of the movie’s moral. And yet, like the gangster movie, the primary allure of the 80s materialist movie is the glamorization of the superficial lifestyle from which the protagonist supposedly needs to be redeemed.

Brett Easton Ellis directing a movie based on a book by Brett Easton Ellis, set in the 80s, is hugely exciting. But it’s exciting purely because it represents another chance to vicariously live through the 80s. It’s like watching Less Than Zero on DVD in 2009 while getting drunk by yourself and wondering why you never got that glamorous cocaine-covered life you deserved. Only you watch it in a theater, with other people, and you get drunk after instead of during, and the movie came out in 2009, not when you were in high school, so the fact that you get caught up in the glamour of it makes you feel a little bit less pathetic.

The Informers Quicktime trailer

The long version is much less cathartic and 80s-ish.