{"id":388,"date":"2007-05-04T10:13:50","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/04\/trailer-watch-opening-may-3rd-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T16:58:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T21:58:24","slug":"trailer-watch-opening-may-3rd-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/trailer-watch-opening-may-3rd-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Trailer Watch &#8211; Opening May 3rd, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trailers and commentary after the jump.  There are a good many of them this week.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Spider-Man 3<\/h2>\n<p>(Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/video\/2749501\" target=\"_blank\">Teaser Trailer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/video\/2783985\" target=\"_blank\">Full Trailer<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/video\/2842453 target=\"_blank\">Trailer 3<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, so I&#8217;m going to see this today.  :)  I loved the first <i>Spider-Man<\/i>, didn&#8217;t like the second as much (though I think I&#8217;m in the minority on that), but that doesn&#8217;t mean I&#8217;m turning my back on my second-favorite superhero (after Batman).  The black suit is icing on the cake. <b>Best Bet<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>Lucky You<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sWdESJ2z-rY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Despite having Curtis Hanson (<i>L.A. Confidential<\/i>) directing and Eric Bana in the lead (also Drew Barrymore, but she&#8217;s a bit of a wildcard when it comes to film quality), this looks really routine and undistinguished.<\/p>\n<h2>The Flying Scotsman<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/7upvpUId6i8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Underdog sports movie.  Could be worthwhile for the accents alone.  Limited.<\/p>\n<h2>Civic Duty<\/h2>\n<p>When a Middle Eastern man moves next door to Peter Krause, he becomes suspicious of him&#8211;but is he a terrorist, or is Krause&#8217;s racial profiling completely unjustified?  I&#8217;m curious about this one, just because I have no idea which side it&#8217;s going to take&#8230;and the thing is, if he is a terrorist, doing nothing (as Krause&#8217;s wife and even his FBI contact suggest) would be irresponsible, just as being prejudiced against him because he&#8217;s Middle Eastern would be irresponsible if he isn&#8217;t.  It&#8217;s a difficult ethical question, and the film stands or falls on the way it comes out.  It may very well fall anyway, because the question is really too huge to be answered by a single instance in a single film.<\/p>\n<h2>Waitress<\/h2>\n<p>My current most-anticipated film of the next few months.  Thankfully, I think I&#8217;ll be in St. Louis when it opens wider, where they&#8217;ll actually show it.  It just looks so witty, and sweet, and lovely.  Like a romantic comedy that isn&#8217;t insipid.  Plus, Nathan Fillion!  I&#8217;ve watched this trailer at least twenty times since I first saw it, and I&#8217;m probably giving myself way-too-high expectations.  Ah well.  It was the toast of Sundance, so I&#8217;m encouraged. NY\/LA. <b>Best Bet<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>Away From Her<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ct7eXP-ivAk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This looks very good, but not in a fun way.  Not that good movies have to be fun.  Julie Christie plays a woman struggling with Alzheimer&#8217;s, but it looks like her husband, who has to be away from her for the first time in 45 years when she goes into a home, is the one with the real struggle at being &#8220;away from her.&#8221;  This is Sarah Polley&#8217;s directorial debut; she&#8217;s been acting in indie films for a long time and garnered a lot of respect. NY\/LA.<\/p>\n<h2>Paris, je t&#8217;aime<\/h2>\n<p>What do Juliette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Willem Dafoe, Gerard Depardieu, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Emily Mortimer, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Catalina Sandino Moreno, and Elijah Wood have in common?  They&#8217;re all really good actors who appear in <i>Paris, je t&#8217;aime<\/i>.  And what do Gurinder Chadha, Joel &#038; Ethan Coen, Wes Craven, Alfonso Cuar&oacute;n, Alexander Payne, Tom Tykwer and Gus van Sant have in common?  They&#8217;re all superb directors who directed one of the 18 short films that make up this ode to Paris.  What does this mean for me, since I love most of these actors and directors, as well as Paris?  That&#8217;s right.  Another of my most highly-anticipated films of the year which will hopefully make its way to St. Louis while I&#8217;m there.  NY\/LA. <b>Best Bet<\/b>.<\/p>\n<h2>The Treatment<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"329\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/uVZGbF1sOcE\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This could be cute, in an unassuming way.  I won&#8217;t seek it out in theatres, like <i>Waitress<\/i> and <i>Paris<\/i>, but I think I&#8217;ll add it to my Netflix queue.  Cool to see Famke Janssen playing someone other than Jean Grey in the <i>X-Men<\/i> series.  (Although, did you notice they called her character a &#8220;phoenix&#8221; in the trailer?  Hee.  She&#8217;ll probably never get away from it&#8230;)  NY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trailers and commentary after the jump. There are a good many of them this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[489,509,508,171,184,488,43,9,504],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":266,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/trailer-watch-highly-anticipated-by-me-as-of-32307\/","url_meta":{"origin":388,"position":0},"title":"Trailer Watch &#8211; Highly Anticipated by Me (as of 3\/20\/07)","author":"Jandy","date":"March 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Here are some of the films I'm looking forward to in the next...year. I haven't kept up on trailer watching, so these are mostly big releases and many of them are duhs. Oh well. Embedded trailers and my reactions after the jump. Warning: VERY LONG. Meet the Robinsons Yeah, this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31972,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/on-not-watching-trailers\/","url_meta":{"origin":388,"position":1},"title":"On Not Watching Trailers&#8230;","author":"Jandy","date":"July 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past several months and even years, I've essentially stopped watching trailers, at least intentionally. 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Here's a few of my current favorites (I'm not really choosing all the ones that take comedies and romances and turn them into thrillers and horror films...that what most everyone is making): Office Space as a psychothriller: Sleepless in\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":475,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/margot-at-the-wedding-trailer\/","url_meta":{"origin":388,"position":3},"title":"Margot at the Wedding trailer","author":"Jandy","date":"June 22, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I've stopped doing the trailers for opening movies every week. It just entailed far too much time thinking about films I don't want to see and finding trailers for obscure films that may or may not ever come anywhere near me or anyone I know. 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Even so, how do I deal with limited release films that may\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Film&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Film","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/category\/film\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":377,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/harry-potter-5-trailer-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":388,"position":5},"title":"Harry Potter 5 Trailer!","author":"Jandy","date":"April 26, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Yay! It looks really, really good. Also really, really dark. But then, I remember reading Order of the Phoenix and thinking, wow, this is really getting dark. So there you go. The boys cut their hair, which is a very good thing. And Hermione embracing her rule-breaking side! Awesome. 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