2011 Trailers

I have had a completely, utterly, disappointingly pointless day, and thought I would round it off by spending an hour watching coming-soon movie trailers. Yes, you may take a moment to bask in my awesomeness.

Now let's continue.

YouTube very kindly made a playlist of 2011 movie trailers, and this is my reaction to the interesting ones (now aren't you excited about this post?): -

Friends With Benefits -- I can see literally no way this can be any different to the identically-themed No Strings Attached, which came out earlier this year and was very average, but I have also never found Justin Timberlake attractive until watching the trailer (I also never thought he could act, but am willing to be proved wrong).

The Three Musketeers -- Orlando Bloom, Logan Lerman, Matthew MacFadyen and Luke Evans, all in a swashbuckling period adventure film. It's like someone in Hollywood raided my mind, found my deepest longing and made it happen. So. Freaking. Excited.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides -- I'm a tad dubious (because the second and third films were pretty dodgy and the Orlando Bloom/Keira Knightley romance was one of the best bits), but willing to give it a shot (because the first one was incredible, and Jack Sparrow is still THE best bit).

Hanna -- I don't really understand this trailer at all, but I'll probably end up going to see it, purely because I think Saoirse Ronan (whose name I can spell but not say) is going to be one of the best actresses of my generation.

Beginners -- to begin with this oddball comedy-drama looked funny, but I grew steadily less interested as the trailer proceeded, which is definitely not how it's supposed to work. But we'll see.

Henry's Crime -- I would have been quite interested in this film, which looks like a cross between an angsty romantic drama and a comedic heist film (exactly), but Keanu Reeves is enough to put me off watching more or less anything...

Elektra Luxx -- the trailer was trying to be funny. It wasn't. Doesn't bode well.

Prom -- a bunch of outrageously beautiful American twenty-somethings trying to look like teenagers and getting excited about Prom. Well, we've never seen that before, at least.

Perfect Sense -- another one I didn't really understand. At first I was thinking romantic-drama, but then it started looking more like a dark-and-edgy thriller, then by the end I was just like "Whaaaa...??" so probably not.

The Roommate -- what is it with bad horror films being called 'The *insert mundane object*'? The first half of this trailer was all girly and the second half was all scary, so it's not for me. Also, all of the actresses in it looked identical, which I feel would cause a problem if I did decide to watch it.

The Debt -- this looks like a drama/thriller-typed thing with romantic undertones, and is something I will certainly watch on DVD, but which might be too heavy for the cinema...

Jane Eyre -- one of my favourite stories being adapted for the billionth time with a goodlooking Rochester and stunning Jane. Hollywood just doesn't get it. Anyway, the trailer actually played a lot more on the gothic, dramatic elements of the story than the romance, so I'm intrigued and certainly willing to give it a go. Sadly, the cast list would have made me very excited if they hadn't cast Mia Wasikowska (I hope I spelt that right) as Jane....

Real Steel -- impressively, someone somewhere has managed to write a film in which Hugh Jackman can play a lead role and I still don't fancy seeing it. Looks like Transformers meets Rocky. Hope it's not.

And there you go. I'm sure that's made your evening. :)