Trailer Tuesday: Get Low, Beastly

Of the two new trailers this week, one could possibly be up for a few Oscars come awards season, and it's exactly the one you think it is. Lets start with the other one though: Beastly. Geared as a modern day Beauty and the Beast, the plot is more or less exactly the same, except less important. It may be just my compulsive hate of Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), or it may be that they don't show Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother) nearly enough in this trailer to actually have you invested in the movie. I just have no faith in this film. Here's the link for the trailer, but take my advice, and don't follow it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGGOfKS-ZKk

The next film is a little bit further off, but far more worth the wait. Get Low, starring Robert Duvall (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), and Bill Murray (Lost in Translation, Rushmore), is about an old hermit in Tennessee who plans a funeral party while he's still alive so he can go. The film was revealed at Toronto film festival last year to a standing ovation, after which it was pushed back half a year to this summer. If this film actually turns out to be completely awful, they've done a good job of concealing it here, and we may be seeing another Oscar nomination for Robert Duvall sometime soon. Here's the link for the trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAe724FZ2r8