We have a massive trailer scoop this week, ranging from Oscar bait to animated kids flicks to action adaptations. Lets get the lesser work out of the way first, starting with the teaser for The Smurfs. This isn't even worth commenting about seeing as it reveals none of the plot, shows no appearance by Neil Patrick Harris, and it features an invisible wave turning national monuments blue. It wasn't even in 3D, which makes it all the more disappointing. And what was with Abraham Lincoln turning blue, but none of the other heads turned blue. This film is shaping up to be more confusing than Inception.
Then we get to the full trailer for Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, which takes a simple, self-explanatory titles, and makes it unnescessarily long to make it seem like The Lord of the Rings. Judging by this trailer, it isn't going to be close to that. Zach Snyder's film is going for pure family fare. I haven't read the books, but I've heard that they're really intense. You'd think that the director of Watchmen would be good at that, but he's more focused on making a film his children can see. Anybody who chooses to compromise a film based on a something personal is not a real filmmaker.
Then we get to one of the "Oscar bait" films this year, and I do not use the term to reference anything positive. "Oscar bait" films are movies that pander to the Academy first, and then the audience. The filmmakers try to suck up to the voters instead of focusing on making a good movie. That's what the trailer for Conviction wreaks of. It has two time Academy award winner Hillary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) in a true story about a woman who went into law school to set her brother free from prison based on a crime he either did or did not commit. I really don't care if he did or didn't. The sentimental music at the end of the trailer killed my emotional connect with the film.
We also got our first look at The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader, which is the first Narnia film to be distributed by 20th Century Fox. Instead of the more realistically grounded look of the first two films, they seem to be really gunning for the kids crowd with bright, colorful visuals. With the first two books in the Narnia series, I knew what was going on right from the start. Even after I read the third book, I still didn't know what it was about. With this trailer, I have even less of a grasp on what this one is about. Wasn't the White Witch not supposed to be in this one? Either way, I feel like this one focuses on being too much of a kids film, with dialogue so corny I don't know what to think of it. My opinion may shift later on, but for now, I'm not sold on this one.
The last trailer was one that landed recently, just in time to make this post, The Green Hornet. I haven't known what to think of this film until now, but it looks pretty solid. It's very much like a slacker version of Batman. Replace Bruce's parents with Tom Wilkinson, Michael Caine with an Asian, all those Batman villians with Christoph Waltz, and Batman with Seth Rogen, and you have a good idea of what to expect here. It has plenty of comedy elements to add on to the action, along with some visual flair to go along with it. I'm not completely sold on the comedy, as referenced by Seth Rogen shooting himself in the head, but I like the feeling of this trailer.
The Smurfs trailer
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of whatever trailer
Conviction trailer
The Chronicles of Narnia: Voyage of the Dawn Treader trailer
The Green Hornet trailer
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