New Films 2009

[Vitalstatistix]

What's the music from that trailer?

"Wake up" by Arcade Fire, but a slightly different version from the album (Funeral).

[mothman]

Ahh. Thanks. I guess it would be one of those 'cool' bands, given DJs don't seem to feel it's necessary to ever identify the song when it's played on the radio.

[Famous Mortimer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS_JOaAKD4s&feature=player_embedded

"Humpday". Two old friends who've gone their separate ways meet up again, and for some reason decide to enter a film of the two of them having sex into an amateur porn festival, even though they're both straight. The trailer looks pretty awesome, I'm going to see this if it comes anywhere near.

[Squink]

STOP THE THREAD! I've found a trailer for the film of 2009.

I give you...Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa7ck5mcd1o

[Glebe]

It's Debbie Gibson!

This could be the single biggest event in motion picture history. The end of the trailer is already a classic moment as far as I'm concerned.

[Squink]

That's Deborah Gibson to you, Glebe.

[mothman]

That was fucking hysterical! And that last shot. . . Genius!

[Artemis]

That's the best trailer I've ever seen. Fuck 'Snakes On A Plane'!

[confettiinmyhair]

This counts because they have started filming this year
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0376136

I wonder how Depp will play it, will he go into semi-HST mode or portray Paul Kemp differently to the book?

[boxofslice]

Trailer for The Road.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U_sNIlB7ak&feature=related

[copylight]

I don't suppose anyone's downloaded seen Bronson yet?

It's terribly hard to find y'see.

[boxofslice]

Trailer for Guy Rich Tea's attempt at doing Sherlock Holmes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X29IK0auNnw

Just from this trailer it looks awful and thus perpetuating the fact that Mr Ex-Madonna has no idea about cinema.

[Jemble Fred]

Yeah, I saw that earlier. I still want to see it, but I imagine serious Holmes aficionadoes (of which there are many, versed in the minutiae of murder) will be puncturing Ritchie's milk bottles when they get an eyeful of his 'take' on the character. Carry On, Sherlock!

[El Unicornio, mang]

It looks OK. I still think his first two films are good (and Snatch holds up well to repeated viewings) so I'll reserve judgement on it for now.

[eluc55]

That Sherlock Holmes trailer is literally the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

"Well.... there isn't any time to waste then, is there?" (POPS PIPE IN MOUTH. LEAPS OUT OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIMENT)

Whether thats a bad thing or not I can't yet decide.

ps. since I'm doing hyperbole.... Jude Law is the worst actor in the world.

[boxofslice]

That Sherlock Holmes trailer is literally the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

Watching it again, it's twice as awful than the first time. There's over a hundered years worth of history with the Sherlock Holmes brand and those involved in the film appear to be unaware of any of it.

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

since I'm doing hyperbole.... Jude Law is the worst actor in the world.

That's not hyperbole.

[Whug Baspin]

That trailer is hillarious, I'm really looking forward to it. I can't stand all that posturing geezerness in his other films, but in this setting and with Robert Downy Jnr delivering the lines it works for me. Thanks for posting it.

While I'm posting here I really would recommend The Hurt Locker when it eventually makes it over here, it's a great war film.

[samadriel]

I'm not against that approach to Sherlock Holmes per se, but haven't we got enough dumb shit already?

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

Aykroyd Confirms Ghostbusters 3 Is All Go

20 May 2009 5:15 AM, PDT

Dan Aykroyd has confirmed the third Ghostbusters movie is all set to go before the cameras - with the original cast in place to reprise the characters from the 1984 film.

The movie star reveals Sigourney Weaver has signed on for the project, alongside himself, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis and Ernie Hudson - and the film could start shooting this winter.

Aykroyd still fears the project could "blow up" "at any second" but he hopes the new film will herald in a new generation of all-girl Ghostbusters.

He tells the Los Angeles Times newspaper, "I'd like it to be a passing-of-the-torch movie. Let's revisit the old characters briefly and happily and have them there as family but let's pass it on to a new generation."

And the actor wants Alyssa Milano and Eliza Dushku to consider becoming part of the Ghostbusters family: "I think they're amazing."

I do not like the sound of that 'passing the torch' talk. It puts me in mind of Shia Lebouf in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And we all know how that turned out.

[non capisco]

Apologies if this one's already been discussed

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1320253/

'The Expendables', Stallone's action movie supergroup, starring amongst others Jason Statham as, yes, LEE CHRISTMAS.

[boxofslice]

I do not like the sound of that 'passing the torch' talk. It puts me in mind of Shia Lebouf in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. And we all know how that turned out.

That sounds like a big turkey farm. So the 'new' Ghostbusters will be all women? Can't see the same type of humour working with an all girl cast. What's wrong with having some fun with an ageing original Ghostbusters team?

[Jemble Fred]

If it were up to me, they'd keep the franchise neat by drawing from the Extreme Ghostbusters characters (it sounds like much the same concept), and then in the final act of the movie, the new kids are defeated and the old guys have to clean up the town, as a final bust. And one of them would die.

But sadly it's not up to me as I'm not a very fat old Canadian comic genius who believes in pixies.

[Vitalstatistix]

Anyone been following Cannes?

It's a year of heavy hitters going against each other and it's quite fascinating watching it unfold. In the past few days we've had new films from Almodovar, Tarantino, Haneke, von Trier, Park Chan Wook (Oldboy) and Bong Joon-ho (The Host) to name but a few.

Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds has been given an absolute pasting by Guardian's Peter Bradshaw:

It isn't funny; it isn't exciting; it isn't a realistic war movie, yet neither is it an entertaining genre spoof or a clever counterfactual wartime yarn. It isn't emotionally involving or deliciously ironic or a brilliant tissue of trash-pop references. Nothing like that.

But Variety is much more positive:

By turns surprising, nutty, windy, audacious and a bit caught up in its own cleverness, the picture is a completely distinctive piece of American pop art with a strong Euro flavor that's new for the director

Lars von Trier's Antichrist was, unsurprisingly, met with a mixture of applause, boos and walkouts and is shaping up to be this year's talking point. By most accounts it's a nasty little horror, with explicit sex, torture, genital and animal mutilation, with a side order of [arguably] misogyny.

Variety largely dismisses the work as pretentiously provocative:

the blood-smeared sensationalism smothers what serious thoughts the script serves up in passing.

But Twitch commends its transgressive qualities:

an exercise that will leave many angry and hostile while others will declare the film a masterpiece.  Having mulled it over for a good many hours I fall cleanly into the second category.

Bong's followup to super awesome monster movie The Host is Mother, which promises to be a much more low-key drama in the vein of his Memories of Murder, and has recieved largely positive reviews.

Park's return to bonkers horror, Thirst, is about a vampire priest, but has gotten very mixed reviews. Will undoubtedly become some sort of cult favourite though.

Early reaction from Haneke's period piece The White Ribbon is strong, and I have a feeling this is a real classy picture.

There's also been very positive reaction for, amongst many others, Alejandro Amenabar's Agora, Gabe Ibanez's Hierro and Pixar's 3D animated Up.

[actwithoutwords]

Anyone seen Synecdoche since it came out in t'cinemas?

I watched the second half of it again last night. Wonderful stuff.

[Italian Sexuality]

The Last House on the Left (remake)*

Surprisingly ample remake, to be honest. I expected it to be utterly, utterly shite, but it does enough to keep you entertained. Gorey, suspenseful, and eerily claustrophobic.

Well worth a punt people.

*I'd really love to go into more detail, but with a film like this, you pretty much know what you're gonna get.

[George Oscar Bluth II]

It's difficult to see the Jonas Brothers in anything other than a sexual context. Thanks to their much-publicised virginity pact, these tweenie heart-throbs are forever, consciously or not, battling with the spectre of sex. And so it is with Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience. The movie, recorded during live performances in Anaheim and New York last year, and shot in not particularly interesting 3-D, is a 78-minute seduction scene between three fraternal pipsqueaks and their hysterical preteen fans. Thus the boys (Kevin, 21, Joe, 19, and Nick, 16) mount the stage and begin aping the sexually provocative poses of rock stars past — the lead singer, Joe, in particular, does a mean Jagger swagger.

Then, once they've whipped the crowd into a frenzy, they emerge from centre stage, each strapped to a rising metallic pillar, perhaps aiming for the dignity of modern stylites but looking like three giant erections. And then, climactically, they rush down to the front row, clutching huge fireman's hoses (no, really) and proceed to drench their fans not in water but in a globulous white liquid that induces some of the most perplexed, and frankly creepy, reaction shots of the night.

Presumably the Jonas Brothers missed the smutty subtext; their naivety, after all, is their selling point. But the movie, sadly, perpetuates the corporate myth that they are musical tyros, boyband savants and the sweetest virgins in the business.

Jonas Brothers, the 3D Concert Experience review from The Times. Literally beyond parody.

[Vitalstatistix]

This looks bonkers.

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans.

Starring Nicholas Cage and Val Kilmer (!)

Directed by Werner Herzog (!?)

Wikipedia:

Abel Ferrara's Reaction
Abel Ferrara, director of the 1992 film, has been quoted by various media outlets as being very angry about this film. After the film was first announced, Ferrara was quoted as saying "As far as remakes go, ... I wish these people die in Hell. I hope they're all in the same streetcar, and it blows up." When asked later for his response to Ferrara's statements, Herzog stated that he does not know who Ferrara is, saying "I've never seen a film by him. I have no idea who he is." [10]

Trailer here.

It looks awful, but maybe it's all just a big joke!?

[Famous Mortimer]

The only idea I can think of that gets them off the hook for this is if it's one of those parody trailers they've been pumping out for the MTV Movie awards. It's absolutely insane that those people would make that film, isn't it?

[Vitalstatistix]

I considered that, but the trailer looks too expensive (in a cheap sort of way) to just be a practical joke. It really seems like a proper film, which makes the world a little stranger.