A Beginner’s Guide to Comparative Movie Trailers: Killers Vs. Knight and Day »

GREAT news, fans of wacky secret agent rom-com movies: Hollywood plans to slake your greedy lust for action comedies in the summer of 2010 with not just one, but TWO not-at-all derivative, high-concept, would-be blockbusters. Take a look:

But maybe I’m being too harsh. Clearly these two movies have a lot to differentiate them:

Killers
Knight and Day

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The She’s Out of My League trailer is packed with Pittsburgh-friendly goodies. »

The trailer for this May’s Apatow-lite romcom She’s Out of My League certainly won’t change anyone’s life with its overly familiar meet-cute, unlikely-romance, guys-humiliating-each-other, schlubby-dudes-deserve-love-too, embarrassing-sex-jokes sensibilities, but I have to say that I was impressed with the sheer amount of Pittsburgh-love that the clip shows. Someone in the Pittsburgh Film Office should probably get [...]

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Who’s watching the Wall-E? »

Oh I do so love this mash-up.As the swell folks at Film School Rejects wisely point out, it’s a far better effort than simply matching audio from Movie A to the trailer of Movie B. The creator here truly puts feeling and meaning to this, draws parallels between the movies’ themes, is drawing a compelling [...]

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Sam Mendes is trying to wear me down. »

Sam Mendes has all the makings of a director I should love – but somehow I just don’t. Road to Perdition is one of those movies that I always “mean” to watch, yet never quite get there. I truly couldn’t stand American Beauty and Revolutionary Road looked good, but then negative buzz about the movie [...]

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The Public Enemies trailer is great enough to raise a dead blogger. »

I know I haven’t been ’round these parts too much lately – life, once again, has a way of making even my beloved blogging take a back seat in another car, speeding away on a rural road in the next county over – but Public Enemies is a Michael Mann film. With Depp and Bale. [...]

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Miserably obvious movie marketing: the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past trailer. »

Blogging’s been in the backseat lately, because life has taken a turn for the hectic and my priorities have had to shift a bit for the immediate future.
But still. When I come across such a pathetically predictable and awful trailer such as that for Ghosts of Girlfriends Past starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner, it’s [...]

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Nicolas Cage, actor-innovator extraordinaire. »

It should be expected that Nicolas Cage will bring some kind of quirk, oddball accent, or zany physical attribute to each movie character that he plays. And now that I’ve seen the trailer for his upcoming supernatural thriller Knowing, I feel pretty sure that this movie’s whimsical peculiarity is found in the following screengrab, [...]

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