It's winter and to form Britain's transport system has ground to a halt thanks to "extreme conditions" that others call wintery weather. It's also the time where things are a bit chilly on the hot movie front (see what I did there?) with it being a long way off until the summer blockbuster season. It's also the post-Xmas fantasy movie period so the trailers before films aren't quite as CRASH, BANG, WALLOP as they are at other times. Of course this is actually a time when a number of cracking films, mainly subtle dramas, comedies and Oscar chasers, appear. So hears a wee look at the trailers that were on before a few of the films out in January, let's put it this way there ain't a Transformers!
Revolutionary Road
Looks bleak din't it? Fuckin' hell man. It's freezing out and the World's falling apart so let's go for some escapism at the cinema. That's escapism if your life's so shite that a couple stilted by their suffocating surroundings shouting at each other for two hours seems like bliss.
Looks like the acting's a bit good though, eh?
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
In which a bunch of smarmy people act smarmy because their lives are great and the Credit Crunch means nothing. Why would you want to watch that for two hours? Cinema's not about escapism, it's about reflecting how shite my life is and I want to see others suffering!
Oh, and how about Javier Bardem? What better way to leap back from having to sport a Dora The Explorer haircut in No Country than getting it on with Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johannson and that tasty yin from Frost/Nixon? Jammy bastard!
Gran Torino:
FUCKIN' YAAAAS!!!! Clint's rocking the shit in this one. Many hacks will say "it's Dirty Harry after he retires" and frankly I'm just as lazy. This looks bloody brilliant, kind of like if Dirty Harry was a pensioner and went mental.
Is it wrong that the sight of an aged Clint Eastwood made me as exited as seeing big CG robots beating the hell out of each other? Yes, yes it probably is.
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