A Review of the Trailers

Saw Live Free or Die Hard (aka Die Hard 4.0 for you foreigners), good stupid film. Emphasis on stupid. Plot holes you could drive a truck through, improbability piled upon improbability, and computer hacking as a filmic device gets old in about 30 seconds, but for a big dumb action picture, it's very good at what it does.

And Dana Stevens has absolutely no excuse for misidentifying the F35B Lighting II in the film, they identify the plane as an F35 in the picture. Here it is 5 days since the review was posted, and still not corrected, bet if they misidentified the shoes Anne Hathaway was wearing in a review of the Prada film as Jimmy Choos instead of Manolo Blahniks, they would have got that corrected right away.

But this post isn't about that, this is about the trailers. 20th Century Fox has a few big pictures coming so they attached them to this film (plus plenty of trailers from other studios).

The Simpsons Movie=The Simpsons Movie, enough said (other than maybe 12 years too late)
Hitman=Another (crappy?) videogame to film adaptation. Starring a bald and barcoded Tim Olyphant (sheriff in Deadwood, bad guy in Die Hard 4.0)
The Kingdom=Syriana+Jarhead (and who keeps punching Jennifer Garner in the mouth, one of these years that swelling has to go down)
Balls of Fury=Greatest Movie Ever Made!!!
Rush Hour 17=OK, it's not really Rush Hour 17, just Rush Hour 3, but it seem like they're up to 17. And would somebody please take Chris Tucker's balls out of whatever vice they'v e been in all this time. That high pitched voice is getting old.
The Heartbreak Kid=Ben Stiller doing his Farrelly Brothers buddies a big, big favor
The Bourne Ultimatum=More evil government conspiracy action, can't get enough of that (this one actually looks good, though).
Lions for Lambs=Meryl Streep plays Judith Miller (possibly). Redford gets to spew every bit of commie propaganda he can think of (from in front of, and behind the camera, he's doing double duty), and Tom Cruise gets to play the eeeevil Republican congressman. OSCARS FOR EVERYONE!!!

Hollywood seems to find a writer and then suddenly pick up everything they ever wrote. The writer of The Kingdom, also wrote Lions for Lambs, and has two more corrupt government pics on the way.

The Lions for Lambs trailer was especially craptacular. Here's the plot summary up at imdb:

Simultaneously: 1) a Senator on Capital Hill debates a current crisis in Afghanistan, with the Reporter who made his career ... 2) a Professor teaching Political Science tries his best to convince a good student not to give up his studies, using two former students who passionately enlisted in the Army as an example ... 3) both of which (coincidentally) are currently under fire in Afghanistan -- the very same crisis the Senator and Reporter are debating over.

Doesn't that sound like a peach of a film. The trailer was a series of HuffPo talking points strung together, would imagine the entire film is just more of same. Tom Cruise runs United Artists now (sort of), seems interesting he casts himself as the heavy in this pic. Guess he's hoping that being a properly slimy and evil Rethuglican will be a guaranteed Oscar. Shame of it is, he's probably right, it will at least earn him a nomination.

Most of the trailers can be found here, watch them yourselves, if you dare.