Trailers for Upcoming Films

[ianungstad]

Barf. Seth Macfarlane's Ted looks horrible. I see multiple Razzie nominations in it's future. Please let this trash be a colossal bomb at the box office!

[domino harvey]

Oh God, why has thou forsaken us

[colinr0380]

No matter how bad Ted looks (and I was disappointed it wasn't a feature length version of one of those lectures) we can only be grateful that it doesn't have Adam Sandler or Tyler Perry in it. That's my current barometer of atrociousness. This just seems like another Seth MacFarlane comedy, just in live action.

Though it looks as if it is going to have the similar problem to Brian and Stewie in Family Guy of whether the foul mouthed teddy is only able to communicate with certain people, or everyone (and if everyone, why is nobody surprised by this!). Or whether, as in Family Guy, it just depends entirely on the needs of a particular joke at a specific moment.

[domino harvey]

But it's funny because it's a stuffed animal saying naughty words

[flyonthewall2983]

I can't watch this and not think of that creepy-ass bear in A.I.

[domino harvey]

You had me at

I can't watch this

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[The Narrator Returns]

I am proud to admit that I love American Dad (The Cleveland Show, not so much, and I actively hate Family Guy). That said, Ted looks like a crap sandwich ready to order.

[Jeff]

God help us:

Rock of Ages

[domino harvey]

Mods, pls rename thread "Reasons to Kill Yourself"

[Mr Sausage]

That's a parody trailer, right?

...right?!

[domino harvey]

After this one-two shot heard round the hurl, the question becomes can trailers get Razzies?

[dustybooks]

I'm probably being naive but it seems odd to me that immediately after regaining some status and notoriety as a box office draw, Tom Cruise would put himself in a part that makes him look that ridiculous (thereby upholding so many of the broad audiences' conceptions of him). But then, I'm not really aware of this property and how popular it apparently is, so...

I don't understand what Mila Kunis and Mark Wahlberg are doing in that talking bear shitshow either.

[domino harvey]

Well, Kunis has played Meg on Family Guy for over a decade, but Wahlberg has no such excuse. Maybe the David O Russell fallout was over his bad taste in comedy

[knives]

What O. Russell fallout. I can't imagine the man's films without Walhberg.

[Jeff]

What O. Russell fallout. I can't imagine the man's films without Walhberg.

This one

[tarpilot]

God help us:

Rock of Ages

This, on the other hand, looks great. One Crazy Summer recycled into Power to tha People posturing with low-rider surfing and Imrov Everywhere hijinks. It could quite possibly be the first positive thing to come out of the Occupy movement.

[domino harvey]

Wow, perhaps that Step Up trailer is deceiving (that is a trailer's job, after all), but some of the spectacle on display there looks like the product of a creative team that actually understands how to stage a musical. In this day and age, talk about a miracle!

[mfunk9786]

Barf. Seth Macfarlane's Ted looks horrible. I see multiple Razzie nominations in it's future. Please let this trash be a colossal bomb at the box office!

Everything that Seth MacFarlane has done since Family Guy has come back on the air after its initial cancellation has been so awful that I'm starting to wonder if he has been replaced by a doppelgänger of some sort. Those first couple of years of Family Guy were pretty darn funny.

[mfunk9786]

Greta Gerwig in Lola Versus

The hyper-magnified "From the studio that brought you..." tag is never a good sign, and this whole trailer looks pretty derivative of every other "I'm a girl in the big city who just can't get my shit together" movie/TV show/album/breakfast cereal that's come out in the last few years, but if anyone can carry a film like this, it's Gerwig.

[prokosch]

Greta Gerwig in Lola Versus

The hyper-magnified "From the studio that brought you..." tag is never a good sign, and this whole trailer looks pretty derivative of every other "I'm a girl in the big city who just can't get my shit together" movie/TV show/album/breakfast cereal that's come out in the last few years, but if anyone can carry a film like this, it's Gerwig.

I actually really liked "Breaking Upwards," with which this film shares a director and co-star (and, from the looks of it, a general sensibility). Zoe Lister-Jones needs to be carrinyg quasi-indie movies tout de suite.

In a more coherent world the tagline would be, "From the director and star of 'Breaking Upwards'" instead of the blandest of the bland tags, "From the studio..." I'd like to see them have some fun with this and run "From the studio that released 'One Hour Photo'" or "From the studio that gambled hard and lost on 'Gentlemen Broncos'".

[mfunk9786]

I don't remember it too well, but I seem to recall One Hour Photo being pretty great - is there something that'd make you bring that up in particular?

[prokosch]

I don't remember it too well, but I seem to recall One Hour Photo being pretty great - is there something that'd make you bring that up in particular?

I quite enjoyed "One Hour Photo." My point was simply that the "From the studio (or producer) that brought you X" marketing is frequently so arbitrary as to be completely meaningless. While I'm sure "500 Days of Summer" and "Lola Versus" have elements in common (both films star a woman in a major role, and were also both directed by men, so surely fans of the former will love the latter), the marketing smacks of laziness.

EDIT: Also, to more directly answer your question, Fox Searchlight also released "One Hour Photo"; carrying the randomness to its logical extreme, they could pick one of hundreds of unrelated movies from their catalogue to reference in the trailer.

[cdnchris]

From the studio that brought you Casablanca comes What a Girl Wants.

[prokosch]

That's the ticket. "From the studio that brought you Gentleman's Agreement comes Ed O'Neill and Ethan Embry in Dutch."

[flyonthewall2983]

Ruby Sparks, from the studio AND directors of Little Miss Sunshine.