We ran a video interview with Rebecca Miller two months ago, so you know I’m pulling for this movie to succeed, but could this trailer be any more flaccid?
Robin Wright Penn, Julianne Moore, Wynona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Maria Bello, Alan Arkin, Monica Bellucci, Blake Lively. What a line-up! It’s every actress who’s not in Nine! So why does the trailer look like a public service announcement for a rehab clinic?
The movie might be quite good — with this cast, it’s bound to have some powerful moments. But please have somebody recut a better preview. To paraphrase Churchill: Never has so much talent been assembled so randomly for such piddly effect.
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Monica Bellucci still the hottest woman in the world.
Ryan,
I completely agree with you. The only thing that remotely saves it is that no one mentions “The triumph of the human spirit.”
And let me be the first to say that Julianne Moore should win the Oscar. I haven’t seen her in anything else from this film apart from this trailer. But damn she looks good frumpy. She’s going for the frumpy vote, the same one that got Halle Berry one.
She is way overdue. If Kate Winslet can win for such a boring film, Julianne Moore should win here.
Let me be shallow for just a moment – Keanu looks mighty fine. I will definitely go see this movie it looks lovely to me.
Rob Y: I saw this movie at Berlinale last February, Mrs. Moore’s part here is like two extremely short scenes.
Bellucci has even less by the way.
Well, I really feel for Rebecca Miller since watching her JACK & ROSE. Although this trailer looks like the latest Jim Brooks attempt, I know/hope/feel that Miller will make this film a special little gem. And the always passionate Robin Wright (Penn?) as the leading star also doesn’t hurt.
And I want my Winona back! I think I left her about 13 years ago in Miller’s bleak CRUCIBLE adaptation, and now she seemed to owe Winona a comeback performance – and pleeaase let her a few seconds more than she had in STAR TREK. Thanx
“To paraphrase Churchill: Never has so much talent been assembled so randomly for such piddly effect.”
To which I say: Evening.
Datatape, don’t you dare! Never say that title again.
Highwayroller,
DAMN!!!! Well, Judy Dench won supporting for three scenes in Shakespeare in Love.
well, you know, Rob Y, Julianne Moore is rumored to be playing Hillary Clinton next year in Peter Morgan’s directorial debut, A Special Relationship.
No, not that special relationship. The one between Bill and Tony Blair. With Dennis Quaid as Pres. Clinton, and guess who as P.M. Blair
Ryan Adams,
Michael Sheen? Again.
Ryan, A Special Relationship is an HBO movie.
ah, that’s right Victor S. Thanks.
I used to know that, when I first posted something about it, March 25th.
one word: MONICA BELLUCI
It still looks like Gossip Girl: 30 years later
How do you make a Rebecca Miller movie look shit?
Make a trailer like this.
Or put Keanu Reeves in the film. Yeah right, like that’s ever going to happen…
Oh My God! Did you all see the Shutter Island trailer on ET yet? WOW, WOW, WOW.
Did they really show the full trailer???
http://www.shutterisland.com
the trailer looks AMAZING! Screw Nine!
i, for one, think this looks potent and promising… miller’s “personal velocity” was fantastic… here’s hoping award attention goes to robin wright penn, julianne moore, and maria bello.. lastly, i wana cry…
off topic –
did anyone see letterman last night w/ julia roberts… javier bardem has joined the cast of ryan murphy’s “eat, prey, love” (based on elizabeth gilbert’s memoir of the same name)… he joins roberts and richard jenkins…
I should have asked upfront where the style and content of the trailer clicked with our female readers more than it does with me. It’s obviously geared toward a specific demographic and it’s probably full of cues than I don’t know how to process properly.
Lost interest once i read variety and THR’s reviews…
Watched the first half, I think it looks quite alright actually. And the o reason I stopped had nothing to do with quality, I was trying to avoid spoilers.
Robin Wright Penn once again proves she is not an actress. Very terrible acting, they should have given that role to Julianne Moore and she would make it to the top.
Oh lord……..Monica Bellucci inda house!!
This is the UK trailer. Domestic trailer will be MUCH better, and more representative of the film. RWP is fantastic in it!
Julianne Moore is so overdue for her oscar :[
deshawn
I know right? just look at the people who are called Oscar winners these days: that fat girl from dreamgirls, telenovela Cruz, Jamie Foxx and the list goes on. Why do we still use the oscars as the barometer to measure good acting? clearly, it’s all about buzz and hollywood politics. I just wish fine talent like Moore, Bassett, Jeffrey Wright etc don’t feel incomplete as actors because they don’t have that damn trophy. I hope they know their worth and I hope they know that they are damn good…better than these dimwits being awarded from left to right.
It’s good to see Winona in more movies this year. So she stole clothes, so what? Brad Pitt cheated on his wife and he still has a solid career. We also have drug addicts and alcoholics like Mickey ROurke and playboys like George Clooney who have slept with every waitress within their reach. Give the woman a break. Hope to see Winona is more meaty roles in the near future.
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Yeah, that trailer… And that music.
That sudden bi-polar shift in the music halfway through sets a really alarming Frances Farmer tone.
Oh, I know, Ryan. It became a summer feel-good road movie. I was expecting to see all those beautiful women hop in a convertible and drive down the interstate into the unknown. Thought Robin Wright Penn was gonna put on big white sunglasses and a Gilligan hat with a fake sunflower attached and flex her freshly painted toes up on the dashboard while throwing her hands up to the sky. Exhale. Fadeout.
ha, tmoves, or this:
Robin Wright Penn flexes her freshly painted toes up on the dashboard while throwing her hands up to the sky.
Monica Bellucci: Let’s keep going.
Robin Wright Penn: What do you mean?
Julianne, Winona, Maria and Blake [in the backseat]: Go!
Robin Wright Penn: Are you sure?
Alan Arkin [smiling through tears]: Yes.
Everybody exhales.
T-bird convertibleYellow VW van drives over edge of canyon cliff. Freeze-frame, mid-air. Fade out.Ha-ha, Ryan! Or you know, Kurt Russell hits them head-on sending RWP’s leg a-flying… So many choices!
Speaking of pain… did you see the one about Antichrist the video game?
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