Trailer Reviews: August 7th

Julie & Julia

Plot: Julie is an office worker who is watching life pass before her, so she decides to change her life with two powerful things: food and the Internet. Inspired by Julia Child, she takes a magical path to self-discovery and success.

Preliminary Thoughts: I don't even have to watch this trailer. Amy Adams, Meryl Streep, and food? I am so in. But in fairness to the other films I will watch the trailer.

Trailer:

This looks like lots of fun! The other movies are going to need monkey robots from outer space in order to beat this. Even then, they don't have chocolate cake.

Shorts

Plot: Toe Thompson discovers a wish granting rock and it causes a stir in his small suburban town.

Preliminary Thoughts: WTF? Toe Thompson? Wish granting rock? I get that this is a kids' movie, but WTF?

Trailer:

Apparently his name is Toby, not Toe (thanks imdb!). But, yeah, this looks dumb as hell.

A Perfect Getaway

Plot: Two couples on a Hawaiian vaction discover that psychopaths are stalking and murdering tourists on the island.

Preliminary Thoughts: Wait a second, isn't this basically a slightly changed version of Turistas?

Trailer:

Well this looks stupid. Next!

Cold Souls

Plot: Paul Giamatti plays an actor (named Paul) who feels unfulfilled, so he goes to an organization that will store his soul for a while.

Preliminary Thoughts: Imdb describes this as "Kaufman-esque" and I guess I can agree, but will it be as good as something from Charlie Kaufman. That is the question.

Trailer:

This actually looks sort of interesting. Perhaps I will see it.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Plot: It's a movie, based on a series of toys. Oh and they are fighting to stop something or something. I really don't care.

Preliminary Thoughts: I'm pretty sure that I won't like this. I don't even have to see the trailer to know this is going to be stupid.

Trailer:

Explosions! Crashes! CGI! Guns!

Yeah, I'm not seeing this.

So the only films I can recommend this week, based on the trailers alone, are Julie and Julia and Cold Souls. However, I'm sure that everyone is going to see G.I. Joe, because America loves explosions and unoriginal plots. Way to go, America! I'm just kidding, you know I love you. Keep up the good work, what with all the cheese and meat and such.