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Trailer Trash
Handy planner for summer moviegoers. And avoiders.
'Vice' boys: The new Crockett and Tubbs.
Summer is near, and the trailers are coming out. Previews for upcoming summer blockbusters and wannabes are hitting the screens. A sampling of trailers recently seen, and what they might augur for future air-conditioned entertainment:
Superman Returns (June 30) -- The first trailer for this anticipated comic book epic showed up months ago, and it was a groaner -- basically, The Passion of the Superman. "I have given them you, my only son," the voice-over intones as a silhouetted Supe filled the screen. Yeesh. Whether the flick eventually aims for that Christian buck, the latest trailer at least downplays the religious metaphor in favour of more traditional superhero action. Very traditional, in fact -- the new trailer makes this one look very reminiscent of the first Christopher Reeve-starring effort from 1978. In fact, the now-deceased Marlon Brando actually returns from the grave (digitally) to reprise his earlier role as Jor-El, a.k.a. Super Dad. Bet he was easier to work with this time. Brandon Routh is the new Man 'o Steel, Kevin Spacey plays Lex Luthor, while X-Men director Bryan Singer dumps that fine franchise to climb the superhero pyramid. Do we really need another Superman, just like the other Superman? You decide, movie patron.
Click (June 23) -- Adam Sandler stars in the upcoming film Concept, about a concept that becomes a screenplay starring Jim Carrey, and another one starring Bill Murray, and finally this one starring Sandler, called Click. Sandler plays an ordinary man who gets caught up in a concept. This particular concept involves a remote device that can rewind time itself. Sandler uses the device to rewind to the time before Jim Carrey starred in Bruce Almighty and then he… but I'm giving too much away. (Note: I have already jumped ahead in time and know everything that is going to happen in this incredibly lame flick. So have you. So have we all.)
The Lake House (June 16) -- Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves find themselves in a lakeside concept with a nice view. The concept involves time-shifting. Somehow Adam Sandler has been eliminated from this one. Apparently there's a cottage, which both Bullock and Reeves occupy -- two years apart. And yet they can communicate with each other across time! Will they fall in love? Will Albert Einstein explain to the audience that it's all very possible, except for the part where Keanu Reeves tries to look emotional? Only the Laws of the Conceptual Universe can say.
Miami Vice (July 28) -- Director Michael Mann returns to the scene of his most successful crime, the pastel-hued TV series that helped define the 80s. Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are the new Crockett and Tubbs. Memories are short -- the trailer plugs Mann as director of Collateral and Heat, rather than the old series conceived as MTV Cops. The trailer looks slick. Of course, trailers don't need plots. Mann is a good director but tales of trouble and badly behaved stars have surrounded this project. We'll see.
Pulse (July 14) -- A ghost story apparently in the Ring vein, about the dead finding an internet portal back to the land of the living. With no big stars, this is an attempt to slip in a sleeper summer hit. Unless they come from Japan these movies generally end up disappointing, but the trailer looks mildly promising. Could surprise. Probably won't.
Lady in the Water (July 21) -- A character from a bedtime story invades the real world of an American family, led by Paul Giamatti. Trailer big on mystery, light on info. The latest trick from trickster M. Night Shyamalan, for those who haven't tired of his previous tricks. Anybody?
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (August 4) -- Will Farrell in another Farrell-fest, this one set in the wonderful world of NASCAR. Anchorman on wheels, by the looks of it.
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Truman Green
6 years ago
Comments on "Trailer Trash"
I know it's a pun, Steve, but I live in a trailer park, so just stop calling us people "trailer trash."
It's not very nice. I don't automatically call travellers to Asia, "sex tourists," do I?
boondocker
6 years ago
Truman, don't be so defensive about your living arrangements. The 'trailer trash' Steve is referring to in this case are the movie trailers, not your mobile home. Get a life!
notamused
6 years ago
I foresee much movie avoiding and little movie going in my near future. Couldn't you have found even one summer flick worth a look?
jesterjogger
6 years ago
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Truman Green
6 years ago
boondocker, do you really think I don't know what Burgess is talking about with his mean little pun? I've decided to challenge as many of the sources of the "trailer trash" comment as possible, just as I suppose you might if your place of residence was being constantly laughed at and ridiculed on tv, on the blogs, in the dailies--as if people who live in trailer parks have no right to be respected, and cherish constantly being the butt of writers' and journalists' jokes.
It's just some more stupid, stereotyping bigotry and I think Steve Burgess is too good for it.
In fact, many journalists and joksters routinely use the term "trailer trash" when they need a term to signify the scummiest lowlives on the planet.
So yeah, Boondocker, I know he's supposedly doing the movie trailers.
I say to you: "get a life."
I bet Steve knows what I'm talking about.
darcy.mcgee
6 years ago
What? Colin Farrell behaving badly? Never. No way.
What the hell does that have to do with the movie?
It's sure to be better than the Da Vinci Code.
darcy.mcgee
6 years ago
Truman:
Embrace the trailer, man. Embrace the trailer.
I've long had a dream of living in one as a sort of social experiment.
One of the focuses of the experiment: if I were to live in a trailer, would I inevitably dig a hole in front of it a la Brad Pitt in Kalifornia?
woody
6 years ago
Truman Green says, Boondocker. I say to you: "get a life."
Translation, Boondocker get a trailer.
Umslopogaas
6 years ago
Previe trash would be a much more apposite epithet
woody
6 years ago
Umslopogaas? is that something like a woody?
Truman Green
6 years ago
Yeah, you're actually right, Darcy. This is the funnest place I've ever lived. Is funnest a word? But don't tell anybody, eh. Feels like constantly being on vacation and I know everybody, and I don't have to feel guilty about being a big stupid pig living in a 3000 square foot Surrey monster. In fact, I did the math once eh, and figured out that everybody would get a trailer just like mine if the world's wealth was fairly distributed.
Okay, I'm lying about that. I didn't really do the math. But anyways, eh.
This is about where I came in on Tyee a couple of years ago with somebody called Lewis Swift calling me some kind of trailer park goof or something--I can't quite remember--and me putting him down with much better wit than I mustered up for Burgess. Oh well.
I forgive you Steve Burgess. I was pretty nasty to Catholics and Papists and such on the Mair thread so I'm feeling guilty again.
Truman Green
6 years ago
Hey, cool! I found the Lewis Swift comment in the archives. He referred to the (and I quote) "mouth-breathing trailer park set." After I objected he apologized, which I thought was kinda nice. (As soon as we drive into our park we forget good grammar and like that eh.)
darcy.mcgee
6 years ago
Hey! My brother's a mouth breather and he doesn't live in a trailer!
Damn you Lewis Swift! Damn you!
Truman Green
6 years ago
Good one, Darcy. I hope your brother's mouth breathing renders him incapable of reading, though.
I was once actually thinking of doing a story about all the different incarnations of "trailer trash" I'd read, but I think I lost my list in the trash.
When I first moved into this park there was a big sign on the south side that said: "No trailer trash here." I was so used to being called "trailer trash" in the movies, from journalists, on tv, in magazines--that I thought that us park residences weren't allowed to go beyond that sign--until someone informed me that the sign was just a notification not to leave garbage in those particular bins.
Okay, I'm lying about that.
Truman Green
6 years ago
Oh sh-t, I ruined my joke. That should have read, "residents" not "residences."
darcy.mcgee
6 years ago
Hahahaha. That's a good one Truman.
I wonder what people find more interesting about this page: your comments, or Burgess' incredibly mundane and uninformative "article" (using the term loosely.)
Truman Green
6 years ago
I dunno, Darc, I didn't actually read the review--just the title.
But you probably shouldn't encourage me.
darcy.mcgee
6 years ago
Incidentally, since my brother basically reads Tom Clancy novels I think that it would be fair to say he's incapable of reading.
I'm not sure if it's a link to the breathing though.