I spent the entire weekend sitting in the house, except for three trips to the supermarket, and yesterday I decided that enough was quite enough, that I really had to get out.

Of course, it was pouring down rain, what do you expect? Although it was much worse when I got my breakfast than when I went out to the city, and in fact it had pretty much stopped then, but these facts are ruining my complaint, so I will summarily ignore them.

And now, it's time for Rate-A-Trailer™!

1. Double Trouble

I saw this trailer twice, and the first time I thought it was stupid, but the second time I thought it was funny. Perhaps I am right on both counts. It's about a Wall Street black guy and his Wacky Street Friend who have to pretend to be each other or the bad guys will get them. Formulaic, but I happen to think that Orlando Jones is very funny, so I suppose that it has possibilities.

2. State and Main

I'm going to see this tonight (wanna go, Tracing?), so I hope that it's as good as it looks. David Mamet's take on Hollywood, a movie company going to an idyllic small town and just ruining it, Sarah Jessica Parker and Alec Baldwin playing spoiled stars, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and William H. Macy, what could be better than this? The trailer makes it look like the film doesn't have many teeth, but it's Mamet, so I doubt that's true.

3. Hannibal

A long trailer at last. Julianne Moore doing her best Jodie Foster impression, Anthony Hopkins heard but not seen clearly until the end. I haven't read the book yet, and I know that people thought that it sucked, but this movie looks like a real crackerjack.

4. Pearl Harbor

A big, lumbering blob of ordinary storytelling. This is one of those giant movies that are so big, they cannot have an original thought or action in them, they must only play lowest common denominator. This looks like a big drag.

5. All the Pretty Horses

I am no Matt Damon fan, I understand that this was a popular book, but I didn't read it, so all I can say is that it seems to be about a cowboy falling in love with the Mexican landowner's beautiful daughter, and the Mexican landowner is somewhat miffed. I dig both Westerns and stories of forbidden love, so maybe that will be enough to outweigh the Matt Damon factor.

6. Castaway

A new trailer. And there is now no reason at all to see the film, as it shows the beginning, the middle, and the end in probably a more concise manner than the film does. Don't these people think that we want any suspense at all? Nope, we just want to know whether there is a happy ending, we want to see it, and then we can go to the film without all that bothersome wondering bout how it will turn out. Nothing like seeing a film for the first time and having it seem like it's the second.

7. Vertical Limit

Still the exact trailer that they've been showing for months, and somehow, it's getting more exciting every time I see it. I don't actually think that I thought that it was that interesting to start with, but because the images are cut so quickly, the more you see it, the more you can see what those images actually are, and the more exciting it becomes.

8. Dude, Where's My Car?

This film looks absolutely stupid and absolutely hilarious. I have no idea why, as the whole Bill and Ted genre leaves me cold, but these two guys are so very sweet and genuine and they really seem to throw themselves into these situations with everything they have. I don't know but that I might actually see it.

Alright, no time to talk about the actual movies, it's back to the salt mines for me.

Today's horoscope:
A round table discussion brings important assumptions to light. Discuss the expectations you and family members have of one another.

One year ago today:
It's all in the perception, baby.

* Yesterday / Index / This Month / Tomorrow *

E-Mail

Logo and graphics and o, just everything by:
Amanda Erickson!

This page was written by hand. My hand. Only pussies use HTML editors.
Last Updated Wed 1 November 09:53:09 2000