17 January
And now it's times for Rate-a-Trailer™!
1.3000 Miles to Graceland
O dear Lord, please let this one be as funny and as special as it looks! I have been running around, telling people all about it. "It's about two crooks who decide to knock over a casino during an Elvis impersonator convention, and so they must dress as Elvis impersonators as well, and one is Kevin Costner, who plays a real motherfucker, and the other is Kurt Russell!" And the kicker is that the kids behind me at Traffic were heard to jeer at the idea of Kurt Russell as Elvis. How little they know.
2. Snatch
Yes, it's all fancy and quick and jumpy and stuff, but having seen Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, I have no doubt that this is an accurate representation of the film rather than a trailer that is trying to hide something. Benicio Del Toro, yum.
3. The Gift
This film isn't out yet? I missed like fifteen screenings of it in LA, everyone I know has already seen it, and yet it isn't out yet? Okay, whatever. I hear that it's a little slow, but that Giovanni Ribisi (no time to look up the spelling) rocks the house, and I cannot separate what I heard from what is in the trailer. All I know is that I really want to see it, even though I missed all of those screenings.
4. One Night at McCools
This seems to be in the vein of that movie with Nicole Kidman as the woman who had her husband killed. It's about a woman (Liv Tyler) who seduces and destroys every single man in her path, but it's very bouncy and brightly coloured. I have liked Liv Tyler since she was so good in Cookie, and it looks as though this could really be great.
5. 15 Minutes
I saw a bumper trailer for this a long time ago and promptly forgot about it, but it looks very strong and exciting and violent, about a couple of murderers who film their crimes and send them to be shown on TV and become famous, and Robert DeNiro is the cop after them and Kelsey Grammer is the smarmy TV show host that shows their crimes. Looks like fun.
6. Pearl Harbor
This, I have decided, is the perfect trailer, in that I can only imagine that the film will be perfectly dreadful, (it is by Michael Bay, so that's not exactly a stretch), but the trailer is very rousing and shows all of these patriotic images and everything. It would be much better if they just destroyed the movie and kept the trailer.
And we are still talking about our height, things that nobody else thinks is funny, worrying about looking silly, missing planes, how to look older, New Year's Eve, our New Year's Resolutions, dying our hair all kinds of colours, Disneyland, and what we got for Christmas.
Today's horoscope:
You're both highly creative and quite focused today. Choose a new, fascinating project and take the first step to bring it to fruition.
One year ago today:
It was like looking at a picture of my daughter rather than myself, my daughter who grew up and went away.
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